Software Options

The touch4 system is available with two editions of software; Professional software, suitable for smaller venues, or Enterprise software with enhanced features suitable for larger venues and chains.

touch4 Analytics - a stand alone reporting package allows you to derive maximum benefit from the in-depth analysis and reporting of customer service performance.

Professional Software

Professional software has the following functions

Operations Mode

  • Add touch4 service pod to table/location number
  • Link a service pod to PDA
  • View service requests from customers
  • Send acknowledgements to customers
  • Remove touch4 service pods from system
  • Battery charge monitoring
  • Highlighting of overdue reporting requests

Admin Mode

  • Configure server names
  • Associate servers and PDA’s
  • Configure users (under 18 option / drinks server / bill runner)
  • Configure multiple terminals, including PDAs
  • Configure auto-acknowledge on/off
  • Configure overdue request time limit

Reporting 

  • Single cumulative average response time for the venue

Enterprise Software

Enterprise software includes all the features of the Professional software plus the following extras -

Operations Mode

  • Escalation of overdue requests to nominated terminal 
  • Filtering of requests to nominated terminals (eg drinks requests to the bar, service requests to waiter station)
  • Pager integration to alert staff over distance

Guest Pager Mode

  •  Adds guest pager functionality to allow guests to be paged via a table pod when a table/location is free

Reporting

  • Cumulative average response time for venue per shift
  • Basic cover lengths / waiting times per venue per shift
  • Average response times per server
  • Export data to touch4 Analytics or other packages (eg for integration into existing management information reporting systems)

    touch4 Analytics

    touch4 Analytics is a stand alone software package, installed on an office PC which allows venues to analyse customer service delivery performance to an unprecedented degree. Data is exported from the touch4 system to the office PC, where Analytics allows performance data to be manipulated, charted, printed and saved.

    touch4 Analytics provides the following functionality -

    Monitor Response Times

    Average response times per server, per shift, per venue, correlated with number of requests per shift

    Trending

    Average response times over month/year, month on month  and year on year reporting

    Save reports in multiple formats

    Reports can be saved in multiple formats including (XML, CSV and MS Excel)