Grow your revenue withcorporate entertainment

Connect the restaurant's POS to Maîtres Pay and become the obvious choice for the region's companies. Waitstaff no longer handle cards, invoice addresses or paper receipts. They simply close the bill in the POS to Maîtres Pay and the guest can leave right away. We handle all invoicing and guarantee weekly payouts to you.

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Open the door to invoice customers without credit risk or administration

By activating Maîtres Pay, a completely new and previously untapped market opens up for the restaurant. It's about the opportunity to receive all companies and private guests who want to pay their visits via invoice. Market research shows that as many as seven out of ten business guests prefer to have their restaurant visits paid via invoice. Despite this enormous demand, almost every restaurant today declines these customers because of the administrative hassle, the wasted time in the back office and above all the significant credit risk.

With Maîtres Pay the restaurant can now offer every corporate guest payment via invoice without lifting a finger. The system handles the entire flow on its own – from POS integration to final debiting. The single biggest value for the restaurant is that Maîtres Pay takes on the whole credit risk. If a corporate guest doesn't pay their invoice, none of that hits the restaurant. You have full flexibility and choose in your own settings how you want the money paid out to your bank account, with pre-built options for payout after three, ten or thirty days.

With this, the restaurant's administrative costs disappear completely. In the back office all work with running credit checks on new companies, manual invoice generation, time-consuming ledger follow-up and management of reminders and demands is erased. At the same time the waitstaff is fully relieved from the heavy admin work traditional invoice customers require on site after the visit. Waitstaff simply close the table against the app in one second, which lets them focus entirely on the guest experience and service in the dining room.

Cost analysis

Manual invoice handling for a single restaurant guest

Letting a corporate guest pay via traditional paper or PDF invoice sometimes looks like a simple courtesy, but behind the scenes it triggers a heavy administrative machine. This process burdens both the waitstaff in the dining room and the back office, creating large hidden costs. Below is a breakdown of time and real cost based on an internal hourly cost of SEK 450 for administrative work and SEK 300 for waitstaff.

1. Labour cost in the dining room at the time of the visit

When the guest asks to pay by invoice the waitstaff can't just run a card and close the table. Staff have to fetch forms or go to the head-waiter's station to manually write down the guest's company details, delivery address, reference number and verify the organisation number against ID. This takes 10 minutes on average, which corresponds to a direct labour cost of SEK 50. On top of that comes stress in the operation that steals focus from other paying guests.

2. Labour cost in the back office after the visit

The real time drain happens in the office in the days after the visit. The finance staff must complete the following steps to handle the single transaction:

First a manual credit check is run via a credit reference service to make sure the guest's company has no payment remarks. This takes around 5 minutes and carries a pure system cost of about SEK 20 for the credit report.
Next the invoice has to be created manually in the restaurant's accounting software. Items, food, alcohol and correct VAT rates have to be keyed in and reconciled against the POS records. This takes around 15 minutes.
After sending, the receivables ledger has to be monitored. When payment finally arrives it has to be matched against the bank feed and cleared in the ledger, which takes around 5 minutes.

Total time in the office adds up to 25 minutes, which yields a labour cost of SEK 187.50.

3. Cost of lost liquidity and interest

When a guest pays by card, the restaurant has the money on the account the next banking day. On an invoice, standard payment terms are 30 days. During that time the restaurant acts as a bank for the guest's company. For a bill of SEK 5,000 that means tied-up liquidity that weighs on the restaurant's cash flow.

4. Cost of reminders and unpaid invoices (credit risk)

On average every tenth corporate invoice requires a manual reminder or phone call because the due date has passed. Sending reminders, handling interest invoicing or in the worst case referring the matter to debt collection consumes another 15 to 30 minutes when it happens. Spreading this out and the risk of genuine customer losses per invoice adds a statistical risk cost of about SEK 50 per issued invoice.

Total cost per invoice guest

Direct time in the dining room:: 10 minutes (SEK 50)
Credit check and system cost:: 5 minutes (SEK 20)
Invoicing and administration:: 15 minutes (SEK 112.50)
Reconciliation in ledger and bank:: 5 minutes (SEK 37.50)
Distributed risk cost (reminder/collection):: SEK 50
Total real cost:: SEK 270

If a business dinner totals SEK 3,000 the administration eats up nearly 10 percent of the bill's total value. It's this heavy, hidden cost that makes almost every restaurant refuse invoice customers today, and it's exactly this cost that Maîtres Pay erases completely from day one.

Frequently asked questions – Restaurant connection

How does this grow the restaurant's revenue and guest count?

Corporate guests are the restaurant industry's most profitable segment. They order more expensive wines, eat more courses and above all book Monday–Thursday when the private market is soft. By offering direct invoicing you make it extremely easy for the region's companies to place their business dinners with you.

Does it require new hardware or extra training for the waitstaff?

No, no new hardware or terminal required. Our software integrates directly into the POS (Trivec, Ancon). Waitstaff simply close the bill as usual under the payment method "Maîtres Pay". The rest is handled automatically.