What is the Best Brewery POS System?

Finding the best point of sale for your brewery is important. The point of sale you choose today will have a profound effect on your business for years.

Brewery POS systems should be built specifically for breweries. A generic point of sale just won’t cut it. Rezku was built from the ground up as a point of sale for tap rooms, brewpubs and brewery restaurants. It’s designed to work the way you work.

The Best Brewery POS Features

To determine the features and functionality you’ll need, talk to your friends in the restaurant, bar and pub business. Find out what they have to say about their experience using different POS systems over the years. What features do they wish they had? What functions could they never live without? What pitfalls do they wish they had avoided?

This is the same kind of research performed when the team was designing Rezku to be the best point of sale for brewery concepts.

The most important brewery POS features:

• A system you can count on to be reliable
• Credit card payments even when the internet is down
• Access to management functions from anywhere
• Open and close customer tabs organized to find fast
• Custom credit card pre-authorization amounts
• Auto-start bar tabs when opening an order
• A speed-bar menu for top sellers
• Beer and food descriptions built into the menu
• Easily rotate taps when they run out
• Set happy hours that run automatically
• Pour monitoring integrations to fight waste
• A multitude of brewery inventory tracking tools
• In-depth reporting that puts you in control

A POS That’s Reliable

Rezku’s POS for breweries is based on industry standard hardware and technology. Brand names like Epson, Apple and Seiko, that deliver quality you can count on.

The Reputation of Apple’s iPad

Apple’s iPad is the number one selling tablet computer for a good reason. It is proven to be secure and stable. It is the first choice for commercial and industrial applications. From aviation to law enforcement and hospitals, iPad reliability is second to none.

Apple has earned a reputation for superior customer support. Every iPad comes backed up with a one year AppleCare warranty. When choosing a point of sale for your brewery do you trust some no-name tablet hardware of questionable origin? Or will you rely on the well earned reputation of iPad?

Epson Printers — The Service Industry Standard

Epson has established itself as the leading manufacturer of commercial and industrial printer hardware. Epson printers have held their place as a trusted name for generations.

Epson printers are work-horses in the tough conditions of the hospitality industry. Day in and day out they chug along, printing countless drink orders and receipts.

Grade A+ Customer Support

When you and your staff need help, you need to know you can really count on your brewery POS company. Before you choose a brewery POS system, call their technical and customer support line. Were you greeted by a live person? How long did it take to get a straight answer? When your staff calls from the bar will they get a run-around or real solutions? These are important questions you need to answer before you buy.

The Rezku customer support team is dedicated to providing the best service in the industry. Call day or night and you’ll get a live person who understands your business. Someone who can provide fast answers and deep insight about the situation. Emails are answered in minutes, not hours. And chats get a response right away.

When customers are waiting and moments count the level of service you receive matters.

Cloud Based POS Enhancements

The Rezku POS system is a hybrid-cloud based point of sale giving you the advantages of an always-connected platform and the flexibility to handle internet outages – without the added cost of an on-site server.

Offline Payments Mode

When your Internet is down does your current point of sale stop working too? Or can you keep taking credit card payments? Does offline sync happen automatically? Does it cause bookkeeping errors? Unfortunately, the internet sometimes has issues – but you’ve still got a business to run.

Rezku’s brewery POS has a revolutionary offline mode that ensures that everything keeps working – tickets print to the bar, orders trade seamlessly between tablets, and tabs can be opened and closed, even with credit cards.

When the internet resumes operation, payment data automatically syncs without you doing a thing. That’s the power of Rezku’s powerful seamless offline mode and connection adaptation technology.

Complete Settings Management On Your Smartphone

Imagine being anywhere and having complete control of your brewery’s POS system, in real time—from checking sales to rotating taps, to auditing labor. Do it all from Rezku’s brewery manager app.

The power to control your business is in your hands, anywhere you go because Rezku works in the cloud. And all your data is backed up securely and automatically. It is never deleted and doesn’t expire.

Moving at Brewery Speed

Is your brewery POS built for speed? Rezku POS is. When you’re serving fast you need a brewery POS that keeps up.

Menu Design That Works Like a Dream

Organize your menu the way that works for you. Build unlimited products, categories and submenus. Archive and bring back beers as your tap rotates. Set auto-86 countdown so empty kegs are removed from the screen automatically.

Speedy Order Flow

Rezku’s flexible design lets you decide how to flow orders. For extra-fast orders from the main screen use a speed menu. And when a patron asks you to tell them about a beer, just pinch to zoom on any tile to get a detailed description.

Optimized Tab Organization

During a busy service, you can’t waste time searching through unorganized tabs. Opening and closing bar tabs efficiently is priority number one. Your brewery POS needs to make tab management fast and intuitive.

Rezku’s brewery POS arranges tabs automatically in two views, tile or list. When you run a card for a tab it pulls the name off the card to name the tab, so you can find it quickly. You can even start a credit card tab automatically to save you from extra steps.

Here’s something your customers will really appreciate. They get their credit cards back right away. They don’t even have to come back to close their tab. Easily close all the open tabs at the end of the night. And the best part? No lost cards at the end of the night.

Put Your Thumb on Waste and Theft

How well does your current POS keep you informed of suspicious activity? Do you have any idea how many comps and discounts bartenders are giving each night? How much are you losing to over-pouring? Profitability depends on every sale. Your brewery POS system needs multiple tools to monitor employee activity.

Pour Enforcement and Inventory Tracking

Inventory audits are crucial to minimize employee theft and over-pouring. Rezku POS features native inventory tracking. And it has additional integration functionality with industry-standard pour tracking systems you may already be using.

• BarVision
• BeerBoard
• Bar-I Liquid Accounting
• Beer Saver
• Digital Pour
• BevChek

With all these options for monitoring your brew no one is getting one over on you.

Comp Tracking and System Permissions

Do you want to know exactly what is going on with every sale? With detailed reporting you can see every transaction each staff member rang up. If they gave discounts, refunds or comps. Each one is listed with a reason, to judge its legitimacy.

Rezku’s system permissions can be set on a per-user basis so you have more control. Operations require secure PIN entry. Lock down what you need to while providing access to those who are trusted.

All The Reports You Can Imagine

The brewery POS system you choose should have the reports you need. You are looking for patterns in your business and reading between the lines. Dashboard infographics put everything you’re interested in right on one screen. Automated custom daily report emails are sent every day.

Rezku provides detailed custom reporting and profit analysis that is always live and accessible right from your smartphone. All your data is stored safely in the cloud automatically. It’s your data.

Conclusion

Finding the best POS for your brewery is one of the most critical decisions you’ll make for your business. Give Rezku a call for a free personalized one-to-one consultation. Let us know what matters most to you. You can also try Rezku’s brewery POS with all the features and no obligation. See for yourself why Rezku is called the brewery’s secret weapon.