Benefits of a POS Software for Hotels

There are various benefits to automating your hotel with a point of sale (POS) system. Using a POS software in your business can help you access vital data that otherwise would be impossible with the conventional cash register system.

 

Item sales details, stock status reports, purchase history as well as monthly, quarterly or seasonal sales reports are just some of the information you can instantly acquire using a POS. These data are the keys to help you take real control over your business. It ensures that every aspect of your business delivers maximum profit.  In addition to the enhanced customer and inventory tracking, using a hotel POS system can help tighten up security and cut down pilferage and food wastage.

 

Here are some other benefits you can get in automating your hotel with a POS system:

 

Reduced Costly Inventory Overheads

 

Placing orders from foods to linens as well as from alcohol to cleaning materials requires filling out a multitude of requisition forms. Sometimes, when the hotel is at its peak, completing an inventory information sheet is sometimes bypassed to ensure the shortest turnaround time. However, this practise can also lead to pilferage, wastage and loss.

 

However, a  hotel point of sale solution can automate these activities. It will show the stock on hand, the items left on the shelf and it can also show who and when the order was created of which can be saved for random stock check and future references.

 

Make Better Buying Decisions

 

Since all items in your hotel are all accounted for, the POS system can instantly notify you on what to buy. Moreover, because the POS can also give you the true value of the stocks in your shelves, you will know exactly the quantity of products you need to buy to meet the needs of your guests. This gives you a fool proof solution for overstocking and under stocking.

 

 

Efficient Online Reservations

 

Online reservations have never been made easier and more convenient for hotel staff. Now, this process can also be automated and entered into the hotel POS system with an embedded link to the hotel’s official website. Once a reservation has been made online, the POS will automatically update the entire venue system. This means that a hotel will never be overbooked or under booked!

 

Aside from the advantages mentioned above, you will also reduce time spent on stocktaking, balancing tills, recording sales transactions, transferring stock and changing prices.

 

Find out more on how you can take real control over your business and maximise your gross profit by calling one of the top system’s developers in Australia - H&L Australia at 1800 246 903 or visit them at http://www.hotelpos.net.au/