Summertime is vacation time, filled with fun for kids out of school and rest and relaxation for people taking a break from work. And while your customers are enjoying the summer, you could make experiences more enjoyable by handling a lot of transactions outside instead of making them wait to pay at an indoor point of sale. Imagine it: Customers could pay right where they are for patio dining, snacks at amusement park concession stands, fresh fruit at a farmstand, or tickets to an outdoor event. When you use a mobile solution designed to let you accept payments anywhere, you’ll keep lines short and save time for you and your customers. Taking payments on the spot lets your customers get back to summer fun faster.
Pay at the Table Designed for Summertime
Restaurants with outdoor dining can serve customers faster with a pay-at-the-table solution. It helps your servers work more accurately, starting a check at the table and recalling it by table or check number when guests are ready to pay. Then, they can use a durable device to complete the transaction in one step, so customers aren’t waiting for them to walk back and forth to a point of sale (POS) terminal inside. Servers can handle it all on the mobile device, from splitting payments, letting the customer add a tip, and accepting different payment methods, including cash and credit to mobile wallets and gift cards.
Some pay-at-the-table solutions are limited by how reliable their connection is. So, if you have outdoor dining, you may have to make sure tables are in a certain area and have fewer tables than you would like. But a solution with 4G and Wi-Fi connectivity lets you accept payments at any table, even if it’s a little too far for the device to connect to Wi-Fi.
Food Truck and Drive-Thru Payments
You can accept payment anywhere with a pay-at-the-table solution, even if there’s no “table.” An all-in-one, durable mobile solution is a great option for food trucks. You can take orders and send them to a printer or kitchen display system to keep your team organized on the road. Then, you can use that same device to accept payments anywhere you take your truck, thanks to 4G connectivity. The system also makes it easy for customers to add tips!
A durable device with an easy-to-use pay-at-the-table system is also a great choice for line-busting in a quick serve restaurant drive-thru. Employees can accept any type of payment and even recall checks and add to orders if customers decide to buy a little more.
Payments for Outdoor Sales, Festival Booths, and Pop-Up Shops
A mobile solution that works for outdoor payments can also help you if your business ramps up outdoors in the summer. You might have summer sidewalk sales, set up a tent sale, or take your business on the road to sell at festivals or in high-traffic locations.
To make the most of these business opportunities in the summer, make payments convenient. Don’t make customers go inside a building to check out or lose sales because you don’t accept contactless payments. You need a durable device with reliable 4G connectivity to accept payments anywhere, but also a solution that keeps payment data safe. The best system will sync in real time, so your team has all the data they need and you can track what’s going on in remote locations.
Where Are You Doing Business This Summer?
A mobile solution designed for orders and payments lets you create great summertime experiences for your customers and helps you see a boost in revenue. You can accept any type of payment method right where your customers are having fun, keeping them happier and more likely to make more purchases. At the same time, you’ll run your business more efficiently, saving steps and saving time. You may even find you can schedule fewer employees per shift to help you control labor costs.
If you want to learn more about a solution you can use inside or outside to delight customers and grow your business, contact us. You still have time this summer to add a mobile solution that lets you accept payments everywhere — and make payments convenient for your customers all year long!
