Lavu

Thanks to being solely focused on restaurants, Lavu POS brings a ton of important utility to businesses of all sizes. The system covers numerous aspects of all day-to-day restaurant operations, including inventory and resource management, mobile solutions, client surveys, reporting and analytics, etc. In addition, Lavu can easily handle all the usual operations that one would typically expect from a POS system, including mobile device point-of-sales.

Here are some of the most notable features:

POS and Invoice Management

Lavu works hand-in-hand with its own invoice management software, Sourcery, to enable restaurants of all sizes to handle their AP and AR needs in one place. Lavu customers using Sourcery are able to directly upload invoices from vendors, and Sourcery will automatically review and pay them.

Front-of-House Friendly

The Lavu POS features a frontend system that allows restaurant staff to easily keep track of open tables, open orders, and payment statuses. You also benefit from advanced menu customization, having your popular menu items at the top, order status monitoring, setting automatic discounts during certain hours, and allowing up-front payments from your customers.

Kitchen Display System

Lavu’s back-of-house features help you take care of internal communications at maximum speed and precision. The Lavu Kitchen Display System is used to send orders from any front-of-house device to the kitchen – with just a single click. After that, tickets instantly appear in the kitchen on a large monitor, allowing back-of-house staff to easily prepare and execute orders.

Reporting and Tracking

Lavu has a robust reporting tool that gives you valuable insight into the business side of your restaurant, including End of Day reports, Tips & CC batching reports, and Time Card reports. Additionally, the Control Panel allows users to manage shift scheduling, access order history, track payment transactions, track inventory, and set admin access. Finally, Lavu Pilot allows users to manage multiple activities on the go. You can track payments, labor, and trends from anywhere in the world.

Online Ordering

Lavu’s online ordering platform, MenuDrive, was designed specifically for restaurants and helps drive sales and customer loyalty. MenuDrive can seamlessly integrate with your restaurant website and POS, where customers can order both for deliveries and take-outs. MenuDrive customers also gain access to customizable website templates, marketing tools, customer loyalty programs, and more.

Lavu Kiosk

Lavu Kiosk is a self-ordering tool that can be used to accelerate table turns. This way, customers can easily pay and send their orders directly to the kitchen, and pick them up when ready, without wasting any time. This tool also helps reduce labor costs, increase efficiency and sales, while proving to be satisfactory for customers.

Lavu POS is fully compatible with iOS devices including iPhones, iPads, and iPods. To accommodate every customer, Lavu offers a number of hardware bundles, depending on restaurant types, sizes, and specific needs. Lavu hardware options include cash drawers, receipt printers, mobile POS impact printers, card readers, iPads, kitchen display systems, and all of the required cables and connectors. If you already have POS hardware and need to know whether it is compatible with Lavu software, you can simply contact the brand and the team will happily guide you through the whole process.

Lavu seamlessly integrates with a host of third-party restaurant and food-niche software. This integration allows users to conveniently run their business operations on other software without logging into or exporting data across multiple systems.

Below is a list of functionality and the corresponding solutions you can effortlessly integrate with Lavu:

• Debit card payment – Sacoa Solution.
• Accounting – QuickBooks, Shogo and Xero.
• Online ordering – Chowly, Open Dining, Checkmate and Mobi2go.
• Kitchen display – Epson.
• Business management – Avero, FoodBAM, and Restaurant 365.
• Liquor control solution – EKOS Brewmaster, BeerSaver, BarVision, TapHunter, Digital Pour and Bar-I Liquid Accounting.
• Inventory – MarketMan.
• Employee management – Dolce.

There are also a number of Lavu add-ons that make this POS more functional for businesses. These add-ons include

• Lavu Pilot to help you monitor your POS and business data.
• Lavu Kitchen and Customer-Facing Display
• Lavu Local Server to serve as backup for periods of wireless network failure.
• MenuDrive for online ordering and delivery.
• Lavu Gift and Loyalty apps for the gift card and loyalty programs respectively.
• Lavu Pizza Builder for virtual pizza setup.
• Sourcery for automated invoice management.
• Lavu Self-Service Kiosk for faster turnaround.

Lavu is modern, extremely easy-to-use and great for all restaurant types. The ability to take orders with an iPad comes in really handy, and the amount of customization allows businesses to really tweak everything to suit their needs, style, and processes. This software’s frontend is also helpful, providing first-hand information to restaurant owners, on the progress of their business. Lavu also boasts numerous guides, documentation and video to help understand the use of the app. It also has a demo that helps users get accustomed to the software just before they sign up.