FloPOS started in August 2016 as a practical POS for the Indian market. By 2017, it was running in real restaurants, dealing with real restaurant things: printers that misbehave, menus that change midweek, staff who need speed, and owners who need the system to recover when the shift gets messy.
That first chapter stayed closed-source, but it taught the product what demos never do. Some early installs are still running today, which says more than any polished slide could.
Then we opened the doors
After years around POS software, itsbkm.com came back to the idea with a sharper question: what if restaurants could keep the usefulness without the lock-in, subscriptions, and mystery box?
That became FloCafe: a local-first, free, open-source restaurant POS. People started testing it, translating it, fixing it, and pushing it into places one small team could never reach alone.
The point is not to look clever in a demo. The point is to be useful when the kitchen is busy.
What FloPOS is becoming
FloCafe is the restaurant product. FloRetail and FloSalon are next in the family. FloAdmin, OrderFlow, and RevFlo add optional connected services only when operators choose them.
The promise stays simple: local software first, cloud by choice, source code in the open, and a product shaped by the people who actually use it.