With lockdown coming to an end, all shops can start to reopen. With more venues opening more customers will start coming back to your business. Even if it's a little, businesses will need to reopen by any means necessary.
Pop up shops
Small hospitality businesses can benefit greatly from investing in a mobile PoS.
An MPoS is very effective at running small outdoor venues. As long as you have an active internet connection either by WiFi or a data sim card, all transactions are automatically synced in the cloud.
When creating a pop up shop, location is a key feature. Make sure you can be easily found by your customers. For many pop up shops and caterers, this isn’t an issue, they’ll be where the customers already are, for example, food trucks at an outside concert. Although things will be returning to normal it's vital to adapt with the times. Being able to take all forms of payment is one way of doing this. A great MPoS device will be able to take all forms of payments anywhere.
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Loyalty
An MPoS device can be linked with a hospitality business’ back office. If the CRM has profiles and loyalty programmes in place, then these can automatically be taken into account when ordering. Alongside this, customers can set up their preferences beforehand so if they have any allergies and needs, they can automatically register when loaded.
Bill Splitting
An MPoS can also speed up service in your venue. Orders can easily be taken and synced with the back office. Saving hours of time in counting up and sorting out everything at the end of the day. All information is presented at the end of the day in an easy to read report. With this information, hospitality venues and pop-up stalls can have valuable insights to make key decisions to change and improve their venues.
After lockdown ends, lots of people who haven’t seen each other in a long time are going to be meeting up. One way customers love to socialise is by getting food together. A lot of time can be wasted splitting bills and not taking multiple forms of payments table-side. A great system can take many forms of payment and easily split bills when customers order in groups.
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Limited Space
Many hospitality and mobile venues have limited space to operate. Having limited space means the last thing you want is a bulky fragmented system. Carrying around a large desktop EPoS which isn’t an all-in-one solution takes up valuable space that can be better used for your products. This not only applies to small businesses, but also businesses that have outdoor facilities which have limited seating. An MPoS device can limit contact at all stages of a customer's visit, making everything cleaner and safer for reopening.
Summer
2021 is the year we get our summer back. As the heat rises, demands for ice cream increase. People operating ice cream vans can start to come back to offer their goods to all. Mobile hospitality venues can only benefit from more payment options, now is the time to be investing.
More and more people are switching to digital wallets to pay for their goods and services. The cap on contactless payments is being increased so it’s vital that businesses move with the trends and prepare their venues so they are able to accept digital payments. Having more payment options makes products or services more accessible to potential customers. In the age of convenience, it’s never been more important to be flexible.
SPARK
SPARK handheld devices are perfect for small venues and mobile hospitality businesses. Our MPoS device is designed with hospitality in mind. We’ve added all the functionality needed to maximise efficiency within a venue. Anywhere a business can operate, SPARK handheld can operate. With a WiFi ,3G or 4G connection, you can continue to operate seamlessly. We offer great bill splitting functionality as well as automatically applying loyalty, promotions and more into account when processing transactions. Book a demo today to see all SPARK has to offer.