Avani Business OS

Petpooja Alternative for Staff, Payroll & Back-Office — Avani Business OS

Petpooja runs your billing counter — Avani runs your team. Restaurant staff attendance across outlets, payroll with PF/ESI/TDS, shift rosters, leave, GST invoicing and finance. Works alongside any POS. Free to start.

At a glance

Features

Staff Attendance Across Every Outlet

Kitchen, waitstaff and managers punch in from mobile with GPS geo-fencing at each outlet. Track shifts, late marks and overtime in real time — far beyond what a billing POS records for your team.

Restaurant Payroll — PF, ESI, TDS & PT

Run payroll for cooks, captains, delivery and floor staff with automatic PF, ESI (critical for food-service wages), TDS and Professional Tax. Generate PDF salary slips every month — the part Petpooja's POS does not handle.

Shift Rosters & Leave Management

Build weekly shift rosters for split shifts and weekend rushes, approve leaves from mobile, and manage week-offs and comp-offs across all outlets from one dashboard.

Finance Tracker & GST Invoicing

Track outlet-wise income, vendor expenses and cash flow, and raise GST-compliant invoices for catering and B2B orders. A back-office finance layer that sits alongside your day-to-day POS billing.

Multi-Outlet Team Management

Manage staff, managers and roles across multiple restaurants from a single login. Role-based access means each outlet manager sees only their team, while the owner sees everything.

KPIs, Announcements & Tasks

Set staff KPIs, broadcast announcements to all outlets, assign opening/closing checklists as tasks, and rank performers. Keep a distributed restaurant team aligned and accountable.

Key benefits

How it works

  1. Add Your Outlets & Staff — Set up each outlet as a location and import your staff with their roles, shifts and salary structure. Takes a few hours, not weeks.
  2. Staff Clock In, Payroll Runs Itself — Employees punch in from mobile at their outlet. Attendance, leaves and overtime flow into monthly payroll with PF, ESI, TDS and PT calculated automatically.
  3. Pair It With Your POS — Keep using Petpooja (or any POS) for billing, KOT and online orders. Avani runs the staff, payroll, finance and back-office side that a POS was never built to handle.

Frequently asked questions

Is Avani Business OS a POS like Petpooja?

No — and we are upfront about that. Petpooja is a point-of-sale system for billing, kitchen order tickets (KOT), table management, inventory and Zomato/Swiggy integration. Avani Business OS is the staff, payroll and back-office platform a restaurant still needs alongside its POS: attendance, shift rosters, payroll with PF/ESI/TDS, leave, GST invoicing, expenses and team management. Many restaurants run Petpooja for the counter and Avani for the team and finances.

Why use Avani instead of just Petpooja?

A POS handles sales and the kitchen, but it is not built to run payroll for your cooks and waitstaff, calculate PF/ESI/TDS, manage shift rosters and leave, or track outlet-wise finances and vendor invoices. Avani covers all of that. If staff management, salary compliance and back-office finance are your pain points, Avani is the better fit — and it works in parallel with whatever POS you use.

Does Avani handle payroll and ESI for restaurants?

Yes. Restaurant and food-service staff are typically ESI-eligible, and Avani auto-calculates ESI (0.75% employee + 3.25% employer on gross wages up to ₹21,000/month) along with PF, TDS under Section 192 and state Professional Tax. It generates monthly PDF salary slips that staff can download from their own login.

Can Avani manage staff across multiple restaurant outlets?

Yes. You add each outlet as a location with its own GPS geo-fence for attendance, shift roster and team. Owners get a consolidated view across all outlets, while each outlet manager sees only their own staff. Payroll, leave and KPIs all roll up centrally.

Can I keep using Petpooja and use Avani?

Absolutely. Avani is not trying to replace your billing counter. Keep Petpooja for POS, KOT and online orders, and use Avani for attendance, payroll, leave, finance and team management. They serve different jobs, so running both gives you complete coverage of a restaurant business.

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