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The best way to experience the powerful Aldelo Express POS platform is through a live demo. By simply reaching out to Aldelo, resellers and restaurant merchants alike can discover the full-featured solutions included at ZERO additional cost with Aldelo Pay and approved Aldelo Partner merchant services.

Aldelo merchants receive hundreds of point-of-sale solutions for the modern restaurant:

• Cloud POS software for iOS and Android-based POS devices
• Mobile terminals for roaming ordering and payments
• QR code-based online ordering and digital payments
• Self-Service Kiosks

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In the modern market, restaurants that offer digital loyalty and rewards programs see increased sales. Digital loyalty and rewards offer restaurants a competitive advantage in gaining and retaining customer allegiance in their local market. Restaurants that use Masa+ Loyalty and Rewards create multiple custom loyalty and rewards campaigns that cater to both existing and new customers. Operators can launch campaigns that specifically target a day of the week or meal period that are traditionally slow to increase traffic and sales.

Merchants that choose Aldelo Pay and approved Aldelo Partner merchant services receive the Masa+ multi-store digital Loyalty and Rewards Program available on the Aldelo Marketplace at ZERO additional cost. Any restaurant can utilize the flexible loyalty and rewards solution for one or more stores that allows operators to directly cater to the needs of their business and influence customer behaviors.

5. Easy to Set Up and Manage

​Merchants activate Masa+ with a single click, taking only a few minutes to activate the highly flexible Masa+ Loyalty and Rewards program, all managed through a cloud back-office environment.

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Online Ordering is now commonplace in the restaurant industry, yet it typically comes at an additional cost to restaurant owners. Aldelo merchants, on the other hand, receive Masa+ Online Ordering and Payments at ZERO additional cost.

Users activate Masa+ through a single mouse click, as well as build their Masa+ Online Storefront with a single click. This is made possible through a shared cloud database. New digital menu items and price changes are automatically synchronized across both platforms, ensuring that the restaurant's menu and related POS data are always up-to-date.

​With seamless integrations to the in-house point of sale system, Masa+ offers restaurants an easy-to-use and easy-to-setup online storefront to display menus that feature vibrant images, event details, and store info.

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​The Aldelo Express POS technology platform provides restaurant owners everything they need to run an efficient and profitable business today and tomorrow. All Aldelo software releases, upgrades, and updates are issued to merchants at no additional cost, and are made instantly available via real-time cloud synchronization to the restaurant point of sale system. In other words, Aldelo Express merchants receive auto-updates for every device, ensuring they are always running the latest-version software.

By becoming an Aldelo merchant, restaurant owners gain a powerful, flexible, and full-featured cloud POS solution that not only supports their business today, but provides a smooth upgrade path that keeps their business current with the latest restaurant technology.

​Owners that choose Aldelo Pay and approved Aldelo Partner merchant services receive:

• Unlimited POS software licenses
• Unlimited POS software upgrades
• Year-round POS software updates
• 24/7 technical support
• And the complete iOS and Android-Based Aldelo Express POS solution suite

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Part of helping restaurant owners maximize their business potential is by providing them with modern technology solutions that help them rely less on staffing needs so they can focus on meeting the needs of the everyday customer. Aldelo does just that by offering merchants Aldelo Express POS, an E2E cloud point-of-sale platform included with Aldelo Pay and approved Aldelo Partner merchant processing services. In addition to providing a full suite of merchant-facing POS solutions, Aldelo Express POS includes a natively-developed Self-Service Kiosk integration supported by readily available and affordable POS hardware.

Here are the top 4 ways Aldelo Express Self-Service Kiosks benefit restaurant owners and their customers:

1. The Customer is in Control

A growing theme among modern customer trends is having more control over their dining experience. For example, many customers enjoy using QR code-based digital menus because they enable guests to browse a restaurant’s menu from the comfort and convenience of their own smartphone devices.

