Margin visible, not guessed
Revenue, cost of goods and labour add up automatically into the contribution margin — per product, per day, per location. No more gut feeling.
IPoint of sale & revenue control
Aurora.
POS & revenue control
Full house, thin margin?
Aurora shows you why.
Aurora is point of sale and revenue control in one — from the receipt to the contribution margin. Every sale, every void and every shift come together in one place, so you don't just see revenue, but what's left at the end.
Status: Pilot phase
The problem
Full house, and too little left at the end.
Most operations see their revenue — but not their margin. The till rings up, the day runs, and whether it paid off no one knows until the next reconciliation.
Cost of goods and labour vanish into spreadsheets someone laboriously pulls together at month-end. Which product and which shift cost money only becomes clear when it's long too late.
Aurora turns that around: the till calculates the margin as it goes. You see per product, per day and per location where the contribution comes from — and where it's lost.
Generic tills show revenue. Aurora shows the margin — because an F&B pro built it, not a retail-POS vendor.
What changes
Four things you feel from day one.
A till that thinks along
Tables, splitting by item or guest, comps and voids with automatic stock return. The till keeps inventory clean without anyone catching up.
One system instead of till + Excel
What's rung up is evaluated instantly. No second spreadsheet, no month-end transfer, no figure that doesn't match the till.
The night closes itself
Day-end at 04:00, reports automatic. You wake up to yesterday's numbers — instead of having to add them up in the morning.
The reporting
From the receipt to the contribution margin.
Aurora carries every sale through to the margin: revenue, cost of goods (COGS straight from your recipes), labour costs from the time clock and the allocation of your fixed costs. That makes a continuous DB1/DB2/DB3 calculation — per product, per day, per location. Any period you choose, from a single night to a whole year.
- DB1 / DB2 / DB3 per product & location
- Revenue by payment type & item
- Void audit with reason & shift
- Labour costs from the time clock
- Fixed-cost allocation per location
- Card CSV import for reconciliation
- Payment reconciliation — cards & expenses against revenue
What the reporting shows
What's possible
The whole till and the controlling in one system.
01
iPad POS with PIN login
Fast till on the iPad, server-checked PIN login per employee. No shared password, every entry carries a name.
02
Tables, splitting & voids
Run tables, split by item or guest, grant comps and void — voids with automatic stock return, cleanly documented.
03
Inventory & recipes
Products stored with recipes and cost of goods. Every sale draws down stock and supplies the COGS for the margin.
04
Payments & invoices
TWINT, voucher and Reka — cleanly separated per payment type and traceable in revenue. Invoices are raised straight from the till, backed by a guest and company registry for recurring customers.
05
"Market" — prices like a stock exchange
Dynamic prices that move with demand like a stock exchange — with a public display and a news ticker in the venue. An experience that makes the evening a talking point.
06
Reports DB1/DB2/DB3
Revenue, contribution margins and void audit at the touch of a button — per product, per day, per location, for any chosen period.
07
Labour & fixed costs
Labour costs flow from the time clock into the reporting, fixed costs are allocated per location — the margin calculates in full.
08
Tip allocation
Tips are allocated per shift to the minute and held with snapshots — traceable per employee, without calculating by hand.
09
Purchasing & goods receipt
Supplier orders, goods receipt and a purchasing breakdown by supplier and location — cost of goods from the order through to the reporting.
10
Stocktake & variances
Counted stock against the calculated figure — variances are classified (over-pour, shrinkage, recipe error) so you know where the margin is lost.
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Analytics & trends
Visual analysis beyond the tables: a revenue heatmap by hour and weekday, year-over-year comparison, top-article trends and per-location sparklines — patterns at a glance instead of columns of figures.
12
Card terminal
Worldline / Saferpay card terminal: coded, currently being connected to the hardware. Card payment straight from the till.
In integrationWho it's for
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Owner-run bars
Fast till, clear margin — without separate controlling.
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Restaurants
Tables, splitting and cost of goods in one place.
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Small hospitality groups
Multiple locations, one reporting, comparable numbers.
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Margin-focused operations
For everyone who wants to know what's left at the end.
Aurora adapts to your menu, your product groups and your locations — not the other way around. You keep working as usual; the system sets itself up.
Part of Triarc
Aurora is one of four Triarc instruments. They share a design language and are built to interlock — capture data once, use it many times. Step by step, the instruments connect into one continuous operating layer:
Aurora → NovaHours and tips from operations flow into Nova's scheduling.Planned
Aurora → ReportingAurora supplies labour-cost data straight into the contribution-margin reporting.Live
Aurora · Nova · Zenith · CeresShared design language and one login idea across all four instruments.Architecture
Why Aurora
Aurora comes from an operator who has steered budgets, contribution margins and KPIs daily in large operations and at the Davos congress centre — the reporting grew out of real controlling practice.
Swiss standard
8.1% VAT, Reka and TWINT built in — tailored to the Swiss market.
Built by an operator
Born in real operations, not on a software firm's drawing board.
Till + controlling in one
One system instead of till plus Excel afterwards — the numbers always match.
Right-sized
From a single venue to a small group — without corporate overhead.
Tailored
Nothing off the shelf.
Tell us how your business really works. Together we find the right instrument — and set it up around your menu, your locations and your quirks. Not software you squeeze into, but one that adapts to your house.
Missing something none of our instruments covers? Tell us — we build around your needs instead of selling one solution for everyone.
Getting started
How onboarding works.
1
Conversation
You show us how your business works — menu, locations, current till.
2
Setup
We set Aurora up around your menu, product groups and locations.
3
Start
You work with your own data; we guide the first weeks.
Swiss data protection — data in CH/EU, revDSG- & GDPR-compliant No lock-in contract, cancellable monthly Your data exportable any time as CSV/PDF We guide the setup personally
See what's left at the end of the night.
Tell us how your business works — we set Aurora up around your menu and your locations and show you the reporting on your own numbers.
Aurora is ready for its first pilot operations — as a pilot partner you shape the reporting and have a direct line to the founder.
Direct: manuel@triarc.ch