5 Must Have Features For Your F&B POS System in 2021

As Covid 19 pushes F&B businesses toward rapid digitalization, systems supporting businesses, like POS systems, needs to be updated with the times. In this article, we have compiled a list of features that your POS system should have to give you the productivity boost you need in 2021.

Food Delivery Platform Integration

Food delivery ordering is popular among customers these days and it is a great way to get your brand in front of customers.

Food delivery orders are usually managed on a separate device, not integrated with your POS system, which may be a hassle for your already busy staff to re-enter delivery orders into the POS system to centralize order management.

A POS system which is integrated with food delivery platforms will receive your food delivery orders, and send them into its respective kitchen sections for preparation. Such food delivery platforms integrated POS will definitely be a fuss free order management system that reduces operating time and human error in order transmission between two different systems.

Cashless Payment Terminal Integration

Cashless payments require the use of a cashless payment terminal to process payments. Though convenient and more hygienic for customers, it may come as a hassle to staff as they have to re-enter the bill amount into the payment terminal, which causes unintentional human errors and slows down the billing process.

A POS terminal that is integrated with cashless payment terminals eliminates the chance of human error when re-entering bill amounts into the terminal, speeds up the billing process by removing redundant steps performed by your staff. Hence, safeguarding your revenue!

Integration to Accounting software

As your F&B business grows, you may not be able to rely on excel sheets to keep track with your accounts. Hence, you may acquire a third party accounting software to help with your F&B business accounting. Without being able to link up your centre of transactions and operations to your accounting software, it will be a tedious task to re-enter daily data into your accounting software for bookkeeping. 

Therefore, having a POS system that is linked with popular accounting softwares like Xero, is essential for your business productivity.

Have a Cloud Based Backend

As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, you are empowered with the ability to perform almost everything remotely online. Your POS system should not be an exception. A cloud based backend allows you to perform tasks like accessing your business data updated in real time and make changes to your POS backend settings online, at anytime, anywhere.

This improves your business scalability by leaps and bounds as menu updating, new POS systems setting up for new outlets, etc., can be easily done with a single button touch on your POS system, using your cloud based backend pre-set settings. 

Integratable with Self Ordering Solutions

Self ordering solutions like iMakan’s QR ordering, self ordering kiosks and online ordering are in trend as F&B businesses digitalize. A POS system which is able to integrate with such solutions seamlessly, will help your business keep up with the times, and gain a competitive edge over the competition.

Seamlessly integrating with such solutions also reduces labour cost, and may increase your revenue as self ordering systems are known to boost average order sizes and encourage add on orders through convenient, fuss free ordering for F&B businesses.

Getting a future ready POS system

If you are interested in getting a POS system which is robust, sleek and future ready, to make scaling your business easy, and boost your business productivity do drop us your contact details below, and we will be happy to arrange a free demo session with you!