Cashless school canteen app
Arkantara helps schools run a cashless school canteen. Students and staff pay from their canteen wallet balance, cashiers record sales per vendor, and parents follow their child's canteen balance and top it up online from the parent portal.
Canteen Available from the Enterprise package
What you can do
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Canteen balances for students and staff
One wallet per student or staff member, with a history of top-ups, purchases, and refunds. Wallets can be frozen and given a daily spending limit.
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Till with card scanning
Cashiers record cash or balance sales. The wallet is picked by searching a name or by scanning the barcode on student and staff cards printed from Arkantara.
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Online canteen top-up by parents
Guardians top up their child's wallet from the portal Canteen tab through the school's DOKU account, within a per-transaction limit, credited once DOKU confirms.
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School canteen pre-orders
Vendors that accept pre-orders set an order cutoff time. Students, staff, and guardians order for upcoming open days, and cancelling before the cutoff refunds the wallet.
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Vendors, menus, hours, and ingredients
Manage vendors, menus and prices, opening hours, and menu availability. Recipes per portion deduct ingredient stock on each sale, and a sale is refused if an ingredient runs short.
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School canteen sales reports
See sales by vendor, payment method, and day, plus top-selling items, and download a CSV. Daily sales post to the cash book automatically when the finance module is active.
Frequently asked questions
Can a child's daily canteen spending be limited?
Yes. School staff set a daily spending limit per wallet, and a sale over the limit is refused. Parents can follow the balance, today's spending, and the transaction history from the parent portal.
Do we need special cards or payment terminals?
No. Cashiers use any device with a web browser to open Arkantara, then pick the wallet by name or scan the barcode on student and staff cards with an ordinary barcode scanner.
What if an online top-up does not show up?
The balance only rises after DOKU confirms the payment. If the DOKU notification does not arrive, the system asks DOKU for the payment status at regular intervals. A payment for a frozen wallet is flagged for the school to review.
Related features
- School library system with barcode loansA school library app for the catalog, barcode book loans, returns, renewals, reservations, and fines, linked to your student and staff records.
- School bus and student transport appManage school bus vehicles, drivers, routes, stops, and schedules, record who boards each trip, and notify guardians when a child does not board.
See your school in it
A 14-day trial with every module, with nothing to install at the school. Pricing is per school, not per student.