The hardest booking to win is the second one — and a card somebody buys for a friend is a first visit you have already been paid for.
Points a guest holds are money you owe. So what your scheme is and whether it is running are two separate decisions, and a scheme never begins earning because somebody opened the screen.
A point for turning up, or points in proportion to what was spent. A repeat visit inside a window you set is the same visit, so a party that pays two bills does not earn twice.
Name the reward, say what it costs in points, and switch it on. A reward that costs nothing is refused rather than quietly saved — it would empty the scheme in an afternoon.
A member of staff can enrol a guest in front of them, and the exact wording the guest agreed to is stored with the enrolment rather than assumed.
A branded page showing the points held, what they are worth and how far off the next reward is — read from the same entries the desk works from, so it can never disagree.
Somebody buys a card for a friend, chooses when it should arrive, writes a message, and pays. The friend gets a code and needs no account either. Neither of them signs up for anything.
The counter takes what tonight's bill needs and the remainder stays on the card. There is no stored balance anywhere — every figure is the sum of that card's own entries, so it cannot drift from its history.
Cards still holding a balance, what was sold and what has been spent. When the figure cannot be worked out it says so rather than showing you a reassuring zero.
A neighbourhood restaurant with regulars it has never counted
Switch on a visit-based scheme, enrol people at the table as they pay, and start seeing who actually comes back rather than guessing.
A dining room in December
Sell gift cards to people buying for someone else, dated to arrive on Christmas Eve, and take them across the counter in January when the room would otherwise be empty.
A gift-card code is a bearer credential — whoever reads it can spend it — so your dashboard shows only part of one, and the whole code stays with the person it was sent to. No balance is stored anywhere: every figure is a sum of signed entries, which is why the ledger and the screen cannot disagree.
No. Points are awarded from a completed booking or by a member of staff at the desk, and gift cards are taken at the counter on the same screen. Nothing here depends on a specific point-of-sale system.
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