Singapore 🇸🇬 · Hawker · Kopitiam · Café
OrderLah is QR and web ordering for Singapore's small food businesses. The sticker on the table opens your menu in the customer's own browser, and the order lands on the kitchen screen. Nothing to install, nothing to learn on a Friday lunch rush.
SGD pricing. 14 days free. No card.
A hawker stall does not have a server room, a network cabinet or somebody who knows what a VLAN is. The tablet on your counter is the hub; every other screen — kitchen, second till, display — joins it over your own Wi-Fi and is approved by a tap on that tablet.
Set once and every screen agrees: the customer's phone, the counter and the receipt. Two shops with different arrangements do not have to share one setting.
Coffee shops in basements, hawker centres with three bars of signal, a router somebody unplugged. Orders, the kitchen board and the till all run on the shop's own network, so a dead line is an inconvenience rather than a closed stall.
Cash, PayNow, terminal, comps, partials and refunds are logged, and your own PayNow QR can be shown on the counter screen or served straight to the customer's phone. No processor sits in the middle and no percentage disappears.
How it works
No integration project, no cabling, no consultant. If you can print a piece of paper and charge a tablet, you can run this.
One at the counter, one on every table, or both. OrderLah generates them for you — table numbers included, so the kitchen knows where the food goes.
Makan Corner
Scan to order 📷
TABLE T08
The phone camera does it. The menu opens in the browser they already have. Nothing to install, no account to create, no password anybody will forget.
orderlah.app · opening menu…
Items, variants, add-ons, quantity — and dine-in or takeaway when you've turned those on. Extra chicken, no cucumber, less spicy: it all comes through in writing, so nobody mishears it.
The hub plays the new-order ringtone and the chit appears on the board. It is designed to be hard to miss across a hot, noisy kitchen — because a missed order is a refund and an argument.
NEW ORDER · #0088 · T08
One tap per stage. The board is the single source of truth for the counter, the kitchen and the display screen at the same moment — no shouting the same order twice.
New 1
Cooking 1
Ready 1
The demo is the real flow with pretend data — order from a table, watch it hit the kitchen, move it to ready. No sign-up, no email, no salesperson.
The kitchen board
Big numbers, big lanes, readable from the wok. Every card carries how long it has been waiting — and turns red when it has been waiting too long, before the customer has to come and ask.
Chicken Rice ×2+ Extra Chicken
Kopi C ×1
Mee Goreng ×1+ Extra spicy
Laksa ×2
The sound only plays when you press the button — browsers don't allow audio before that, and neither would we.
Offline-first, honestly explained
Your stall shouldn't.
Most ordering systems are a website with your menu on it: the shop is a thin client, and when the line drops, so does lunch. OrderLah is built the other way round — your tablet is the server. It holds the menu, mints the order numbers and stores every order on the device itself.
Ordering from outside the shop is an extra you switch on. The hub dials out to a relay itself — no VPN, no router settings, nothing for you to keep alive.
The QR at the table still opens the menu, the counter still sends orders, the kitchen board still moves, and the takings are still recorded. Only ordering from outside the shop waits for the line to come back.
Because "sorry, system down" shouldn't be part of the menu.
Start free
Every new outlet gets a full 14-day trial — the whole product, not a cut-down version — with nothing to cancel at the end of it. What a licence costs afterwards is on the pricing page, in your own currency, taken straight from the price list checkout actually charges.
Tell us about your stall and we'll show you the relevant setup. One conversation, at a time that isn't your lunch rush.
Takes about a minute. Fields marked are required — everything else helps us skip the obvious questions.
Your reference is —. You can wait for us to call, or start the trial now and have the shop taking orders this afternoon.
Start free trialStraight answers
No. They scan the QR code and your menu opens in their phone's browser. No app store, no account, no password. The OrderLah app is the one you run the stall on.
You need a local network, because that is how phones and counter devices reach your hub. Either the shop's Wi-Fi router, or the hub tablet's own hotspot if there's no router.
You do not need a working internet line for that. The internet is only involved if you want customers ordering from outside the shop, or for things like cloud backups and updates.
Service carries on. The hub tablet is the server: it holds the menu, mints the order numbers and saves every order locally. Counter devices, the kitchen board and customer phones on your own Wi-Fi keep working exactly as before.
What stops is ordering from outside the shop, which needs the line. It picks up again when the internet does.
Yes. One tablet is the hub. Other devices join it by scanning a code and take a role: counter, waiter's phone, kitchen display, customer (TV) display, self-order, or an owner's device for checking in.
The device picks its own role when it joins, so you don't have to decide in advance which code is for which tablet — hand out one code, set up whatever's in front of you.
Both, and both take one tap. Sold out removes an item from every device at once. Pause stops new customer orders while you catch up, and tells the customer clearly instead of leaving them wondering.
Yes. OrderLah generates a QR code per table alongside a general one for the counter or a poster. An order from a table QR arrives with the table on it, so the food gets to the right place.
Yes. Dine-in, takeaway and delivery are three switches. Turn off what you don't do, and customers only ever see the rest.
It's yours to edit. Categories, items, prices, photos, variants (roasted or steamed) and add-on groups (extra egg, no chilli). Change it at 6am without asking anybody's permission.
Photos are taken on the tablet and tidied up on the tablet — the colour cast neutralised, the shadows lifted, a bit of bite added. Nothing is uploaded anywhere, and it invents nothing: it is the plate you photographed, looking like it did in real life.
Yes — they land on the same board as everything else, so the kitchen works off one queue instead of one screen per platform. Point the tablet at the platform's order slip and it reads the items off it; anything it gets wrong you fix before it goes to the kitchen, and you can always key one in by hand.
OrderLah is not plugged into those platforms and doesn't speak to them. Reading a slip you already have is not the same as an integration, and we won't call it one.
Yes. Set your tax rate and registration number, add a service charge if you take one, and choose whether the payable total rounds to the nearest 5 cents. Receipts can be printed, shared, or scanned off the screen by the customer.
At the end of the day there's a closing screen: what came in since the last close, split by cash, PayNow, card and the rest. Snapshot it and the next day starts from zero.
In the usual hawker setup: on your hub tablet, in a local database that is encrypted at rest. Orders, menu, staff and takings live there. No order reaches OrderLah — not summarised, not counted, not anonymised.
If you'd rather have a server, two other arrangements exist. Run your own and the order book stays in your database — no order reaches OrderLah, same as the tablet setup. Choose OrderLah Cloud and it lives in ours instead. That is the whole difference, and it is worth settling before you start.
No, and it's important to be clear about that. OrderLah records how a bill was settled — cash, PayNow, card terminal, comp, partial payment, refund — as a history you can audit later, and it can show your own PayNow, DuitNow or Touch 'n Go QR on screen for the customer to scan.
The money itself moves through the arrangements you already have with your bank or wallet provider. OrderLah never sits in the middle, and takes no cut.
An Android tablet as the hub — 8 to 11 inches is the sweet spot, and the screens are laid out for exactly that. Counter and owner devices can be Android or iOS phones and tablets. Customers just need a phone with a browser.
Not settled yet, so there's nothing honest to quote. OrderLah is at the pilot stage — tell us about your stall and we'll talk about it properly rather than putting a made-up number on a website.