In an aim to further boost its business and try out new business verticals, Zomato is unveiling its cloud-based restaurant point-of-sale system, named Zomato Base.
This Android-based is developed on top of MapleOS, which the company bought last year as part of its plan to further widen its wings.
Among the headline features that Zomato Base has to offer to business owners include inventory management, menu management, recipe management, data analytics, customer relationship management, offline transaction support, electronic receipts and payment gateway integration. The system's built-in payment solution is accepting both credit card and debit card payments.
The Beer Cafe, a beer chain in India, is the first company to benefit from Zomato's new POS product. It is going to use the system across the company's 35 outlets in 10 different cities in the country.
The Beer Cafe already adopted the new system earlier this 2016. It was then tweaked to align to the specific needs of its different outlets in India.
"By seamlessly integrating operational solutions such as menu management and remote inventory management into a single system, Zomato Base will make our day-to-day function incredibly efficient," said Rahul Singh, The Beer Cafe's founder and chief executive officer.
He went on to say that this platform bestows real-time outlet-level analytics, enabling the company to plan its supply chain better. What's great with Zomato Base, according to him, is it provides convenience to company owners, as this can be managed remotely and in real time.
"Zomato Base aims to drive deeper engagement, greater business intelligence and enable restaurants to offer more personalized experiences to their customers," said the co-founder of Zomato, Pankaj Chaddah.
Zomato, which was established back in 2008 as a restaurant guide, said in September that it is on the process of reshaping its company into consumer and enterprise divisions. It then laid off about 10 percent of its total workforce or about 300 employees.
A company's spokesperson cleared that the introduction of the Zomato Base is "proceeding on schedule and has nothing to do with the restructuring," TechCrunch reports.
The company wishes to venture into different verticals, such as reservations, payments, white label apps and restaurant management software, which is the Zomato Base.
