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Finding the Right Restaurant POS Software For Your Business
The size and type of your restaurant will largely determine how advanced of a POS system Australia you need. Small restaurants and quick-serve establishments generally need just one register and can get by with more basic features, whereas a full-service, multi-location business will have more advanced needs.
The first step to finding the right restaurant POS systems for your establishment is to make a list of the features you need, and perhaps another list of “nice to have” features that could be useful but aren’t absolute necessities. Here are some suggestions:
Order Entry: Use the POS system to enter and edit orders and send them straight to the kitchen, either from the POS register (for quick-serve) or from serves handheld devices (for full-service).
Recipe Costing: Calculate ingredients, labor, and any other inputs to determine any menu item’s total cost and profitability.
Table Mapping: Manage guests, their orders, and their bills by a visual representation of their tables in your restaurant.
Integrated Payment Processing: Process electronic payments at a competitive rate, via in-house processing or by integrating with your existing merchant account. Flat-rate or interchange-plus pricing are generally preferable.
Customer Management: Track repeats customers and engages with them with targeted promotions via text or email.
Raw Ingredient Tracking: Keep track of all your ingredients so you know what you have in stock and when to reorder.
Purchase Orders & Vendor Management: Manage your purchase order and vendors all in one place.
Reporting Suite: Generate reports to track bestsellers, server tips, and many other restaurant metrics.
Online Marketing Features: This can include social media marketing, email/text marketing, as well as review management on sites like Yelp.
Employee Management: Let your employees clock in and out using the POS systems Perth, view employee reports, set employee alerts, and perform other staff management tasks.
Payroll: Process payroll right from your POS.
Offline Mode: Continue to process payments if your internet connection falters, or queue your pending payments so they will process once your connection resumes.