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Australia·37d ago
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Free
Food Truck POS Systems
Problem Existing POS systems (Square, Tyro, Kounta) are built for fixed-location cafés and ignore food-truck realities — patchy 4G at outdoor venues and rural festivals, queue displays for events, GST reporting for each council area, end-of-day cash-vs-EFTPOS reconciliation across multiple stops, and the per-council mobile-vendor permit rules that differ between Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. Most operators end up with Square + Xero + an Instagram Story for tonight's location. Who feels it Roughly 1,800+ active food trucks across Australia (heavy concentration in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth) — an A$260M industry growing 8% YoY post-2024. MVP hint A single mobile app handling offline-first orders with auto-sync, customer-facing queue display on a tablet, Tyro/Square Reader tap-to-pay, daily BAS-ready GST reports by location, and a public 'where's the truck tonight' page auto-updated from one-tap GPS and pushed to Instagram + Facebook automatically. Why now Post-pandemic food-truck count has nearly doubled in major Australian cities; cashless adoption hit 89% in 2025; and the ATO's e-invoicing mandate is gradually expanding to small mobile vendors in 2026-27. Revenue A$59/mo per truck, with A$25/mo add-ons for multi-truck fleet management, customer SMS-when-ready notifications, and an Australian street-food festival lead-gen marketplace. Average Australian food truck does A$3.5-A$9K weekly, so A$59/mo is well below pain threshold.