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Successful restaurant owners are typically known for their determination, entrepreneurial business sense, and warm hospitality extended to customers. Yet even the most seasoned restaurant owner can be challenged by an ever-changing customer market, rapidly-developing technology, and an unpredictable economy.

That is why Aldelo makes modern cloud point-of-sale technology easily accessible to every restaurant owner. Through Aldelo Pay and approved Aldelo Partner merchant services, Aldelo simplifies the POS acquisition process for restaurant owners, offering its full-featured Aldelo Express POS platform and suite of solutions at an ultra-competitive cost. This means merchants have access to lower credit card processing charges that cover the cost of the entire POS, eliminating unnecessary monthly POS fees.

​With dozens of full-featured, multi-lingual, and flexible POS solutions that meet any restaurant application, the Aldelo Express POS platform provides everything a modern restaurant needs to run any-sized food service operations. This includes the E2E Masa+ Online Ordering and Payments platform, that’s also available to Aldelo Express users at zero additional cost.

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​The end of the year brings increased business and excitement as restaurant owners and staff work hard to serve an influx of customers and prepare for the coming year. For business owners, reflecting on the past year and writing down specific and measurable goals for their business makes them more likely to succeed in the coming year.

Aldelo is committed to helping merchants succeed. Unlike some point-of-sale software vendors whose direct contact ends after the system is installed, Aldelo supports restaurant owners throughout their initial year of use and beyond. Aldelo does this to ensure that merchants utilize the Aldelo Express native POS solutions, modules, and features that help their business thrive and grow. Plus, Aldelo merchants receive unlimited software updates and feature releases year-round, ensuring they are always operating with the latest-version POS software.

​Here are 5 considerations for restaurant owners as they prepare for the coming year:

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The holiday season is upon us, meaning merchants are busy serving an influx of customers and preparing for the new year. As restaurants face increased customer traffic and gain new customers through gift cards, loyalty programs, and online ordering, many find their restaurant services would benefit from a mobile handheld POS terminal.

Integrated mobile handheld POS terminals enable:

• Increased table turn rates via tableside ordering
• Synchronization with kitchen display systems (KDS) and kitchen printers
• Completing payments at the table
• Servers to be more accessible and improve customer service

Combined with a built-in EMV/payment processing device, handheld POS terminals provide restaurants with an all-in-one ordering and payments solution, enabling them to speed up transactions through roaming ordering and digital payments from anywhere with a Wi-Fi or Cellular Data connection.

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As the year winds down and with restaurant owners managing holiday sales, many point-of-sale resellers find December to be a slow sales period. As resellers take time to reflect on their past successes, areas of improvement, and explore opportunities for growth, December provides the ideal time for resellers to review Aldelo Express POS as an ideal way to improve their sales portfolio and help increase their residuals in the new year.

Here are the top 4 reasons why now is the perfect time to become an Aldelo Express POS reseller:

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Masa+ provides restaurants with several secure digital solutions that help restaurants generate additional sales revenue. As a browser-based extension of the Aldelo Express POS platform, Masa+ supports multiple customer-driven ordering and payment solutions, including:

• QR code-based digital menus
• A Masa+ Online Storefront unique to their restaurant
• Secure digital wallets that store personal credit cards, egift cards, loyalty, rewards, and coupons
• QR code-based digital transactions, including Scan & Pay via customer receipt
• And more

Advertising In-Store via QR Codes

QR codes are a great way to promote your restaurant’s Masa+ Online Storefront. Merchants can either download a unique QR code that links to their restaurant through their Masa+ cloud back-office environment (pictured below), or generate and link their own QR codes to Masa+ online solutions via the following instructions: www.aldelo.com/marketing-qr-setup.html

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The holiday season is upon us, providing restaurant owners several opportunities to engage customers with holiday themed promotions and campaigns. In addition to Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s Eve, December is host to several festive ways to promote your restaurant’s products and services.

