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3D images are used to showcase the Gibson Hotel meeting and event facilities helping to communicate the scale and style of the venue.

The intended use for the app product is to help close large conference, meeting and event sales. For this we focused on creating a clean, simple interface to showcase the hotel’s large open spaces and facilities.

According to a release, customers will initially be able to pay with Square Wallet at Blue Bottle’s Oakland, Brooklyn, and San Francisco Mint Plaza locations, with the company rolling out Square to its remaining stores in the coming months.

Blue Bottle will use Square Register as its full point-of-sale system (Starbucks does not use Square Register) to accept cash and credit card payments, track inventory, and monitor daily reports. Customers will also be able to use Square Wallet to make purchases just by saying their names.

While Blue Bottle is certainly not at the same scale as Starbucks, small to mid size chains still represent a huge opportunity for Square. A number of small, regional chains are using Square Register and payments including, Pitango Gelato in DC and Baltimore (5 locations), Cafe Grumpy in NYC (4 locations) Amy’s Ice Cream (13 locations) and Cartel Coffee Lab in Phoenix and Tucson (5 locations).

MICROS Simphony offers significant benefits to our business. We were keen to move to a hosted solution and MICROS was able to provide the system to achieve that, while also providing us with the centralised reporting that we require to analyse sales across all of our restaurants and bars. By standardising our systems and business processes, we will be able to realise opportunities for revenue growth and improve the offerings that we deliver to our guests .”

MICROS Simphony offers significant benefits to our business. We were keen to move to a hosted solution and MICROS was able to provide the system to achieve that, while also providing us with the centralised reporting that we require to analyse sales across all of our restaurants and bars. By standardising our systems and business processes, we will be able to realise opportunities for revenue growth and improve the offerings that we deliver to our guests

MICROS Simphony offers significant benefits to our business. We were keen to move to a hosted solution and MICROS was able to provide the system to achieve that, while also providing us with the centralised reporting that we require to analyse sales across all of our restaurants and bars. By standardising our systems and business processes, we will be able to realise opportunities for revenue growth and improve the offerings that we deliver to our guests

The best solution to have an effective hotel management is through having a hotel point of sale system. It is a great way of analysing the strengths and weaknesses of a hotel.

Apart from the aforementioned details, the POS systems are also capable of an efficient recording of food orders, reservation dates, extra charges, expenses and a lot more. This system can also be linked up to the kitchen for a fast and easy way of food delivery.  It also promotes the accuracy of orders.

The Hotel POS systems can be used with different operating systems such as Windows and Unix. It is important to take note of the system’s compatibility with the computer operating system so that there will be no hassle when it comes to recording and registering of items delivered to every room. An easy assessment and evaluation of the transaction details would be achieved through the local data storage containing all the necessary information. But now a lot of hotels deal with the web industry wherein their clients could have an easy registration by just visiting the hotel’s website.

SpeedRFP Pro, a product of EMI, represents the most robust version of the request for proposal tool currently available to hotels.

Instead of getting differently formatted RFPs from various portals, DH&R hotels will receive their electronic RFPs within their Delphi sales and catering system—without the need to rekey anything.”

SpeedRFP was launched in 2010, and in addition to Destination Hotels & Resorts, serves as the primary online RFP system for Preferred Hotel Group, Dolce Hotels and Resorts, Hospes, as well as many notable independents such as The Broadmoor, Wynn Resorts Las Vegas, Palms Place Hotel and Spa, PGA National Resort & Spa, and more than 130 hotel Web sites.

Future POS Releases Innovative Mobile Apps For Restaurants

Future POS Mobile Ordering and Future POS Remote Control

With Future POS Mobile Ordering, restaurateurs can enhance the end-user experience by offering their customers the convenience of placing orders directly from their smartphone.

Facebook can act as a powerful sales and marketing tool

. Not only does it enable a company to remain top of mind, but it facilitates word of mouth marketing.

 This infrastructure allows business owners to access their sales and inventory data in real-time from anywhere in the world by logging into their secure salesVu.com database

new point-of-sale (POS) systems

are helping businesses to cut costs in everything from advertising to labor.

sumers are being directly marketed to using ever-evolving algorithms, which are boosting impulse buys. One employee can easily manage a dozen new, retail POS systems. These and other new trends in POS technology can modernize any business.

