Mixed floors, one price list
Console gaming café software for a floor that is not all the same
A separate rate ladder for every device type, weekday and weekend prices, player-count rates, prices frozen at session start, group bills, and a monthly profit and loss that shows what each machine returns.
- 14 days Trial
- No Card Required
- PC · PS5 · VR
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A rate ladder per device
A PS5 does not have to cost what an Xbox costs, and neither has to cost what a racing seat costs. Each device type carries its own ladder of durations and prices.
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Weekday and weekend rates
Set different prices per day of the week, plus happy-hour windows that open and close on their own. Nobody has to remember to switch the board on Friday.
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Player-count pricing
One player and four players on the same console are different products. Price them separately instead of doing arithmetic at the counter.
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Prices freeze at session start
Edit the ladder mid-evening and every session already running keeps the price it began with. Nothing is ever repriced underneath a player.
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Every station on one view
Consoles, PCs, VR bays and racing seats all show a live timer and accruing cost on the same screen, so staff learn one thing rather than four.
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Which hardware actually earns
Sessions, memberships and food roll into a monthly profit and loss with expenses taken off, exported to PDF or Excel, so you can see what a device type is really returning.
The floor stopped being uniform, and the price list did not keep up
A gaming café used to be a room of identical PCs, and one hourly rate covered it. The floor most Indian owners actually run now is a mix: a wall of PCs, two or three consoles on sofas, a racing rig, maybe a VR bay. Each has a different capital cost, a different session length and a different amount somebody will happily pay for an hour of it. That turns your price list from one number into a matrix of device, duration, day and player count. Kept on a whiteboard or in a staff member's memory, that matrix is where margin quietly leaks: the console gets charged the PC rate because it was easier, the weekend rate never gets applied, the group pays like a single. Respawna holds the matrix so the counter does not have to.
Rungs beat a flat hourly figure
Charging by the hour and prorating anything shorter reads badly to a customer and rounds badly for you. Rates here are rungs: a price for thirty minutes, another for an hour, another for three hours, set separately per device. A rung is quotable out loud, which matters at a counter, and it lets you make longer sessions genuinely better value without discounting by hand. Add bonus minutes automatically on the longer rungs and a grace period at the end so a session that runs slightly over does not tip into the next price and start an argument.
Group sessions that end together
Consoles are social. Four people on one sofa, or two consoles pushed together for a six-player evening, is the normal Saturday. Sessions that started together can be ended together, producing one bill for the group rather than a queue of separate transactions while everyone else waits. Snacks that went onto the tab during the session are already on it. What comes out is one itemised GST invoice with the tax split shown, which you can share to a phone in a tap.
What it does not do, said plainly
Respawna does not lock the consoles or install anything on them. It runs in a browser at the counter and manages the floor, the money and the members, while staff start and stop the hardware exactly as they do today. Customers can reserve a slot from their phone if you want them to · a member picks a game type, a party size and a time, and the system holds a station without letting them pick which one. If your floor is walk-in, which most are, leave bookings switched off and the live view of what is occupied and how long it has been running is the thing that actually moves the queue.
FAQ
Frequently askedquestions.
Can each console have its own price?add
Yes. Rates are set per device type, so a PS5, an Xbox, a racing seat and a PC can each have a different ladder of durations and prices on the same floor.
Can I charge different rates on weekends?add
Yes. Prices vary by day of the week, and you can also set happy-hour windows that apply themselves during the hours you choose.
Does it take online bookings?add
Yes, if you switch them on. A member picks a game type, a party size and a time from their phone, and the system holds a rig for them · they never choose the machine, because which one they get depends on what is free when they arrive. You decide whether a hold is free, takes a deposit or is paid up front, how late somebody may turn up before the seat goes back on sale, and how far ahead the diary opens. Bookings sit on the same live floor view as everything else, so the counter sees who is due in beside what is already running.
Can a group of four be billed as one?add
Yes. Sessions started together can be ended together and produce a single itemised invoice, including anything added to the tab during the session.
Does it control or lock the consoles?add
Yes, at the TV. The Respawna TV app, free on Google Play for Android TV and Google TV, covers the screen a PS5 or Xbox plugs into whenever nobody has a paid session, and never touches the console itself. Windows PCs on the same floor can be locked with the optional Respawna Agent.
Can I see which hardware makes the most money?add
Yes. Sessions, memberships and food sales roll into a monthly profit and loss with expenses deducted, and the reports export to PDF and Excel.
What does it cost?add
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.