A Step Up
The solutions you need for total restaurant management are at hand. Our current features are more than enough to keep global restaurants running like well-oiled machines, but we didn’t stop there. We diligently stay up to speed with technological innovations in pursuit of additional features that will optimize our users’ experience.
Value Added Features
- Simple, user-friendly design
- Personnel password authentication
- Unlimited menus, categories and products
- Creation of products and product groups
- Taking order by clicking on the product pictures
- Taking order by option, price and quantity
- Gift, cancel and void features
- Group, split or merge orders
- Fast sale feature from cash register
- Printing from cash register and kitchen printers
- Receive payments via cash, foreign currency, credit card and voucher
- Transfer payments to accounts as debts
- Design unlimited floor and table layouts
- Change, transfer and merge tables
- End-of-day, sales and collections reporting
- Inventory activities, alerts and reports
- Verification of inventory levels with periodic checks
- Back up, restore and cloud synchronization
- Sale by product weight
- Product search in menu
- Sale by barcode
- Authorized gifting and cancelling
- Pre-defined product gifting
- Automatically adding menu sub-features
- Defining sub-feature page
- Using devices vertically and horizontally
- Adding special notes for orders
- Adding notes to tickets
- Authorized discounts
- Unlimited number of printers
- Unlimited number of kitchen printers
- Unlimited number of department printers
- Printing order and ticket tags
- Designing special printer template
- Adding logo to receipt
- Opening sub-ticket for one table
- Product search in menu
- Grouping, splitting and merging orders
- Splitting payments
- Receiving payments in foreign currencies
- Adding quick buttons for payment
- Customizable numerator
- Transferring fast food ticket to table
- Merging tickets
- Delivery tracking
- Caller ID support
- Identifing location on map
- Delivery time tracking
- Defining unlimited accounts
- Defining unlimited transaction documents
- Payables and receivables
- Customizable account screens
- Periodic cost calculations
- Adding unlimited products
- Adding unlimited units to products
- Defining sub-products
- Creating detailed receipts
Additional Features
Fine tune Argus of Boston to cater to the needs of your restaurant. With screen customization, you can provide your staff with powerful, adjustable tools to serve your valued customers. Use photos of food and create unlimited sub-menus and order modifiers to enhance the ordering process. Define various payment methods and create custom reports. Menus can be created dependent on certain times of the day or special occasions; morning, evening, birthday, christmas, etc.
We provide integrated payment solutions with the lowest commision rates and seamless workflow for businesses taking payments at the counter and table with payment processors who provide simple setup, secure technology and expert support for integrated payments.
Follow up with all operations within Argus of Boston and decide whether or not they meet your standards. You can monitor operations from several angles: table clearing and preparation, cook time, authorizations, service speed, etc. With this knowledge, make adjustments and increase your productivity.
Settle bills via multiple payment options such as cash, check, debit / credit card, gift / loyalty card, or customer account. Apply discounts to entire bills, single menu items, or a group of menu items. Define various tax types.
Define an unlimited number of currencies. Take payments in one currency and provide change in another currency with automatically calculated exchange rates. View cash reports according to currency type.
- Customer facing display screen in a 60/40 ratio.
- Display the itemized bill and change due.
- Display images and videos on a slideshow for sales and marketing and upsell purposes.
- View orders in the back of house entered from the front of house.
- Quickly mark items or orders as complete.
- Stay organized with color coded and timed on screen chits.
- Built in support for a multi-station setup. i.e. prep, grill, fryer, etc.
- Use as a pickup station and enter orders * Requires a Restaurant POS license.
- Optionally use ticket numbers instead of order numbers.
- Ticket number ranges can be set by order type (pick up, to go, delivery, etc.)
- Automatically restart number ranges once the maximum ‘Ending Number’ has been reached.
- Optionally use a prompt to reset ticket numbering as a part of the End Of Day process.
- Includes order entry enforcement, dynamic pricing logic, dynamic visibility logic.
