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TISSL EPOS and LPM: The taste of hospitality success

Dec 21, 2022
  • Hospitality EPOS brand TISSL has been working with LPM Restaurant and Bar for a number of years – but the hospitality business needed more functionality and tried other providers.
  • In the meantime, TISSL launched its own brand new cloud-based platform.
  • LPM hadn’t found a satisfactory solution, and due to the strong relationship it had with TISSL, it trialled the new TISSL EPOS – and it’s now been rolled out globally. 

Occasionally, in business and in life, a little time apart is called for. Maybe two parties are heading in different directions; maybe they’re moving at different speeds. 


In the software business, sometimes it’s a case of the organisation using the software needing more functionality than the platform can currently provide. This was the case with LPM Restaurant and Bar, the global restaurant chain that had been a customer of ClearCourse’s hospitality EPOS brand TISSL for a number of years. 


While LPM loved and valued the customer service the TISSL team provided, it had outgrown the platform TISSL was then offering, and in 2018 moved on to pastures new. 


In the background, however, TISSL was busy working on a whole new proposition to offer its clients – a cloud-based solution of its own, rather than the legacy platform the business was reselling – and a few months later, it launched its brand new EPOS solution. 


It had been built from the ground up, bringing together the team’s decades of experience to create a solution that was purpose-built for restaurants of today – not 20 years ago. 


The platform acts as the technical heartbeat of a restaurant, connecting everything from stock to reservations, in one place. 


Fast forward a couple of years; the new TISSL EPOS solution had evolved and matured, and LPM hadn’t quite found the long-term solution it was seeking...

LPM Steak

A new chapter for TISSL’s hospitality EPOS 


The TISSL team had maintained its strong relationship with the LPM team, and it was agreed to trial the hardware-agnostic TISSL EPOS in the business’s new Saudi Arabia site. 


The team at LPM found the new solution offered everything they needed and more, and so introduced TISSL into its London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Hong Kong restaurants too. 


“I was introduced to TISSL 10 years ago, and after we left, we worked with a number of other products,” says Despot Milivojevic, General Manager at LPM Abu Dhabi. 

 

“I must say, with TISSL – and especially the new cloud-based product – I found simplicity in the front and back office. Then, of course, there’s the amazing support team, who are ready to help and support at all times.”


With TISSL EPOS now controlled and guided entirely by the business, the in-house development team can evolve it continually based on the changing needs of the hospitality sector. 


For LPM to introduce it to its Miami site, for example, an update was needed to work with the US tax system, which the TISSL team is currently working to facilitate. 


Successful tech businesses are about more than just the software


Here at ClearCourse, we love hearing and sharing stories of the difference our brands can make for businesses. Time is such a valuable commodity, and being able to help businesses such as LPM operate smoothly and efficiently means we help save every single person in the organisation time. 


And, as a global business, LPM has a single view of everything going on in their organisation – meaning strategic decisions can be made with the confidence having a completely holistic view provides. 


The key aspect of this whole story, however, is the value of customer service and support. Having brilliant software is one thing – having strong relationships is just as important, if not more so. 


And that intersection is exactly where you’ll find TISSL. 

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07 Feb, 2024
London, 7 February 2024 – ClearCourse, a leading provider of industry-specific software and embedded payments for SMEs and targeted enterprises, announces the acquisition of ThinkSmart Software (“ThinkSmart”), an independent software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) provider delivering an innovative technology for businesses that offer clubs and classes in the UK and Australia as well as other global markets. This strategic acquisition will be integrated as part of ClearCourse’s growing Business Services division. Founded in 2008, ThinkSmart is a scheduling and customer management platform for businesses that conduct classes and take bookings. Today, ThinkSmart serves approximately 2,500 customers predominately within the children’s activities sector, offering a user-friendly, intuitive product which helps “class-based” businesses with managing all day-to-day administration. Its award-winning software helps clients across the tennis, swimming, gymnastics, dance, music and sports sectors automate processes so that they can spend more time managing their business and working with their customers. ThinkSmart’s innovative technology streamlines several business admin tasks, including class scheduling, customer management and communications as well as invoicing and payments systems. Christina Hamilton, Chief Executive Officer, said: “We are extremely pleased to announce ThinkSmart as the latest software business to join our group. We look forward to welcoming the ThinkSmart team, led by founder Andy Leigh and UK Managing Director George Bentley, and working with them to enhance their offering across the growing, class-led activities sector. This investment is a further milestone in the growth of ClearCourse which continues to expand in the UK market as well as internationally.” Andrew (Andy) Leigh, Founder and Managing Director of ThinkSmart, commented: “In ClearCourse we have found a likeminded, customer-focused partner that will support a new phase of growth for ThinkSmart. As part of ClearCourse, we will be focused on continuously improving the industry-specific software solutions we offer our customers across the world, as well as looking for opportunities to expand our services.” George Bentley, UK Managing Director said: “ClearCourse has built a unique and compelling group of software companies and payments capabilities, and we are excited to continue growing our business supported by the rich experience and infrastructure now available to us. In particular, working with ClearCourse will enable us to offer our UK growing customer base market-leading, embedded Direct Debit and card payment solutions which will make accepting and managing payments quicker and easier.” Established in London in 2018, ClearCourse is a leading software and embedded payment specialist servicing SMEs and targeted enterprise customers. The group’s vertical software solutions provide essential, market-leading technology to help their customers manage and grow their businesses. Since inception, the company has undergone rapid growth by acquiring 40 leading software and payments solutions in the market verticals in which it operates: Retail & Hospitality, Golf & Leisure, Business Services and Membership Services. Christina Hamilton added: “ClearCourse is a growth company with a clear ambition to help our customers build great businesses with our industry-specific software and embedded payments solutions. We acquire small- and medium-sized businesses and integrate them into the ClearCourse group of companies to benefit their growth and development, while delivering the same for our customers with their own growth aspirations. Our acquisition of ThinkSmart is our first investment in 2024 and marks a successful start to what we expect to be a year of continued growth for ClearCourse.” The terms of the deal are undisclosed.
Nathan Best ClearCourse Chief Operating Officer
04 Jul, 2023
ClearCourse, a leading provider of industry-specific software and payments for UK SMEs, announces the appointment of FinTech veteran Nathan Best as Chief Operating Officer.
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