Avero & Aldelo POS
Aldelo is supported for Sales data, Labor data, and Right Now Sales data.
Avero processes and presents data from your Aldelo POS for your analysis and insight. This article details how to handle POS changes, make updates to this data, and how to handle discrepancies or problems you might encounter. For some things, such as adding meal periods or revenue centers, you must complete the action on your side in order for it to be reflected in Avero (maybe with the help of your POS reseller or IT technician) and for some changes, such as global category associations, you'll need to reach out to our support team.
In this article:
- About Aldelo POS
- Installation & Reinstallation
- Regular Maintenance: Making Updates and Changes
- Common Problems
- Frequently Asked Questions About Aldelo
About Aldelo POS
POS Type: On-Premise
Installing Avero is free for most systems, Aldelo may incur a charge for installation/reinstallation due to complexity.
Aldelo is an on-premise system, meaning there is a server on-site at your restaurant that runs your point of sale. Avero's data extraction utility is installed on this server and each day runs the data from yesterday and transmits it to Avero to load into the platform that you can access via the web or in an app on your phone or tablet.
Differences between Aldelo & Avero
The numbers on the Aldelo reports do not match Avero exactly due to some differences in the ways these numbers are calculated.
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Aldelo Total Sales = Avero Gross Sales - Avero Item Discounts
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Aldelo Order Discounts + Cash Discounts = Avero Check Discounts
To understand how Avero parses Gross and Net Sales see this explanation: Understand Gross Sales and Net Sales
Item Sales Time for Aldelo is determined by Check Open time, this may mean that your Sales by Hour Report does not exactly match the hours in which individual items were sold.
Installation & Reinstallation on Aldelo
Aldelo is an on-premise system that is installed by an Avero technician. Once your subscription is enabled, your sales person will open a case with our Installs Team and they will provide you the necessary information to prepare for your install, then you'll schedule an appointment when you're ready. There are 2 steps to installing Avero.
First, you'll prepare for the installation. This means following our Pre-Install Checklist which will make sure you have the access needed and that our interactions will be marked safe by your system security by whitelisting Avero in your firewall (IT or your POS reseller can assist with this!).
Step 1 - Prepare
First, you must set up access so Avero can pull your data and complete some preparatory steps, such as whitelisting our information.
Complete the Pre-Install Checklist.
Enable Remote Access for the installer: Remote Access to On-site Servers
Step 2 - Schedule an Install Time
Confirm these steps are complete with Avero Support to proceed to a scheduled time.
Note when scheduling: your POS must have at least 2 days of real, customer data for Avero to complete installation and verify the data.
Regular Maintenance: Making Updates and Changes for Aldelo
When changes or updates are needed who is responsible? If something appears incorrect or out-of-date, how should it be updated?
Change or Add a Meal Period in Aldelo
Whenever meal periods are changed in Aldelo they will be reflected in the next export we receive from you POS. Nothing needs to be done on the Avero side to approve/accept/map your meal periods. Feel free to make an update or add a meal period and see the data flow straight to Avero. Note that changes reflect data going forward.
Important to note - Meal Period changes/additions will not automatically update your logbook or saved reports.
Change or Add a Revenue Center in Aldelo
You can change or add revenue centers to your Aldelo configuration and see them reflected in Avero as soon as the next day. Changing a revenue center's name will only affect the data moving forward.
To add a revenue center, add the revenue center to your POS configuration and you will see it appear in Avero the next date it has sales.
To change a business name, open a ticket with Avero Support. Changing the name of a revenue center must be done in your POS, but the business it reports to ('Business' box in report generator, name on the logbook) will be changed by Avero.
Categories & Items in Aldelo
Avero provides the following Global categories: Beverage, Food, Misc., Other, and Retail. The major and minor categories come from your POS.
To make changes to items you'll need to update your POS - changing an item name, price, or moving it between categories.
