Let’s be honnest, this is THE pluggin you need if you own a restaurant.
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Hey folks, I’ll be honnest with you.
If you own a restaurant, if you want to automatically print customer order and work with woocommerce, this is THE best plugin you need.And this is a restaurant owner talking to you, restaurants owners.
Pro :
– Perfectely compatible with thermal printer out of the box.
I won’t lie, I tried another plugin which work with PrintNode. The other plugin work well and is a little bit cheaper BUT you’ll need a third party plugin to generate the invoice and packing slip… Problem : the other plugin are primarily intended for A4 paper, it’s a pain in the a$$ to customize their template.
With Print Manager, the template is NATIVELY intended for thermal printer.
– Easy to customize template : Their template is by far one of the most intuitive one to customize. In fact, even stock template is already good.
– Integrated with their TAKE OUT & DELIVERY ADD-ON. Let me explain, these guys nailed it. I almost thought they were also restaurant owner when I saw the feature.
Basically, they have a plugin that will manage the take away and delivery slot and that will also give you a minimum preparation time. Basically managing the whole workflow. O.k, it’ s a bit pricey (99buck per year ) but this plugin alone replace you a whole squad of phone standardist and still do a better job.
– Several location avaible. Basically you can print one packing slip for your cook, another for your order preparating guy, one with delivery adress to your courrier. Directely at their place. Yeah. The cook got the order right from the printer near him.
– The base plugin is free even if you have to pay for a monthly plan (right now it’s free because beta. )
– Awesome customer support! They really do answer fast. Sometimes even on a sunday, even on Christmas.Basically, they offer you a solution to take your restaurant to another level.
“Sound awesome. Why only 4 stars? ”
There’s a few con.
– More expensive than their competitor. 10$ for 2500 print job. Sound a lot but when you start printing 1 invoice and 3 packing slip, it’s barely enough for 400 orders. Their second plan is much more expensive, 25$ for 15 000 print job. There’s no in between 🙁
As a comparison Printnode offer 5000 printjob at 9$ per month and 25 000 print job at 29$ per month. Plus, PrintNode offer evolutive pricing. They charge you per use once you go beyond your treeshold.So if you go for their plan and you have a middle sized restaurant, you’ll very likely need their second tier paid plan, which mean 300$ per year.
With their competitor’s solution, given you pay for a custom thermal print template, it will cost you 180$/year + template customisation price (since they don’t natively support thermal printer ).
– Performance. When you set no print job, once the customer clic on “Order “, the order is almost immediately accepted. As for this plugin, your server will generate the print job THEN validate the order. And with 4 printjob, it take up to 30 sec of loading for an order to get passed.
As a conclusion :
Should I recommend their plugin? Hell yes.
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