Description
RESTUS 2000 TOUCHSCREEN is a modular point-of-sale software application for the Food & Beverage industry.
Developed with the most recent technologies, including Microsoft SQL database, it is an application of extreme easiness of use, but simultaneously of great capacity. It is suitable for restaurants, bars, disco clubs and other related businesses, independently of its dimension. Prove of this are the several awards and certifications won at national and international level.
User interface
Extreme easiness of use
Back-office with interface similar to Microsoft Office
On-line help by index and by what’s this help
Alphabetical help on any necessary code
All functions are available thru mouse and keyboard
Reports
All reports are produced with the most powerful report tool on the market, Crystal Reports. This enables the change and adaptation of any report
All reports are based on queries that enable the filtering per periods, groups, articles, etc.
Reports can be viewed on screen or sent directly to printer
Reports can be sent to email
Reports can be exported to file (Word, Excel, CSV, among others)
Some example of this reports are:
Top of sales per article
Top of sales per customer
Total sales per article
Cost of sales
Sales per employees
Sales per employees/payment type
Among others
Articles
3 different articles types:
Simple – articles for unit and simple sale
Dynamic – simple articles that are choose from the selecction of several options, for example, the selection of the type of base and size, it’s selected na pizza article
Menus – articles that are composed by several other articles
Price table definition per article, per currency. In each currency can be defined 5 prices with inclusive and exclude of taxes
Definition per article of prices for “hold” and “extra”, respectively when article is taken out of the composition of another article or when its added (ex: pizza components)
Modifiers definition per article (ex: well done, rare, etc.). This means that in operation mode, it’s not possible to sell a steak “with ice”
Discounts/Promotions
Definition of maximum discounts that can be made per article/family/employee
Definition of discounts/promotions to apply automatically in a pre-defined season, hour (happy-hour), week, day of week
Discounts can be made by change of price type, on the buying of “x” pays “y” or percentage
Employees
Definition of access to every option on the application
Commissions are calculated based of each one sales or sales from other employees
Definition of tables that a employee can use, per service zone
Individual permissions can establish who can access tables opened by other employee, transfer part or the total to another table, cancel orders, etc.
Time-table and work-hours control per employee
Modules
Modulos that are part of the base application
Back-Office
Module where the configurations and definitions of files of the application are made, as well as where it can be obtained reports.
Configuration of all base files of the application
General and terminal configurations
Access policy definition by user/option/module
Elaboration of all kind of reports and maps
Visualization of on-line sales, that display graphically and detailed what is being sold, per employee, per terminal and per document
Recording of magnetic stripe cards for customer or employee use
Front-Office/Point-of-sale
Module designed with very important requirements:
To be of fast learning due to normal rotation of employees in this area (because of this it was used graphical icons and colours to get a faster reaction of the visual memory)
To be fast to use - any operation will have to take the lesser possible time and to require the minimum of possible clicks
To be easy to use - any operation should be easily done
To be of extreme robustness - the operation of point-of-sale can never be unavailable.
Because of this reasons this was used Microsoft DirectX technology for developing a module that is truly unique at the level of the applications of this area.
Different service modes - General characteristics
Functioning through touch screen or keyboard
Great speed in the operations of ordering articles and print account
Possibility to work in way of fast food, restaurant, tables, attendance to the balcony or compound, refectory or delivery
Buttons configurable (size, icons, colours and images)
Can work with the drawing of the room (the user can draw it’s own room), and/or the same time can function directly with the table number
Questions can be programmed to formulate questions to the user in order to foment consume or formatting the type of attendance (former: to indicate that for € 0,50 it will be able to acquire a size of superior drink)
Articles composed by other articles can be sold, allowing the use of a firm price or in case of menu alteration the automatic alteration of the price having in account:
- the average a of the prices of the articles that compose the menu;
- the price of the article more expensive that composes the menu;
- the sum of the prices of the articles that compose the new menu.
