Build log/2026-06-22·2 min read

From SGD 59 a Month, and It Keeps Taking Payments Offline: The Real Math for Singapore Restaurant Owners

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Running a restaurant in Singapore, there are two kinds of surprise costs you dread most: the quote that scares you off before you even adopt a system, and the system that falls over right when you're slammed. The first keeps you putting off going digital. The second makes you more anxious after you do.

This time at MakanCloud, we want to talk about the two most basic things: affordability and reliability. No fluff, just what we've actually built.

Affordable means price shouldn't stop you from trying

MakanCloud's Starter plan starts at SGD 59/month. It covers 1 outlet and 2 POS terminals, with basic reports and standard support included. Above that there's Pro (129), Growth (199) and Enterprise (299), so you add outlets and terminals as the business grows.

More importantly, you get to try before you buy. There's a 14-day free trial of the Pro plan with no credit card required, and it takes about 5 minutes to go from sign-up to finished setup. Run it in your actual outlet for two weeks. If it works for you, great. If it doesn't, stop anytime. No strings attached.

We can keep prices this low because our entire production environment runs on a cloud server that costs about US$7 a month. Keeping our costs down is what lets us pass the savings on to you.

Reliable means nothing breaks when you can least afford it

For a restaurant system, reliability shouldn't be a marketing buzzword. It should be a list of facts you can actually spell out:

  • Offline checkout: Spotty internet is just part of life in a shop. MakanCloud POS keeps taking payments when the network drops and syncs automatically once it's back. It's also idempotent with replay protection, so catching up on uploads will never double-charge a customer or print a duplicate order.
  • Automatic daily backups: Backups run automatically at 2:00 AM every day and are kept for 14 days. Data is encrypted in transit with TLS.
  • Ongoing security audits: We run a security audit every iteration, and tenant isolation has been penetration-tested. The result: every attempt blocked, zero leaks.

None of this is here to make the copy look good. Payments and data are simply the parts of a restaurant you can't afford to lose.

More than just a cash register

Unlike a traditional POS, MakanCloud's checkout is wired into the back end. Outlet orders to the central kitchen, inventory, production, delivery and checkout all flow through one platform. When the front counter rings up one more order, the back-end data moves with it, so month-end reconciliation no longer means piecing things together from WeChat messages and Excel sheets. You can switch between Chinese and English in one tap, and printouts are always bilingual, so staff who speak different languages can pick it up easily.

Try it for two weeks, then decide

If 'the system costs too much' and 'everything freezes when the internet drops' are what's holding you back, try the 14-day free trial and see how it does in your own outlet. If it helps, tell us which part of your operations is giving you the biggest headache right now. We'll pick the most common ones and write about them next.

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