Qahwa

One person. One platform. Qahwa is the all-in-one café back office for Saudi Arabia — POS, inventory, accounting, HR & payroll, ZATCA...
Riyadh, SA
•Created byProfile pictureAB
1 joined
Profile picture
ABProfile picture@abulaihid·Sep 3

Why we built Qahwa instead of just using QuickBooks + a POS + an HR spreadsheet

Most café owners in Saudi run their back office as five disconnected tools: a POS terminal, a WhatsApp group for staff schedules, an Excel sheet for inventory, an accountant they pay monthly just to stay ZATCA-compliant, and a notebook for loyalty stamps.


Every one of those seams is where money leaks. A barista undercounts stock because nobody updated the sheet. An invoice goes out non-compliant because the accountant hasn't touched the books this week. A regular customer never comes back a third time because there's no loyalty system to remind them.


We built Qahwa around one belief: a solo café owner in Riyadh or Jeddah shouldn't need to hire an accountant, an HR officer, or an IT team just to run a shop that sells coffee.


So Qahwa is one login that covers:

  • Brew — POS that takes cards, Apple Pay, mada, and cash

  • Pantry — inventory that updates itself off every sale

  • Ledger — ZATCA Phase 2 e-invoicing and books, done automatically

  • Crew — staff schedules and payroll

  • Pulse / Roast AI — plain-language answers about your margins, in Arabic or English

  • Blend — an AI marketing studio for your next promo


The bet isn't "more features." It's that every module talks to the same data, so nothing needs manual reconciliation. If you're running a café solo and duct-taping five apps together right now, that's exactly the problem we started Qahwa to kill.


— the Qahwa team