- Pizza configuration – toppings based on sides (whole, left, right, 1/3, 1/4, etc.).
- Bubble tea configuration – build your drink (pick temperature, sweet, ice, foam, toppings, tea base, etc.).
- Real time inventory tracking of items, combos, and ingredients.
- Create a bill of materials / recipe for precise costing and quantity traceability.
- Support for up to 4 decimal places with advanced unit of measure conversions.
- Never run out of critical items by using reorder levels for items.
- Create and select item instructions for dietary restrictions, allergies, and sensitivites.
- Enter custom instructions on the fly.
- Specify hold times per item.
- Enter item discounts and order discounts by dollar or percentage.
- Select from a list of user defined discount reasons.
- Create Discount Codes (promo codes) with redemption limits, order type restrictions for instore or online processing.
- Manage multiple items across multiple store locations through a single Web based interface.
- Update a single shared item and push the change to a single store, selected stores, or all store locations.
- Overlay sales, cost, and net profit for multiple locations in a single graph.
- Analyze inventory usage across multiple locations in a single interface.
- Compare year over year, and month over month information with a single location, selected locations, or multiple locations.
- Setup automated reports per store for sales, refunds, inventory, end of day reports, and income statements.
- Preconfigured item combos based on items or groups of items.
- Automatic reverse lookup for combos for special combo pricing.
- Automatic prompts for a configure to order combo (select 1 of 3 options, then select 1 of 5 options, etc.)
- Automatic recycle / environmental fees as a dollar value per item.
- Automatic bottle deposit fees as a non taxable dollar value per item.
- Sales promotion logic per item or group based on a date range, day of the week, and time with fixed dollar sales price or discount percentage.
- Setup promotions for buy something, get something (BOGO – Buy One Get One).
- On demand dollar or percentage variable discounts per order or item.
- Preset dollar or percentage discounts for Members / Customers per item or group.
- Print 2 part clothing barcoded labels; 1 part displays the barcode, 1 part displays the item information.
- Supports printing of custom item attributes such as model names, sizes, etc.
- In store appointment bookings by employee calendar.
- View all employee calendars for concurrent bookings.
- Automatic email or SMS text appointment reminders.
- Scan variable barcodes / deli scale barcodes / pharmacy prescription barcodes.
- The system will automically determine the item and price from the barcode.
- Create gift receipts per item during the cash out process.
- Create gift receipts per item on demand after the sale.
- Overlay sales, cost, and net profit for multiple locations in a single graph.
- Analyze inventory usage across multiple locations in a single interface.
- Compare year over year, and month over month information with a single location, selected locations, or multiple locations.
- Setup automated reports per store for sales, refunds, inventory, end of day reports, and income statements.
Don’t leave your restaurant’s potential success in the hands of fate. Decide which aspects of your business need attention and effortlessly create reports that will aid you in making informed decisions. Prepare, save and print customized reports that can be modified according to your preferences: product-based, period-based, cashier-specific, inventory-based, etc.
Create multiple departments that can be managed from a single database. Adjust products and create custom menus depending on the department. Choose from various authorization and automation options.
Upload your current restaurant layout or create a new layout. Incorporate garden, terrace, bar, upper / lower levels and more into your plans. In order to avoid confusion, position layouts in an organized fashion with clear visuals so that staff members can direct customers and orders to the correct table. Add / delete seats, move items to another person or table, and view the live status of each table.
Argus of Boston offers businesses the ability to customize their loyalty and rewards programs. Create special promotions according to different card types. Our loyalty feature gives you the power to create engaging programs that build customer loyalty. Gift cards boost sales, keep regular customers around and welcome new customers.
Keep track of open customer accounts, branch accounts, payroll, income and expenses. Custom design your accounting system to accommodate all financials related to your restaurant so nothing falls through the cracks.
- Automatic prompt for custom price for lottery sale.
- Automatic prompt for (negative) custom price for lottery redemption / payout.
