Timeline Restaurants POS
Free offline restaurant POS for Windows. Tables, dine-in/takeout/delivery, recipe-based inventory, EOD reports, local backup. Ships as a single 96 MB installer.
$0/mo
Software Cost
0%
Card Cut
100%
Offline
01Timeline Restaurants POS: The Challenge
Independent restaurants in the USA pay Square or Toast 2.6% on every card swipe (about $4,800 a year on $15K monthly card sales) and lose service the moment the Wi-Fi blinks. We wanted to ship a free Windows POS that took zero card cut and ran fully offline.
02Timeline Restaurants POS: The Solution
Built a single-installer Windows POS on local SQLite with table management, modifier groups, recipe-based inventory, EOD reports and zip backups. 198+ country presets and full sales-tax configuration. We don't process cards. Operators bring whatever merchant account they already use.
03Timeline Restaurants POS: The Results
Released v1.0.0 May 2026 with 13 product screens, 6 dedicated USA landing pages and 11 cross-linked supporting pages. Average installer download time on a home connection: 1 to 3 minutes. Day-1 indexable JSON-LD: SoftwareApplication, FAQPage, HowTo, BreadcrumbList.
Technology Stack
Services Provided
Outcomes that mattered
The numbers above are the headline. Below is what they mean for the restaurant saas operations team: what they stopped doing, what they started doing, and what changed for end customers.
$0/mo
Software Cost
Headline metric, measured against the pre-launch baseline.
0%
Card Cut
Captured 90 days post-launch with the same methodology used during discovery.
100%
Offline
Operational impact reported by the client team in their post-launch review.
Why this tech stack
We pick technology based on the production load, the integration footprint and the long-term maintenance reality, not the latest framework on Hacker News. For Timeline Restaurants POS, the stack we chose:
Electron
Production-grade choice for restaurant saas workloads at this scale.
Windows
Production-grade choice for restaurant saas workloads at this scale.
SQLite
Production-grade choice for restaurant saas workloads at this scale.
Node.js
Production-grade choice for restaurant saas workloads at this scale.
TypeScript
Production-grade choice for restaurant saas workloads at this scale.
ESC/POS
Production-grade choice for restaurant saas workloads at this scale.
Services used on this build
Timeline Restaurants POS was delivered by combining the following Timeline Digital services. If your team needs a similar engagement, these are the entry points.
Custom Software Development
Off-the-shelf software forces your team to adapt to it. We reverse that by building business software around your exact workflows, data structures, and approval processes, so the tool fits the work rather than the other way around.
Web Application Development
A web application is business logic running in a browser, not a brochure site. We build customer portals, operational dashboards, workflow tools, and SaaS platforms that process real transactions and connect to your existing systems.
Common questions about this case
How long did the Timeline Restaurants POS build take?+
6 months. We worked with short, regular updates and a working demo at each check-in, so Timeline Digital (in-house product) saw progress continuously.
What technology did Timeline Digital use to build Timeline Restaurants POS?+
Electron, Windows, SQLite, Node.js, TypeScript, ESC/POS. We pick the stack based on the production load, integration requirements and the team's long-term maintenance capacity, not the latest framework on Hacker News.
What industry was Timeline Restaurants POS built for?+
Restaurant SaaS. The patterns we used here transfer to similar businesses with comparable scale and regulatory requirements. Reach out if you operate in this space and want a similar build.
Can Timeline Digital build something similar for our team?+
Yes. We start every engagement with a paid discovery phase that produces architecture, a clear written scope and a proposal, and we agree the full scope up front. Mutual NDA signed on day one, full IP assignment, no agency overhead. Cost depends on scope, features and integrations. Book a free call and we will walk you through it.
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