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- Credit Card On-File feature securely retains the customer’s credit card account information in the customer database allowing for repeat customers to charge delivery orders by phone.
- Pre-authorized Bar Tabs puts the name on the credit card onto the tab so the bartender does not need to hold credit cards.
- A Check Description can be entered by a bartender, such as customer’s name, when running tabs.
- Training Videos can be shown on the terminals.
- Timed Item capability for tracking pool table rental, dart rental, internet PC rental or any other timed entertainment.
- Coursing with multiple print formats to remote kitchen printers allows chefs to see a complete order by course and seat number.
- Ingredient Tracking with Recipe Building and Food Cost by Item automatically subtracts from inventory as items are sold, complete with reorder and econciliation reports.
- Expo Mode allows any touch screen to be used as an expediter terminal in the kitchen to provide reports with kitchen cook times.
- Hold and Fire items allows you to take large catering orders or takeout order hours, days, weeks, or even years in advance, and have the items print to the kitchen at the appropriate specified time.
- Split a Single Item such as shared appetizers or bottle of wine at one table equally on separate checks.
- Item Countdown allows wait staff to see the quantity of each item on hand.
- Item Recipe Lookup lets wait staff look up an item’s ingredients to provide utritional information to the customer or inform the customer about foods that could cause allergic reactions.
- Customer Lookup includes year-to-date purchases and displays the last order allowing you to repeat or modify the last order.
- House Accounts with personalized customer statements is an accounts receivable function with the ability to maintain customer charges, trade accounts or employee meals.
- Guest Check Headings can use a standard bitmap graphics so your restaurant logo can be printed on the guest check.
- Automatic Printer Redundancy reroutes the printing in the event of a printer failure.
- Automatic Program Redundancy writes sales data and the application
program from the file server to one or all the POS terminals to prevent data loss. - Internet Credit Card Redundancy is a hardware option that detects a loss of your internet connection and automatically dials out over a phone line as a backup.
- External Device Interfaces for caller ID, scales, scanners, customer displays, coin dispensers, liquor dispensing system, drive-thru menu board and hotel property management systems.
- On-line Help Screens are built-in to assist you.
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my most valuable business tool.”
– Ralph Nardoni, Saddle Sore Saloon of Norco, California
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“Future POS has provided everything promised and then some. They hold the values of ‘under promise, over deliver.’ ”
— Rich Stula, Teddy's Bigger Burgers of Kailua, Hawaii
Our Origins and Our Philosophy.
Future POS software was developed by professionals for professionals. A small Midwest company, Cutting Edge Solutions developed the first Future POS system in 1995 purely as a Windows® product. The package was written using 32 bit Microsoft Visual C to ensure a superior end product. The resulting rock-solid POS package continues to run circles around the competition. We are proud to have produced a cost-effective product with no sacrifice to quality or function. Our philosophy is to provide and include EVERY feature we develop as standard and EVERY feature is available to all licensed users. We take pride in setting you up fully-loaded.
You Need It Customized?
Start with a blank sheet of paper, then draw out how you want your screens designed. Future POS is that flexible! Notice each screen layout pictured here is different. That’s because the order entry screen is totally flexible and configurable to your needs. Your menu screen can be programmed to generate the most efficiency for your type of business, as well as reduce server training time. Screens can be created for different staff (bartenders, servers, managers), while buttons can be created in various sizes, colors, fonts, with logos, graphical bitmaps or plain text. Future POS software fits nearly any restaurant application: fine dining, casual, pizza delivery, quick service, pool hall, cafeteria, and more. We urge you to compare our ability to customize menus with the competition.
“I would definitely recommend
Future POS to anyone looking for
a new point-of-sale system.”
– Steve Henderson, General Manager, Buffalo Wild Wings Grill and Bar
All Bells And Whistles Included.
Your customers and your industry is demanding. You need tools to automate and safeguard your business with minimal fuss. Future POS includes all the features you could ever want in a point-of-sale system at no additonal cost.
