TouchBistro vs. VIP Sales App

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
TouchBistro
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
TouchBistro is a complete mobile POS solution on the iPad for the restaurant industry. It allows users to manage reservations, view the menu, take orders and review sales reports with a few simple touches. Instead of servers repeatedly moving between customers and terminals for order management, servers can remain with customers and instantly submit orders to the kitchen and bar. Servers no longer need to write down an order and then enter it into a distant terminal. TouchBistro's single entry…
$25
per month
VIP Sales App
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Vermont Information Processing (VIP) offers the VIP Sales app, a mobile ordering solution for beverage distributor accountpersons with integrated features such as real-time inventory tracking, the KARMA survey and data collection add-on for collecting sales and brand relevant data during engagement or while transacting with customers, VIP POS for tracking and ordering needed table posters, coasters, signage and the like, and Brand Builder, which is the app's product catalogue for sales…N/A
Pricing
TouchBistroVIP Sales App
Editions & Modules
Gift Cards
$25
per month
Online Ordering
$50
per month
POS License
$69
per month
Reservations
$229
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
TouchBistroVIP Sales App
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
TouchBistroVIP Sales App
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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Enterprises

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User Ratings
TouchBistroVIP Sales App
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
TouchBistroVIP Sales App
Likelihood to Recommend
TouchBistro
It's a tried and true system, over the years I have always had a great experience. Capturing sales is easy and it's extremely user friendly and easy to train staff on. While I have tried other systems and they have not been as easy or user friendly there are some more advanced technology and backend capabilities that TouchBistro could work on. Maybe just a little updating.
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VIP (Vermont Information Processing)
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Pros
TouchBistro
  • Allows the user to set up specific food modifiers that can be used on one or more menu items.
  • Displays the kitchen orders and tracks the time they were received and shows alerts when time is getting late
  • Reporting on staff hours and breaks taken.
  • Flexibility with different tax options.
  • Splitting checks multiple ways
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Cons
TouchBistro
  • One of my biggest (and only) issues with Touch Bistro is that it doesn’t integrate well with the credit card processing systems we use. Currently, we use Square and while the two systems do communicate, there are some instances, such as paying with gift cards, that take a few extra steps, which can be a pain when you have a long line of customers!
  • Because my credit card processing is separate from Touch Bistro there are a few things that are hard to track. Square does a great job of marketing and tracking the marketing, but it’s not accurate for me due to the fact that I use Touch Bistro as a POS and not Square.
  • I’d love for Touch Bistro to offer more marketing techniques that are easy to use.
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VIP (Vermont Information Processing)
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Usability
TouchBistro
It's an incredibly easy system to navigate both from a management perspective as well as a service member perspective.Training, programming items and inventory, day to day sales, processing payments, gathering reports and data, gift card sales and processing (with the exception of online for us) is easy and seamless.
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Support Rating
TouchBistro
First of all, I hardly ever need support for Touch Bistro, that’s how well it works. In the very instances over the years where I did need to call, customer support was easily accessible and fast and accurate with their responses
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VIP (Vermont Information Processing)
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Alternatives Considered
TouchBistro
Harbortouch has a very robust POS system however it has issues that we do not seem to have with TouchBistro. One of the issues with Harbortouch is if the internet goes down, the credit card reader will not work and actually lock of the POS system causing extra customer wait times while their food is getting cold. TouchBistro's system will still capture the card info even when the internet is down and process it when the internet is working again
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VIP (Vermont Information Processing)
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Return on Investment
TouchBistro
  • The software is easy to understand and use
  • We could not find a case for the iPads that would also fit the third party card reader so we went without. This resulted in card readers breaking off in the charging port rendering the iPad useless.
  • Reports were available in real time, so it was extremely easy to see sales and make quick decisions.
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VIP (Vermont Information Processing)
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