For each article is possible to define that the introduction of modifiers is mandatory (for example, to indicate which the temperature where a steak must be made)
Parameterization of the work environment for terminal and for used
Possibility to create pages of article buttons per families or per top of most used articles
Parameterization of screen savers with advertising (enables the partnerships of advertising with suppliers)
Use of magnetic stripe cards or other cards for identification of users or customers
Possibility of close a table count with distinct payment types
By configuration it«s possible to register reasons behind orders cancellation
Possibility to print articles in preparation centres according to the order of families priority, for example, to print the entrances, followed of the foods and only after desserts, independently of the order which was launched on the point-of-sale
Every order can be printed in one or more preparation centres, in one or more copies
The name of the articles to print in the preparation centres can be different of the name to display in the customer account
A configuration enables the point-of-sale to automaticly send an order that was initiated by a user but not to finished. The application will send order automatically at the end of a predefined time
Sale document/invoice can be detailed, summarized or grouped indicating for example "n meals"
All point-of-sale reports can be viewed on the printer or screen
Restaurante/Tables
On-line table status display (busy, free, with request of the account, etc.)
Possibility of definition of the maximum time that the tables can be without intervention of the employees, thus, in case that it does not have movement in the table in that time, in the screen of status of the tables, the table in question is enhanced in order to call the attention the employee
The orders can be printed in different printers in accordance with the employee, the table and the service zone
Possibility to make partial and total transferences of tables and payments
Possibility to transfer the total or part of the open tables of an employed to other (s), without need of closing the tables
Capacity of using the concept sub-table means that’s the system is able, for example, to associate each person as being a separate table
Printer’s assignments can be redirected anytime, for any type of reason, as the volume of service, for reason of damages of the printer, etc.
Possibility to define the names of the articles in different languages and thus to print the accounts/invoices in the language of the customer who is in the table
Possibility of indicating that the account of the table is to be divided for a determined number of people or number of invoices
Bar
Can not allow send of an order without before giving to the payment of the previous
Configuration of promotions normally associated to bars, as for example, happy-hour
Enables the use simultaneously to work with tables and balconies
Possibility to print on the order to the preparation center additional information, for example, the composition of an article (used for example, in cocktails that are not sold usually)
Fast-food
Produces sequential numbering of documents (tokens)
Enables the analyses of preparation time of each order
Enables the use of articles that are composed by other articles
Disco/club
Possibility to work with magnetic stripe cards of consumption or validation cards to use in slip printers
Possibility to work with minimum consumptions for types of card (men, women, other types)
Possibility to define that there are articles that do not influence the value of minimum consumptions (for example, merchandising)
Cards of consumption can be of the type daily pay-bought (and reload able) or credit (when reaching a predined amount of credit, the customer will have that to pay to be able to continue to consume)
Possibility to associate different discouns to different service zones, for example, in a club with 3 environments, it can be defined that in each one of the environments one determined customer has different discounts
It’s possible to configure terminals that only function as “check-out’s”, thus, always when a card is read, the application enters automatically in the payment option
Delivery
Possibility of simultaneously working with tables and delivery mode
On the employees files it’s possible to define which the ones that make delivers/expeditions
Definition of values to charge as "delivery tax" in accordance with the delivery zones
Search of customers is made by telephone number, but it’s possible to associate a telephone number to several customers or a customer to several telephone numbers
On-the-fly creation new customers
Possibility of emission of simple order for delivery or in daily pre-payment, with respective calculation of changes
Attribution to each one of the deliverers of which orders to deliver
Possibility to consult in anytime the status of the order (in preparation, delivery, already delivered, etc.)
Possibility of inclusion off commentaries in the coupon sent together with the articles to be delivered, for example: "to take napkins"
In the point-of-sale, when a customer is used, it’s displayed his previous orders of the day, which enables, in case of necessity, its fast modification
When using a customer in the one point-of-sale its possible to repeat the last order made by the customer