If you run a restaurant in the United States, you are likely familiar with Toast. Toast is a super popular and powerful cloud-based point of sales (POS) platform for restaurants that was launched in March 2020. It offers numerous software suites for operations, marketing, digital storefronts, payroll, and more. Plus, Toast provides hardware such as handheld POS devices, self-ordering kiosks, and kitchen display systems.
Managing the operations of your restaurant is no mean feat. From sales to discounts, tips and orders, there's a ton of data to keep track of! That's where our new Toast connection can help. With this connection, you will soon be able to link your Toast account to Syft to pull through reams of vital data that you can then visualize, analyze, and report on. Let's see how this works.
Get connected 🤝
As we are in the beta testing phase of our Toast connection, you will need to request access by emailing us at support@syftanalytics.com and using the subject line "Toast connection". If you're keen to get involved in beta testing, please don't hesitate to reach out! This testing is critical to our development of a truly beneficial data connection.
Once you've received access to Toast on Syft, you can return to Toast within the connections screen and begin to connect your data.
Pro Tip 💡: Make sure you read all the information outline in the "Let's link your Toast Restaurant" section.
You will be prompted to log into Toast and, once you've logged in, you can select the relevant locations that you would like Syft to pull through. You will also receive an email about the new connection with a link for you to complete your account setup. Once you've activated that link, Syft will begin to retrieve your Toast data.
Note 📝: It might take a few minutes to pull through your data initially, but future refreshes will be much faster.
What data will you see? 👀
The data that pulls through to the Totals page under Connections includes data relating to money coming in, tax, tips, customers, and more. This includes fields such as:
Total Amounts (including refunds)
Gross Sales
Net Sales
Total Payments
Tax
Total Discounts
Tips
Gratuity
Total Orders
Items Sold
Returned Tax
Returned Tips
Service Charges
Returned Service Charges
Refunds
Customer Count
Amount Due
Cash Payments (before tax)
Credit Card Payments
Other Payments
Note 📝: These data sources may change once we move out of the beta phase.
Take your Toast data to the next level 💪
Once you've connected your Toast account, you can begin to focus on the data that's most critical to your restaurant. Here are some suggestions of how you can use this data to your advantage in Syft:
Dashboards: visualize information about your customers, tips, orders, and sales alongside accounting information
KPIs: analyze your restaurant data alongside other key metrics
Ledgers: build complex tables across both financial and non-financial information, including operational data from your Toast account
KPI Scorecards: add specific restaurant data as criteria in KPI scorecards
Forecasting: plan for future scenarios for your restaurant using key information from Toast
Budgeting: include operational restaurant data in your budgets
In addition, you can combine these reports, graphs, and analytics in a collaborative Live View report that updates in real-time to share with your team or other stakeholders. Or, if you prefer, you can create an Excel, Word, or PDF report pack, which you can share via email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or even WhatsApp.
Closing thoughts 💭
By syncing your Toast data with Syft, you can gain deeper insights into the operations of your restaurant and analyze this information in conjunction with your accounting data to get the full picture of your business performance. Keen to give it a try? Reach out to us via support@syftanalytics.com to request access to the connection.