December 9 - National Pastry Day

Pastries are a category of baked desserts that feature fluffy or flaky dough, fruits, and custards. Popular especially in European cuisine, pastries are a perfect addition to a morning coffee or as an after-meal sweet.

​This National Pastry Day, enhance your holiday campaigns by providing customers special offers for pastries bundled with qualifying food, drink, or gift card purchases, or as a “thank you” to customers who spend over a specified amount in-store or through your restaurant’s Masa+ Online Storefront.

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For many customers, their experience dining at a restaurant is as important as the food and drinks they enjoy. As a result, restaurants implement point-of-sale solutions, modules, and features that support customer-centric services. Not only do these types of solutions help customers feel more at ease, but they can help restaurants streamline everyday services, providing smoother experiences for both staff and guests.

With built-in features such as customer lookup by name, caller ID, order histories, and VIP-level discounts, restaurants that utilize the Aldelo Express Customer Module easily personalize their customer services while improving operational efficiencies.

​Here are 3 ways to utilize the Aldelo Express Customer Module:

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With eight out of ten customers carrying a smartphone in their pocket, businesses are realizing daily the benefits of offering QR code-based digital services in their restaurant. Whether enabling customers to order and pay from QR code-based digital menus, expanding their customer network through QR code-based digital gift cards, or enhancing promotions with QR code-based loyalty, rewards, and digital coupons, restaurant owners that use Masa+ QR code-based digital payments seeing greater operational efficiency by utilizing QR codes especially during busy periods.

One popular way restaurants are using QR codes to streamline everyday restaurant transactions is enabling in-store customer-driven payments through QR codes printed on physical receipts. By allowing their customers to pay for their order directly from a personal smartphone on-demand, restaurants immediately eliminate the back-and-forth routine traditionally required by wait staff who must deliver a receipt, pick up a payment tender, process the payment, and return a card and customer receipt for payment signature and completion.

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Managing a restaurant’s inventory consistently and accurately can “make” or “break” its success. That’s why the best inventory solutions not only accurately monitor back-office purchases, deliveries, and usage, but enable managers easy access to view inventory levels in real-time.

The Aldelo Express Inventory Module offers restaurant owners and operators a simple and effective way to accurately manage their business inventory. As an included module with the Aldelo Express POS platform, the Aldelo Express Inventory Module provides business owners a significant return on their investment.

​Here are 3 ways the Aldelo Express Inventory Module can help restaurant owners avoid inventory mismatch.

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By implementing Masa+ multi-store Gift Cards, restaurant owners enable customers to conveniently purchase, redeem, and recharge physical and digital gift cards, keeping the business top of mind during the holidays and throughout the year. With no swipe fees, processing fees, or costs for the Masa+ eGift Card solution, restaurants using Masa+ eGift Cards instantly increase sales revenue for single and multi-store operations.

The holidays are all about giving and gift card purchases allow customers to share their favorite restaurants and bars with loved ones and friends. When received as a gift, customers that place orders with gift cards almost always spend more than the card’s value. When used alongside Aldelo Express Self-Service Kiosks and Masa+ Online Ordering, restaurant owners enable faster and easier gift card-based payments in any dining environment.

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For many restaurant owners, providing enhanced takeout and delivery services has been an essential step of growth for their business. However, when processing takeout and delivery orders, employees and managers may struggle to keep track of non-food items such as utensils, seasoning packets, napkins, plates, etc. resulting in uneven inventory control, potential waste or theft, and the risk of forgetting specific order “accessories” that are essential to a positive dining experience.

Aldelo Express POS offers owners and operators an easy solution with the Aldelo Express Tag Along Items feature that automatically applies one or multiple non-food items to a specific menu item. Not only does this remind employees to place “accessory” items into to-go order packaging, but it allows managers to easily track and manage non-food items through the Aldelo Express Inventory Module.

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Aldelo resellers represent a robust cloud-based restaurant POS technology platform available through “freedom of choice” merchant processing services and non-proprietary POS hardware. The result is ensuring that restaurant owners avoid hidden fees found in “free POS hardware” and have complete access to Aldelo Express POS software and related modules, including native Masa+ online digital services.

