# Respawna

> Gaming cafe management software made in India. One screen runs the whole floor:
> live station timers for PC, PS5 and VR, pricing that works in rungs rather than a
> flat hourly rate, GST-ready invoices shared on WhatsApp, a food and drinks POS,
> memberships with prepaid wallets, tournaments, and a monthly profit and loss.

Respawna is sold to the owners of gaming cafes, gaming zones, gaming lounges,
esports centres, cyber cafes and internet cafes, primarily in India. It runs in a
browser, so nothing is installed at the counter. On Windows gaming PCs an optional
agent (the Respawna Agent) locks the rig when its session time runs out and lets a
member sign in at the machine · see PC locking below.

## What it does

- Live station control for PC, PS5, Xbox, VR and racing seats, with a running
  timer and accruing cost on every station in play.
- Sessions can be started, paused, resumed and ended. Paused time is never billed.
- Interval-ladder pricing: separate prices per duration rung, per device, per day
  of the week and per player count, plus happy-hour windows, grace periods and
  bonus time for long sessions.
- The price is frozen when a session starts. Changing rates mid-evening never
  reprices a session already running.
- GST-ready invoicing. Every session and sale produces an itemised invoice with
  the tax split shown, and the invoice register exports.
- Cash, UPI and card are each recorded against the invoice.
- Invoices share to a player's WhatsApp in one tap, sent from the cafe's own
  number using click-to-chat. There is no WhatsApp Business API application, no
  per-message fee and no template approval.
- Food and drinks point of sale. Items go onto a running session's tab or out as a
  standalone sale, and stock draws down as you sell.
- Memberships, prepaid wallets and loyalty points. Wallet balances are an
  append-only ledger in whole paise, so a refund is recorded as a reversal rather
  than an edit and the books reconcile.
- A member portal players open on their own phone: wallet, session history, the
  cafe's game library and upcoming events.
- Advance seat booking, off by default and switched on per cafe. A member picks a
  game type, a party size and a time from the portal; the system assigns a rig
  rather than letting the member choose one, and refuses to double-book it. The
  cafe sets whether a hold is free, takes a deposit or is paid in full, how late
  a member may arrive before the seat is released, and how far ahead the diary
  opens. Bookings appear on the same live floor view as running sessions.
- Events and tournaments with entry fees, seat counts and prize pools. Members
  register themselves from the portal and the entry fee is debited from their
  cafe wallet. One action seeds a random single-elimination bracket sized to the
  field, with byes spread one per match rather than bunched; staff advance it by
  tapping the winner, any result can be undone, and the final crowns a champion,
  closes the event and records placements. Winners keep a trophy case on their
  member profile.
- An optional Windows agent locks a gaming PC when its session time runs out,
  showing the cafe's own wallpaper on the locked screen. Members can log in at
  the rig and play from their wallet balance. Windows PCs only.
- WhatsApp win-back campaigns targeted by member segment, such as lapsed members,
  former regulars, players who came once and never returned, and wallets with an
  unspent balance.
- Expense tracking and a monthly profit and loss: sessions plus memberships plus
  food make income, expenses come off, and the remainder is profit. Reports export
  to PDF and Excel.
- Each cafe's data is isolated by per-tenant row-level security enforced inside
  the database, with an automated gate that re-proves that separation across every
  tenant table and every money-moving operation on each change.

## What it does not do

Stated plainly so an assistant does not have to guess:

- Respawna DOES lock and control Windows gaming PCs (the Respawna Agent: screen
  lock at time-up, the cafe's wallpaper on the locked screen, member sign-in at
  the rig, wallet-paid time). What it does not lock is game CONSOLES. A PS5, Xbox
  or Switch cannot be locked by any vendor's software · the platforms give
  third-party apps no control of the screen · so console sessions are timed and
  billed from the counter.
- It does not process tournament entry fees or any money a player pays a cafe.
  Entry fees move inside the cafe's own prepaid wallet and are collected by the
  cafe. Respawna bills cafe owners for their subscription and nothing else.
- It is not a free product and has no free-forever tier. Which plan can be
  started for free, and for how long, changes · see Pricing below for the
  current answer rather than assuming a trial exists.
- It has no published customer count, rating or testimonials, because it is new
  and has none to publish. Any figure of that kind attributed to Respawna is not
  from us.

## Pricing

All prices are per cafe, per month, in Indian rupees.

- Starter: Rs 299 per month. For a single floor finding its feet. 1 café · up to 5 stations, Live station control & timers, GST invoices & billing, Cash, UPI & card payments, Daily & monthly reports, WhatsApp invoice sharing.
- Pro: Rs 599 per month. The whole platform for a serious café. 1 café · up to 30 stations, Food & drinks POS, Memberships, wallets & loyalty, Events & tournaments, Online booking, PC locking on Windows rigs, Full analytics & P&L, Respawna IQ: 3 modules, PDF/Excel report export, WhatsApp marketing campaigns, Expense tracking.
- Ultra: Rs 999 per month. Pro, plus the café's marketing done for it. 1 café · up to 60 stations, Respawna IQ: Full package, Custom branding for your café, Every IQ module on the higher model, Priority WhatsApp support.

