Hotels
across Nigeria are set to enjoy a reprieve from some of the major
accounting and reconciliation challenges they face with the roll out of a
new innovative 'Personal Computer-Point of Sale’ (PC-POS) feature on
SlimTrader’s ‘MoBiashara for Hotels’ (MFH) platform.
Many
hotels across Nigeria are faced with the challenge of accurately
consolidating payments made on their hotel Point of Sale (POS) terminals
with hotel records and room inventory; resorting instead to manual
reconciliation. With SlimTrader’s new PC-POS solution; all POS terminals and PCs within a hotel can be networked.
This
was revealed in the official announcement of the launch of the solution
by SlimTrader, Sub-Sahara Africa’s leading turn-key ecommerce solution
provider for businesses, on the 22nd of February, 2016. It was disclosed
that as the launch partner for the solution, Interswitch has adapted its POS terminals to work seamlessly with the solution.
The
new feature allows hotels to link their hotel computers to POS
terminals, such that hotel room payments are immediately reflected in
the hotel’s computer and online records. When hotels which are
subscribed to SlimTrader’s MFH solution generate reservations on their
hotel PCs, the transaction is sent to the hotels POS terminals for the
customer to effect payment. Once this is done, the records are
automatically reconciled, thereby enabling hotels to manage their
inventory more efficiently.
Reservations
can be made in both local and international currencies; and then paid
for with local or international cards. The system also allows for
payment flexibility, accepting cash and payment via other platforms.
With
this iteration to the platform, ‘MoBiashara for Hotels (MFH)’ is now
positioned to be the ‘one stop solution’ with which hotels get all their
Personal Computers networked with their Point of Sale terminals; with a
Property Management System (PMS) to manage check-ins, check-outs and
general hotel inventory. In addition, the hotels have access to a
channel manager that integrates with online travel agencies (OTAs) such
as hotelnownow.com or TripAdvisor and so on.
Speaking on the decision to develop this new feature, the CEO of SlimTrader, Mr. Femi Akinde said,
“At
SlimTrader, our vision is ‘To facilitate effortless transactions for
businesses across Sub-Sahara Africa’. In working with hotels, we
discovered that they face significant challenges in tying reservations
to offline payments. SlimTrader gladly took on this challenge and we are
pleased that today we can launch this much-needed solution for the
hotel industry in Nigeria, tying multiple payment terminals to their
physical and online reservations. Over the next few weeks, the solution
will be scaled to work with terminals from all POS terminal providers in
Nigeria.”
Remarking
on the partnership with SlimTrader for this solution, the Divisional
CEO, Switching and Processing at Interswitch, Mr. Akeem Lawal said,
“In
our position as Africa's leading integrated payment and transaction
processing company, we are always seeking new ways to help improve
business efficiency with our funds monitoring, payments collection and
fraud management solutions. This partnership with SlimTrader is one of
the ways we are bringing our company vision to life”.
It
was revealed that Interswitch developed customized software for the POS
terminals to integrate with the PC-POS feature, Interswitch will also
provide free POS terminals to hotels that sign up for the premium
service.
In
the light of the prevailing economic situation, organizations are
looking to more efficient ways of managing their businesses at reduced
cost; SlimTrader’s MoBiashara platform is helping to address these needs
for many businesses across Sub-Saharan Africa. Today, SlimTrader’s
MoBiashara Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Platform is widely employed
across the Hotel, Aviation, SMEs and FMCG industries.
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