As was mentioned above, the retail POS systems help in the sales transactions processes. The POS systems are one of the simplest and they are created in a way to operate with the purchase processes in ease and efficient way. Hence, the software has options for entering data which could possibly represent the whole inventory in the shop, for example. Additionally, when the purchase is made, the system automatically counts down the item from the inventory list and helps in that way contributes for improved inventory management. Also, regarding the customer relationship management and providing sales reports, there are other settings that could additionally be set in the particular POS software and all that for the purpose business operations to be more productive. Apart of the retail businesses, hotels and restaurants should have more complex POS systems. This is due to the fact that in such businesses which are service orientated, the POS software applied should be able, for example, to customize various orders from different tables and in alignment with that to keep track on price variations. The fact is that the POS systems that apply to service sector businesses such as restaurants, hotels and fast food businesses should be able to customize and manage multiple orders. Either the example is for fast food business, or dining out restaurant or even a hotel, POS software should operate with various orders made during the service process, and still providing the right bill for the right table, or the right bill for the right room order if the hotel business is taken into consideration. Clearly, when starting a business it is important to take the industry specific POS system into account. Therefore one should not just trying and finding the best deal, but rather invest in the system that will work best to make the everyday businesses activities more effective. Understanding why each system is unique will help when trying to make the decision for what type of POS system to purchase.

Providing effective online mechanisms for interacting with consumers reinforces the positive experience to enhance their enthusiasm towards the company and its products or services to support further sales.

With social networking sites, the possible reach of a positive experience shared on the site could be exponential (Holzner, 2009). The information can reach foreign markets when international travelers share their positive experience of the hotel. Social networking sites become an invaluable tool for the international marketing of hotels.

International leisure travelers staying at hotels in Taiwan comprise the potential network of hotels. In using social networking sites, such as Facebook with the biggest number of users, hotels can create an international social network through customers as fans and information sharers as well as strengthen the social network through its active presence in the site by providing information, addressing questions, and responding to comments.

Infusionsoft is one of the market leaders when it comes to CRM, e-mail marketing and marketing Automation.

E-Booking The first role of the internet in the hospitality industry is online booking. As aforementioned in the past, travel agents were the most common source for booking hotel rooms and other travel components like flight tickets and travel tours. However, the internet has changed this; manual booking and reservations have been transformed to E-booking or online booking via Central Reservation Systems (CRS). As of March 2008, there are over 1.4 billion internet users (Internet World Stats, 2008) and according to the Computer Industry Almanac, this number is assumed to increase to 1.80 billion in 2010 (Clickz Stats, 2005). The Travel Industry Association in the United States stated that in 2002 about 64 million out of 619 million online users were online travelers and used the Internet to purchase travel-related services and products (Zhang, 2004, p.3). "Online leisure travel sales totaled $20.4 billion in 2002 and hotel booked online reached $3.8 billion" (Ibid). In 2005 the online travel revenue reached $27.7 billion in the U.S. alone and has steadily increased (Webmetro, 2005). Now imagine how big these figures would be on a global basis.

Another important role of the internet is the use of it as a marketing tool. Before a hotel can offer e-booking it has to set up its own website. The hotel can apply attractive designs and offer guests a virtual tour of the entire property and show various room types. This strategy is considered a minor but may get a lot of appeal from online users. The internet also allows hotels to reach more customers by using search engine optimization (SEO), which is a tool that helps increasing the traffic and page ranking in search engine results (Hotel Travel Check, n.d.). Another internet marketing strategy for the hospitality industry is electronic customer relationship management (eCRM), which are activities to manage customer relationships by using the internet and web browsers (Hotel Marketing, 2007).

Expedia reports that 65% of hotel bookings within this last 24-hour window are via mobile, and 15% for flight bookings. Vegas is a particularly striking example of this last-minute mobile booking trend, with 32% of all bookings coming in via mobile,

does this mean that traditional travel companies and online travel companies should

rush into launching a mobile app?

According to a New York Times article, Smartphones and Tablets to Take Over in 2011, the message could not be more clear. The article states, “mobile devices that are full-fledged computers” are the next logical progression after personal computers have run their course. Researchers say it was only a matter of time before these mobile devices moved in and overtook their predecessor (the PC), in the now overly-saturated technology market.

Without prior knowledge on POS hardware, an iPad tablet platform sounds like a great idea! However, before jumping on the bandwagon, there are a number of things that must be taken into consideration.

Tablets are not a cheap purchase, and while I like to trust people, it is important to plan ahead and think smart.

A hospitality accounting system must allow an independent evaluation of each operating department and its operating divisions. Costs directly traceable to a department or division are identified as direct costs.

Hospitality business operations, as well as others, are generally identified as having a number of different cyclical sales revenue cycles.