- Touch screen order entry and superior functionality
- Labor Scheduling and Employee Timekeeping
- Gift Certificate issuing and tracking
- Frequent Diner Program with reward levels
- Ingredient Tracking with food costing
- Expo Mode tracks kitchen cook times
- Customer reservations
- Efficient dining room management
- Ability to pre-authorize bar tabs
- Bartender drink recipes
- Drivers license verification of age (most states)
- Built-in register Help Screens
- Beer and Wine Club
- Ability to split checks by seat
- Kitchen orders by course
- Hold and Fire Items
- Timed pool tables
- Three second credit card authorization via the Internet with Mercury Payment or Sterling Payment (other processors also available with the purchase of NETePay License or IPTran modem)
- House Charge Accounts for tracking customer sales or employee meals with personalized statements
- Email employees and customers to alert them about specials, events, etc.
- Interfaces with Microsoft MapPoint®
- Interfaces with payroll programs: ADP, Paychex, ABRA, MenuLink and QuickBooks Pro
- Interface with general ledger accounting programs: Great Plains, Peachtree, MAS90, MenuLink and QuickBooks Pro
- Interfaces with popular inventory control programs: ChefTec, MenuLink and Food-Trak
Reservations
Reservations can be taken from any terminal, including the back office PC or remotely, for any date, including years in the future. Simply follow the prompts (date, time, customer, requirements, number in party, etc.) and the reservation is complete! The table grid will show the table as Reserved, so other servers cannot use that table. The reservation screen also has a column for notes such as Highchair, VIP or birthday. An arrival column displays the arrival time and changes the reservation color to green to help you seat the next reservations during a busy wait.
Graphical table layouts make starting a check faster and easier. Your floor plan is designed with a graphical backdrop that can be programmed to fit your needs – a bar, restaurant, or simply a bitmap. Tables are color-coded based on the state of the check, while the number of minutes the table has been occupied is also displayed. You can have up to 16 different sections within your restaurant, including rooms with pool table graphics, so you can break down your restaurant into sections, as well as generate reports based on sections.
Pizza & Delivery
Future POS does pizza! When a customer calls, the phone number is transferred via caller ID, saving the order-taker several keystrokes. The Reorder button saves a lot of time, since more than half of all customers order the same thing repeatedly. Once the order is entered and printed, pizza labels that display the customer name, items, date, and time can easily be generated to place on the boxes.
Labor Scheduling
The advanced Labor Scheduling feature allows management to schedule staff for multiple jobs by pay period. In the click of your mouse, you can schedule an employee’s shift, enter their vacations, record the days they need off for school, etc. Graphical colored bars show when employees are not available for shifts. Schedules can be printed in the office and posted by job code, making it very easy to see everyone’s shifts. Employees can also print their own schedule from any POS terminal to the local receipt printer. Hours and gross pay are accumulated so management can forecast what the labor costs will be for that scheduled period.
Pizza-Style Modifiers
A unique feature to Future POS, this multi-column method of entering modifiers is faster and easier than any other system on the market. Four columns of information can be designed to your liking with different headings, so when you choose a “Hamburger”, for example, you would see “meat temperature,” “add toppings,” “take off toppings,” and “side order.” The sever can then pick and choose what is required from one screen as opposed to multiple, layered screens, speeding up order entry and reducing training time.
Enterprise Lite
uses a dedicated, static-IP addressed computer to retrieve all sales data from multiple stores and report back to the Enterprise PC. In addition to multiple store reporting, Enterprise Lite will maintain all gift card balances sold between stores as well as customer and frequent diner plan information. With this valuable tool, you can now get real- time sales information by store, plus have the ability to add new menu items, specials, employees, etc. from the Enterprise PC and download to a specific store, a region of stores, or all stores. Get your sales data faster!
Keep Track At All Your Sites.
