The functionality of the POS table side with iPad minis is great and time saving for servers. This is the only positive feature that we are fully comfortable giving accolades to. This of course is negated by the time that is needed to spend running around trying to find a credit card processor that will work, explaining double-charges to guests due to software issues and assuring them that if there is a double charge which there may or may not be we will resolve it, restarting credit card terminals and iPads in the hope that they will work, and working on customer retention due to the credit card processing issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Reporting is horrific for accounting purposes. I had to create my own payroll excel file as labor reporting does not integrate tips earned. Daily reporting lacks several key pieces of information. The V400m credit card machines consistantly do not communicate with our iPads and cause terrible issues with our customers when trying to take payment. It will allow two payments to be processed for the same guest on the same check. It will allow an authorization for payment that our guests can see on their personal banking features, but no authorization will have gone through to the TouchBistro app, therefore causing guests to question us why we need to run a transaction again. We get follow-up calls from guests letting us know that they have two seperate transactions even though POS only registers one. This is a failure directly on the software as our WiFi has no connectivity issues. All these issues started occuring three or four TouchBistro updates ago. We have been trying to navigate a solution for this for over a month. We have lost customers due to this issue. We have contacted TouchBistro more times than I can count for a resolution, and get the same non-action "update to the newest version, it will be fine", "reboot they system, it will be fine", "change this setting on your iPads, it will be fine". Rest assured, it is not fine. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE GET THIS SYSTEM WITH WEPAY BY CHASE! We truely feel that the 3rd party processing is almost certainly the core issue and that is was not designed correctly to work with TouchBisto and iPad processing.
This all comes after, of course, the onboarding process. Training materials provided are cursory at best. Nearly all facets of functionality are learned by trial and error. I had to write a training manual myself as the training videos essentially provide nothing but basic, generic POS material. Once you have the product purchased, all the humans that were involved with sales, onboarding, and integration completely disappear. You can of course call Customer Service, where the nice folks on the other line do their best, but have to outsourse pretty much any call to their Payments, Hardware, and Escalation Teams. Prepare to be on hold for a long while a memorize their horrifically loud hold music. Additionally, their "teams" are not available Friday evenings through Sundays, restaurants busiest days.
I spend at least 3 hours a week resolving payment issues both on the floor and from my office. I could go on in spades about further issues and go into greater detail than listed above, but I think the general point has been made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
