Stop running your cafe blind.
Pulse pulls your POS, wages, and invoices into one view — so you know every Monday if last week was profitable, why, and what to do about it.
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9 mo
trading data
14
suppliers tracked
Built live
in Melbourne
St Kilda, VIC
Week ending
Monday, 12 May 2026
Revenue
$18,420
+6.2%
Wage cost
28.4%
Target: 30%
Food cost
31.2%
▲ +1.4%
Gross margin
40.4%
on track
This week's action
Food cost 1.4% above target. Review J&P and Riverina invoices — both delivered Thursday.
Revenue — last 8 weeks
Week ending Mon
$18,420
↑ +6.2% vs last week
Built live with a real Melbourne cafe — not a prototype
9 mo
Trading data ingested
Live POS + supplier invoices
14
Suppliers tracked
Automated invoice parsing
$99
AUD per month
Per cafe, everything included
10 min
To first insight
Upload CSV, see your history
Built with Dom — Neighbours Cafe, St Kilda · Not a VC. Not a startup studio.
The problem
Sound familiar?
Pulse puts everything in one place. Open it on a Monday. Know if last week made money — and exactly why.
Your data is scattered. Your decisions aren’t.
Your POS is in TapTouch. Your roster is in a spreadsheet. Fourteen suppliers are emailing you invoices every week. Nothing connects to anything else. You’re making every call — on staffing, on ordering, on whether to extend service hours — on gut feel, because you’ve never seen the full picture in one place.
By the time you know, it’s already too late.
The quarterly P&L arrives and tells you February was bad. Food cost crept above 34%. You changed the roster twice since then. You’ve already ordered, already staffed, already absorbed the hit. The numbers showed up after you needed them.
You feel it before you can see it.
Revenue seems okay. But something’s off. Maybe it’s the Tuesday wage bill. Maybe it’s the new supplier bumping prices quietly. You can sense the margin thinning — but without one place that joins everything up, you can’t act on a feeling. You’re not running blind because you don’t care about the numbers. You’re running blind because the numbers have never been in the same room.
What Pulse does
Every question you're already asking — answered automatically.
Not a chart library. A decision tool. Each view answers one question — the one you needed before you could act.
Weekly Pulse
Know if last week actually made money.
Every Monday, Pulse shows you one screen — last week’s revenue, wage cost %, food cost %, and gross margin. No spreadsheet. No calculation. No wondering. You open it and you know. If something’s wrong, you see it in two minutes and you can do something about it this week — not next quarter.
Daily revenue — last 10 days
↑ +6.2% vs last week
Revenue Forecast
See next week’s revenue before it happens.
Pulse forecasts your revenue for the week ahead using your own trading history — adjusted for weekends, public holidays, and the seasonal rhythm of your specific cafe. Once you have 14 days of POS data, you get a 7-day forecast with a confidence range. Plan your roster and your orders around what’s actually likely, not what felt right last time.
Wage Cost
Stop guessing your wage cost.
Pulse handles weekday rates, weekend rates, weekly flat salaries, and public holiday loadings — all combined into one wage cost and wage % figure for the week. Upload your roster once, set your rates, and it calculates automatically. If your wage % is heading above 30%, you see it before the fortnight closes.
Food Cost
See food cost without waiting for month end.
Connect your supplier invoices and Pulse calculates your food cost % as you go — updated every time an invoice lands. You see which suppliers are moving the needle and whether your GP is holding at target. If invoice data isn’t there yet, Pulse shows you a clear status — not a broken chart, not a silent zero.
POS Upload
First insight in under ten minutes.
Export your daily totals from TapTouch, Square, Lightspeed, or Shopify as a CSV. Upload it. Your first revenue chart appears immediately. No column mapping, no developer, no IT team. Pulse reads the format your POS already produces.
Get started
See your cafe's numbers clearly — from day one.
Neighbours Cafe,
St Kilda, Melbourne
6 years trading · ~20 staff · TapTouch POS
Dom had nine months of POS data, a payroll spreadsheet he updated every week, and fourteen suppliers sending PDF invoices to his inbox. He knew his weekly revenue roughly. But whether the week had actually been profitable — after wages, after food costs, after fixed costs — he couldn’t say until his accountant ran the quarterly P&L.
“First-person quote from Dom about the feeling of seeing the full picture for the first time.”
Food cost %
Dom’s target: 28–30%. Confirm actual baseline.Weekly reporting time saved
Estimated 2–3 hours/Sunday before Pulse. Confirm with Dom.Forecast accuracy
Pull from Prophet output after 6+ weeks live.Pricing
One plan. Everything included.
Per cafe. No per-seat fees. No setup fee.
Cafe Plan
Per cafe. No per-seat fees. No setup fee.
14-day free trial. No credit card required.
What's included
- Weekly Pulse summary — revenue, food cost %, wage %, gross margin in one view every Monday
- 7-day revenue forecast — powered by your own trading history, updated daily
- Wage cost calculator — weekday/weekend splits, flat-rate kitchen staff, hourly front-of-house, public holiday rates combined
- Food cost % tracking — upload supplier invoices, see your margin update in real time
- Unlimited POS uploads — TapTouch, Square, Lightspeed, Shopify CSV accepted; no reformatting required
- Full data history — all your trading history in one place, not just the last 90 days
Coming in V2
- QuickBooks / Xero direct integration (V2 roadmap)
- Multi-location support (V2 roadmap)
- Mobile native app
- Real-time POS sync (CSV upload only)
- Automated invoice collection from suppliers (manual upload for now)
Cancel any time. Your data is never deleted — it's there when you come back.
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