As we hurtle towards the main summer holiday time it’s hard to believe that we’re more than half-way through the year already.
And for Centegra Plus what a busy six months it’s been.
There have been numerous updates but here’s a quick look back at some of the key innovations we’ve made so far this year:

Reporting

We’ve seen a marked increase in the number of custom reports and extracts being used – so to make it easier for customers to access these reports we introduced custom report management into the app for clients. That means that custom reports can now be flagged to appear in the Reporting Menu under a menu option named specifically to your company. This reduces the clicks to get to the report.

Inventory Management

We’ve introduced a mid-period counts feature to help support clients that have large inventories that they want to count over a number of days, making it ideal for retail operations. With this feature, stock counts can be completed on items any time during the stock period, so you can count the apparel one week the drinks the next etc... and at the end of the period only the uncounted items will need a count. This makes the operation more efficient and provides more accurate stock results.
We’ve also upgraded our supplier orders feature to allow for direct delivery orders. This feature skips the order process and allows clients to just enter the delivery when it arrives. This is a time saving feature for smaller operations that do not need to track the placing and status of any orders.


Revenue Management

As the amount of cash continues to reduce, some clients do not perform a bank deposit on every day of the week. To make this easier for operators, we’ve introduced a feature which combines the deposits to those deposit days, simplifies the process, reduces the risk of user error and saves time.

Customer and Loyalty

For our clients who use customer reward integrations (like Airship) we’ve introduced new tools so that they can build custom rewards within the Centegra Plus Platform. This is a direct benefit of the platform approach as these rewards can now be shared with any sales channel that supports rewards. It also maintains consistency of rewards, reduces the management time of maintaining multiple systems and enhances the reporting of rewards across sales channels.


We’ve also added another gift card integration: Factor4. Read all about here.


Menu Management

This year we’ve finalised our menu management integration with Deliveroo – a major milestone for us as it completes our goal of being integrated with the three big aggregators – Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eats.
For operations with multiple sales channels, as you only need build one menu and it is distributed to your sales partners it can be used in web sites too. This is another time saving tool to improve management processes and eliminates inconsistencies across sales channels, another platform benefit.
We have also seen other partners like QikServe integrating to menu management to extend this to their kiosk and click and collect apps. We working to encourage sales channel partners to adopt this feature. The goal is to have all sales channels for all customers managed in the platform in a controlled and management way.


Digital Kitchen Management

Following feedback received from our clients the production planner has had various upgrades including introducing more tools to manage daily plans as well as new tools to help review plans when they’re being configured.
For those that don’t know about this feature the Production Planner uses your sales history to create a plan of what you need on the shelves each day or part of the day, and schedules what bulk advanced ingredient preparation is needed in the Kitchen to meet the demand. The tool can also drive central production Kitchen production. For example, how many ham or cheese sandwiches are needed for tomorrow and the day after.
As well as predicting demand in advance the tool allows managers to view and manipulate the plan, allowing them to adjust for local events that would add to production requirements, or adjust based on the expected weather forecast.
We have also completed the kitchen load balancing project - read more here


User Management

We’ve provided clients with the ability to assign an email alias against Centegra Plus user accounts. If you are required to manage more than one Centegra Plus implementation this allows you to login and overcome the problem of restricting a single email account to a single company within Centegra Plus.



We guarantee that the changes we’ve made so far won’t stop there.
We’ll be continuously evolving, updating and tweaking the platform to make sure our clients are getting exactly what they need from Centegra Plus.


Talk to us to find out more.

We are customer driven and love to hear your ideas, current needs and challenges. 

We don’t run restaurants, you do, so the more you can guide us the better we can tailor Centegra Plus for you and your network of stores.

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