You’ve decided to implement iPad tills or some form of mobile EPOS in your operation—or, maybe more accurately, you’ve decided to consider doing it. That’s doesn’t mean you’re indecisive: in fact it means just the opposite. It means that rather than just jump headfirst into mobile EPOS, you’ve decided to think it through. It’s really like most anything else you use to run your restaurant. Doing it at all requires decision making. But doing it well requires decision thinking. On paper, the benefits seem clear, but in reality, restaurateurs are still debating about making the move to mobility. We've published a case study on how one of our customer’s made the case for mobility, in which we discuss return on investment (in less than six months!), and challenges they had not anticipated… read the full article here.
Consider, just for starters, all the security issues you have to address. One is simply signing in to the EPOS: It’s more of a challenge than it is for your stationary EPOS till simply because tablets travel with the server. Make sure logins—user name and password--are not shared, and that the mobile EPOS is set to automatically log out after only very brief idle times.
