For restaurants
Your servers stop being couriers.
Nothing else about the way you run the room has to change.
Uses what you run
It reads the open check from the POS you already have. No new terminal, no second system.
Four fewer trips
No printing, delivering, collecting or walking a card back. That time goes to the room.
Parties sort themselves
An eight-top splits on eight phones at once. Nobody does arithmetic at the pass.
Tips trend up
Guests tip more in private, on their own phone, than on a folded paper slip.
The money lands where it already lands.
Payments settle into the Square account you use today, on the same schedule. Pebble never holds your money and takes no cut of the bill.
Your POS
It works with the POS you already run
Pebble reads the open check live, so what a guest sees is what the server rang in, down to the last modifier. There is no separate menu to maintain and no prices to keep in step, because there is no second copy of anything.
The check stays a normal check for its whole life. It appears in your reporting the way it always did, closes out in the same place, and a manager can void, comp or discount it without anybody thinking about Pebble at all.
Setup is connecting your POS from a browser and putting a pebble on each table. There is no installer, no hardware swap, and no retraining, so your staff keep doing the job exactly as they were trained to do it.
Large parties
The eight-top that takes twenty minutes
A big party is the worst version of the same problem. Someone asks for separate checks after the fact, a server splits items by hand at the terminal while the rest of the section waits, and then four cards go back and forth one at a time.
With a pebble on the table, all eight people open the same check at once. Each takes their own items or an even share, tips on their own, and pays. The balance updates as they go, so nobody has to work out who still owes what.
It is the one case where the time saved is obvious to the guests as well. They notice not having to hand a card to the person doing the maths.
Google reviews
The best moment to ask is the one you have been throwing away
Think about when a review normally gets asked for. A card by the door that nobody picks up. An email two days later, when the evening has blurred into the rest of the week. A server who has to work the request into a goodbye and would honestly rather not. Every one of those is late, awkward, or both.
The screen that confirms a payment is neither. The guest has just paid, the meal is still in front of them, their phone is already in their hand, and there is nothing left for them to do at the table. One tap takes them to your Google listing with the review box open. A paper receipt cannot ask for anything.
You paste your Google Place ID into settings once and never touch it again. After that, every check that settles through a pebble ends with the ask, on every table, on every shift, without anyone on your floor having to say the words.
It stays a link rather than a demand. A guest who is not interested closes the page, their receipt arrives as normal, and nobody has been put on the spot at the end of their night.
The questions owners actually ask. Usually within the first two minutes of the conversation.
What if a guest doesn't want to use their phone?
Then they don't. The pebble is an option sitting on the table, not a requirement. A guest who wants a printed check and a card machine asks for one, and their server brings it exactly as they do today. In most rooms some tables pay on their phone and some don't, on the same night.
What happens if the wifi drops?
Nothing on the table depends on your wifi. The guest's phone opens the check over its own connection, which is usually cellular, so a dead router in the back office doesn't stop a table paying. If your POS itself is unreachable, the pebble simply won't load a check, and your staff close it the way they would during any other outage.
Do I need new hardware?
No. The pebbles are the hardware, and they need no power, no pairing and no network. You keep the terminals, printers and handhelds you have. Nothing gets unplugged, and there is no second system for a manager to learn.
What about tips for my staff?
Tips come through as part of the payment on the check, so they land in your POS reporting alongside every other tip taken that shift. However you pool, split or pay them out today is how you do it tomorrow. The number just tends to be a little larger, because guests tip more on their own phone than on a paper slip.
How does the Google review prompt work?
You paste your Google Place ID into settings once. From then on, the screen that confirms a guest's payment carries a single link straight to your listing with the review box open. It is a link, not a demand: a guest who ignores it closes the page, and their receipt is unaffected either way.
Can I still close a check on my terminal?
Yes, always. It stays an ordinary check in your POS the entire time. Whoever gets there first closes it, and the other side sees it settled. A comp, a discount or a manager void works exactly as it does now.
What if half the table pays and the rest don't?
Each payment is applied to the check as it comes in, so the balance on your terminal is always the real remaining amount. A server can see what is still owed, and either the next guest pays their share or the table closes out on the terminal for the difference.
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