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Features & Benefits

Feature: One button operation.
Advantage: Easy to understand operation.
Benefits: Unique product purchase sequence diminishes charge-backs or other billing adjustments.
 
Feature: Interfaces with property management systems (PMS) using industry standard RS-232C asynchronous port.  Supports PMS-friendly interface.
Advantage: Data can be readily exchanged with PMS, facilitating a fully integrated management information system.
Benefits: One terminal operation.  As with call accounting and restaurant point-of-sale system, charges are automatically posted to the folio at time of sale.   No guest disturbances; rooms are "ready-for-sale" without need for room visit or inventory check.
 
Feature: Simple installation: uses existing cable or coax network and supplied signal splitter to communicate with front desk computer.
Advantage: Fast, simple installation.
Benefits: No costly, disruptive rewiring of hotel.  No tying up of phone lines or use of batter-charged hand-held inventory devices which can easily be lost or stolen.
 
Feature: Front desk controls locking and unlocking of entire unit including access to alcoholic beverages.  System can also be programmed to sell alcoholic beverages only within legal hours of sale, if hotel is required to do so by state or local liquor control laws.
Advantage: Ability to fully comply with local liquor laws.
Benefits: Can still obtain revenue from soft drinks snacks sales while denying liquor sales.  Inn Room System is the only automated electronic bar with this feature.
 
Feature: Fully automated inventory control and minimum stock level program.
Advantage: Only those rooms that reach a pre-set minimum stock level need to be visited daily.
Benefits: Typically, only 15% of units need restocking on any given day, cutting labor to a minimum.  Labor expense can be up to 90% less than honor bars.
 
Feature: Silent, energy-efficient refrigeration.
Advantage: State-of-the-art energy control and heavy duty, fast recovery refrigeration system minimizes energy consumption and lessens product chilldown time.
Benefits: Products cool rapidly at less than half the cost of any other system.  Cold drinks increase guest satisfaction and boost sales.
 
Feature: No keys are required for guests or restockers.
Advantage: Each unit is automatically unlocked when a guest checks in and locked when they check out.  Passwords, which may be changed at any time, provide access to restockers.
Benefits: High guest utilization: front desk doesn't have to remember to give out keys; guest doesn't need to make a purchase.  Using secret passwords prevents access by unauthorized personnel and guests, and effectively thwarts theft.
 
Feature: Designed, manufactured and serviced in the United States.
Advantage: Prompt response to hardware/software problems.
Benefits: Maximum "up time" increases profits and reduces hotel and guest frustration.
 
Feature: Ability to vend various sizes of canned or bottled merchandise.
Advantage: Excellent presentation and larger selection of available goods for sale.
Benefits: Can sell leading national brands of beer, wine, liquor and soft drinks both now and when new brands become popular.
 

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