Rugby Club ISSUE 83 | Page 9

The Open Solutions EPoS system has numerous ways of encouraging increased spend per head, such as discounts for the bigger spenders, happy hours, and so on. But the main benefit is being able to differentiate the prices members pay from those prices the club sets for the visitors and guests, generating a sustainable positive impact on the bar’s gross margins. Your club’s GDPR compliancy enhanced With GMS your members can access, update and control their own personal data, and that helps make your club fully GDPR compliant. This makes sure you are keeping your membership details and database up to date in the most efficient way. It also helps you to see any gaps in membership data that may need to be dealt with. Handle those busy periods at the bar much more efficiently With weekly training evenings and matches on Saturdays, things soon get extremely busy at the bar. Clubs that replaced their standalone tills with touch screen tills have always agreed they made a good decision. The powerful EPoS software has all sorts of built-in advantages, such as order interruption that allows busy bar staff to place orders while their colleagues are fulfilling other orders at the taps, and card-based purchasing to reduce cash transactions down to a swipe or membership number input. Similarly, members can top up online and never have to worry about forgetting to bring enough cash to the club. Make the club diary work for everyone Another Open Solutions’ tool that’s great for the club is our Bookings software. Basically an online centralised club diary that’s integrated with their EPoS system, it means that as well as a diary the club uses to make all its bookings, the members can go online and see everything that’s on at the club as well. Future proof the club The club’s new tool is being upgraded constantly, and one new idea being developed right now is how to make use of the members’ cards as part of a ticketing system that can handle ticket booking and identification on match days, and help ease the load automatically. Being tested with two clubs currently, the aim is to make this feature available in the New Year. Where do you go from here? Just give us a call on 01732 367 227 and ask for a demonstration. We’ll happily provide you with references, or you can see them for yourself at www.opensolutionsinternational.com . We’ll agree diary dates and show you and your club’s decision makers why fully integrating your existing GMS with our powerful EPoS system makes much sense for you, your club and your members. www.rugbyclubmag.com 9