Get Beyond vs. Aloha Cloud

Excellent, excellent choice for a multi-unit franchisee of quick service restaurants. I would hesitate to recommend for a "mom and pop" type restaurant, particularly one that was not generating at least $1m in sales. I would also hesitate to recommend for a multi-unit restaurant that had legacy general ledger integration unless they were willing to spend the time and energy to re-integrate, which is not an automatic or particularly easy process.

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In a fast-paced, high-volume environment, this simple POS is a perfect solution to completing sales transactions. However, for establishments that would like to truly customize what their staff is seeing and ringing in, and what the guests are seeing when receipts are printed, this POS does leave something to be desired.

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• Easily add and track inventory items
• Recipe management that allows for built-in costing and calorie / nutrition reporting that is often required by local, state and national regulations
• Cloud based employee scheduling ensures that staffing levels are adequate, employees are happy and surprises are limited
• Very easy to learn and train new employess

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• User friendly--was easy to train new employees on the system.
• Reliable--rarely had issues or went down.
• Great reporting on sales numbers

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• Some custom reports can have errors in our register system is altered (time punch edits).
• Exports can't be customized by font style or size, and must be done within Excel.
• Cost. It is a big program, and we have Enterprise, plus six restaurant locations, so we have a lot of info on it.

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• Honestly, I have yet to have an issue with any of the functions of Aloha. The only thing that was a little complex was the end-of-day functions, (as we were a 24-hr casino) as if there were any open items, it would just auto-close these and that could get a little troublesome if I was behind in closing out checks. But I am not entirely sure if that was related to how our company itself was set up to run, not the actual Software.

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Overall, Aloha POS's usability is phenomenal. The interface is extremely easy to navigate through. All buttons and tabs are easy to add or delete. Having a piece of software that is easy to toggle through creates a much more efficient workplace. I love the ease of use. A brand new employee can jump right into the system and use it with no issues.

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We have a support representative, and whenever I've needed help customizing a report, or some numbers aren't coming through correctly, they are only one email away. It's very timely in response. They can view our system from the backside, and have fixed problems for me with integration or just a formula wrong in one of my custom reports.

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There were a lot of instances where I had to call back or a problem wasn't resolved, specifically with Aloha loyalty.

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I have only used the previous program they had here when I started, called Food Trak. It's a very old system. I think it was DOS-based.

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Micros POS comes to mind as another point of sale system that I've had a terrible experience with. From bland presentation, unintuitive software, to clunky and malfunctioning hardware. The units would crash, slow, down, and the touch screens were unresponsive. It was a simple order and fire system, lacking the complexities of Aloha's course system and elaborate payment screen.

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• More control for the managers, and they easily see how they affect their overall numbers. They can see labor percentages at 15-minute intervals, and that is key when controlling payroll.
• It has streamlined our corporate office duties. Each store processes their own invoices, instead of our older method of sending all invoices to the office to enter on our old software.
• I get all of my payroll hours from PeachWorks in an Excel file that I can upload to our external payroll company. That ALONE has saved me hours of manual entry.

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• Clean setup and presentation makes for a much more efficient checkout process.
• Easy to put data into daily reports.
• Increase in revenues.

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