With our most recent Dashboard software upgrade, you get even more. Read on to discover just a few of the Byte Dashboard’s new features. 

New Summary Page

The Summary Page’s snapshot of key metrics will now let you quickly view what kiosks need attention, what products need to be restocked, and what kind of profits your business is generating.

Sales Tax

Sales tax is now fully integrated, and you can set the sales tax to be applied separately at each of your kiosks or across all of them. Once sales tax is applied, it will then appear on each customer’s receipt and in all of your transaction reports.

Pick Lists

You now have the ability to download pick lists before you go out on deliveries. Download a CSV or PDF pick list for all the kiosks on a delivery. Then, just grab the appropriate restocking inventory and your restocking runs will be more efficient than ever before.

You now have the ability to download pick lists before you go out on deliveries. Download a CSV or PDF pick list for all the kiosks on a delivery. Then, just grab the appropriate restocking inventory and your restocking runs will be more efficient than ever before.

Detailed Remittance Summary

It’s no exaggeration to say that cash flow is the life blood of any business. That’s why the upgraded Dashboard now provides a complete view of remittances. You can also download a detailed breakdown of credit card transactions and fees associated with each Byte kiosk.

If you’re interested in learning more about Byte’s Dashboard, set up a meeting with our sales team today.

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Byte Technology integrates with the following leading campus card providers:

• Atrium 
• Transact 
• CBORD 
• TouchNet OneCard
• ITC

Students purchase fresh food directly from Byte fridges that are placed in food halls, dorms, and other high traffic locations. A typical university student uses their ID card for just about all their day-to-day campus purchases – and now this includes purchases made at a Byte fridge.

4 Benefits of a Smart Unattended Refrigerator on Campus

Byte Technology’s smart refrigerator vending machines offer better access to fresh food, healthier options, and significantly reduced labor costs.

1. Better Access, More Convenience
   It’s certainly not uncommon for students and staff to “burn the midnight oil” and need healthy food during off-hours and in a variety of locations that aren’t the cafeteria. Byte offers a fresh food vending solution that’s available 24×7 and can be installed almost anywhere.
   
2. Reduced Labor Costs
   Today’s labor shortages and resulting rising labor costs have impacted the food service industry. This highlights the need for unattended smart fridges serving fresh food. Byte kiosks can help campuses cut costs while still expanding food service for their students.
   
3. Improved Health
   Obesity has been steadily rising among adolescents for years. Healthy food options are crucial on campus.

Support Students with Food Sensitivities
Customizing Byte fridges to create a standalone ‘gluten-free’ or ‘allergen-free’ fridge that’s available 24/7 is simple and will protect students from cross contamination.

Want to Get Started Using the New Campus Card Integration?

It’s an easy 3 steps:

1. Already have a Byte kiosk? Start with a kick-off call with the Byte Technology team. 
2. Byte will gather some intel like your Merchant ID, then guide you on how to set Byte up as a new terminal with your campus card provider. 
3. Voila! Byte Technology handles the rest.
   

Smart Card on Campus

Byte’s integration with campus cards is a boon for postsecondary institutions and students because it meets both parties’ needs simultaneously. Implementing Byte-fridges across campus is simple for the university to deploy, and students benefit from the convenience and quality food.

With students and faculty returning to campuses post-covid, the demand for food on campus shall increase. Thanks to Byte’s card integration, students won’t need to carry cash and they’ll get used to the convenience of unattended fridges. The pandemic placed a renewed spotlight on the benefits of a healthy body; now students have more choices for what they eat. A greasy slice of pizza isn’t the only option for late night snacking anymore, thanks to Byte.

If you’re interested in learning more, either for your own campus or for a campus where you are providing food service or fresh food vending, let’s set up a free introductory conversation.

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With discounts and coupons you can:

• Allow locations to subsidize food
• Enable locations to purchase coupons as rewards for employees
• Promote the service at a new location
• Encourage lapsed customers to purchase again
• Minimize spoilage

The list goes on and is only limited by your creativity.

In this post, I’ll dive into the two main areas of discounting. First, we’ll look at what discount functionality can be leveraged through the Byte Technology platform. Second, we’ll look at how you can package this feature up to make your business more money or save you money.

Discounts on the Byte Platform

There are several types of discounts on the Byte platform:

Standard Discount: A standard discount can be either a dollar or percent off applied to different combinations of stores, products, or product categories and can recur on certain days or hours of the day.

Happy Hour Discount: A happy hour discount is a time-based discount. Similar to a standard discount, it can be either dollar or percent off and apply to different combinations of stores, products, or product categories. A happy hour discount can also be set up to be recurring.

Shelf Life Discount: This type of discount is unique to the Byte platform and is quite powerful for managing spoilage. The shelf life discount applies either a dollar or percent off discount to products that meet set requirements on the number of shelf life days and days left to expiration. For instance, let’s consider a salad has a shelf life of 5 days and has been in the Byte fridge for 4 days. I can set up a shelf life discount to apply 50% off to any salad that is expected to expire in one day or less. This helps me incentivize my customers to buy the salad, instead of having to remove it as spoilage.

Coupons: After a transaction, the Byte fridge menu displays a screen where the customer can input their email for a receipt and input a coupon code. Coupons can be set up to be either dollar or percent off, and can be set up in a way that they only apply to certain stores, products, or product categories. Coupons can be set to be one time use, or multi use. For instance, you can set up a multi-use coupon FIRSTTRY to promote and incentivize use at a new location.

For our clients, there is an extensive amount of additional information in our Help Desk. Note you’ll need to be logged in to access this information.

Using Discounts to Benefit Your Business

The most obvious use case for discounting is to clear through products that are slow to sell. We reviewed one example above using the Shelf Life Discount to do just that. Why discount product that is about to expire? If a salad retails at $10.00 and costs you $5.00, then a spoiled salad costs your business $5.00 and brings in no revenue. Using the Shelf Life Discount gives you the opportunity to bring in revenue against a product that was otherwise about to spoil – even if you’re only able to cover your costs, that’s a benefit to your business.

But what if you could use this incredible functionality to drive additional revenue for your business?

Byte’s most successful clients do this well. When selling into a location, a great question to always ask is if the location is interested in subsidizing any of the food being sold. What is a subsidy? It is when the location pays a portion of the price of the food in order to reduce the price for their employees. For instance, if a workplace chooses subsidize the food by 40% then the price of all items is reduced by 40% for the employees, and the business will be billed for that 40% at the end of the month based on what is purchased.

Why would a workplace want to subsidize food? For a myriad of reasons – to promote wellness of their team, to support a positive culture, to boost employee productivity.

We’ve seen a wide range of subsidies be sponsored by locations, including:

• Time of Day: A manufacturing plant chose to subsidize all food by 30% between the hours of 7p-3a in order to support the graveyard shift.
  
• Day of Week: A workplace in the retail industry sponsors a 50% off subsidy on Fridays as a way to boost employee morale and reward employees.
  
• Better for You Options: A technology company subsidizes all salads by 50% to encourage employees to make healthier eating choices, thereby promoting wellness at work.

Another way to increase sales to the locations you serve is to offer coupons for sale. Locations use coupons to hand out to new employees and as a reward for star performers. The benefit to you is that you’re able to sell a bundle of coupons, collect payment up front, and ultimately encourage even more use of your Byte fridge.

This article touches on just a handful of ways discounts and coupons can be used to boost your business. If you’re interested in learning more, we’d love to talk.

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