Internet Cafe Manager

The internet cafe business is one of the most growing and profit oriented business today. More and more investors as well as businessmen are now opting for it and becoming an internet cafe manager. The basic reason for its success is the low amount of initial investment, low maintenance cost and high profit margins. But since this business depends upon the usage of your facilities by the public, a proper check and balance procedure is required. 


When the business of being an internet cafe manager was in its initial stages, all check and balances were done manually i.e. by hand. They are quite a large number of problems associated with this approach. The first being that it is more error prone, we humans tend to miss out calculations. Secondly as your business grows more and more, you are responsible for more systems at the same time, this of course make the check and balance procedure even tougher. 


The good news however and the reason why the internet cafe business has been as success is that now all this management is done by a computer software. This internet cafe manager software basically reduces the human or manual involvement to almost zero. The one obvious advantage that we get is that there are no more errors as far as the usage of one’s facilities go. Since there are lots and lots of available softwares, the next question that arises is which software to buy? At what price to buy? Also what facility does the software offers?


Now we need to discuss that on what basis we can make a decision about whether we should buy the internet cafe manager software or not? The following are some of the key features that a cyber café should have


1. All controls and billing should be automated. What this means is that the billing depending upon the usage of the facility should be automatic. It should start billing the moment a user starts using the facility and end right where the user stops using it.

2. In case of usage or billing queries, the software should be capable of generating a detailed report indicating the facility used, the time of the usage and the cost associated with it. It should also have the facility of sending the report through an email or printing it.

3. There should be the option of selecting a prepaid facility in which a user has an option to choose among various packages. Since this facility is prepaid therefore as soon as the time runs out the usage of the facility stops.

4. Various employees could be given various accounts with different privileges.

5. The user interface should be as simple or user friendly as possible so that there is no trouble as far as the facility is concerned.

6. Since your facilities are being used by the public, security threats in the form of viruses are always there. It is recommended that this software should have an inbuilt antivirus or be associated with an antivirus program.

7. The internet cafe manager should be compatible with the available operating systems.

If all these features are available at a low cost than there should be no doubt in buying.