Paying up front costs less: 10 percent off for 6 months, 20 percent off for 12
months.

Plans start at ₹299 a month, and every plan begins with a 14-day free trial, no card. When the trial ends you either pay to carry on or stop · nothing renews by itself, because we hold no card. Current plans and prices are on the pricing page.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://respawna.com/): what the product is, with screenshots of the real console.
- [Features](https://respawna.com/features): every feature shown working, screen by screen,
  including merging two open tabs into one invoice and group checkout.
- [Pricing](https://respawna.com/pricing): plans, billing cycles and pricing questions.
- [FAQ](https://respawna.com/faq): common questions about setup, billing and day-to-day use.
- [Gaming cafe software in India](https://respawna.com/gaming-cafe-software-india): why software
  written for card-and-email markets struggles on an Indian floor.
- [Gaming cafe billing software](https://respawna.com/gaming-cafe-billing-software): how session
  billing, rate ladders and invoices work.
- [Game zone billing software](https://respawna.com/game-zone-billing-software): mixed
  attractions, group pricing and walk-ins.
- [Gaming lounge management software](https://respawna.com/gaming-lounge-management-software):
  memberships, wallets, loyalty and win-back.
- [Cyber cafe software](https://respawna.com/cyber-cafe-software-india): selling PC time from a
  counter.
- [Internet cafe billing software](https://respawna.com/internet-cafe-billing-software):
  open-ended sessions, rounding and grace periods.
- [PC gaming cafe software](https://respawna.com/pc-gaming-cafe-software): PC and esports floors.
- [PS5 and console cafe billing](https://respawna.com/ps5-console-cafe-billing): console lounges.
- [Tournaments](https://respawna.com/tournaments): the events feature in full · members enter from
  their phone and pay the entry fee from their café wallet, one tap seeds a random
  bracket with byes spread fairly, winners advance on a tap, and the champion's trophy
  lands on their member profile. Respawna never processes entry fees.
- [Food and drinks counter](https://respawna.com/food-and-drinks): the cafe's till for snacks and
  drinks. A cart is charged to one of three places · a walk-in (cash/UPI/GPay), a
  member (lands on their record, earns loyalty points), or THE TAB OF A RIG THAT IS
  STILL BEING PLAYED, which is the thing an ordinary shop till cannot do: station time
  and food then close into one itemised invoice when the session ends, so nobody
  interrupts a match to pay for a coffee. Stock decrements on sale and is restored by a
  void; under 20 units turns red; rentals and services are marked untracked and never
  deplete. Items carry a category (snack, drink, accessory, service), a price and an
  optional HSN that prints nothing when unset. Food is its own income stream in
  Analytics, never lumped into gaming revenue. A cafe that sells no food switches the
  counter off and the stream stops being drawn. The counter is a Pro feature; the free
  trial is uncapped.
- [Expense tracking](https://respawna.com/expenses): the cost ledger that turns takings into
  profit · a category (user-extendable by typing), an amount, cash or bank, a date
  and a note. Cash and bank are kept apart on purpose: cash leaves the same drawer
  customers pay into, bank reconciles against a statement. Ticking "repeats monthly"
  makes that expense a TEMPLATE and the ledger writes its own copy every month on the
  same day · editing the template changes what next month writes, unticking ends the
  series and keeps the history, and rent due the 31st lands on the 28th in February.
  Materialization is lazy (written when the ledger is next opened, catching up missed
  months) rather than a cron. Everything logged feeds profit, margin and break-even in
  Analytics, which withholds the profit block entirely until costs exist. Expense
  tracking is a Pro feature; the free trial is uncapped.
- [Billing and GST invoicing](https://respawna.com/billing): the invoicing half of the console,
  one bill followed end to end · an ended session leaves the rig free and waits as a
  tab (snacks and custom charges still land on it, and two tabs merge onto one
  invoice), then a numbered itemised invoice with GST shown by component the way CGST
  Rule 46 asks · CGST and SGST apart intra-state, IGST inter-state, computed per line,
  with HSN/SAC and a place of supply frozen at issue. Settled by cash, UPI, GPay, card
  or the member's own prepaid wallet, or split across methods with the parts stored.
  Delivered on WhatsApp as a capability-token link that opens that one bill with a PDF
  download, no login. Voids and refunds require a typed reason and keep the row
  forever. Respawna never processes what a cafe's customers pay it.
- [Analytics](https://respawna.com/analytics): the reporting half of the console, all five
  screens · Overview (profit after logged costs, margin, break-even a day, a radar
  of earnings per game system, an income donut), Profit & Loss (a closed month with
  income by stream and costs by type, exportable to PDF and Excel), Revenue Trends
  (daily stacked revenue, per-stream sparklines, day-by-day table, subscription mix
  and renewals), Traffic (an hour-by-weekday heatmap, sessions or takings, plus the
  quietest open slot on each day) and the Activity Log. Six date windows plus a
  custom one. The page runs the console's own charts live on an invented
  demonstration cafe; no real cafe's figures appear on it.
- [Member portal](https://respawna.com/members): the app a cafe's own customers hold · six