To make changes to major/minor categories you'll need to update your POS - changing category names, updating which items are in a category, making categories more specific.
To make changes to global categories, you'll need to open a ticket and request Avero makes the change. For example, if Appetizers are appearing under Beverage and need to be moved to Food.
When creating new Categories, they may default to Other and require a ticket to update this mapping.
To read more see: Categories
Common Problems
It is very important to keep an active connection to your POS server should you ever need Avero Support to access the server and assist. Please visit our article on Remote Access to On-site Servers.
Aldelo Missing Data
Missing data happens. We invest ourselves continuously into making this process faster and more reliable, but it is not, and will never be, error-proof. The internet goes down; equipment fails, bugs pop up, etc. Occasional delays are to be expected. For Aldelo systems, we provide you the ability to recover your own data on-demand, any time you notice it missing, in just a couple of clicks. This data is processed and loaded into the Avero platform automatically within 2 hours, so you don't have to wait for a support agent, have any back and forth, or wait an entire day to rerun your reports. You are able to select the date on a calendar and send it - which means you have your data when you need it.
Simple instructions that take less than three minutes are found here, see On-Premise Data Recovery: Missing / Incorrect Data
Data Discrepancies - Avero's sales data is not matching Aldelo
If you notice your sales data is not matching up with your POS reports, there are three actions you need to complete:
- Make sure the data discrepancy exists in Avero by logging in and running a sales report. If you notice incorrect data in an emailed report, it may be related to email settings and not the data itself. See our troubleshooting guide: Troubleshooting Email Reports with Missing or Incomplete Data
- Review the Differences between Aldelo & Avero to make sure this isn't the discrepancy you are noticing.
- Run a Daily Sales Report from Aldelo for the date in question, Open a Data Ticket, attach the report and explain the discrepancy. Make sure to include the report, the date, and revenue center or location if you have access to several, as well as any examples you can provide.
Our team investigates all data discrepancies - due to the nature of our daily data extraction a single date and single-day sales report must be provided. We cannot investigate date ranges, but it is helpful to know if the issue is recurring and you can provide multiple dates.
Frequently Asked Questions About Aldelo
Why don't Avero's sales look the same as my Aldelo reports?
The numbers on the Aldelo reports do not match Avero exactly due to some differences in the ways these numbers are calculated.
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Aldelo Total Sales = Avero Gross Sales - Avero Item Discounts
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Aldelo Order Discounts + Cash Discounts = Avero Check Discounts
Is there any information Aldelo doesn't export to Avero?
There are some data limitations you may notice based on what we receive from Aldelo. Aldelo does not supply information on the following data points:
- Item Cost information
- Order Type
- Transfer Information (for transferred checks)
- Customer Name or Last 4 of CC for payment reference
- Labor overtime information - hours or rate
- Labor CC Tips information (Declared Tips are provided)
- Aldelo does not supply Item Transaction Time, so Check Open time is used for sales by hour.
Why do I recover missing data myself?
We've invested in improvements to our data extraction capabilities and documentation so that it is easy for users to recover their data without relying on a back-and-forth with support. We believe this creates a better user experience. Now, when users on-site follow the instructions to recover data (it takes less than 1 minute) they get immediate results and the data is loaded into the Avero platform within 2 hours. You can also open a ticket to recover missing data, but it will not load until the next day.
Does Avero pull credit card information from my Aldelo system?
No. Avero pulls payment type information, such as what type of card is used and the amount of the payment from all systems. We do not have access to, collect or store, full credit card numbers, and reference information such as Customer Name or Last 4 of CC are not available.
Can I pull back / historical data from my Aldelo server?
Yes! If you are a new customer, are missing recent data, or have just added a new profit center that already had sales that weren't loaded to Avero, you can run the data extraction for previous dates. The data that is available and extractable on Aldelo servers varies, but typically at least 90 days are available.
Instructions on running the data extraction are here: Missing / Incorrect Data