How to choose a POS System for your Billiard or Snooker Centre?

Snooker and billiard centres are more of an entertainment centre where patrons can enjoy food and drinks while having a game of snooker/billiard. This makes managing a snooker centre a tedious task. To ensure operations run smoothly, your snooker and billiard centre needs a suitable POS system to help with operation management.

Here are some key features a POS system which is suitable for snooker and billiard centres should have.

Intuitive ordering interface

Snooker and billiard centres usually serve food and drinks. Your POS system should have an ordering interface that is intuitive and able to complete an order with minimal transitions and clicks. This helps your staff to process orders quickly and serve the next customer in line, or attend to other service tasks.

Table management

Having a table management module for your POS system helps your staff assign tables to your customers with ease as they will know which are the available tables at a glance.

A table management module also keeps track of the duration which a customer has been occupying the billiard or snooker table for easy billing. On top of that, it also saves any food or drinks orders to their table to be billed upon checkout, allowing for a seamless and fast checkout process for your customers.

Billiard and snooker table lighting control

Billiard and snooker centres have special requirements unique to its industry. The lights above each table will be lit up once a customer has been assigned a table. This is also a feature that separates a POS system that perfectly suits a billiard and snooker centre operations from regular retail and F&B POS systems.

A snooker and billiard centre specific POS system will be able to switch on the lights at the table which is assigned to a customer, and switch the lights off when the table’s bill has been closed.

Staff management

Chances are, you are not operating the whole billiard and snooker centre by yourself. You have to hire staff to help with different aspects of the business. These staffs may work different shifts and days, and managing their attendance and payroll may be a challenge.

A good POS system will have staff management module that allows your staff to clock in and out by simply scanning their fingerprints, and provides you with employee attendance report for payroll purposes. This lightens your workload in the human resources aspect of your business.

Security controls

A robust POS system has many functions which you may not want all your employees to have access to due to security reasons. A POS system with strong security controls allows you to create a user account for every employee and preset their access rights accordingly.

On top of that, security reports like audit trials, where every action done on the POS is recorded with a timestamp, should be made available to you so that when a security breach occurs, you are able to find its cause.

This is especially important as you may not be able to be present at your billiard or snooker outlet all the time. Which is why many business owners utilize their POS systems to help them safeguard their revenue.

Inventory management

In order to keep your food and beverage items and consumables in stock, you need an inventory management system. There are many specialized inventory management softwares, but a POS system which carries an inventory module helps you centralize your operation book keeping into one terminal.

An inventory management system can be used to keep track of your canned drinks and prompt a low stock warning when a low stock item is being ordered. A low stock report can also be generated to tabulate the items you need to stock in at one go.

Recipe management, a part of inventory management, can be also used to manage your ingredient levels. You can set a close estimate of the amount of ingredients used to make a dish, or specify the amount of alcoholic drinks dispensed from a barrel or bottle. This way, you will know when your ingredients are running low to perform a timely stock in. 

It is still good practice to do a stock variance check at the end of each month to ensure that stock levels in your POS are as accurate as possible.

Comprehensive reports on a cloud based backend

Data is essential for business owners to make important and timely decisions. Hence, your POS system should be able to provide you with reports of multiple aspects of your business as an when you need them.

Modern POS systems have a cloud based backend, which allows you to access business reports on the go, as long as you have an internet connection, bringing your business insights to your fingertips.

In the event that your POS terminal’s hard drive is severely damaged, a POS system with a cloud based backend will have your data securely stored in the cloud servers, preventing the loss of valuable business data during such unfortunate events.

Getting a POS system for your billiard and  centre

If you are interested in getting a POS system for your billiard and snooker centre, drop us your contact details here and we will be happy to arrange a free demo session on our POS system with you!