Shift4 Funds Inc., which has constructed a big shopper base within the lodge and hospitality market, made a bid for larger share within the extremely aggressive restaurant POS market Tuesday with the introduction of SkyTab POS, a modular, Android-based software program software that mixes back-end performance and point-of-sale capabilities in a single app.

Options inside SkyTab embrace on-line ordering and reservations, contactless and QR code, cell units for tableside ordering and cost, eGift playing cards, and loyalty. As well as, eating places can entry a market that includes such complementary third-party functions as DoorDash, DoorDash Drive, Uber Eats, and Postmates. {The marketplace} could be built-in into SkyTab. Different options embrace reporting and analytics, distant menu administration, labor scheduling, and a devoted cell app.

The tech additionally consists of integrations with a number of property-management methods (PMS) to help eating places in lodge environments. The PMS integrations out there at launch are Oracle OPERA, Innquest, and Ezee.

The genesis for SkyTab grew out of Shift4’s expertise in offering ordering and POS methods to retailers within the hospitality trade, which incorporates concessions at sports activities stadiums.  

“SkyTab pulls all of the expertise Shift4 has within the [hospitality] trade right into a single, branded, out-of-the-box resolution,” says Shift4 chief expertise officer Mike Russo.

Shift4 connects to greater than 100,000 retailers within the hospitality trade that run certainly one of its legacy POS functions, in line with Russo. Greater than 4,000 eating places have been working SkyTab throughout the beta interval, Russo provides.

Eating places and venues which have put in SkyTab embrace Shoney’s North America LLC, which operates eating places in 17 states, the United Heart in Chicago, and the Toyota Heart, dwelling of the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation’s Houston Rockets.   

Along with providing a menu of POS and back-end/kitchen-management capabilities, SkyTab was constructed utilizing a hybrid-cloud structure that’s meant to make sure that the service provider can proceed to course of orders and funds internally if a Net connection goes down.

“It’s not unusual for Web connections to go down, however when that occurs, eating places, and stadiums particularly, want to have the ability to proceed working,” Russo says.

SkyTab additionally consists of {hardware} choices reminiscent of a POS workstation with a big customer-facing show and a 4G handheld cell machine for taking orders and cost on the desk, a tablet-based cell POS choice and a touchscreen kitchen show system to relay orders to the kitchen.

Shift4 is pricing SkyTab POS beginning at $29.95/month, with no upfront prices, a worth Shift4 describes as genuinely “disruptive” within the extremely aggressive restaurant POS market.

SkyTab POS arrives as different restaurant POS suppliers have upped their recreation this 12 months, together with Toast Inc., Revel Methods and Block Inc.’s Sq. unit.