Splitting a bill
One check becomes several, without a conversation at the counter about who had what. If splitting has to happen at the till, the trip you removed comes straight back.
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Paying at the table, explained
Payment at the table
How it works
in a real service.
A guest asks for the bill. What happens next decides how long that table takes to turn, and how many trips across the floor it costs.
The short answer
Paying at the table means the whole settlement happens where the guests are sitting. The waiter carries a payment terminal, the amount is already on it, and the card, the split and the tip are all handled beside the guest instead of at the till.
In a traditional service the request to pay starts a round trip: to the till for the bill, back to the table, back again for the card machine, and once more if the card is refused or the guests want to split. Paying at the table removes those trips rather than making them faster.
The sequence
What actually happens, in order
The amount is sent, not typed
The till sends the total to the payment terminal. Nobody retypes it, which is where a wrong amount would otherwise come from.
The guest decides how to pay
One card, several cards, part now, or a tip on top — decided at the table rather than negotiated at the counter.
The card is presented
The card never leaves the guest's hand, which is the part guests notice and the part card schemes prefer.
The result comes back
The terminal reports the outcome and the receipt is produced. The table is finished in one visit instead of four.
The awkward cases
Splitting, part-paying and tips
These are the situations that send a waiter back to the till, so they are the ones worth checking before you choose anything.
Partial payment
One guest settles part of the total and the rest stays open. Useful for a long table and for a company card covering a share of the bill.
Tips
A tip added at the moment of payment, on the terminal, rather than in cash afterwards or not at all.
With Success Payment
How Pay@Table does this
Pay@Table is the payment-at-table function of Success POS. Your team settles the bill at the table on the Success Payment terminal instead of walking back to the till, and splitting the bill, taking a partial payment and adding a tip are all handled there.
It is part of every Success POS licence rather than an option priced on top, so it is available on the smallest plan as well as the largest. The dedicated page explains the product in full.
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