We take the hardware and maintenance responsibility out of your hands. Let us do the work! By storing your sales data off-site through Cutting Edge Solution’s secured server, you can access information about all your stores from any Internet enabled PC. No computer to set up, no software to load or maintain; we do all the work for you. There is no up-front cost, just a monthly fee to maintain the site for your restaurants. Enterprise Advanced harnesses all the power of Enterprise Lite and adds key data features such as multiple-user access of the same datasets and configurable, customizable reports. Other enhancements include automatic, customizable alerts and a streamlined interface, which takes maintaining multiple installs to a new level. With Enterprise Advanced, the possibilities are endless.
Surveillance Camera
Future POS utilizes Remote Eyes, a surveillance product from Odyssey Technologies. This tool allows management to see what is being rung up at specific terminals, along with a real-time
text display of the order on their back-office system. Remote Eyes will track all activities that are generated from the Activity Report of
Future POS, report on them, and display the video from within this report. You can watch the video of a voided sale, a check that was
transferred, or an employee who clocked in/out last week, including the embedded text for that transaction. Remote Eyes will also monitor your parking lot, back door, manager’s office and other areas, making it a great security tool for your restaurant.
Card Tracking
Future POS has incorporated the tracking of Gift Cards, Reward Cards, House Charge Cards and VIP Cards as part of the package. Gift Cards printed with your company logo are sold and tracked within Future POS. You can also track gift cards that are given away free as a reward for your frequent diner program, as a donation for charity, or as a marketing promotion. All gift cards and certificates sold, destroyed or redeemed are stored in the gift certificate file for historical reference. Card balances can be checked from any POS terminal. If customers loses their card you can destroy the original and issue a new card!
No system is complete without checks and balances. Future POS has built-in reporting for all of your needs – labor, item costing, daily sales, promotional items, beverage controls, and more. Data can be stored for 9,999 days, which is nearly 28 years worth of history! Reports can be printed, sent to disk or viewed on thedisplay, as well as set to print at a pre-specified time of day. Data is stored by date and time, so whether you are looking for a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual report, the data is there!
Reports That Keep You “In The Know.”
Hi-Tech Options.
Future POS & Handhelds
Order entry at your fingertips! Wireless tableside ordering is available with Future POS Handhelds running Windows Server 2000/2003 Terminal Services. Authorize a credit card with a snap-on swipe for wireless transactions. Some estimates have shown that servers spend 10% of their time walking to POS terminals and waiting in line. Keep your staff tableside, engaging customers, adding additional items, instead of spending time walking back to a POS terminal.
Online Ordering
Future POS now offers your restaurant customers the ability to order from their home or office computer. We professionally design your website with your menu to allow customers to place and pay for orders online. The orders are then securely registered in your store’s POS System and sent to your kitchen printer to be packaged for delivery, take out or curbside pick-up. Increase “To Go” sales and decrease the labor it currently takes to manually handle your phone-in or faxed orders.
Video Display Units (VDUs)
Video Display Units (VDUs), used primarily in quick service restaurants, allow food to be routed to a display instead of a kitchen printer, saving supplies and maintenance. Orders can be sorted and color-coded to make preparation easier for kitchen staff.
Fingerprint Identification
Fingerprint Identification provides a lock-tight security measure for signing on to a terminal, clocking in and out, performing voids, etc.
Drink Recipes
Future POS includes a reference database of popular drink recipes. Just touch the Drink Recipe button and scroll down through the alphabetized list of cocktails. To save time, the drink can be automatically rung from that screen or that recipe can be printed on the receipt printer and given to the customer. A bar or restaurant manager can easily modify the recipe files so a bar book is no longer required. Orders are transferred to drivers, making the drivers responsible for the orders. Microsoft MapPoint® can generate maps to the delivery sites, saving time and gasoline! Customer history is tracked for reporting and marketing purposes to target those customers that have not purchased in 30 days, 60 days, etc.
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