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A POS that speaks Vietnamese.

Actually speaks it — not just the brochure.

Toast's devices run English, Spanish, French and Simplified Chinese. Square in the US runs English and Spanish. Arkden is Vietnamese on every screen — register, kitchen display, receipt, end-of-day report.

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No signup. No card. Works on your phone right now.

✓ No contract✓ No new hardware✓ Vietnamese support✓ Live in one week
Built on my family's 49 truck in Philadelphia. Not a tech company — a family like yours.
A real demo, not a screenshot

This is our actual pricing engine

Not a mockup. This is the same code that runs on my mother's truck every day, running here in your browser. Pick a size, pick fruit — the price follows the shop's real rules: six fruits included, greens always free, avocado always fifty cents.

Size

Fruit & greens

Total$5.00

Your menu will be your menu. We build your shop's rules, whatever they are.

Sound familiar?

What actually happens during service

New staff ring up the wrong item

The menu is in English and the person tapping it isn't comfortable in English. The guest waits, the order is wrong, the money is gone.

A rush turns into chaos

Four orders at once and nobody knows which is ready. Someone has to walk back to the kitchen every time a guest asks.

You close without knowing what you made

Count the cash, roughly remember, write it in a notebook. A month later you can't tell which items actually earn.

You call support and reach English

The register breaks mid-service. You wait forty minutes and then explain it in English to someone three states away.

Who built this

I built it for my mother first

My family runs a smoothie and fruit truck in Philadelphia. My mother works it every day. I wrote this register for her — in Vietnamese, because she reads Vietnamese faster than English, and because the old one kept charging the wrong price.

It runs for real, every day, on our truck. Then her friends who run trucks started asking to use it. That's how Arkden happened.

I'm not a big company. When you call, you get me, not a call center. That's both the strength and the weakness, and I'd rather you know which is which before you decide.

— Noah, Philadelphia

An honest comparison

Which one actually has Vietnamese?

Every claim below comes from the vendor's own website, cited underneath. Check them yourself.

ArkdenSquareToastClover
Vietnamese on the deviceYes — every screenNo¹No²No³
Long-term contractNoNo¹Yes (2–3 yr)⁴Varies by reseller
Software price publishedYesYes¹Quote only²Quote only³
Vietnamese-speaking supportYesNoNoNo
Runs on your existing iPadYesYesTheir hardware⁴Their hardware³

¹ squareup.com/us/en/pricing · ² pos.toasttab.com/pricing and Toast's own device-language support article (English, Spanish, French, Simplified Chinese) · ³ clover.com · ⁴ per POS USA's hands-on review. Retrieved 2026-07-25 — vendors change terms, so verify before deciding.

To be fair: If you only need to ring up sales and you're comfortable in English, Square is cheaper — they have a $0/month tier. Arkden is worth paying for when Vietnamese, and a Vietnamese-speaking human, are things you actually need.
Pricing

The price is right here

You see everything you'll pay, up front. No hidden tier, no 'contact us for a quote'.

Food truck
$49/month

Trucks, carts, single-window operations

Shop
$79/month

Restaurants, boba shops, smoothie shops with seating

One-time setup: $299–$499

Paid once. Includes: your entire menu built from photos of your paper menu, hardware configured, in-person staff training, and 30 days of same-day text support.

  • No long-term contract — cancel any time, no penalty
  • Price locked for 24 months, in writing
  • Your data is yours — exportable on request, any time
What I can't do yet: Arkden doesn't process card payments yet — you keep using the card reader you have. It's being built, but I won't promise a date. Better you know now.
FAQ

What you're probably wondering

Do I have to buy new hardware?
No. It runs in the browser on the iPad or Android tablet you already have. If you want a receipt printer and cash drawer I'll point you at the right ones — about $300 for the set, and I don't mark hardware up.
What happens when the internet drops? My truck parks in a dead zone.
The app stays open and keeps taking orders offline, then syncs when signal returns. Straight answer: the build running on a truck today handles a few minutes. The build that holds a whole service — including a tablet that restarts mid-shift — is written and has passed a 30-minute dead-zone test; the first truck runs it. I'll rewrite this sentence once it has been through a real service, not before.
Who holds my data?
Each shop gets its own separate database — never pooled with another shop's. Ask me for a full export any time and you'll get it, free, no questions.
What if you stop doing this?
Fair question, straight answer: Arkden is new and it's just me. If I stop, I commit to 90 days' notice and a full export of your data in a usable format. You should ask every vendor this, including the big ones.
My staff aren't good with technology.
Big buttons, Vietnamese, one screen with no scrolling. My mother and her helpers learned it in an afternoon. I come out and train your people in person during the first week.
Who do I call when something breaks?
Me, directly. No call center, no press-1-for-English. A Vietnamese speaker, on the phone.
Contact

Leave a number, I'll call you back

No email, no signup. Give me a phone number and what you sell, and I'll call you back the same day — in Vietnamese or English, whichever you prefer.

I use this number to call you back. I don't sell it, share it, or send marketing.

Call or text me

Tapping the number below is the fastest way. I answer or call back the same day.

(215) 960-1103Text me

Try it before you decide anything

No signup, no card. Text me what your shop sells and when you're free to talk, and I'll call you back.

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(215) 960-1103