Connect

Your systems already have the numbers.

The till knows what you sold. The supplier knows what they charged. The accounts want both. Connect is the piece in the middle that stops a human being the integration.

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ConnectionsThe Lamplighter · 3 sites

Till and card salesEvery 15 minutes, all dayChecking

Supplier cataloguesPrices and pack sizes, nightlyChecking

Approved invoices outTo your accounts, on approvalChecking

Departments and cost centresKept the same on both sidesChecking

Last full syncjust now

The re-typing tax

Count how many times one number gets typed.

Nobody has this on a budget line, because it is spread across a GM, a bookkeeper and a Sunday morning. Add it up honestly for one three-site group and it is most of a job.

TodayWith Hops Connect

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Sales from the till into the accounts2 h 20Someone retypes yesterday

Supplier invoices onto the purchase ledger5 h 00Bookkeeper, invoice by invoice

Prices updated when a supplier moves them–Nobody, until it shows in GP

Stock value at period end3 h 30Spreadsheet, then a journal

Chasing what a site actually spent2 h 40Email, then a phone call

New site set up on all of the above–A fortnight, per opening

Someone's week13 h 30

Sales from the till into the accounts

Today2 h 20Someone retypes yesterdayWith Hops0Automatic, every 15 min

Supplier invoices onto the purchase ledger

Today5 h 00Bookkeeper, invoice by invoiceWith Hops0Posted on approval

Prices updated when a supplier moves them

Today–Nobody, until it shows in GPWith Hops0Catalogue in nightly

Stock value at period end

Today3 h 30Spreadsheet, then a journalWith Hops10 minJournal, on close

Chasing what a site actually spent

Today2 h 40Email, then a phone callWith Hops0Already in the group view

New site set up on all of the above

Today–A fortnight, per openingWith Hops0Inherited from group

Someone's week13 h 30 → 10 min

Based on a three-site group with around 60 supplier invoices a week. Your numbers will be different, and we will work them out with you rather than guess.

What actually moves

No mystery. Here is every wire.

Ask any vendor what data crosses, in which direction, and how often. If they cannot put it on one page, it is because the answer is a person.

FromToHow often

Your till, by department→Sales in Hops FinanceEvery 15 min

Supplier catalogue and prices→Your product libraryNightly

Purchase orders→Your supplier, their formatOn send

Approved invoices and credits→Your accounts packageOn approval

Departments and cost centres↔Hops and your accountsOn change

Stock value at period end→Your accounts, as a journalPeriod end

Two different jobs

An integration, or a gateway. Not the same thing.

Integrations

Your systems and Hops, both directions.

Tills, suppliers, bookings⇄ structure kept in stepAccounts, reporting

Systems you already run

Connected through Hops Connect

Accounts, reporting and other systems

The everyday case, and rarely just one connection. A three-site group typically runs a till, an accounts package, two or three supplier feeds and a rota system at once. Everything in the directory below is one of these.

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Gateway product

Two of your systems talk, through us.

Your systemYour other system

Your system Fourth

Your other system

Managed route between them Hops Connect Gateway

No Hops product required. Hops becomes the managed route between two systems you already run, so you do not build a point-to-point connection for every pair. Harri and Fourth are current examples.

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Integrations

What we plug into.

Every named integration below is running in a customer site today. Hops works alongside the POS you choose, with direct connections, supported passthrough routes and technically feasible custom work.

LightspeedPoint of Sale

SallyPoint of Sale

DeliverectPoint of Sale

ShijiPoint of Sale

WooCommercePoint of Sale

SquarePoint of Sale

Point OnePoint of Sale

KurvePoint of Sale

Keep the POS that works for you.

Connect directly, through Tenzo, or through a quoted custom integration where the API and data are accessible.

Ask about your POS

OpsytePOS passthrough

TenzoPOS passthrough

Toastvia TenzoPOS passthrough

XeroFinance

SageFinance

NetSuiteFinance

DocWorksFinance

REST APIData and reporting

Workforce.comPeople

HarriPeople

DeputyPeople

PlandayPeople

DesignMyNightBookings

BrakesEDI ordering

Fresh DirectEDI ordering

PFPEDI ordering

Not on the list? Ask anyway. We may already be building it.

Where the API and data flow make it feasible, we can scope and quote a new connection.

Ask about a connection

An open API

If you have a data team, they can read from Hops directly rather than waiting on a report from us.

Suppliers you use, not ours

We take no commission from any supplier, so nothing in Hops nudges you towards one. Your buying stays yours.

Connected in practice

Built before the doors opened.

Hops built 109 live menu recipes and their underlying batches with La Cage, mapped the supplier data and allergens, then connected the operation to Lightspeed so till and stock agree.

“Support like that changes what a project can carry.”
David PeeversLa Cage Kensington
Full customer story

Where to start

Send us your till and your accounts package. We will tell you straight.

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