Solution
Prepaid balances for cafés and restaurant groups
A regular who tops up a balance comes back more often than one who does not, and a gift certificate brings in someone who has never been. Both run on the terminal that is already on the counter, in about five seconds.
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At a glance
- Speed
- About 5 seconds per transaction
- Hardware
- The terminal already at the counter
- Programmes
- Prepaid balances, gift certificates, promotions
- Group support
- Many venues on one account
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Why speed decides this
A queue at lunch is the constraint that kills most payment ideas in food service. Anything that adds ten seconds per guest will be quietly abandoned by staff within a fortnight.
The 7Konto flow adds no step for the cashier: the amount is entered as usual and the terminal shows a code. The customer's own phone does the rest.
Because the guest scans rather than hands anything over, there is no device passed across a counter and nothing to clean between guests.
- One account can carry many venues, each settled and reported separately.
- A gift certificate and a prepaid balance are the same object, so a present can become a regular.
- Promotional top-ups are reported apart from real money.
A typical rollout
- 01
Start with one venue
One counter, one terminal, one programme — usually live within a week.
- 02
Sell the first certificates
At the till and through the online widget, if there is a site.
- 03
Add the rest of the group
Each venue gets its own settlement; the balance works across all of them.
- 04
Open the online channel
Orders and gift sales through the checkout widget, on the same balance.
Details
- Venues
- Unlimited on Scale; up to 5 on Network
- Terminals
- 2 per location on Solo, 10 on Network, 40 on Scale
- Staff training
- One screen, a few minutes
- Refunds
- To the same balance, from the panel
- Tips
- Handled by the till as before, untouched
- Reporting
- Per venue, per shift, per programme
Questions about this
Which industries does 7Konto support?
Retail chains, restaurants and HORECA, hotels, corporate meal programmes, employee benefits and fuel cards, cashless events, coalition loyalty, property management, campus environments, and e-commerce merchants who want closed-loop alongside their PSP.
Who is 7Konto for?
Businesses that want to accept internal balances, gift cards, coupons or B2B2E accounts: retail chains, restaurants, hotels, corporate meal programmes, benefits providers, event organisers, coalition loyalty operators, property managers and campuses — plus the banks, PSPs and acquirers who want to offer all of that to their merchants.
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