Clover feature · Cafes & quick service
A practical walk-through of online ordering on Clover for breakfast cafes: what happens, who does what and what to set up first.
✓ Installed by our team and supported by phone. Rates and equipment are quoted to your business.
Merchant Fund Express configures this Clover capability with your devices, menu and team, so it is working from the first shift.
Online ordering lets a breakfast cafe take orders from a phone and drop them into the same ticket flow as the counter.
For a breakfast cafe, the detail that matters is this: egg styles, sides and substitutions create many modifiers per plate. Course-less service keeps it simple, but notes like "no onion" must reach the line without being missed.
Your best-selling items and modifiers go online first.
Each order carries a pickup time and a name.
Online and counter tickets stay in sequence.
Pickup is matched by name or number.
Online orders are predictable demand: you can see them coming, set pickup times and prepare. For a breakfast cafe that is the one part of the day that is calm.
Online orders are the easiest sales to lose to a busy counter: the phone buzzes, the line is long and nobody has time. Putting them in the same queue as in-store orders means they get made in order, and the customer who ordered ahead is not punished by the customer who walked in.
A Station Duo at the host stand and bar, a Flex for tableside close-out so tables turn faster, and a Kitchen Display at the pass so tickets read in order.
Installation is a visit, not a shipment: a technician places and tests each device, programs your menu or services with you, connects printers and drawers and practices a full transaction with every person who will use it.
Publishing the full in-store menu online. Put the items that travel well and are quick to make online, and keep the rest for the counter.
As explained by Merchant Fund Express. Updated 2026.
Yes. They arrive in the same ticket queue, so the kitchen works one list.
Yes. You can turn online ordering off or limit pickup windows when you are slammed.
Yes, with a handheld. It shortens table time because a guest does not wait for a server to come back with the card.
Tell us the term and the equipment arrangement. We will explain what switching would involve and tell you honestly if waiting makes more sense.
There is no price list on purpose. Your quote is built from your monthly card sales, your average ticket and the devices you need, so call (305) 384-8391 and we will price your actual setup.
Call Merchant Fund Express. We install it, train your staff and stay on the line after launch. Ask for a free rate review while you are at it.
