Built alongside a real café, not in a vacuum
EspressOS started as the operating system for one café in Batangas. It's still developed with that café — Elkapeto — in the loop on every release.
The story
From running a single café on Peddlr to building the POS we wished existed
Elkapeto Cafe in Batangas was running on Peddlr — a phone-based POS — with one Bluetooth printer at the bar. Kitchen orders got handwritten on a slip and walked back to the kitchen. The owner asked OverBiz for a small system that just printed both slips at once.
That "just print both slips" project turned into a year-long collaboration. Every feature in EspressOS — dual printing, offline-first sync, the recipe-driven inventory, the per-branch loyalty — landed because Elkapeto needed it. Nothing got built because a SaaS analyst spreadsheet said it should ship.
The result is a product that's narrower and deeper than the general-purpose POS systems. It does six things — POS, inventory, dual printing, loyalty, reports, multi-branch — and it does them in the specific way a small Filipino café needs them done. It's not trying to be a restaurant POS. It's not trying to be a retail POS. It's a café POS.
What we believe
Three principles that drive product decisions
The till is sacred. The screen the cashier looks at all day is the screen we polish first. New features that would clutter the till get pushed to the admin web. The till stays fast, the till stays uncluttered, the till keeps working when the internet doesn't.
Offline is the default. The Philippines runs on data SIMs with intermittent connectivity. We don't add a "saving…" spinner that blocks the next sale because the cloud is slow. Every customer-facing action writes locally first and syncs in the background.
Pricing should be honest. Every plan ships with the full feature set. There is no "Pro" tier locking out loyalty. There is no "Enterprise" tier hiding the reports. Tiers differ only in how many branches and tablets you can pair — and that's because each branch and each tablet really does cost us more to support.
Team
Small team, real café customers
EspressOS is built by OverBiz — a small software studio in the Philippines — with Elkapeto Cafe as its design partner. The café tells us when something would or wouldn't survive a Saturday rush.
We're deliberately not raising. We're growing one café at a time, taking onboarding seriously, and making sure every customer can reach us when they need us.