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Foodics
Cloud restaurant point of sale, payments and lending built for the Middle East and North Africa
As of 31 August 2026, Foodics's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A restaurant platform designed around Gulf market requirements, with Arabic first interfaces and ZATCA electronic invoicing compliance built in. Softwr lists it under Restaurants. Foodics is available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Foodics does
Foodics is a cloud point of sale and restaurant management platform used across Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kuwait and neighbouring markets. It covers order taking, kitchen display, inventory, staff management, loyalty and reporting, with an application marketplace for third party extensions and connections to regional delivery platforms such as HungerStation and Jahez. The reason to choose it is regional rather than functional. Interfaces and receipts run in Arabic and English, tax handling matches Gulf VAT rules, and the platform supports Saudi ZATCA electronic invoicing requirements that most international POS vendors do not implement. A restaurant in Riyadh choosing an American cloud POS instead has to solve compliance, Arabic support and local delivery integration on its own, which is why regional operators default to Foodics even when they have used other systems abroad. Buyers are restaurant and cafe operators throughout the Gulf and Egypt, from single sites to large chains. The trade off is the commercial model and the geography. Foodics attaches payment terminals and merchant lending to the software, which is where its margin comes from, so the true cost is the processing rate rather than the subscription; and outside its supported markets the product is simply not sold.
What people use it for
- A Saudi restaurant group that must satisfy ZATCA electronic invoicing without building it itself
- A cafe chain in the Gulf needing Arabic interfaces for staff and Arabic receipts for customers
- An operator wanting local delivery platforms integrated rather than worked on separate tablets
- A growing regional chain that wants POS, payments and working capital from one provider
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Foodics.
- It is sold only in its supported Middle East and North Africa markets, so a group expanding into Europe or North America has to run a second point of sale platform there.
- Revenue comes from payment processing rather than software, so a low subscription usually accompanies a processing rate that costs far more over a year than the licence does.
- Merchant lending is underwritten against the card volume flowing through the platform, which makes switching vendors mid facility commercially awkward.
- Feature depth is strongest in quick service and cafe formats; fine dining coursing, complex table management and hotel outlet workflows are thinner.
- Support quality and reseller capability vary noticeably by country, so an implementation in a smaller market is not the same experience as one in Riyadh.
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Pricing
What Foodics costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Foodics
On request
- Subscription quoted per branch with tiers by feature set
- Terminals and payment hardware quoted with the agreement
- Card processing rates negotiated separately and are the main vendor revenue
- Lending products offered against processed card volume
Capabilities
Features
Arabic and English interfaces
Full right to left interface and bilingual receipts and reporting
ZATCA electronic invoicing
Saudi tax authority electronic invoicing requirements handled in the platform
Integrated payments
Foodics payment terminals settling card transactions into the same reporting
Inventory and cost control
Recipe costing, stock counts and purchasing for kitchens and cafes
Regional delivery integration
Connections to HungerStation, Jahez and other local ordering platforms
Merchant lending
Working capital advances underwritten against card volume processed on the platform
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Does it handle Saudi electronic invoicing?
Yes. ZATCA electronic invoicing requirements are supported in the platform, which is a principal reason Saudi operators choose it.
Can I use my own payment provider?
It is possible in some markets, but the commercial model is built around Foodics payments and the subscription pricing reflects that.
Is it available outside the Middle East?
No. It is sold in Gulf markets and Egypt, and there is no general availability in Europe or North America.
Does it work in Arabic throughout?
Yes, including right to left interfaces, Arabic receipts and Arabic reporting rather than a partial translation.
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