Through Aldelo Pay and approved Aldelo Partner merchant services, resellers that offer Aldelo Express POS provide every Aldelo Express cloud-based solution at zero additional cost, as well as:

• The Masa+ Online Ordering and Digital Payments platform
• A variety of built-in POS modules and features
• Access to the Aldelo Express third-party integration network
• 24/7 technical support from Aldelo
• Unlimited software licenses
• Unlimited software updates
• One-on-one merchant onboarding support

By offering modern POS solutions and services with no hidden fees or costs, Aldelo resellers establish long-lasting merchant relationships built on transparency, value and trust.

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Thanksgiving Day is one of the most popular U.S. holidays. Each year on the fourth Thursday of November, millions of Americans travel to share a meal with their family and friends. In the days surrounding Thanksgiving Day, many customers turn to their favorite local restaurants for convenient and complimentary food and drink items that save them time – and spare them additional kitchen clean-up. As a result, restaurants can gain additional customers by promoting their restaurant’s online ordering, takeout, and delivery services this November.

Aldelo Express POS is a E2E cloud-based restaurant technology platform that supports both in-store and off-premises restaurant services. Using iPad and Android-based point-of-sale hardware, merchants choose from a variety of merchant-facing and customer-facing ordering and digital payment solutions that work together to run a complete restaurant operation. This includes several native cloud POS modules and features such as:

• Delivery Module, including Order Dispatching, Driver Tracking, and Digital Mapping
• QR Code-Based Masa+ Online Ordering and Digital Payments
• Native Inventory and Recipe Module
• “Matrix” Menu Module for Creating Hundreds if Menu Items in Minutes
• Advanced Pricing Module for Easy Digital Menu Management
• Third-Party Integration Solutions
• And More

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As restaurant owners and operators navigate ever-changing prices in and around the restaurant industry, the Aldelo Express Global Price Change Module enables restaurants to easily maintain a profitable menu by accurately responding to both customer demand and changing food costs.

From the Aldelo Express cloud back-office, owners and operators can make broad price changes across their restaurant’s menu, rather than adjusting the costs for individual food and drink items. Users can increase or decrease prices for individual items, groups, and categories, adjusting item prices by percentage or dollar value in seconds.

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​In today’s restaurant market, there is no “one size fits all” for restaurant technology or merchant processing solutions. As a result, many merchant services providers are enhancing their product portfolio value and market reach through strategic partnerships with point-of-sale solution providers that offer an all-in-one restaurant technology solution. The result is an increased presence in the restaurant market space and enhanced business relationships built on service value, quality, and trust.

A leading developer in the point-of-sale industry for more than two decades, Aldelo, L.P. provides restaurant owners with modern, flexible, and scalable point-of-sale solutions that are completely customizable to their restaurant operation and positively impact their bottom line. By offering multiple affordable options for non-proprietary hardware and merchant processing services, Aldelo makes cloud-based restaurant technology accessible to business owners of all restaurant types, from sit-down restaurants and pizza places to food trucks and bars.

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Aldelo referral partners that offer Aldelo Express POS quickly gain more customers by providing an unparalleled cloud-based restaurant technology platform. Through a full-featured app marketplace that consists of powerful native POS solutions and several valuable third-party integrations, Aldelo referral partners equip their merchants to successfully monitor, manage, and customize an E2E restaurant operation in any market.

As customers rely on on-demand self-services, the growing number of restaurant owners are turning to native and third-party online ordering and digital payments solutions. To help referral partners strengthen their portfolio of customer-centric services, Aldelo has recently added Uber Eats to its network of approved third-party integrations for its cloud-based Aldelo Express POS platform.

The result is providing referral partners and their customers with more options for implementing online ordering and delivery solutions that compliment and enhance their existing Aldelo Express POS system.