Streamline Your Hospitality Operations with Hops

17.9.2025

2 minute read

Managing a cafe, restaurant or any hospitality business is a complex concept involving various tasks beyond just customer service, such as inventory management and bookkeeping. This is where Hops comes in, a platform built for hospitality businesses which manages the operations in the background and allows you to focus on your customers. 

What Is Hops?

Hops offers a variety of tools which seamlessly work together and manage your operations:

• Inventory management – Track stock movements, manage orders, control costs.
• Finance and reporting – End of day reports, financial syncs, automated reports and smart analytics give you a comprehensive understanding of each business department. 
• Connection and integration – Sync your data with POS systems, accounting software, booking platforms, etc. in order to receive a full picture without double-entry or manual reconciliation.
  

Integrating Hops HQ with Lightspeed Restaurant POS

To unlock full operational efficiency, Hops can be combined with Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series). Lightspeed offers hospitality businesses speed, flexibility, inventory tracking, payment processing and accurate insights in real-time. By integrating these two systems, businesses can sync their inventory and recipe cost data from Lightspeed, reconcile invoices against orders placed on the POS, and streamline your purchase orders, supplier payments and front-to-back-of-house visibility. Having such uniformity means less manual entries, lower chance of errors and thorough, real-time data about performance, customer behaviour and finances. 

Key Features You’ll Love

• Mobile orders – Paper forms and delays are a thing of the past. Create and receive orders from a phone or tablet hassle free. 
• Invoice reconciliation and OCR – Automated invoice matching from your suppliers, online bills, verification and synchronisation to accounting packages helps to reduce errors and save time. 
• POS-agnostic syncing – Whether you have one POS or several, Hops ensures your data is aligned and integrated. 
• Cash-up automation – Staff can now close up for the day with minimal fuss with synced up payment and sales information, recorded notes and summaries which are automatically sent to your inbox. 
• Nutrition and allergens – After these details are inputted, they are calculated across recipes and menus in order to ensure compliance and transparency.
  

What To Expect

Setting up Hops is more than just installing a new system, it is about making the most out of its powerful features: 

• Utilise your Cost of Goods Sold, you can reduce waste and cost overruns significantly. 
• With precise menu and recipe costs and variances, you can accurately improve your margin. 
• Via the various automation options available, you have the luxury to cut back on manual tasks, such as reconciliation, stock counts, and performing cash ups at the end of the day.

Not to mention the ability to make better decisions due to the abundance of insights available. 

Why Choose Hops?

Hops is a well established system with various trusted users who have benefited from a reduction in manual work and gained useful insight. Hops is more than another system, its the right system built for visibility, efficiency and profit. Contact us today to learn more.