Ski Resort POS Software: Capturing Excellent Conditions At The Point Of Sale

Jan. 31, 2011 - PRLog -- For ski resort operators, capturing skiers during a weather-perfect season is simple. Capturing their food and beverage business, however, isn’t always so easy. It requires not only a customer-friendly environment, but also user-friendly, ski resort point of sale software to help maximum efficiencies. Today’s technology provides this, and more. POS terminals that continuously synchronize with each other, that offer endless report options, alcohol inventory controlled by bottle weights and computerized tap monitors, staff time and attendance, ski, school, and guest database management, so much more are now available to ski resort operators. After all, it takes much more than co-operative weather to run a ski resort.

Snow Valley Ski Resort, located in Barrie, Ontario, needed a POS system that could produce ID cards and time passes, manage a client database and ski school, as well as handling all their food and beverage and retail services. The geographical location had Director, Peter Haney, concerned at first.

“Like most ski resorts, we are very remote. We needed a satellite tower and wireless POS system. We also looked at a lot of providers and found that most of the companies didn’t offer the hospitality end we needed.”

After much research, Snow Valley tapped Toronto based Volante POS Systems to do the job.

Volante installed a fail-safe, independent system for the remote summit area that could also be integrated with the high volume operations below. Using both wired and wireless network topology, the system has operated without software failure despite unstable power and network issues. Snow Valley Ski Resort also utilizes the database of guests and 5,800 pass holders to generate email broadcasts, which enhances their marketing plan. “We’re very pleased with Volante. It’s an entity that grows and evolves along with our business,” says Haney.

In fact, Volante’s creative approach to wireless mobile computing makes Volante the perfect POS software choice for not only ski resorts, but for other venues as well, such as stadiums, trade shows, casinos, arenas, race tracks and outdoor sales areas where conventional POS systems aren’t practical nor feasible.  For more information, visit http://www.volantesystems.com/wirelesspos.html.

Volante is also cross platform compatible, meaning it will run on either Windows or Linux or both. Linux POS solutions are very attractive to business operators these days, as Linux offers significant cost savings and ease of use. To read more about Volante's Linux POS solutions, visit http://www.volantesystems.com/linuxpos.html.

Breakthroughs in point of sale development (such as those demonstrated by Volante) are allowing a full range of services and back office capabilities never before considered.

More information on Volante’s point of sale solutions can be found at http://www.volantesystems.com.

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Since 1993, Volante POS Systems has been providing open standards, point of sale software solutions to the hospitality industry worldwide. Volante is the perfect choice for venues requiring a flexible yet comprehensive enterprise wide, POS solution.