Everybody loves a discount. Whether you are getting money off your order or redeeming a pre-paid gift voucher you received for Christmas, discounts are a welcome bonus to any purchase. Kobas already allowed you to create fixed value discounts, such as £5 off a bill, but we have now made the distinction between money off discounts and […]
Before Christmas, we released a brand new page to improve the experience of PLU creation and management. To kick off the new year, we’ve added some extra features to help streamline the process, in addition to a brand new View function that lets your staff see images and preparation instructions for all of your EPoS […]
Kobas EPoS Genesis When Kobas was initially conceived it was a Cloud based service which, among many other goals, aimed to aggregate sales information from any EPoS system. While this worked well in principal we found some EPoS providers to be more reserved than others when it came to exposing sales information for integration purposes. […]
A little while ago we introduced the ability the exclude certain ingredient categories from your GP calculations. This, combined with an ability to exclude certain lead types from having revenue attributed to them, gives you more control than ever over how you see your sales and profits reported on the Stock Usage Comparison Report. However, this has the […]
Controlling and tracking assets and costs is a big part of what the Kobas system does best. Recently one of our customers came to us and told us that we weren’t quite allowing them to do that at as high a level of detail as they’d like. We listened, and as a result we have a new […]
Kobas were delighted to spot Pizza Rossa bigging up their loyalty scheme in today’s Propel Info newsletter. Pizza Rossa came on board as part of the Kobas family last summer and now use Kobas Cloud and EPoS systems in all their venues – maximising operational efficiency and benefiting from joined up functionality across their business with Kobas. Pizza Rossa customers love Kobas too (even if they don’t […]
Hot off the starting line in 2015, Kobas are very happy to announce brand new support for customer facing screens on your tills. (All right we’ll confess, we did start work on it last year. We aim to work swiftly, but even we’re not that good!) Customer facing screens add a fresh new dimension to the EPoS system in your bars, […]
Kobas Loyalty: the ultimate customer retention and marketing system This week we are delighted to unveil the Kobas Customer Loyalty platform, which is the result of months of research and development. Here is a loyalty system that brings the power of customer retention and targeted marketing typically reserved for the retail and hospitality behemoths straight […]
iPad EPoS – there are no boundaries! Today we released Kobas EPoS v3, featuring full stand-alone iPad support. It’s always been possible to use an iPad to add orders to tabs, request bill prints, log time and attendance and perform administrative tasks, but as of today it’s possible to run the entire front of house […]
The Stock Usage Comparison Report This month we’ve completely overhauled our Stock Usage Comparison Report, transforming it into a powerful tool to help you run an efficient business. The Stock Usage Overview It all starts with an overview of your stock’s performance. See your net revenue by ingredient category, your sales / waste / give-away […]
Case Study – Frank’s Café In June 2014 Kobas installed a large 15 station EPoS system at the top of Peckham multi-story car park in just a few hours, with less than a week’s notice. Here’s how it happened. It’s midday on Monday 23rd June 2014 and the Kobas team have just three and a […]
In the last twelve months we’ve welcomed a huge variety of new customers, and no area of Kobas has seen more interesting new use cases than our EPoS. Originally conceived back in 2011 for use in privately owned cocktail bars, we’re now in food-led gastro pubs, franchise chains, pop-up shops, nightclubs and rib shacks. Our […]