Whether you manage a restaurant, brick-and-mortar retail shop, eCommerce store, or service business, it's a tough deal for owners to navigate everything with today's world of reviews and social media. All it takes is one bad experience to drive away customers.
In striving to deliver a great customer experience, reduce staffing issues, and improve efficiency, many successful business owners turn to the Clover POS. Clover is an all-in-one, tailored POS (point of sales) system that can manage every aspect of your business, including but not limited to accepting payments, organizing inventory, and managing your staff.
One of the best features on this user-friendly platform is its expansive app store, where you’ll find hundreds of helpful applications and a constant flow of new ones. Although the POS does the basics on its own, here are a few useful apps and their features (as listed on the Clover app store) that can help modernize your business, make it much more profitable, and improve your customer’s experience.
1. Main street Insights
Main Street Insights (formerly Clover Insights) gives you a indication into your competition. The app allows you to find out how much other businesses around you are making and how many customers they're serving. Use data, compare your performance to the industry and get information and predictions you can count on to build your business.
- Heat maps feature to see where your customers live and shop
- Track your business's performance over time with trends and benchmarking
- Get insight into customer behavior and buying habits with sales analysis
2. Homebase Time Clock
Homebase is the better way for small businesses to pay and manage their hourly teams, with time clocks, employee scheduling, payroll, messaging, and HR all in one app.
- Free scheduling management you can do anytime, anywhere and instantly share with your team.
- Free Clover POS time clock and other devices to track time and make payroll easy.
- Integrated payroll. Homebase calculates paychecks, sends payments, and files payroll taxes.
- Team communication feature with built-in messaging, helpful shift reminders, late alerts, and more.
- HR tools include job posts, applicant tracking, new hire onboarding, and employee paperwork.
3. Quickbooks by Commerce Sync
Commerce Sync works as your automated bookkeeper, transferring your sales into QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop and Xero on a nightly basis. This saves time and allows you to get back to what you do best - run your business.
- Save Time: an average of 300 hours per year (and more as you grow)
- Eliminate Manual Entry: so you can do what you do best - run your business
- Expertise at Your Fingertips with Quickbooks customer support
4. Shopventory
Shopventory is the #1 Inventory Management and Analytics Platform for Retail and eCommerce. The app monitors shrinkage, stock-outs, cash flow, profitability, mission control, employee management, and more to give you a holistic business view.
- Complete inventory, sales, invoicing, purchasing, vendor, and reporting analytics platform.
- Reports profitability and revenue per item, per category, per sales channel or entire business.
- Know what products are selling fast or what products are not selling at all.
- Sales channel management for Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Clover POS by location or store.
- Reduce costs and increase sales by never running out of stock.
5. Order Paper
Order Paper allows you to order paper with just three clicks. All you must do is choose quantity and confirm your shipping address and paper will be shipped to your door.
- Guaranteed fit and quality
- Free, fast shipping
- Order paper for any Clover device or Kitchen Printer
- Set up a recurring order so you never run out of supplies
These are just a few of the most popular apps that we found to be very useful for restaurants, however, there are hundreds of Clover apps in the Clover marketplace that can be a solution for many different scenarios and dramatically increase your efficiency.
Owning a restaurant during the pandemic era has been especially difficult and more customers have switched to online ordering and deliveries. This has forced many restaurant owners to go back to the drawing board with their business models and start doing ecommerce and deliveries.
According to Modern Restaurant management, online ordering will be a trend that will continue to increase moving forward in the post-covid era, so restaurants better adjust quickly or expect to be left behind with low sales volume.
Clovers online ordering platform easily allows your restaurant to take online orders and increase your efficiency. At Rebel Payments, we’ve helped many restaurant owners switch to taking online orders through Clover.
One of our clients is a popular Chinese restaurant that’s been processing with Rebel Payments for about 3 years. As part of their online ordering, they were using Uber Eats to receive and deliver all their online orders. The charges for Uber eats at 30% of each online sale, was costing them about $19,000 in fees per month.
We created a website to take over their online ordering and set up the Clover online ordering platform. They then used their own driver to take the place of Uber Eats. The result was a savings of $12,250 per month!
They applied the money they saved to their marketing budget to help grow their business and now the restaurant is enjoying increased revenue and more growth than ever before.
If you’re a restaurant that’s looking to save big with your online ordering, Rebel Payments has the solutions to save you thousands of dollars and increase your efficiency so you can put that money back into efforts to grow your business.
Whether you’re looking to start taking online orders, start processing credit cards, or need to update your POS, Rebel Payments is your one stop for all your payment solutions. Unlike most other merchant processors that just charge you high processing fees and offer nothing in return,
Rebel Payments is committed to saving you money in processing fees and helping your business grow with a complimentary website, discounted marketing services, and much more.
See the huge difference eliminating your credit card processing fees and updating your POS can make for your business and contact Rebel Payments today to get started.
