Simmer: Food Service/Cafe POS

Develop by Shopify

$30

/ Month

30 Days Free Trial

Tickets & modifiers for Coffee Shops using POS

Inventory management

Pos integration

Ticket management

Accurate reporting

Product modifiers

About Simmer: Food Service/Cafe POS

Launched Sep 29, 2024

Built by Shopify

Address

151 O’Connor St, Ottawa, ON, ON, CA

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Description

Helps food service businesses track tickets, product modifiers, kitchen displays, printers and more

Simmer enhances POS for coffee shops, restaurants, wineries, bakeries and more. It offers product modifiers and flexible ticket management, integrating seamlessly with POS. Modifiers can be created as standard products streamlining discounting, inventory management and reporting. Create kitchen displays (KDS) and print tickets for your kitchen or prep areas. Customers can order online and select a pickup date and time. These orders show up as tickets on KDS and are printed in your kitchen.

Ticket & table management: Tickets with pre and post-pay options
Product modifiers: Add multi-select options to your products
Accurate reporting: Modifiers are real products
Kitchen displays & print: Display "Sent" tickets to your kitchen or prep staff
Online order: Allow customers to pickup their order at a given date and time

Pros

Enhances POS functionality specifically for coffee shops and small restaurants
Offers flexible ticket management, including pre and post-pay options
Integrates seamlessly with existing POS systems
Product modifiers can be created as standard products with multi-select options, allowing for customization of orders
Streamlines ordering and inventory management, helping businesses maintain efficiency
Accurate reporting by tracking modifiers as real products, aiding in inventory and sales analysis

Cons

May require initial setup time to integrate and configure App Blocks
Small businesses with simpler needs might find features overly complex or unnecessary
Potential learning curve for staff unfamiliar with advanced POS systems

Top Helpful Reviews

Five Senses Coffee

Dec 04, 2025 on Shopify

Great app for turning Shopify POS into a functional cafe ordering system. Seb and the team are extremely responsive and always happy to help with any issues or implement new features.

Ramseyer Farms

Sep 17, 2025 on Shopify

We've been using Simmer at a few different Shopify POS locations for a little while now for both the KDS and the modifiers. It's a solid product, and the development team has been making improvements quickly over the past several months adding different features. Any questions or concerns that we've encountered have been quickly explained or fixed after an email. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a KDS on Shopify.

DIE BINE - kochen.würzen.genießen

Sep 05, 2025 on Shopify

Wir betreiben mittwochs eine After-Work-Gastro in unserem Kochstudio und waren lange auf der Suche nach einer Lösung, mit der wir Bestellungen pro Gast einfach erfassen, an Ausschank und Küche weiterleiten, fertige Positionen abhaken und am Ende alles sauber in den Warenkorb übernehmen können. Genau das haben wir mit der Simmer App gefunden – eine echte All-in-One-Lösung! Die App ist unkompliziert, flexibel anpassbar und macht unsere Arbeit enorm leichter. Was früher aufwendig und fehleranfällig war, läuft jetzt schnell, übersichtlich und absolut zuverlässig. Für uns ist Simmer ein echter Gamechanger, wenn es um Gäste und Bestellungen geht. Besonders hervorheben möchten wir das Team von Simmer: super nett, unkompliziert, immer hilfsbereit und offen für neue Ideen. Der Kontakt macht einfach Spaß, man fühlt sich bestens aufgehoben und merkt, dass hier Leute mit Leidenschaft dabei sind. Fazit: Sehr geil, absolut empfehlenswert und genau die Lösung, die wir gesucht haben. Für uns gibt es kein Zurück mehr – Simmer ist aus unserem Betrieb nicht mehr wegzudenken.

Madhappy

Jun 23, 2025 on Shopify

Simmer served as a friendly to use service for a large event. We needed a simple but effective solution for eight food stands. With very little time, the team helped greatly with a smooth onboarding process and was by our side the entire journey. The software worked without fail and the interface and experience reduced training time for our associates. Simmer served as a simple yet effective solution for our event, we would not hesitate to use them again for future events.

Buckabee Brownies

Jun 17, 2025 on Shopify

Highly recommended! Migrating from Square to Shopify I was shocked by how many basic features are missing on Shopify. Then I found Simmer. This app is indispensable! So well thought out when it comes to both features and execution. It makes Shopify so much more usable. It's completely supercharging the basic functionality of the POS. Works flawlessly on both iPads and Android phones. The support is very responsive and helpful. If you read this and install the app, remember to leave a review to keep the team behind going!

The BUZZ

Jun 10, 2025 on Shopify

Great product with stellar support! KDS system integration is a killer feature. Turns Shopify POS into a legit cafe operating system and keeps getting better. Thank you Seb!

Unico Zelo

Apr 25, 2025 on Shopify

We've started using this app with our new venue, combining Table Service and Take-Away elements in the same space. Simmer has been an absolute dream, solving 90% of our problems with using Shopify POS in a Hospitality setting on launch. The other 10% are being worked on by Seb and the team, who have been incredibly receptive to feedback and have worked incredibly quickly to make changes at our suggestion. I'm excited to see the app grow and develop, and I'm so grateful to the Simmer crew for making this tool possible!

FabricPro

Mar 31, 2025 on Shopify

Great and effective app which allows for customisation of options and add-ons to your products. I would like to applaud the support team (Seb) for his quick response and swift actions to help me resolve a issue i faced.

HOPE & MIND

Mar 07, 2025 on Shopify

I have been using this app for a few weeks now. At the very first, I was very desappointed as many features weren't working fine. It was very frustrating. The app promises weren't here. And then, the Simmer Team (Seb) got in touch with me to understand my worries and to ask me how they could help my team and I in using their app. I told them a few key points to improve to make their app very efficient. I finally found them very concerned about my experience and they have been working to fix all the bugs that I noticed to them. Today the app is more fluid. I can also say that kind of app that suits coffee shop with terrasse and table orders is quite rare. And I can say now their app is good choice for taking orders at tables with a very nice kitchen display system. A few things are still to be improved but I can bank on them to make it. Today change my 1* score to a 4* score. Maybe in a few weeks I will put a 5* score. Thank you Seb for your help.

Trevenson Moor Limited, Cornwall

Dec 16, 2024 on Shopify

The Simmer team are working hard to build an app which brings real omni-channel experience together for cafe and restaurant customers. The team have been easy to work with when I hit a few configuration changes and they’re a customer obsessed team. This comes through in the features the team are releasing. From KDS, through to tickets - they understand the workflow of a kitchen, and front-of house to combine them through Simmer. A hidden gem of an application- greatly enhancing the Shopify ecosystem. Great work Simmer team.

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