What is an EPOS system?

 

I'm Adam I work for stork it and this

video is about what an epos systems for restaurants is what

it does and how it can save you at a

basic level an ecosystem is a till but

it's also the software that comes with

that till so yes it can accept cards for

you but it can also do all of these

other functions that help you manage

your business the most important thing

that your till can do is accept your

customers Suite Chang mother doh bacon

dub quiche you can choose between

contract and pay as you go and you can

buy or rent your card we go that way

money can move from your customers

wallet into your bank account that's not

all an epos system can do at the front of

house here's the cashiers screen on one

popular point-of-sale app and you can

see how you can press buttons for

different items and queue their price on

the card reader ready for the customer

to pay you should be able to ring

through discounts accept returns check

whether something's in stock when a

customer asks if you're a hospitality

business you might want to have table

service which is a little map of all of

the tables in your store and which of

them know how much money when you come

to filling them with inventory

management you can create purchase

orders map out what inventory is where

do stock takes and manage your incoming

and outgoing stock therefore reduce

levels of stock shrinkage a big function

is reporting if you're recording what's

going on in your store you can make it

better you can understand your store

through lots of different lenses by

product range geography store by store

or by staff performance with staff

management you can set permissions and

so that she doesn't have access to

sensitive financial stuff performance

data what she doesn't know can't hurt

her and this shop is actually a

money-laundering operation some software

is best bought separately from your boss

for example your e-commerce platform or

your accounting software they need to be

integrated with your epochs that means

that the software talks to

each other for example in accounting

every time you sell something you want

your accounting software to update and

know how many of a different product

you've sold and with e-commerce and in

store epochs you want them to be pulling

from the same inventory figures so that

you don't sell the last item twice to

keep your ships sailing smoothly it's

worth buying a decent epass system which

probably means a cloud ecosystem which

you can procure through store kit we're

a market not a shop which means that we

can give you a personal recommendation

and unbiased advice for free