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Insufficient Funds Protection to Preserve Your Bottom Line

Losses due to walkouts and insufficient funds are a real problem for operators of every size. With GoTab’s innovative approach to Insufficient Funds Protection you’ll significantly reduce the number of failed charges, liberating your staff from the resulting operational headaches, lost tips and missed revenue.
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A New Tool to Protect Your Bottomline

Real-Time Updates

When a guest initiates an order with a credit card, GoTab performs an automatic authorization, locking the funds equivalent to the outstanding balance.

Ordering Security

Each time the guest places a new order, GoTab repeats the authorization process, ensuring that the funds for that specific order are securely reserved.

Progressive Authorization

Our step-by-step authorization approach guarantees that you collect the necessary funds before proceeding with order fulfillment.

Full Operator Control

Operators have the flexibility to add or remove this feature for customer-initiated orders, server-initiated orders, or all orders through a simple update in GoTab Manager Dashboard.

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How GoTab’s Insufficient Funds Protection Works

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    Real-Time Authorization

    When a guest initiates an order with a credit card, GoTab performs an automatic authorization, locking the funds equivalent to the outstanding balance.

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    Ordering Security

    Each time the guest places a new order, GoTab repeats the authorization process, ensuring that the funds for that specific order are securely reserved.

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    Progressive Payments 

    This step-by-step approach guarantees that you collect the necessary funds before proceeding with order fulfillment.

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    Full Operator Control

    Operators have the flexibility to add or remove this feature for customer-initiated orders, server-initiated orders, or all orders through a simple update in GoTab Manager Dashboard.

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Key Features of Insufficient Funds Protection

Added Piece of Mind

Most operators already have procedures to reduce the risk of walk-outs and other forms of payment losses. GoTab’s Insufficient Funds Protection is another tool to help mitigate the risk of losses due to insufficient funds and other card payment failures.

Operational Efficiency

Minimize losses due to failed payment issues, allowing your staff to focus on providing exceptional service, and ensuring payment for every order before it is fulfilled.

Order-Level Authorization

Each new guest order triggers an authorization for the associated charge, ensuring necessary funds are locked from being used for a different purchase.

Performance Analytics

Access comprehensive reporting and analytics to gain insights into your revenue protection efforts, allowing for data-driven optimizations.

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Safeguarding Your Bottom Line

By seamlessly integrating Insufficient Funds Protection within the GoTab Manager Dashboard, you'll experience a newfound level of operational efficiency. Your staff can concentrate on providing exceptional service while the system diligently safeguards your revenue.

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Further Mitigate Risk

Complement existing walk-out and insufficient funds procedures with no additional effort.

Proactive Revenue Protection

GoTab helps you secure the payment amount of food & beverage orders at the time the order is submitted.

Adapt With Your Business

Add or remove for customer-initiated orders, server-initiated orders, through a simple update.

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