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Café overview

Cafés are where we go to relax, catch up with friends and enjoy a coffee and something small to eat. It's the total opposite of that behind the counter though. Staff are running around clearing tables, making coffees, making meals and taking money.

Service needs to be fast, it needs to be easy and it needs to be reliable. This is where Idealpos comes into its own.

Do you offer table service or simply use order numbers? Do you need kitchen printing or just hand the docket to the chef? Do you use customer loyalty cards to keep your customers coming back? If you have answered yes to any of these questions then you can be safe in the knowledge that Idealpos can do it.

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Table Map or Order Numbers
Customer Reward Promotions (Buy 10 get 1 Free!)
Hold Print Functionality
Mobile App for Table Ordering
Kitchen Printing

Customer Rewards

Buy 10 & Get Your Next Coffee FREE!

If this is a promotion that you offer in your cafe, then Idealpos is here to help. Simply by adding customers and linking them with a code, name or barcode, their rewards can be tracked and stored in the Idealpos database.

Each time they buy a coffee you can let them know how many more they need before a free one is available. When a free one is available, Idealpos will prompt you automatically at the end of the sale so you can ask them if they wish to redeem it. Redemptions will accumulate and can be used within the one sale.

Hold Print

The hold print function can be used when a group of people are sitting at the same table, but wish to order and pay for their meals individually. The clerk operating the POS terminal can use the hold print function to prevent the order sending to the kitchen printer or kitchen monitor, until the last person has ordered their meal.

This is most commonly used in cafes and bistro settings and can work alongside bar tabs and restaurant features. It also works across multiple terminals in the same venue, so more than one terminal can take orders on the same order number. This can be helpful for large group service.

At any time you can view the details of the order to have them checked. When everything is exactly as the customers wanted, you can finalize and pay for the item, and a single docket will be printed to the kitchen. This enables your kitchen staff to easily send all meals out for the table at the same time.

Table Map

The graphical table map in Idealpos is so flexible that you can upload a bitmap of your floor layout to be easily represented on screen. Staff can then easily align themselves to know their sections and new staff can quickly grasp which tables are located where to help their service speed.

Tables can be many shapes and sizes depending on your requirements and numbered according to what you choose. Any amount of covers can be set for the tables to be selected by default when seated, but can also easily be changed.

Coloured indicators on the table show any staff member at a glace the current table status. The all new iPad app Handheld Ordering is also capable of displaying this map which helps speed service up even more.

Pocket Pad app

To help make the most of your service times and staff efficiency, Idealpos has a mobile app that allows staff to take orders on a compatible iPhone, iPad or Android device. The app has been available for some time using version 6, but with the release of version 7 there are some additional features.

Table status indicators will display on the app itself, so the staff no longer need to be near a POS terminal to see how each table is travelling. It is also easier to build items in the app itself using the tabs and grids that are already programmed into so many databases instead of needing to use menus.

When the app is installed on an iPad/Tablet sized device, it will go a step further and allow you to view the entire graphical table layout. You can also lock the app to a single table which will allow the customer to take the device and enter their own order, freeing time for your staff to perform other tasks.

Kitchen Printing

Save staff the hassle of walking from the table or terminal to the kitchen to deliver an order with kitchen printing making the trip for you. No more illegible dockets with the chef trying to read a frazzled floor members crazy scrawl. Each order will be clearly printed and can be on duplicate dockets for different courses. Why not use Handheld Ordering and save the staff even walking to a terminal?

Idealpos has the ability print to many printers at the same time, separating a single order automatically into the different sections where dockets may be required. In a café setting this is usually the kitchen and the coffee machine. Other venues may have a cake dispensary or dessert bar.

Online Ordering

Do you want your customers to be able to order ahead to save them time when they get to your venue? Lucky for you, Idealpos can handle that scenario.

Utilising eCommerce functionality in Idealpos Online, we can take orders a number of ways using various online portals. Customers simply place their order, you will receive it on your POS and can make it when required.

We also link to third-party app makers like Mobi-2-Go who streamline this process even further.

Order Numbers

Order numbers give your café the flexibility to assign customers a number to deliver food and drinks and then re-use that number again later in the day.

They can be controlled with POSServer to stop them being used on multiple tables and can be assigned consecutively or used with your own custom number system.

Companies that use our Cafe POS system

Coffee Essence

Collective

Funk Coffee

Hoya Garden Plaza

Le Bon Choix

Matthew Thomas

Mist Coffee

Raw Sugar Cafe

Park House Cafe

Plum Cafe

Uncle Bobs Bakery

Wild Canary

Cafe POS system integration partners

Linkly

Linkly (Formerly PC-EFTPOS PTY LTD) is the leading supplier of Integrated payment solutions in Australia. Linkly is a private company, based in Sydney's CBD. The company was formed in 1998, under the PC-EFTPOS name, and we have built our reputation through seamless integration of payment terminals and POS systems.

As well as setting the industry standard for secure and flexible transactions, Linkly provides end-to-end support for payment solutions. From planning and design through to deployment and on-going management.

Our App Hub offers direct access to exciting new payment options and experiences faster and at a lower cost, plus we offer integration API tools and cloud-based technology. Of course, our expertise, online knowledge centre, and dedicated Client Help Desk are always available to our partners.

Linkly's clients range from major retailers such as Woolworths, David Jones, Myer, JB Hi-Fi and Bunnings, right through to single-terminal corner stores.

Tyro

Tyro is Australia’s fastest growing nextGen banking institution offering cloud-based, totally integrated and mobile EFTPOS banking to Australia’s businesses. The integration between Idealpos and Tyro's EFTPOS machine is direct and seamless with features to best fit the needs of your business. Tyro’s Smart Account* users seamlessly integrate mobile bill payments and accounting and get quick and easy access to unsecured Growth Funding capital.

_{* Today available to Tyro’s customers using Xero and Android or iOS smartphones}

MOBI

Hey you. Yeah you. The one who’s just come off a 12 hour shift but still forgot to put the catering order in for that party tomorrow. Your feet hurt. You’re tired. You love it, but surely there’s an easier way to do this? We just wanted to say, we get it.

Our CEO and team grew up in hospitality. We’ve washed dishes, cleared tables, served food, cooked food, made coffee, waited on happy (and unhappy) customers and pulled back to back shifts. We understand that hospitality is wonderfully different to any other business, and deserves it’s own online and mobile ordering solution. One that works the way you do and keeps your customers coming back for more. That solution is MOBI.

Our family at MOBI are passionate about technology, hospitality and bringing your awesome brand to life online. We do this because we love it, just like you do.

MOBI is an integrated online & mobile ordering platform made for hospitality. It helps to increase revenue, reduce in-store wait times, encourage customer loyalty and improve the overall customer ordering experience.