Posted by Jeff Schacher on Mon, Jul 19, 2010 @ 11:37 AM
I am happy to announce that Walker Thompson is joining the WhenToManage team as our VP of Sales & Marketing. For anyone that knows Walker, they know just how lucky we are.
For anyone that doesn't know him, he is passionate, energetic, and tireless. He knows our industry very well and will play a crucial role in the growth of WhenToManage.
Check out his blog or follow him on Twitter.
Posted by Jeff Schacher on Wed, Jun 23, 2010 @ 06:23 AM
What happened in Chapter 1? Well, believe it or not, the company I started 5 years ago has gone from offering an online employee scheduling solution to providing an entire platform for managing restaurants. I know 5 years sounds like a long time in the Internet age for a single chapter, but we're running a marathon and not a race. We're in the relationship business and relationships take time to build. You build them by talking with your customers, understanding how their businesses operate and trying to build a better solution that works well for them.
Chapter 2 is really exciting, in the last 12 months we've added some extremely talented people to our ranks, we've found some really great partners, and I couldn't be more thrilled about the things in store for WhenToManage in the coming months and years. We're working on a few projects that will knock peoples' socks off and I can't wait to share them.
So to all our customers that have helped us shape our product and our business these last 5 years, I can't thank you enough. Keep telling us what we're doing wrong and what we're doing right and we'll keep delivering.
Posted by Jeff Schacher on Fri, Nov 27, 2009 @ 06:07 AM
We're excited to announce the availability of our POS Mapping feature. In a nutshell, it allows an enterprise client to mix and match multiple POS systems and/or multiple POS configurations.
The common practice in the past for multi-unit reporting systems has been to look at the name of the menu item and just aggregate the sales data based on the name. Unfortunately, this assumes that all of the systems use the same name for an item. If the names don't match, the company would need to update all the POS systems so that the items names are all in sync. The more locations, the bigger the problem.
Our solution is to actually match up menu items based on their underlying IDs. So we'll try to match up on the exact names first, then the names that are similar, then anything left over you can match up.
So basically, our clients can now get exact above-store product mix data from as many different POS systems and configurations as they have, and they have full control of all the item reporting across their enterprise from our system.
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