30/07/2010
By Scott Thompson
pointOne has equipped Bloomsbury Bowling with a new EPoS solution. Financial Director at Bloomsbury, Mark Walton, comments: “In our business, accurate business information is critical to our profitability. As we planned to open more venues this requirement became even more important because we needed to centralise our operation and consolidate all our intelligence including, stock, sales performance, accounts information and staffing levels and manage it from a single location.”
Bloomsbury operates four bowling alleys in London and Bristol, with three of these opening since the adoption of the new EpoS solution. “We are very pleased with the system and quite frankly without it we would not have been able to expand our operation as efficiently as we have done,” says Walton. “The head office module integrates with stock control which means that we have real-time access to business critical information for all our venues. In a tough economic climate this level of control can be the difference between success and failure.”
The company also takes bookings for its alleys in advance, which caused some accounting issues for the company. “Taking deposits at the time of booking was essential to ensure that we maximised the capacity of our alleys. However, we needed a system that would allow us to make the booking, bank the deposit, but not account for the money until the full amount was paid. This was important to reduce accounting errors that could occur when bookings were not completed. Our previous system was not able to do this, which caused us a lot of accounting reconciliation headaches,” Walton adds.
