Client: Medium Restaurants - London

Platforms: PHP, JavaScript Ajax, Apache, SQL, Linux Hardware

This is a Software development project aimed primarily at restaurants business’s, designed to improve both operational efficiency for the business and improve the management perspective; sought to develop better strategic business functional and marketing aspects.
At present stage: This Booking system is based on existing Ajax frameworks and PHP.
Fully product is available from us - from £30/month. Contact us for more Information. Development is in final stage of fine tuning and QA, but current beta release is fully functitonal.Test Drive Here.

...A little more about Booksys
This is a Software development project aimed primarily at restaurants business’s, designed to improve both operational efficiency for the business and improve the management perspective; sought to develop better strategic business functional and marketing aspects.

It allows administrator to create software users (Staff), and ability to create and manage own restaurant menus. Having developed LIVE kitchen views and portable capabilities, it allows end staff to take orders on the Windows Mobile wireless portable computers (or equivalent specification), sending completed orders to the Kitchen View as they are completed. Also placed orders can be recalled to review bill and accepts payment ID to complete the transaction and archive the order.

In the Kitchen, Live Orders Grid allows easy viewing by table number, and Time Stamp. In addition countdown timer is started to reflect the length of the preparation time.

Manager View reflects the more important aspects where administration is concerned. They are able to administer User, Administer Menus, as well as view Reporting View. Reporting is concerned displaying archived orders summaries, for the upper management level. It is capable to sort in ascending orders various details of the report.

Software Administrator can make global software settings changes and also create new restaurant branches for managers to manage. Also Administrator can administer user rights for the management personnel.

Requirements Revision Summary
To ensure that Booksys was a successful web software development, we sourced the best JavaScript Practices and usef-friend API platforms as well as most efficient back-end PHP scripting.
However as with any project development, our unique approach and customer liason with our clients throughout the entire development process helped shape the original software requirements of intangible aspect to a well-welcomed design and functionality solution.
This is a short Summary of Key requirement entities that were reviewed, and tested to reach the product quality standard we achieved to date.
• To take control of current administration operations and ability to deliver service that meet Business’s ongoing restaurant needs.
• Set a strong, stable environment for necessary operations through detailed testability and provability
• To remove the current business operation and administration logic with more easier to use and more efficient system.
• Provide easy to use reporting tool, for business modelling
• Provide means of updating Kitchen Staff of placed orders, and subsequent possible administration of update method (Review, new REQ)
• Provide the business with an User Interface which is readily changeable. (review, consideration pending)
• Reduce complexity of Restaurant administration and operation - current system is paper based and quite complicated should new management/staff change take place.
• Allow provisions for further integration and upgrades with add-ons, and provide great portability for more efficient operations. (inherently possible)
• Provide Flexibility of Order Placing and Order Tracking with use of pocket mobile devices (LIVE booking process)
• Order taking : Allow restaurant to take orders efficiently
• Order taking : Allow restaurant to have more efficient administration
• Order taking : Allow restaurant to have more efficient method of inventory stocking and tracking
• HR management : Reduce the dependency on staff skill-sets and knowledge
• Business management : Faster time to adapt to new changes and market accordingly
• Business management : Adapt to meet future business requirements
• Business management : Improve confidence and perceptions
• Software Configuration : Readily deployable at new restaurant set-ups
• Software Configuration : Deliver a robust, rigid and established architecture (Testing essential)
• Software Documentation : Ensure solution is fully documented and well understood
• Software Configuration : Provide an application that can adapt to changing business needs
• Provide a flexible and malleable user interface
• Software Configuration : Provide portable solutions with mobile devices Browser support (windows mobile 5)
• Provide tools or means of bug reporting in case problems arise.
• Provide means of security enhancements, and daily secure system access implementation
• Provide means for support of new frameworks, for business model scalability. (notion of XML parser, and abstraction)