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Features

Everything it takes to run service — in one tab.

Bookings, deposits, messaging, the floor, the kitchen and the guest book — one platform, built for how African restaurants actually run. No seven tabs, no duct tape.

BookingsPaymentsMessagingFloor & FOHGuest CRMInsightsKitchen
Bookings

A booking page that actually converts.

Your own page at getkaramu.com/book/your-name. Mobile-first, loads fast, and shows real availability from your floor plan — not a form that emails you back tomorrow.

  • Live slots from your real tables & buffers
  • Takes an M-Pesa deposit the moment they book
  • Installable as an app · WhatsApp share preview
  • SEO-ready, so Google sends you diners
Payments

M-Pesa deposits, in 8 seconds.

An STK push lands on the guest’s phone the moment they book. They tap their PIN, the deposit settles straight to your till, and the booking auto-confirms. Cards (Visa · Mastercard) via Paystack. Deposits go live once we’ve verified your payout account — usually while we’re setting you up.

  • Money settles to your till — Karamu never holds it
  • No commission per cover, ever
  • Refunds without a phone call
  • Every payment auto-matched to its booking
Messaging

Every booking confirmed, without you typing.

Branded confirmations and reminders go out on their own — one the day before service, one a couple of hours ahead. Email carries every booking today; WhatsApp and SMS are built and switch on with template approval.

  • Branded as your restaurant, not as us
  • A reminder the day before, and one a couple of hours out
  • Guests change their own booking from a link — no phone call
  • Every message saved to the guest’s history
Floor & front of house

Tonight’s service in one swimlane.

Tap to seat, run walk-ins and the waitlist — built for the host stand on a tablet, synced live with the back office.

  • Spatial floor plan + timeline, same data
  • Walk-in & waitlist intake with live wait-times
  • Pre-service brief: VIPs, allergies, big parties
  • Live table status the whole team shares
Guest CRM

Every regular, remembered.

Each guest builds a profile automatically — visits, spend, the table they love, the allergy you can’t forget. Deduplicated by phone number, the way identity actually works here.

  • Auto-built from every booking & visit
  • Tags, allergies & seating preferences
  • Segments for birthdays, VIPs & win-backs
  • Yours to export anytime
Insights

Decisions, not dashboards.

See which nights are busy and which aren’t, where no-shows cluster, how fast you turn tables. Plain answers you can act on before the weekend — not a wall of charts.

  • Peak-hours heatmap & covers trend
  • No-show & cancellation patterns
  • Table utilisation & turn times
  • Export anything to CSV
Kitchen

From the booking link to the kitchen pass.

Tickets fire to a big-screen kitchen display, allergy flags ride every ticket, and the 86 list syncs to the QR menu — so a sold-out dish stops being ordered the moment it runs out.

  • Kitchen display (KDS) with live ticket status
  • Allergy flags on every affected ticket
  • QR menu & ordering at the table
  • 86 a dish once — everywhere updates
The whole platform

One subscription. The entire restaurant.

Reservations
  • Branded booking page
  • Real-time availability
  • Deposits & prepayments
  • Waitlist & walk-ins
  • Calendar & table management
Payments & messaging
  • M-Pesa STK Push
  • Card payments (Visa · Mastercard)
  • Email confirmations & reminders
  • Branded templates
  • ComingWhatsApp + SMS
Operations
  • Floor plan designer
  • ComingFront of house tablet
  • Kitchen display (KDS)
  • QR menu & ordering
  • ComingShift management
Guests & growth
  • Automatic guest CRM
  • Tags & segments
  • Analytics & CSV export
  • ComingBulk WhatsApp campaigns
  • ComingMulti-location (Chain)
See it for yourself

See it running on your restaurant.

Take the booking flow for a spin, or apply for the pilot and we’ll set it all up with you.