Hospitality & cafés
The morning queue is out the door.
Regulars order before they arrive, so you serve the rush without losing a single customer to the wait, and turn more covers in the same hours.
Built for busy countersEarly access now openServe more customers.
Serve more customers.
Without more stress.
Buan helps independent shops, cafés and stalls take more orders in less time. Customers order and pay from their own phone, so queues shrink, your team stays focused, and the busiest hour of the day runs calm. It works right alongside the till and card machine you already use.
Fully bilingual from day one
See it in action
One order, start to finish.
The customer's phone on the left, your live counter on the right. Watch a scan turn into a collected order in under a minute.
Caffi Buan
Main counter
Scan · order · collect
Scan to order
Point your camera at the code on the table.
Live orders
staff view🍽️
You're all caught up
New orders appear here automatically.
How it works
Simple enough to start this week
No app to build, no hardware to buy, nothing for your team to learn. You're taking orders the day you sign up.
1
Scan
A customer scans your QR code from a table, counter, poster or charging bay. No app, no sign-up.
2
Order
They browse your menu and build their own order on their phone in seconds, with no one at the counter to hold up.
3
Pay
They pay on their phone, so there's nothing to hand over and no extra card machine to buy or man.
4
Collect
The order lands on your live screen with a collection code, ready to make and hand over the moment it's paid.
Busy periods, handledStay on top of the rush,
Stay on top of the rush,
without the chaos.
Orders land in real time and move from new, to in prep, to ready. Your team always knows what's next, nothing gets missed, and the counter keeps moving even when you're slammed.
Collection code
BN-4821
Paid
Smooth handoversOne short code.
One short code.
The right order, every time.
Every order carries a short code like BN-4821. Handover takes a second, the right order reaches the right customer, and your staff never lose time working out who ordered what.
Where it helps
Built for wherever you're busiest
However you sell, Buan takes the pressure off your busiest moments, so you serve more people without adding staff. Six places it's already making the day easier.
Events & festivals
Peak hits and the bar line stalls.
Every stall takes orders at once, lines keep moving, and you sell through the busy window instead of watching thirsty customers walk off.
EV charging
Thirty idle minutes, nothing sold.
Drivers order while the car charges and the food's ready before the battery, turning dead time into extra takings.
Retail
Customer ready to buy, till across the floor.
A shelf-edge code becomes the checkout, so a browsing customer turns into a sale right where they're standing.
Workplace catering
The whole office lands at noon.
Staff pre-order from their desk and collect at a set time. The lunchtime crush disappears, and so does the guesswork over how much to prep.
Service businesses
No website, no card machine, no easy way to get paid.
Take bookings and deposits from a single link and start getting paid today. No setup, no kit, no website needed.
Low risk to try
Fits the way you already work
Buan adds to your business instead of replacing it. Keep your till, your card machine, your suppliers and your routine. Switch it on when you're busy, and there's nothing to unpick if you'd rather not.
Keep your existing setup
Your till, card machine and POS stay exactly where they are. Buan works alongside them, not instead of them.
Nothing new to learn
If your team can take an order today, they can run Buan today. No training day, no manual.
Start small, grow at your pace
Turn it on for one counter or just your busiest hour. Add more whenever it suits you.
No lock-in
No contracts to untangle and no kit to send back. Stop any time and your business carries on as normal.
What's included
Everything that keeps a busy day running
Customers order and pay themselves
Orders and payment happen on the customer's own phone, so your team takes fewer orders by hand and serves more people in the same shift.
A live view of every order
New, in prep, ready: your whole counter sees what's next at a glance, so nothing gets missed when it's flat out.
Collection codes
A short code like BN-4821 on every order means fast, mistake-free handovers and no awkward “who's next?” at the counter.
Menu and stock in one place
Update items, prices and what's in stock in minutes. One screen, no double-handling, always right for customers.
Speaks your customer's language
Welsh and English from the first tap to the receipt, with more languages too, so you welcome every customer and never lose one to a menu they can't read.
Share it any way you like
Use it as a link, a poster, a sticker, or drop it into the website you already have. No new system to bolt on.
No barriers
No website? No problem.
Buan is a working shop your customers can order from today: no domain, no design project, no developer. Already trading? It sits neatly alongside the website, till and card machine you already have, so there's nothing to rip out and nothing to relearn.
Up and selling the day you sign upShare it as a link, poster or stickerAdd it to the website you already have
Why businesses trust Buan
Easy to trust, easy to run
Made for independent businesses, designed to slot into how you already work, not to take it over.
Built in Wales
Designed and built here, with independent Welsh businesses in mind from day one.
Welcomes every customer
Welsh and English as standard from the first tap to the receipt, with more languages too, so you never lose a sale to a language barrier.
No IT team needed
No integrations, no jargon, no training day. If you can print a poster, you can sell with Buan.
Works with what you have
Your phone and a QR code are enough. Keep your till, your card machine and your website exactly as they are.
Real payments, handled safely
Built for a Stripe-ready checkout so you can take real card payments as we roll out, with nothing extra to install.
Payments are processed through trusted, PCI-compliant providers. We never see or store your customers' card details.
Why Buan
Made for you, not for a chain
Plenty of apps can take an order. Here's what you only get with Buan.
Welsh that reads right
First-class Welsh and English from the first tap to the receipt, written by Welsh speakers, never machine-translated and never an afterthought.
A local team behind you
Built in Wales by people who know independent shops, and who you can actually talk to. Not a faceless support queue an ocean away.
Nothing to rip out
Keep the till, card machine and suppliers you already have. Buan works alongside them, with no hardware to buy and nothing to lock you in.
Fair pricing that scales
1% of your app sales each month — a £10 minimum and a £100 cap, per location. You pay in step with what you sell, with nothing to rip out and no contract to unwind.
Pricing
Priced on what you sell
One fair fee that grows with you, and is capped so it never runs away.
Success-based
Scales with your salesFrom
£10/month per location
- 1% of what you sell through the app
- £10 a month minimum, £100 a month cap
- Orders and payment from any phone
- A live order view for your whole team
- Welsh and English, plus more languages
Your monthly fee is 1% of app sales, with a minimum of £10 and a maximum of £100 per location. Confirmed before general release; card processing is added when Stripe goes live.
Early access
Start serving more customers in minutes.
Join the early-access group and help shape Buan around real, independent businesses. Tell us about yours and we'll be in touch as places open.