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Drop the per-stall EFTPOS rental.

Food courts hum during the lunch rush. After-hours catering and corporate orders are a different game — phone-led, pre-paid, and squeezed by terminal rental costs.

Most food court stalls run on a shared POS through the centre operator. After-hours catering doesn't fit that picture: orders come over the phone, prep happens at 4am, and the catering customer wants to pay before they leave the office.

The problem

Where the money quietly leaks.

  • $200/month per terminal

    A dedicated EFTPOS terminal for after-hours catering eats into already-thin margins. For a stall doing 5 catering orders a week, the maths doesn't work.

  • "Send me an invoice" delays

    Corporate catering orders get caught in NET-14 invoice cycles. By the time the money lands, the kitchen has already prepped two more events.

  • Stall-level autonomy

    Each stall has its own bookkeeping. Centralised food-court POS doesn't always fit the way one specific stall takes B2B orders.

How Pay-E helps

Money lands first. Prep starts second.

  • No new hardware

    Pay-E runs on the manager's phone. No card reader, no install, no centre-operator approval. SMS paylink, customer pays on Stripe, done.

  • Direct to your Stripe account

    Each stall connects its own Stripe account. Funds land where they should — not in a centre-operator pooled account.

  • B2B-friendly receipts

    Corporate finance teams get a Stripe receipt with ABN and GST line on it, no chasing for tax invoices.

A story like yours

What real shops do with Pay-E.

Composite stories grounded in operator interviews. Names and figures are illustrative.

Couldn't take payment remotelyAfter-hours catering · Melbourne CBD VIC

Yum Cha Express @ QV Food Court

After-hours corporate yum cha catering, all phone-led. "Send me an invoice" delays meant orders sat unpaid and slow.

Yum Cha Express runs the lunch rush at QV from 11 to 3. After 3, the manager fields phone calls for office catering — 50-piece dim sum boxes for board meetings, 100-piece spreads for company drinks.

Old workflow: ask for company name, send a PDF invoice, get paid 14 days later if you were lucky. Pay-E paylinks now go out at the moment of quote — most are paid within an hour, and the kitchen blocks out the next day's prep schedule with confidence.

The stall also dropped the EFTPOS terminal rental for after-hours work, since paylinks handle it.

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