Live Orders
Auto-refreshes every 10 s
Table orders wait here until someone sends them to the kitchen. An order nobody takes within a minute is assigned to a free waiter, then to a manager on shift, then to you. Not checked within 5 minutes, an order goes to the kitchen by itself.
No orders yet.
Analytics
Top Items
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VAT Summary
| Rate | Net | VAT | Gross |
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Tables & QR Codes
Guest sessions refresh automatically. Click Refresh Guests to see the latest.
Staff
People who work in your venue, each with their own Midnight account. They work in the Midnight Bistro app — this dashboard stays yours.
Invite someone
To let your staff check table orders before the kitchen, switch on Waiter check in Settings › Venue.
Team
Open invitations
Activity log
Whenever someone acts on behalf of a colleague — a head cashier closes a table for a waiter, say — it is written down here.
Reservations
Manage bookings across all rooms and tables.
No bookings for this day.
Takeaway & Pickup
Create named pickup spots, generate QR codes, and manage takeaway orders separately from dine-in.
No takeaway spots yet.
Export Orders
Download Excel with full itemised orders and VAT breakdown.
Payment summaries (PDF)
Every guest you check out gets a numbered payment summary as a PDF — on their phone, or by scanning the QR code. It lists the items and VAT rates, but it is not a till receipt: Midnight Bistro takes orders next to your house till and does not take money. The till receipt (and any company invoice) comes from your house till. If the guest paid at your house till, the payment summary shows the VAT rate of each item but no VAT amounts — the VAT is stated on your till receipt (the same when no payment method was recorded). Order slips (“🖨 Order slip”) never show VAT amounts. A table closed without a payment summary (special cases) never gets one and is not counted as missing. Payment summaries are frozen at checkout: later price or menu changes never change them. A cancellation reverses one; after it you can issue one new payment summary for that visit (“Reissue”), for example after cancelling a wrongly booked order. Discounts or cancellations booked only at your house till do not change the payment summary — if the guest paid a different amount there, cancel the payment summary here as well. Issued without TSE signature.
Settings
Venue Details
This is what guests see when they scan a table code. Preview all four
on the themes page.
Note: „Betrieb" is the light one — some Android browsers
force their own dark mode over it, so a share of your guests will
still see it dark.
Public page
A page anyone can open — your menu, in your look, at your own address. Put it on Instagram, in your window, on your business card. It is off until you pick an address here.
Lowercase letters, digits and hyphens. Leave it empty to take the page offline.
What becomes visible: your venue name, your address and your menu with prices. Nothing about orders, guests or takings — those stay behind your login. Sold-out dishes show as sold out, exactly like guests see them at the table.
Pick it once. If you change the address later, the old one stops working — every menu card, sticker and poster you already printed with it goes dead.
On the Midnight Compass map
Midnight Compass is our drivers' app. Your venue appears there as a pin — automatically, as soon as we know where you are. Drivers can open your menu from the pin and, if you allow it, pre-order to go.
Uses your first takeaway spot. Without one, nothing is offered even when this is on.
Filled in from your address when you save it. If the pin is off, type the exact coordinates here (right-click your door in any map app → copy coordinates) — a hand-set pin is never overwritten.
Kitchen & bar
Each dish goes to the kitchen or the bar screen as set in your menu (Drinks go to the bar by default). Which orders a screen shows is chosen on each device, above the Live Orders list.
When this is on, a main course ordered together with a starter waits greyed out on the kitchen screen until someone taps “Call course” (desserts wait the same way), while drinks always go out at once.
Waiter check
When this is on, orders placed at a table go to your staff first. A waiter looks at them — right table, nothing odd — and sends them to the kitchen with one tap, or rejects them. Takeaway and Compass pre-orders go straight to the kitchen as before. Guests read “Arrived — being checked” meanwhile.
It only works while someone is on shift in the Midnight Bistro app — with nobody on shift, orders go straight to the kitchen. An order nobody checks within 5 minutes goes to the kitchen by itself, and you see a notice. Turning this off sends every order still waiting to the kitchen at once.
Guest Wi-Fi
Give your guests internet at the table. Every table card gets a second code — ① Wi-Fi connects the phone in one tap, ② Order opens the menu as before — and the order page shows network and password.
Only a GUEST network — never the network of your till or office: the password is readable for every guest at the table.
Danger Zone
Delete venue and all its data. This cannot be undone.
Alerts on this device
Switch this on for the device you keep behind the bar or in the kitchen. It rings when a new order arrives and when a table asks to pay — even when this page is closed or the screen is off.
Each device is switched on separately — a phone, a tablet and the till can all ring, or just one of them. Turning it off here only affects this device.
Financial Information
This information appears on printed bills and reports.
The PDF payment summary only shows a logo uploaded here (PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 2 MB). Save the billing settings afterwards.
Order slip and payment summary
Choose what appears on printed order slips (“🖨 Order slip”) and on payment summaries. An order slip is not a till receipt: it shows the VAT rate of each item but never VAT amounts — the till receipt comes from your house till.
Order slip preview
This is how a printed order slip looks. It is not a till receipt and shows no VAT amounts.
Quick Edit
Changes here update the preview only. Save from the Financial tab.
Change Password
How this dashboard looks
Your own view only — this does not change what your guests see. That is set per venue under Settings → Venue.
Signed-in devices
Each phone, tablet and browser you sign in on gets its own key. Signing out here affects only that one.
Delete account
Removes your account and every venue you own — tables, menus, orders, reservations, uploaded photos, and the guest names and phone numbers stored with past orders. It cannot be undone and there is no copy.