- Automatic prompt for custom price for lottery free ticket with automatic entry of sale and redemption.
- Use lottery redemptions / payouts as applied payments for a sale of products.
- Dedicated lottery section for reporting on the End of Day report.
- Dedicated to take out orders (to-go, pickup, and delivery).
- Enter new take out orders with fulfillment ‘Now’ or ‘Later’ (future date and time).
- Easily identify open orders that have not been picked up.
- Send SMS text message notifications to customers for pick up orders.
- View inbound online orders (supports Argus of Boston Online Ordering, Skip The Dishes, Moduurn Mobile App Orders).
- Phone line integration connected to customer profile(TAPI).
- Allows the caller ID from the phone to be automatically sent to the POS.
- Automatically match to existing customers / members.
- Bring up the customer / member profile and display previous orders for quick duplication.
- Support for traditional phone line or Voice Over IP (VOIP) phone line.
- Diner configuration – build your own omelette (pick your ingredients), pick from multiple bread options, pick from multiple sides, etc.
- Custom cake configuration – selection of cake flavour, icing flavor and color, toppings, etc.
- General configuration – build your own main/entree (pick from multiple meat options, pick from multiple bread options, pick from multiple sides, etc.).
- Create searchable item tags for dietary restrictions (vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, etc.).
- Record item details for wine (vintage, vinyard, body, etc.).
- Record primary item ingredients such as vodka for alcoholic mixed drinks.
- Create “Happy Hour” deals, loss leader item combinations, and promote ingenious pairings.
- Place items on sale per date range, day of the week, time, and order type.
- Simple or complex support for “buy something get something” deals for items or groups.
- Manage tax codes (provincial / state, federal, etc.) and apply tax rules.
- Supports advanced conditional logic for tax application.
- Accurately set taxes for Prepared Food & Beverages, Snack Fooods, Alcoholic Beverages, etc.
- Create unlimited bils.
- Split evenly.
- Move items from one bill to another bill.
- Share items between one or multiple bills.
- Merge items from multiple bills onto a single bill.
- Single select start over function to undo your changes.
- From a single store location, lookup real time item inventory quantities across multiple store locations.
- Transfer inventory between stores with barcode scanning capability.
- Mobile Web based app with wireless barcode scanning capability for inventory receiving or physical counts.
- Customer facing display screen to display open orders, and orders ready for pickup.
- Display the customer name, order number, or ticket number.
- Display images and videos on a slideshow for sales and marketing and upsell purposes.
- Automatic prompt for a safe drop based on a configurable cash bill denomination or cash drawer balance.
- Reverse safe drop for payout purposes.
- Pay employees (petty cash, sales commission, tip payout), or suppliers from your cash drawer balance with a printed receipt.
- Integration with PC / POS compatible weigh scales (up to 4 decimal place precision).
- Automatic prompt to enter weight for items sold by weight.
- The weight from the scale will be automatically entered into the prompt.
- Support for unit of measure conversions. i.e. pounds to ounces, etc.
- Prompt for container offset (negative weight) for containers provided by customers.
- Print UPC barcodes directly from the system.
- Barcoded labels can be used for store packed products, or for merchandising fixtures.
- Labels display the UPC barcode, item name, and price.
- Real time inventory management with alerts for low stock.
- Inventory lot tracking with optional expiry date tracking.
- Support for up to 4 decimal places with advanced unit of measure conversions.
- Inventory audit trails based on inventory logs.
- Create unlimited custom attributes per item for model names, sizes, descriptors, keywords, etc.
- Item attributes are searchable during the order entry and sales process.
- Set items as being applicable for sales commission.
- Track sales commissions by employee by order or per item.
- Print sales commission reports by employee.
- Manage multiple items across multiple store locations through a single Web based interface.
- Update a single shared item and push the change to a single store, selected stores, or all store locations.
- Unlimited saved / suspended orders.
- View and load saved orders from any date.
