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Customers’ top 5 hospitality frustrations and the tech that can fix them
Sell gift cards, pre-paid experiences, retail, merch, pay it forward and tickets, on your very own branded webstore, with Toggle.
After a long and successful long-term partnership with more than 100 shared customers, Zonal acquired Airship and Toggle in 2022, giving operators new ways to grow profits and provide consumers with a smoother, more connected customer journey.
We fulfil physical cards, from design and print right through to distributing the cards to customers for you (meaning you never even have to touch the thing). Toggle’s card migration means you can quickly and easily transfer over all your existing cards from your current gifting provider.
We’ll store, pick, pack and send your retail items for you. (including cans, bottles and kegs of the good stuff)
Create a variety of campaigns that will help drive sales with three core functions; added value, discounts and free-of-charge cards – perfect for offering prizes or giveaways, for example!
Set up a mobile-optimised, online shop that allows you to put your brand stamp on your product and promotional offerings. Just add your products and away you go.
Thanks to Toggle integrating with over 40 hospitality technology providers, we will slot right into your tech ecosystem, so that you can begin selling and redeeming gift cards hassle-free, straightaway.
Your dashboard is your control panel, which allows you to track just how well your campaigns are taking flight.
Experiences can be easily set up on your Toggle shop, pushed out via your channels, and then redeemed in location via your POS or App.
Set up, sell and manage events with Toggle Tickets from you branded webstore.
“The fact that we could also integrate [our CRM] easily with Toggle as our gift card solution was also a win for us. There is also a great collaborative community surrounding the products to inspire and support.”
“We looked at a number of CRM and Voucher partners but what we loved about Airship and Toggle is their focus on the hospitality industry. They get it. They love it. They feel like true partners that we can grow with.”
“Throughout the process – from planning to third-party integrations and launch – the team at Toggle have shared dedication, expertise and flexible product developments alongside a valuable understanding of our industry.”
As a hospitality dedicated e-commerce platform, Toggle provides you with the opportunity to drive revenue as well as engage with customers in the venue and even helps you bring your brand into their home.
Through the use of a transactional, branded webstore you can easily sell physical and digital gift cards, experiences (such as cocktail making masterclasses or a pizza night for one), retail products and tickets. Toggle fulfils everything, from design, right through to distribution, meaning less work for you and more sales for the business.
Toggle only works with hospitality brands, meaning not only do we know a fair bit about supporting operators in our sector, but it also means every single new feature, upgrade or development is made specifically for a business like yours.
Toggle will handle the printing, storage, packing and dispatch of your products, to get you selling online and in-venue quickly, meaning you can focus your time and energy on other operations.
If you want something easier and quicker, Toggle’s functionally allows us to set up vouchers to be printed on demand, all you need to do is pick a style.
Toggle is fully integrated with Zonal’s EPoS and wider tech eco-system as well as a huge number of additional tech providers, in order to ensure seamless customer journeys and ease of operation.
Gift card redemption is automatically managed at the POS, which means there’s no special training or instructions necessary for your staff. Simple visual prompts will tell your staff what to do when taking payment via gift cards. It’s easy for your customers and easy for your staff.
Everything on your webshop is under your control. Adapt, create and promote as often as you like from the dashboard and if you want to get more adventurous with your offering, our webshops have full flexibility, functionality and features that will to support you.
For example, you can restrict redemption to specific ranges of dates, to help drive sales during a certain season or limit the availability of the promotional card. You can also create promo codes of bundle items together as well as create small bundles for a lovely gift for someone.
Gift cards can help you drive customer loyalty, as well as introduce your brand to new audiences. A gift card recipient will almost certainly visit your store at least once, which creates an opportunity to convert them into a repeat customer, improves traffic to your online shop, and increases repeat sales when you market to them in the future.
We also have found that customers that you can attract in with your gift cards and experiences offering actually end up buying more than the value that card offers, resulting in more sales and therefore, more revenue.
No other provider has the wealth of industry knowledge and experience we’ve gained since 1979 in the hospitality sector. No other tech partner has a system that’s as powerful, flexible and customisable. And no other provider can make it easier for you to do what you do best: deliver great customer experiences and run profitable venues. Our award-winning UK-based training, project management and account management teams will support you every step of the way, and our dedicated support centre based in Edinburgh is available 8am-12am, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Our full range of connected hospitality technologies includes EPoS, inventory and order, reservations, table management, kitchen management, mobile/web order and pay apps, click and collect, property management, loyalty schemes, gift cards, business intelligence and over 100 integrations with 3rd party providers. Our solutions are all fully integrated with our EPoS, so spend data, visit frequency and stock availability is shared seamlessly between systems. The valuable insight this provides enables you to keep tight control over cash flow, make significant operational efficiencies and deliver a first-class customer experience.
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