Two minutes.
What makes VenueCore different.
A deep, narrated walk-through of the product: one platform replacing five vendors, the till that physically blocks skim, 1.69% + 15p processing, the AI floor planner, Copilot, anomaly AI, and a 13-week cash forecast — and a side-by-side cost comparison versus Toast, Square, Zettle and Lightspeed.
Till, KDS, reservations, finance, VAT — one source of truth, one audit trail.
Industry first: true offline writes that reconcile automatically when the network returns.
Industry first: auto-generated seating layout from your covers and constraints.
Every order, every drawer, every VAT line — traceable to a person and a moment.
The Friday-night ledger, in numbers
What measurably changes the night you switch. Pulled from operator pilots; your venue will vary, but the direction won't.
Drawers, card terminals, tips, refunds and deposits reconcile automatically as the night runs. The manager signs off variance — they don't reconstruct it.
Till, kitchen, reservations, payments and accounting on one schema. No CSV exports, no nightly sync jobs, no Monday-morning forensics.
Every shift, break and clock event is attributable to a person — and labour cost as a percentage of takings updates live, not the Monday after.
Methodology, in one paragraph
Figures are medians from four UK operator pilots (one neighbourhood bistro, one 120-cover gastropub, one late-night bar, one two-site group) over their first 12 weeks on VenueCore. "Before" values were timed from the same operators' prior stacks the month before switchover; "after" values were measured directly from the platform's audit log. We've rounded — your venue will vary, but the direction won't.
“Cash-up used to be the reason I missed the last train. It's now done before the kitchen's mopped.”
“We killed four logins on day one. The accountant stopped asking why three reports disagreed by Wednesday two.”
“Labour percentage updating during service changed how I run the floor. I cut a section at 9pm — saved £180 — without guessing.”
Quotes used with permission. Names shortened at operator request. Pilot data available on a signed evaluation — ask for the dataset.
Every module, in depth
A dedicated narrated walkthrough for each part of the customer dashboard — POS, kitchen display, floor plan, reservations, finance, the lot.
SMS notify, live wait times, auto-roll on no-response.
Profiles that build themselves from bookings, payments, and visits.
Items, modifiers, course routing, allergens, live everywhere.
Every person, their permissions, their pay rate, their PIN.
Drag-build the rota; labour percentage projects in real time.
Floats, pay-ins, pay-outs, skims — logged with PIN and reason.
Counted, variance-checked, signed off, locked in under five minutes.
Revenue, COGS, labour, margin — reconciled to the penny.
Per-rate breakdown, scheduled rate changes, MTD-ready exports.
Settlements, refunds, voids, tips, chargebacks — never conflated.
Discounts, comps, overrides, splits, merges, transfers.
Ask your venue questions in plain English. Grounded in your real data.
Venue, tax, service charge, integrations, devices, permissions, audit log.
Today at a glance, the next two hours, the alerts column, the trends.
Offline-first till. Tab, fire, pay, lock.
The other half of the till. Tickets land on the right screen with a timer ticking.
Tables as live objects with status, rooms, and an AI planner.
List or calendar, status pickers, waitlist hand-off.
A→D grading for every server with side-by-side range compare and a manager-ready PDF.
Forecast minus on-hand minus open POs, grouped per supplier and exportable in seconds.