ODYSSEY SOFTWARE
What makes Odyssey great? The 2 questions asked frequently are:
1. Will it work in my type of business?
Simply put it has everything you need in 1 great package. whether you have a restaurant or supermarket, take-away or hardware store, Liquor store or tavern, hotel or lodge, Odyssey software will work for you. It will work in all retail and hospitality environments.
2. Is it easy to use?
YES YES YES, It is very user-friendly. We have Odyssey installed in many different environments, with all sorts of users, with or without computer knowledge. We supply full training to users be it owner, manager, cashier, supervisor etc.
The base package includes the following modules:
Sales and quotation system
Suppliers
Customers
Stock
Reporting modules
Below is a quick description of the different modules of Odyssey Software
1. Point-of-Sale (Retail / Back-office invoicing / hospitality [restaurant]) sales modules
Easy to use
Touch screen interface or simply use a windows keyboard programmed to your liking
No mouse needed during sales
The screen layout has a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) to simplify and speed up sales
Full scanning with most types of scanners
More than one cashier can use the system with their unique login code and can be linked to their own individual cash drawer
Sales can be saved and retrieved in all sales modules – Restaurant as a table, retail as a saved sale with a unique sale description for easy search when retrieving.
Sales orders can be generated for quotes accepted bur no stock on hand and later turned in to a sale once stock arrives.
Full security to enable or disable access to specific users
Cash-ups for clerks/cashiers/waiters for all sales modules
2. Point-of-Sale (Retail / Back-office invoicing / hospitality [restaurant]) sales modules
The quotation system within the point-of-sales screen allows for quick hassle-free quotations on the fly without having to exit one module to enter another. Further-more the quote can be converted into a sale directly from the quotation section. Easy searching of previous quotations by either name, date or number. This makes managing the quotations so much easier.
3. Odyssey on-line and desktop options
Odyssey has 2 main options available – an on-line (cloud-based) version and a desktop version.
The on-line version is a cloud-based version. Internet – A very good and stable connection is required. The type of environments that would use this type of version are sales persons on the road that use tablets as their sales devices, branches that run off one database at the HQ, mobile sales such as mobile pubs, or road shows or roadside stalls. Primarily tablets would be used for this purpose as the wi-fi is quite stable and even if you do not have data reception off-line mode kicks in and simply updates when signal returns.
The desktop version is most stable internally such as restaurants, supermarkets etc. The data base is kept on a local PC (server / Back-office) within the same walls as the point of sale stations. However, if you have multiple branches you can link each store whereby a price update can be sent to each store and a simple click of a mouse. Each store has its own stock and prices can be set per store as this feature simply updates the specific stock codes description and cost price. Selling prices can also update should this be a requirement such as HQ updating all their stores from a central point.
With the cloud-based version one can use the Odyssey Mobile Management app for both android and apple.
Some features of the App:
Create and edit stock from the app
See daily, weekly and monthly turnovers
Use mobile app to talk to cashiers directly to the point of sale terminal
Clerk performance
Summary and turnover per hour
Statistics and charts
Create sales and quotations
Stock takes and more
Features for restaurant / take-away and/or retail use:
Touch screen linked to your computer or use of an All-in-1 terminal
Create unlimited number of items and departments
Creation of recipes / combined items (menu explosion)
Unlimited number of kitchen printers can be linked to stock items
Bump Bar (screen instead of kitchen or bar printer) as an option
Creation of cooking messages, specials & refer codes
Stock can be controlled by units or pack sizes
All stock items can be linked to multiple suppliers
Customers and suppliers’ control – purchases, payments, statements, activity & reports can be viewed and printed
Set credit limits to customer so cashier cannot finalise a sale if credit limit is reached
A sales monitor allows the manager from the back-office to view specific or numerous sales terminals what is being rung up with their totals
One of the fastest and easiest touch screen systems
Can use specific windows / android tablets for restaurant ordering directly from the table
Save sales to reopen at a later time
Create new sales orders
Create multiple specials to run at pre-selected dates
Various types of specials can be created such as multi-buy, happy hour, 2 for 1, coupon
Zapper payment module for restaurant customer payments
Add-on modules: on-line loyalty cards tailor-made for your clientele, earning them points creating the opportunity for them to return to your store. Monitor who and what and how often your clients visit your store. Print coupons / vouchers according to the amount spent over a period of time. Our loyalty system also allows you to communicate to your clientele through bulk SMS or email campaigns
Sell airtime using blue-label or RA Cellular directly from Odyssey retail
Connect to your card payment terminal direct through Odyssey and link NOMAD bank Gateway for easier hassle-free card transactions
Re-print previous sales
Odyssey Back-Office
With the Odyssey back-office comes many features. Here is a list of some of the features:
Stock Control – Stock takes, stock adjustments, stock transfers (IBT), stock distribution etc
GRV module – Receive stock from suppliers could not be any easier. Cost prices change automatically according to either last cost or average cost. Notifies you immediately if your cost has gone up, down or remains unchanged
Stock ordering – Create an order for stock you wish to place with your supplier
Customers – create new customers with as many details you wish and set credit limits or set as cash only customers. Lay-buy option also available with deposit, payment and stock collection. Reports include activity and statements. Reprint any invoice directly from the customers module
Suppliers – link stock items to any number of suppliers each with their individual last cost. Many reports available for each supplier
Extensive reporting available from end of day reports, monthly reports, stock reports to sales reports, supplier and customer reports, performance reports for stock, clerks etc.
Add-on module on-line reporting. View reports from anywhere in the world through your portal using your unique login details
Create and edit stock codes – unlimited amount of stock codes
Transfer stock from one location to another if multiple locations are set
Perfect for any business using a weigh and / print scale such as butcheries, fruit &veg, as we can send scale items down to the DIGI scale directly from Odyssey. Less time spent having to program both separately.
Odyssey has a weight verification option that helps prevent theft
Set workflow rules such as:
Reminder when stock falls below set minimum levels
Reminder to do stock takes
Set automatic backups
Reminder when GP falls below default department mark-ups
Automatically run end of day process
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