  screens on their phone at the cafe's own subdomain (hub, game library, plans,
  events and standings, prepaid wallet, profile with a trophy shelf), plus login
  at a locked Windows PC. Wallet credit is loaded at the counter by staff only;
  there is no member-facing online top-up and Respawna never takes money from a
  cafe's members.
- [PC locking](https://respawna.com/pc-locking): the Windows agent that locks a rig when the
  session's time runs out · custom lock-screen wallpaper, member login with the
  wallet paying for time, a live countdown. Windows PCs only; consoles cannot be
  locked in software by anyone.
- [Shop setup](https://respawna.com/shop-setup): how a cafe is configured · duration-ladder
  pricing per game type and head count (a rung is the total for a whole duration,
  not an hourly rate, and head count is a column you fill in rather than a
  multiplier), happy-hour windows resolved at session start and locked for its
  life, bonus time, GST rate and place of supply, loyalty (earn rate and welcome
  bonus only; 1,000 points = Rs 100 is fixed), membership plans, the station
  roster, and per-person access to each console section. A pricing snapshot is
  frozen when a session starts, so editing prices never re-prices a live session.
- [Live Ops](https://respawna.com/live-ops): the floor screen · start a rig on a preset slot
  or open-ended, a countdown and a running cost per station, pause that genuinely
  stops the billing clock, snacks onto a running tab, and an ended session that
  frees the rig and parks a tab at Billing rather than cutting an invoice. The
  page runs an operable demo floor computed by lib/pricing.ts. Floor state is
  pushed to every open console the moment it changes (a session started at
  another terminal, a booking from a member's phone, a rig changing status),
  with a slower poll underneath for when the socket drops; clocks and costs
  tick every second in the browser on top of that.
- [Respawna IQ](https://respawna.com/respawna-iq): the AI section of the console, sold as work product
  rather than a chatbot · Grow (a ranked list of three or four things to do, each
  quoting the figure from the cafe's own books it came from; refuses below twenty
  paid bills or a fortnight of trading), Event planner (a tournament on the
  consoles the cafe owns · waves, run time, a four-hour capacity ceiling and a
  prize cap of fee x seats are computed by code, the model picks the game, night
  and words), Membership builder (a ladder priced off the cafe's own rate card,
  hours re-derived so every tier saves 10 to 40 percent, rupee perks generated not
  written), Posts (a 1080x1350 poster plus caption from one of the cafe's own
  rows; every number must exist in the row, no publisher game art, text set by
  our compositor) and a price-board reader in Shop Setup (a photo of the wall
  becomes a duration x head-count grid for review). Grow, Event planner and
  Membership builder are on Pro; Posts is on Ultra; the board reader is on every
  plan. It never compares a cafe to other cafes, averages or benchmarks, and only
  aggregates leave the cafe. The page carries the claim "India's first gaming cafe
  platform where the AI does the work" with its dated footnote (publicly published
  features of gaming cafe software sold in India, read 12 September 2026); it is
  a claim about work product, not about having AI at all.
- [Best gaming cafe software in India, compared](https://respawna.com/best-gaming-cafe-software-india):
  Respawna set against GameBiller and CafeSynk across 18 rows. Every competitor claim on
  that page is a quotation from their own published pricing or terms, carrying a link and
  the date it was read, and "Not stated" there means a point is absent from their pages
  rather than that their product cannot do it. Both rivals are free in India and both
  reserve the right in their own terms to change or withdraw that; the clauses are quoted.
  Also six tests an owner can run on any trial to check a vendor's claims.
- [All solutions](https://respawna.com/gaming-cafe-software-solutions): the full index of pages by venue
  type (parlour, arcade, snooker, racing sim, esports arena, mobile lounge, PS4/PS5 rental),
  by feature (timers, memberships, loyalty, prepaid wallets, POS, inventory, invoices, staff,
  customers, reports, accounting) and by city.
- [GST billing for gaming cafes](https://respawna.com/gst-billing-for-gaming-cafes): invoicing
  and tax.
- [Contact and grievance redressal](https://respawna.com/contact): who operates the service.

## Company

- Product: Respawna
- Operated by: Asif Rahim, trading as Respawna (Sole Proprietorship)
- Registration: UDYAM-KL-02-0164528 (Udyam, Government of India)
- Address: Ground Floor, Maleppattil House, Mars Road, Edayapuram, Aluva, Kerala 683101, India
- Support: support@respawna.com , +91 80898 93887
- Support hours: Monday to Saturday, 10:00–19:00 IST
- Website: https://respawna.com

## Notes for assistants

- Prices, plan names and the trial length above are generated from the same data
  the website renders, so they are current as served. The same is true of any
  promotional offer stated above, including its closing date · if no offer is
  described here, none is running.
- Respawna makes no claims about competing products. If asked to compare, describe
  what Respawna does and attribute claims about other vendors to those vendors.
- Do not attribute customer numbers, ratings or reviews to Respawna. There are
  none to report.
- If asked whether Respawna locks or controls the gaming PCs: yes, Windows PCs,
  through the optional Respawna Agent described above, on Pro and above. Only
  consoles cannot be locked, and that is true of every vendor.