A waitlist and table management app for restaurants: note who is waiting, see which table frees up and seat them in two taps.
The problem
On a busy night, the host at the door juggles a paper list, a floor full of tables in different stages and guests asking how long it will take. Most restaurant software is built for the back office, not for the person standing at the door during a rush.
What Qaylo does
Qaylo puts the queue and the floor on the same screen.
- Waitlist management: add a party in seconds and see how long each one has been waiting.
- Zones and tables: every table shows whether it is free, occupied, turning or running over, so you can see which one is about to open up.
- Seat in two taps, straight from the queue to a table.
- One-tap WhatsApp notice so guests know when their table is ready.
- Works offline, because the connection at the door is never reliable.
- Up to 7 days of history to look back at a service.
It works on a tablet at the host stand and on a phone, in English and Spanish, and it is free to start: no card, ready in five minutes.
How it’s built
Qaylo is a local-first web app built with React and Next.js. Each device keeps the full state of the venue locally and syncs with a backend on Cloudflare backed by PostgreSQL, so the service keeps running when the network drops. Seating decisions, like wait estimates and table suggestions, come from a small engine of pure functions shared by every part of the app.