Gizmo features

Gizmo covers the club's core tasks: from seating a guest at a PC to closing the shift and analyzing revenue. Below is what you can do in the system and where to read more about it.

Floor service

  • Club map — seat occupancy, guest time and PC status in real time. More — Map.

  • Queue — when no seats are free, the guest joins the waiting line and gets a seat as one frees up. More — Queues.

  • Reservations — you can reserve seats for a guest in advance. More — Reservations.

  • Remote PC control — turn PCs on, restart and shut them down over the network, work with files, processes and tasks. More — Management and the guide How to turn on, restart and shut down PCs remotely.

Sales and the register

  • Tariffs and time products — hourly rates and discounted time products for different zones and customer groups. More — Tariffs and Time Products.

  • Register — sell time and products, top up deposits and accept payment by different methods. More — POS.

  • Shifts — open and close an operator's shift and reconcile the cash in the register. More — the guide How to manage shifts in the Manager.

  • POS hardware — card terminals, receipt printers, barcode scanners and other hardware connect through Gizmo Companion.

  • Shop and warehouse — products, bundles and stock tracking. More — Shop.

Customers and staff

  • Customer accounts — guest profiles, their groups and current state: which host the guest is at and how much time and money they have. More — Users.

  • User groups — their own prices, discounts and access for different customer categories.

  • Operators and permissions — every employee works under their own account and sees only what they are allowed to. More — Operators and permissions.

Loyalty and marketing

  • Loyalty points — customers earn points for purchases and spend them on products and time products. More — the guide Loyalty points for customers.

  • Discounts, promotions and promo codes, achievements, challenges and the ladder — tools that bring guests back to the club. More — Marketing.

Client shell

  • Launching games and programs — the guest picks an app in the Gizmo Client shell, and the club manages the list of apps and how they launch. More — Apps.

  • Security — security profiles limit the guest's access to the PC's system. More — Security Profiles.

  • Look — shell skins that match the club's style. More — Skins.

  • Game saves — the guest's progress is kept between sessions. More — the guide How to keep guests' game progress between sessions.

Reports and control

  • Reports — a summary of revenue and occupancy, logs of operations for orders, shifts, products and transactions; reports can be emailed on a schedule. More — Reports and the guide Reports.

  • Logs — logs of how the Gizmo system works. More — Logs.

Server and club chains

  • Several clubs — branches of a chain on one server. More — Branches and the guide Multiple clubs on one server.

  • Backup — automatic database copies on a schedule. More — Backup.

  • Plugins and integrations — add-ons from third-party developers and connections to external services. More — Plugins and For Developers.