8 Reasons to Invest in A POS System for Bakeries – Desspos Solution

 

8 Reasons to Invest in A POS System for Bakeries – Desspos Solution

 

Bakery Solution

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  • Put Your Full Menu Online
  • Order at Table with Mobile Phone
  • Secure Payments
  • Delivery or In-store Pickup, or at Table 
  • Integrates into your SwiftPOS system

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1. Streamlined Operations & Quick Service

Those days are over when cash registers were sufficient to manage brisk-paced businesses. Technology has evolved, and customers have become more demanding. Restaurants, liquor stores/bars, restaurants have embraced POS systems. Why should a bakery be any different?

With the arrival of bakery POS systems, employees don’t have to make repeated trips to the main server to punch orders, print kitchen order tickets and bills. Not to mention the ease in dispersing long queues and taking orders efficiently.

Another important benefit of having a bakery POS system is that it facilitates order prioritization. Bulk orders, custom orders, pre-orders need special attention, but that does not mean you can sit back on regular orders. 

A bakery POS system allows chefs to allocate proper time to bulk orders/pre-orders/special orders without neglecting others. When the order is entered into the system, chefs can start working on it. Smaller orders can be finished quickly, allowing chefs more time for time-consuming orders.

2. Hardware Compatibility

Present-day bakery POS systems are compatible with various devices like smartphones, tablets, Ipads, laptops, and desktop computers. To minimize errors, improve order-taking/serving efficiency, it is best to use mobile POS systems.

Desspos has over 40 years experience in Point of Sale Solutions, we can tailor a point of sale system to your requirements.
 

Handheld POS systems allow employees to take orders quickly and jot down the details accurately.

3. Increased Sales

People have a tight schedule; traveling and work take up a major chunk of their day. Do you think they would wait 15-20 mins for a cake or pastry?

When you buy a specialized POS system for bakeries, you can complete orders quickly. Moreover, chefs can allocate adequate time to each order, both customized and regular, without compromising quality.

Related Blog: Why Do You Need a Customized Bakery POS System?

4. Analytics & Reporting

Get access to analytics and detailed reports about customer preferences, marketing, sales, inventory, and a lot more with a bakery POS system. Maximizing sales, generating revenue, and streamlining bakery operations requires a systematic approach. It is vital to pay attention to analytics.

Find out which item sells the most and identify the poor performers. What’s the peak hour, and on which day do customers pay the most visits? Which food item is most sought after?

Based on the answers to the questions above, you can develop strategies to sell and market your products. Furthermore, you can drop those items that don’t sell much.

The ideal POS bakery software for your business will help your bakery capitalize on your strengths and flush out the weaknesses.

5. Reduced Carbon Footprints

There are many reasons to opt for bakery POS software and hardware, but few people realize that it also benefits the environment. Thanks to a bakery POS, nobody at your bakery will use loose paper chits or diaries to take orders, take notes or remember specific dates.

All the required details would be entered into the system, the chances of errors and oversight would be greatly reduced. Less paper used means the environment is going to thank you. You also take this a step further by issuing digital bills and receipts.

Most importantly, food wastage would be minimized greatly because the POS system’s inventory integration will allow chefs to exercise portion control and ingredients used for each item.

6. Custom Bakery POS

Not all bakeries are the same. Some may deal only in cakes, while others may sell cakes, pastries, muffins, sweetmeats, bread, and many other products. You may even find bakeries that specialize solely in gluten-free, eggless delicacies.

Before investing in a bakery POS system, consider your bakery’s working days/hours, clientele preferences, and other factors. Doing so will streamline your bakery operations and help you serve customers efficiently.

7. Better Co-ordination

Make sure that your bakery POS system is user-friendly. Your employees should have no problem operating it. Your wait staff and front office staff will no longer have to run around and scream the order details for it to be conveyed to the kitchen staff.


 

When both the front and the kitchen staff work together with proper coordination and communication, customers will receive their orders quickly. Above all, there will be less back and forth, minimal clashes and misunderstandings, creating a favorable working environment.

8. Customer Feedback

Since most of the tasks in your bakery will be automated and simplified due to a bakery POS system, it allows you to devote more time to other activities. Collecting customer feedback is an excellent way to improve your services and streamline operations.

Often we are not aware of our mistakes until someone highlights them. Why wait until it is too late? Gathering feedback from customers gives you an idea about what improvements your bakery needs to make. Based on the feedback provided by your customers, you can develop strategies and bring about positive changes.

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General Features

  • Easy to use graphical keyboard.
  • Integrated scales and scanners.
  • Integrated Eftpos.
  • Integrated with pre-packaged items sold by weight.
  • Easy to change prices and update all the POS terminals automatically within a few seconds.
  • Mix and match promotions to package up any number of custom promotions.
  • Manage full stock control and easily identify any shrinkage or theft.
  • Weekly specials and promotions.
  • Customer advertising displays.
  • Automatically manage weekly specials and promotional pricing.
  • Print shelf labels with bar codes with the label designer.
  • Print promotional shelf talkers up to the maximum size of your printer.

Report Options

  • The report options menu gives you the ability to select any date range for the reports. You can print, email or export the reports to Excel for further analysis.
  • Half hourly sales with average sale per customer and customer count report to assist with staffing levels in different multiple locations.
  • Top selling products by quantity or value.
  • Show customer counts and average customer spend for each day of the week.

Account Management

  • Wholesale and retail pricing.
  • 7, 14 and 30-day customer account management.
  • Email tax invoice from POS at time of sale.
  • Email or print invoices and statements for all account customers.
  • Auditing and administration.
  • Full integration to accounting packages such as MYOB, Xero, Quickbooks.
  • Monitor staff performance with staff clock-on/clock-off attendance reporting.
  • Full range of audit reports to track no-sales, cancelled sales and voids.

 

Looking For Digital Menu Boards

Menu boards are the first thing a customer sees when they want to place an order in your venue. With the integrated product photos you are able to show your customers what they are about to order from your menu.

Digital menu boards allow you to display your food menu's and pricing directly linked to the swiftpos touch database.

Get more with live menu boards

  • Display digital boards for the customer’s name and or customer order number when the order is bumped from the kitchen video screen to let the customer know their order is ready
  • Display your food menu & pricing that is directly linked to the pos terminal
  • With live tracking the menu board will automatically notify your customers when a menu item is sold out
  • Advertise daily specials and promotions straight onto the menu boards
  • Design how your menu board look, with text, images, and multi-media graphics.
  • Digital menu board screens give you the power to constantly update and improve the content of your menu screens.  Pos system nsw
  • If you are tracking the available serves of any items, then the menu board will notify you when it has sold out.  Pos system nsw
  • Menu board layout and digital menu board screens design can be totally controlled by the venue and can include video, graphics, backgrounds and flashing colors along with the menu of food items. Pos software nsw
  • Add new daily specials and promotions in one place for the pos and digital menus
  • Changing prices at the pos update the digital menu boards automatically
  • Create digital menu board screens design and make schedules to match your kitchen hours and display advertising outside those times.
  • Display attractive multi-media graphics including anything that can be displayed in a web browser. Pos software nsw
  • Eliminate printing costs and mistakes
  • Instantly change menus with updates to the pos and menu boards in less than a minute

Pos monitoring system allows you to hold all of your employees to the same standard whether you are present or not.

5 common point of sale problems and solutions

  • Insecure pos system. One of the biggest challenges of managing a pos system is the potential for cyberattacks. ...
  • Data can be hacked through a pos vendor. ...
  • Picking the wrong pos system for your business. ...
  • Your pos system isn't correctly installed. ...
  • Insufficient troubleshooting support.

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