Fastpoint POS Software

Product Info

Why Fastpoint POS Solutions:

Ease Of  Use

– Powerful   yet  easy  to  use
–  Intuitive   easy  to  learn  interface
–  Easy  to  set  up
–  Custom   designable,   visually   pleasing full  colour  touch   screen
–  User  friendly,   picture-orientated,    one touch   button  driven  approach,   no complicated    computer  menus
–  Programmed   to  operate  the  way  you think
–  Intuitive   easy  to  learn  interface   – get new  staff  up  & effective   in no time
–  Designed   to work  with  different   cash control  systems:   either  individual floats  (moon   bag  system)   or centralised   cash  drawer   control
–  Quotations
–  Bus  group  commissions
–  Pack  coding  for  liquor  stores  & wholesalers
–  Multiple   discounts
–  Lay  buys  for  the  clothing   industry
–  Code,  price  & weight   encoded barcode   scanning
–  Barcode   label  printing
–  Multiple  tills  can  share  the  same tables  & totals   in both  a distributed   or  a server  type  setup
–  Buttons  can  be  assigned   as  menu categories,   item  modifiers,   or  hot  keys  with  attached   kitchen   instructions
–  Operates   over  any  network

Managerial Control
–  All  functions,   like  voids  & overrides can  be  enabled   to  work  on  only certain  password   levels
–  Manager   controlled   price  levels
–  User  definable   maximum   discount percentages    per  item  or  group
–  Manager   controlled   debtor   limits
–  Online  debtor   balances   if required
–  Special   prices  & discounts   per customer,   customer   group,  period  or time
–  Facility  to  log  managerial   functions

Extensive Pricing Control
–  Three   price  levels
–  Inter-branch   price  level
–  Promotions
–  Very  powerful   pricing  options  to control   price  per  customer, customer   group  or  date  & time
– Auto  price  rounding   both  up  or down
– example   to  closest   95c  or  closest   5c
–  Table  transfers   & split  billing
–  Staff  meals  & happy  hour  prices
–  Voids  & refunds
–  Multiple   credit  cards,  cash,  cheque & department   tracking
–  Alpha  or  numeric   code  lookup  & item  search  functions
–  Extremely   powerful   exploding   menus
–  Select  kitchen   instructions   or  let the till  auto-prompt   for  instructions
–  Up to  nine  kitchen   printers
–  Up to  nine  overhead   displays
–  Unlimited   tables  & tabs
–  Decimal   sales  quantities
–  Tracks  COD  debtor  spending
–  Debtor  verification   with  Dallas  Touch tokens   or  magnetic   cards
–  Automatic   rounding   of transaction total,  if required
–  Recipe  I food  costing
–  Time  & attendance   functions
–  No  limit  to  number  of  items,  packs & menus  the  system   can  use
–  Easy  to  set  up  invoice  system  to  print on  any  custom   designed   paper

Reliability & Security

–  Industry   standard   extremely   robust
–  Btrieve   Database   Engine
–  Facility  to  store  a copy  of the transaction   journal   on  a server  & restore   in case  of a  POS-Terminal  ard  drive  failure
–  Facility  to  store  all  restaurant tables  & sales  on  a removable
hard  drive  – this  removable   hard  drive can  then  be  moved  to  any  other  POS
–  Terminal   in case  of  hardware   failure, resuming   system  with  all  data intact.
–  All  tables  & tabs  in restaurant
setup  stored   in separate   files,  which means  that  even  in the  unlikely
event  of  storage   corruption   only  one table  would   be  affected.
–  All  reports   have  a double-check    built in to  confirm  the  integrity
–  After  a  power  failure,  the  till  will automatically    resume  where   it left  off
–  Five  user  security   levels:
Superuser,   Manager,   Sub-manager, Cashier,  Waiter   & Clerk
Accountability       &  Profit
Control
– Paid Outs directly linked to petty cash book & income  statements,
& daily profits
– Linked with a full debtors & creditors ledger
– Supplier payments done  from  PCTill auto-updates  creditor ledger creating a very secure cash flow control
– Debtor payments automatically updates  debtors ledger
– Profits& food  costs are monitored on a daily basis
– Manager  controlled  debtor  limits

Head Office Software

– Very functional  software to manage fast food,  liquor stores & restaurant chains
–  Remote dialup  systems
– Global  Group consolidation software
– Group wide  reporting & ordering facilities
–  News facility for branches to indicate price changes,  new items
– Automatic  printing of new shelf talkers & labels at branch  level

Reporting

– Lots of custom designed  reports to fulfill all your needs
– Reports to both  optimize & analyse your business
– Various reports analysing stock levels
– Report for items with low mark-ups
– Extensive sales & stock analysis reports & graphs

Speed  Equals  Customer Satisfaction

– Fastpoint was designed  for speed, hence  the name …
– Studies show that Touch Screen POS systems process customers up to 60% faster than traditional keyboard  based systems
– Intuitive easy to learn interface  gets new staff up & effective  in no time
– Powerful menu systems with logical kitchen instruction sequencing
– Picture buttons of products  & “actual  money”  speeds up operation & reduces mistakes

Stock & Inventory
– Complete  stock control system from purchase order to receipt of customer sales to income  statement
– Extensive re-ordering facilities & reports
– Different methods of stock take to suite very need, with variance  & items omitted  reports
– Inter-branch transfer & separate full inter-branch ledger

Accurate  Costing Of  Stock

–  Use Average Cost, Last Cost or FIFO costing methods
–  Keep track of supplier deals & promotions
– Calculate  net cost for any items purchased,  keeping track of multiple discounts, supplier settlement discounts & supplier promotions, ensuring extremely accurate  costing
–  Detail costing analysis for all manufactured  & recipe  items
– Allocate  stock shortages & discounts for each  recipe  item’s GP
– Cutting lists for butcheries

Cashier/Waitress Control
– Auto log out till after elapsed  time or transaction
– Cashier I Waitress incentives
– Cashier I Waitress commission
– Tracksc redit card  commission for waitress tips
– Multiple levels of cashiers,waiters & clerks
– Identification by usercodes,  passwords, magnetic  cards, Dallastouch  tokens or fingerprints
– Spend per head for each  waiter

Resolving of Shortages and Disputes

–  All transaction journal info kept online at least last 9 weeks with all times & dates
–  Print journal per cashier, waitress or day or table
–  Reprint of previous transactions or invoices or bills
–  Extensive cashier & cash up reports