zOrder is a specialised uniform information system, specially designed for food and beverage and entertainment businesses [restaurants, coffee shops, bars, hotels, etc.]. It offers fully automated management procedures for order taking, pricing, and administrative information of a business iin a uniform platform. It is an inexpensive, simple to install and operate solution.

  Main Features

• Depending on what the business needs, order taking and order management can take place either from desktop work stations, i.e. PCs with Touch Screen, or from laptop portable computers (zMobile) that come with the software. 
• Orders are projected in detail (item, quantity, price, discount, etc.) Each order can be modified as to its items, quantity, discount, or it can even be cancelled. In addition, the order can be confirmed with a code from the manager in charge, when there are items bearing discount. Another important feature of the application is the transfer / merging of tables. The user can directly project or even print in detail, the total cost per table and close a bill payment, by issuing or not a receipt. 
• zOrder has the ability of printing an order per type and category of item (i.e. drink - whiskey) in printers available at the according shop's departments, that is, the bar or the kitchen of a restaurant, etc. 
• Each printout projects data, such as the code/name of the waiter, the table he/she serves, date and time, quantity and characteristics of every item in the order. 

Additional Functions

zOrder incorporates a series of useful and essential functions, such as:

• zReports: a plethora of prepared printouts, so that the manager can have a complete status report about his business
• zStatistics: statistics on item, tables, waiters, categories, sales records and discounts transactions, etc.
• Compatibilty with MS Office and other popular: export of data to MS Word, MS Excel, Acrobat [pdf], html pages, and pinting
• zDelivery: full administration and monitoring of deliveries
• zExport: full data export from the application in order to connect with other applications
• zControl: staff work time monitoring, payroll issuance in total or analytical form, depending on the way of payment (payment per hour, per day, or per month)
• zUtility: massive changes in the database, such as updating of prices and characteristics
• zInvoice: invoice issuance
• zInventory: warehouse management 
• zOrder Mobile: wireless order taking. This function serves food businesses activated in outside areas, such as squares, parks, etc., and inlcudes intermediate  points of signal transmission from the PDA to the central work station. This ensures the smooth operation of the business. 

Benefits for the Manager                       

zOrder is the cornerstone of development for a food & beverage business, as it:

• Reduces drastically expenses and customer serving time by automating the procedures of order taking and invoicing. 
• Reduces drastically the mistakes in order taking, preparation and execution of an order, ensuring the harmonious operation between the business departments and minimizing customer and profit loss.
• Improves operation and quality control, depicting all information in useful and easy to read printouts, transforming the accounting data (orders, sales, etc.) to dynamic expressions.

zOrder strengthens the flexibility and profitability of your business, ensuring  a comprehensive and lucid status of your business activities at any given time.