How Karamu works

From an empty floor plan to a full Friday night, in five steps.

The whole platform — booking page, dashboard, kitchen display, front-of-house, payments — is built around one rhythm of restaurant life. Here's the loop.

01
Set up
7 min · Owner

Add your tables in 7 minutes

Onboarding wizard walks you through restaurant info, floor plan, opening hours, and connecting M-Pesa. No installer. No on-site visit.

Onboarding
5 of 7 done
Restaurant basics
Floor plan · 28 tables
Opening hours
Menu · 42 items
M-Pesa · Paystack
Booking page
In progress
Team invites
Average completion · 6 min 42 sec
02
Get bookings
Day 1 · Guests

Your booking page is live

A mobile-first page with your menu, photos and live availability — at getkaramu.com/book/your-restaurant. Embed it on your site or share the link on Instagram.

getkaramu.com/book/acacia-bistro
Acacia Bistro Westlands
Today
2
Sat
3
Sun
4
Mon
5
Tue
6
Available · Saturday
12:30
13:00
13:30
14:00
18:30
19:00
19:30
20:00
03
Take deposits
Per booking · Guests

M-Pesa STK Push at checkout

Optional deposit on Friday and Saturday nights. Paystack pushes the prompt to the guest's phone, the booking confirms only when they pay. No-shows drop, kitchen confidence goes up.

STK Push · Paystack
11:36:02
Booking KRM-4826 awaiting deposit
M-PESA
Sent to
+254 712 458 962
KES
2,000
deposit
Paid · 7 sec ago
04
Run service
Every shift · Staff

Floor, kitchen, and front-of-house in sync

Hosts seat tables on a live floor plan. Kitchen sees orders fire on the KDS. Servers split bills via M-Pesa STK at the table. Everything reconciles automatically.

Ground floor● live
38 / 64 seated
Window
Indoor
Garden
T-01
2p
T-02
2p
T-04
4p
T-05
4p
T-07
6p
T-09
4p
T-11
4p
T-13
4p
T-15
10p
Seated Reserved Pending Paying Open VIP Allergy
05
Learn & grow
Weekly · Owner

Analytics that respect your time

See pacing, no-shows, peak hours, repeat rate, and cover spend at a glance. Karamu emails you a 1-page weekly summary on Monday morning.

Weekly summary
1,298 covers
↑ 9.8% vs last week
Avg cover
KES 1,480
142
Mon
168
Tue
134
Wed
188
Thu
226
Fri
242
Sat
198
Sun
Insight · Fri 19:00–21:00 are your gold hours. You turned 3.1× on average — try opening a 21:30 seating.

See it in your own service.

Apply for early access and the founder spins up your floor plan with you on a 20-minute call.