Sherman Oaks, CA (PRWEB) June 03, 2014 -- Affordable POS that gives you the power to optimize your labor cost
by Richard Allen
One Click Dining, which had a soft launch of its Online Ordering software, http://www.oneclickdiner.com, a couple of years ago, introduces a new cloud based POS with REAL ROI. If you are a late entrant into the POS world you will see additional revenue hitting the bottom line. ItekPOS (http://www.itekpos.com) offers features not available on other POS systems, more than flexibility, more than low cost. ItekPOS has a “Labor Management module.” The Labor Management module offers time keeping, labor cost reporting, and productivity monitoring tools to get you to your optimal labor cost structure.
Today’s innovative food service businesses – food trucks, pop-ups, small specialty restaurants, ethnic menus – are exciting. Successful owners and managers display energy and culinary creativity. They must also be good business people, making day-to-day and long-term decisions based on accurate assessment of ROI.
For a small operation, when to invest in computer systems can be a difficult decision especially in view of the features and price tags. Price tags are as high as $20,000 for POS systems which simply automate ordering and payment card processing, seem a bit much. ItekPOS is affordable and contains tools to get you a quick ROI turnaround on your investment.
It may be tempting to delay such a costly purchase, relying on staff to handle routine transactions manually. Yet labor is already a huge percentage of operational costs and becoming even larger as minimum wage increases, and state legislatures press for additional employee benefits which put added strain on the bottom line. Automation is a necessity, even for small businesses.
The itekPOS system from One Click Dining is designed and priced to appeal to small operations with big ambitions. To acquire licensing rights to the basic itekPOS1 is signup for Bluefin’s merchant services account, through our website, or sign up for our premium POS with monthly payments are under $100.
Flexibility
Itek1 offers order taking and processing card payments functionality via Apple mobile devices (on an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch). Imagine your wait staff taking customer orders at the table and submitting it to the kitchen without having to go to a server station to punch in the order.
Itek Prime offers add-on features such as giving your customers the ability to order from a Kiosk and from their own smart phone.
Itek Prime adds customer communication features, employee scheduling, time tracking, performance monitoring, multiple real-time reports and a labor management system.
The itek system is compact, affordable and extremely portable. Create and update menus via importing your menu into itekPOS, manage your marketing program, and monitor you’re your daily financials in the cloud. You can add small slip printers carried by the wait staff to print out customer receipts; you can also email the receipt to the customer.
Security
Transaction authorization is performed via Bluefin payment systems. Itek POS is very pleased to announce that Bluefin Payment Systems (our payment processing partner) is the first U.S.-based company to receive PCI validation for their point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution, PayConex P2PE.
No data is stored on local devices, it’s all in the cloud.
Tools to Manage Operations and Report Operational Results
With itekPOS, you can view real-time reports, update your data while your staff serves your customers.
A robust POS system gives owners and managers a clear, accurate picture of how their business is doing day-by-day and hour to hour. It’s almost impossible to get such clarity with manual record-keeping.
ItekPOS offers a standard dashboard showing:
• Daily sales compared to a designated base period
• Daily labor costs compared to target/scheduled
Itek Prime offers a wide range of reports and features that you won’t find on systems costing thousands more.
Marketing Communication
Itek Prime gives small businesses access to the kind of e-Marketing used by large competitors.
Establish customer loyalty programs with itek Prime by:
• Tracking a customer’s frequency of visits and favorite foods
• Designing email and text campaigns, such as:
o Coupons
o Menus
o Announcements of specials
• Special Discount programs
o By customer
o By item
• Newsletters
On-line ordering
Offer your customers online ordering which saves your customers’ time and you money. The orders are paid for when they are submitted by the customer so your delivery drivers won’t have to carry cash for these deliveries
Itek POS is the product of One Click Dining, the Online Ordering Company. For more information, see the itek web site http://www.itekpos.com. Contact Richard Allen richard(at)itekpos(dot)com or 877-328-8040.
Richard Allen, itekPOS, http://www.itekpos.com, +1 877-328-8040, [email protected]
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