ristocrm โ modular management software for restaurants and hotels
Modular SaaS management software for restaurants and hotels, cryptographically licensed (Ed25519): from the dining room to the kitchen, from hotel check-in to sales reports, ~215 automated tests.
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Express
- SQLite
- Vitest
- Playwright
- Ed25519

Modular management software for restaurants and hospitality venues, built as a modular-license SaaS product: each customer activates only the modules they need, and the system enables them dynamically based on a cryptographically signed license, with no separate builds required.
In short
ristocrm covers a venue's entire operational cycle โ from table booking to payment, from hotel check-in to availability sync with OTAs โ while staying manageable from a single panel, with different roles and permissions for admin, dining room, kitchen and warehouse staff.
Who it's for
Small and medium restaurants, B&Bs and boutique hotels that today manage bookings, orders, inventory and rooms with disconnected tools (paper, WhatsApp, spreadsheets). Configurable staff roles โ not just the four defaults: custom roles can be created by choosing, section by section, what each one sees.
What it does
Restaurant โ menu and website
- Menu with categories, prices, allergens and dish photos; themed menus with activation dates (e.g. a Christmas menu).
- A shareable public link for every menu, a block-based public site editor with customizable pages, uploading ready-made sites as a ZIP bundle.
- Logo and header photo management for branding.
Restaurant โ dining room and orders
- Interactive dining room floor plan (drag & drop), multi-room, an alternative list view; table states: free, occupied, needs cleaning, reserved.
- Unique QR/link per table (menu, order, report allergies), order-taking by staff.
- Real-time kitchen display (KDS) with dish states (waiting โ preparing โ ready โ served), smartphone self-ordering for fixed-menu tables.
Restaurant โ bill, till and suppliers
- Bill calculation with configurable cover charge and service fee, multi-method payment, receipt issuance (pluggable fiscal provider).
- Supplier directory, inventory with minimum stock thresholds and movement history, purchase orders (draft โ sent โ received).
- Recipe โ ingredient linking, with automatic inventory deduction on every sale.
Restaurant โ bookings and allergies
- Self-service table booking from the website, with staff confirmation or rejection.
- Allergy reporting from the table via QR, resolved in real time with a badge visible in the dining room view.
Restaurant โ all you can eat
- Fixed price per adult/child (with a maximum child age), surcharges on premium dishes.
- A time limit per table and a penalty for uneaten food.
Hotel
- Room types with photo gallery, description, amenities and capacity; rates by period/season.
- Physical rooms assigned at check-in, housekeeping (free/occupied/cleaning/maintenance).
- Self-service booking with a dedicated public page per room, or direct booking by staff (phone/walk-in); check-in/check-out, internal invoices.
- Availability sync via iCal: public export and import from external OTAs (Booking.com, Airbnb).
Cross-cutting (restaurant + hotel)
- Automatic guest notifications (email/SMS) on request, confirmation and cancellation.
- Online deposits โ a fixed amount or a percentage โ with manual collection as an alternative.
- Sales report: revenue, average bill, best-selling dishes, revenue by payment method.
Platform and staff management
- Staff accounts with their own login, roles configurable section by section for what each one can see.
- Action log (who collected a payment, resolved an allergy report, received a supplier order...).
- An entry hub for Restaurant/Hotel when both modules are active, native light/dark theme across the whole panel.
Licensing (provider side)
- Modules individually activatable per customer via a digitally signed license, offline operation with a grace period.
- A web console to see customer status, suspend or revoke a license.
- A local console to generate new licenses with no command line needed.
Architecture, tech stack and the real engineering problems solved along the way.