With the COVID-19 pandemic, the food & drink industry has turned on it’s head with the prolonged lock down and now with businesses having to totally revamp their operating procedures to open in a COVID-19 Secure manner. Today, PayPal are launching iZettle Food & Drink, a simplified point of sale (POS) solution designed to provide hospitality businesses with the tools and insights needed to run and grow their business with confidence. iZettle Food & Drink offers an intuitive product library, a smooth checkout process, customised layouts and fast onboarding of staff.
The solution aims to support businesses such as cafes, pubs and restaurants who are trading post-lockdown by providing them with a fast point of sale complete with new essential features.
The food and drink industry was one of the hardest hit by lockdown measures. During the pandemic’s peak restaurants in the UK’s hospitality sector saw sales decrease 87% between April – June with the equivalent of nearly £30bn in lost revenue.
“iZettle Food & Drink has helped us get up and running quickly with our second site The Little Chartroom on the Prom. Contactless and remote payments are now essential for any business. iZettle Food & Drink provides us with an easy and reliable solution along with the business insights needed to navigate our new normal.”
– Shaun McCarron, co-owner , The Little Chartroom restaurant in Edinburgh
Features from iZettle Food & Drink which can help hospitality businesses implement the necessary operations to reopen and succeed despite COVID-19 restrictions include:
- Remote Payments
Remote payments enable merchants to charge customers by sending a payment link via SMS, Whatsapp, email or via social media, meaning customers no longer need to be physically present at the time of transaction.
- Bulk Product Actions
Bulk product actions enable merchants to perform bulk product actions which helps speed up workflows. The feature can be used to quickly amend the tax rate of food and non-alcoholic beverages in line with the temporary VAT cut which is set to be increased again in January, as well as making products available to sell on the POS.
- Integrated delivery
Coming soon, this feature will enable merchants to manage all orders in a single place – from sit-in dining, to takeaways via delivery services – directly from the iZettle Food & Drink app.
“Given today’s environment, businesses of all sizes need to be more agile to meet increasing customer and technology demands, while having the flexibility to run their business by taking sales across multiple channels, including online, in app and in-store.
We’re proud to launch iZettle Food & Drink to support small businesses across the UK. We developed this product so merchants could better service customers, whilst ensuring they have the tools they need to grow.”
– Jacob de Geer, Vice President of Small Business Products and iZettle, PayPal
Free iZettle Food & Drink offer
iZettle Food & Drink helps enable merchants to accept contactless payments quickly by connecting with the iZettle Reader and is launching with a special offer, making it available for free for the first three months for merchants that sign-up by the 30th of September 2020.
After that merchants will be charged £29 per month per iOS device. Terms and Conditions apply.
