Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Improve Your Hotel with POS

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Running a hotel is not easy. There are so many issues a hotel owner can encounter. Some of them are security breaches, theft and loss of money, theft and loss of valuable goods in the inventory, difficulty in keeping up with competition, inability to track down thefts and losses, having a system full of loopholes and the inability to attract and retain potential customers who have the affordability to visit the hotel over and over again. With hotel pos, one can access a fully-fledged database that stores important information regarding customer behavior, customer interests, details of customers, nature of transactions and so on. Moreover, the POS systems can also provide the operator with complete customer reports by extracting data off its database. Some sophisticated POS systems also have the feature of using Microsoft software on it, so as to create forms, reports, spreadsheets and other important documents that are necessary for a business to run smooth. If you are running a big hotel, handheld tablets are ideal to be given to servers while customers order their necessities at the table. These systems can be very efficient, especially in the case of an outside area of a poolside or garden restaurant where the distance to the billing station is quite long. In such cases, using a POS powered hand held device can help send the order to the kitchen from a remote location so that the staff can start processing on the orders quickly, thus allowing the customers to have their meals hot and quick.

Hand held POS devices have other benefits too. With these smart gadgets, customers can swipe their own credit or debit cards, check their transactions instantly to avoid misunderstanding and have secure cash dealing without having the hassle to go to the payment counter.

POS lets you boost productivity by saving enormous amounts of time and hassle. Payment processes are faster as well. The best part about POS is that it’s totally wireless and problem free. In addition, self-serving is also a very popular trend that is catching up quick among the big boys of the hospitality, hotel and retail industries. With this option, guests can use the touch screen to order whatever they need and make the payments accordingly and instantly.

Also guests can purchase food and drinks even from the lobby of the hotels through means of entering highly secured information such as their credit card numbers and room details and have their necessities delivered to their location.



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