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What Are The Benefits Of Using Kiosks?

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Posted by Your Guide on October 3, 2006 10:06 PM

For business owners a kiosk can be used in a wide array of applications and the one point to consider is that a kiosk can deliver the right message at the right time, consistently every time.

Kiosks need to offer more than a self-service transaction. To be truly effective, kiosks must be an extension of your brand and your service. When done right, kiosks can create an engaging experience, increase interactions, and enhance communications. But when they are not done right, you've got a disconnected, ugly box, with a hard to use interface and a service nightmare just waiting to happen.

Kiosks can provide complete self-service solutions for you, your business, your employees and your customers. A Human Resources kiosk can reduce cost by providing convenient and consistent information to your employees from employee scheduling, distributing pay stubs, new benefits, 401K administration, company policies, job postings, training opportunities or company news. Kiosks can provide an extension of your Human Resources department, while conserving those resources for more important tasks.

Ticketing kiosks offer ticket dispensing, credit card and cash acceptance options for fast transactions, creating better service for your customers. Kiosks can also offer the convenience of purchasing admissions tickets that were formerly only available through a box office window. For amusement parks, airports, concert venues, stadiums and lotteries, self-service kiosks offer convenience, increased revenue and timesavings.

Customer order entry kiosks are becoming more and more commonplace in retail, hospitality and QSR markets. For hospital or hotel check-in, food ordering, license renewal, ticketing or online specialty product orders, kiosks offer a convenient and fast alternative to the traditional methods used in most businesses. The touch screen interface provides a user-friendly approach to ordering products or services and reduces your customers wait time.

Some casinos are gradually converting their traditional coin or token operations into cashless ticket-in ticket-out transactions for winnings. They also have the option of a member guest card that allows customers to add and subtract value from their cards and when they are ready to cash out, they insert their card into a kiosk and this unit will dispense their cash. They also use loyalty kiosks for frequent members that offer prizes and other free services in appreciation for continuous playing and repeat trips. Built in kiosk hoppers simplify payouts by cashiers, reducing errors and providing a reduction in labor cost due to lower coin handling.

Retail kiosks provide convenient services to customers such as bridal and gift registry, non-stock product ordering, store directories, employment, product lookup, company information and targeted offers. These services increase consumer awareness and offer new channels for retailers to grow their business.

A financial kiosk can serve as an excellent aggregation point for many common financial services, including online banking, check cashing, money orders, coupons, pre-paid card and pin dispensing and customer service e-mail. A bill pay kiosk offers self-service cash payments to your customers without a bank account. You can select multi-lingual options that will empower foreign-speaking customers and improve your customer relations.

Companies looking to improve efficiency and reduce labor costs turn to directory way finding kiosks. Directory kiosks are used in hospitals, college campuses, churches, high-rise office and apartment buildings, shopping malls, cemeteries, corporate offices and retail locations. Directory kiosks can also provide other information such as visitor sign-in and temporary badge printing, company information, scheduling, and appointment setting and telephone access to tenants or employees.

Information kiosks offer a variety of functions in today's marketplace. With the touch of a finger, users can gain access to product information, company services, forms and printouts for retail stores, schools, churches, city government, and tourist locations.



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