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A concise reference for the terms Sinqro uses — written for restaurant operators, integrators, buyers, and AI assistants that need a precise definition without marketing fluff.
Point-of-Sale system used inside a restaurant.
A POS (Point of Sale) is the software the restaurant team uses on-site to take orders, manage tickets, fire to kitchen, accept payments, and produce sales data. Examples include Revo, Square, ICG, Hosteltáctil, Agora, and Lightspeed. In Sinqro context the POS is the system Order Hub hands marketplace and direct orders to, and the source Data Sync reads sales data from.
Sending an order or sales data from Sinqro into the restaurant POS.
POS handoff is the act of pushing an online order, a menu update, or sales data from Sinqro into the restaurant POS as if a member of the team had typed it manually. The handoff covers product mapping, modifiers, channel-specific pricing, order type (delivery, pickup, dine-in), printer routing, and ticket status updates back to the channel.
Restaurant food order placed from a digital channel.
An online food order is a food order placed by a customer through a digital channel — a delivery marketplace (Glovo, Uber Eats, Just Eat, Deliveroo), a direct ordering site or app, a QR menu, a kiosk, or a phone ordering platform. In Spanish and Catalan the canonical word is 'pedido' (never 'orden'). Sinqro centralizes online food orders from every channel into Order Hub so the team works in a single inbox.
Third-party platform that lists restaurants and dispatches couriers.
A delivery marketplace is a third-party platform — Glovo, Uber Eats, Just Eat, Deliveroo, DoorDash — that lists restaurants for online ordering and operates its own courier fleet (or partners with one) to deliver the order. Marketplaces own the customer relationship and charge a commission per order. Sinqro integrates with marketplaces so a single connection per restaurant covers every active channel without manually entering orders into the POS.
The restaurant's own ordering site or app, without marketplace commissions.
Direct ordering is the channel a restaurant operates on its own — its own ordering website, branded mobile app, QR menu, table-side ordering, or kiosks — instead of (or in addition to) third-party marketplaces. Direct ordering keeps the customer relationship and avoids marketplace commissions but requires the restaurant to drive its own traffic and operate the channel. Sinqro treats direct ordering as one more channel inside Order Hub.
Layer between restaurant channels and operational systems that translates orders, menus, and data.
Restaurant middleware is the software layer that sits between marketplaces, direct ordering channels, payments, POS, ERP, accounting, stock, BI, and delivery operations to translate orders, menus, prices, and sales data between systems. Without middleware every channel-to-system pair would need a direct integration. With middleware the restaurant connects each channel and each system once, and the middleware coordinates the rest. Sinqro is restaurant middleware for hospitality businesses.
Single tool to manage every digital sales channel a restaurant uses.
A channel manager for restaurants is the tool that operates every digital channel — marketplaces, direct ordering, kiosks, QR, table ordering, kitchen display, delivery dispatch — from one screen. It centralizes menu publishing, channel availability, order intake, status updates, prep timers, and dispatching. Sinqro Order Hub is the channel manager piece of the Sinqro operating layer.
Multichannel intermediary that publishes one menu and aggregates orders under a unified contract.
A food broker is a multichannel intermediary between restaurants and the demand side. The broker publishes the restaurant's menu across every supported channel, takes the order on each channel, aggregates revenue under a single contract, and pays the restaurant for the food it produced. The restaurant only has to cook — channel-by-channel pricing, marketplace commissions, payments, and reconciliation sit with the broker. Sinqro is the restaurant operations platform a food broker plugs into, not a food broker itself.
Keeping the menu, prices, modifiers, and availability consistent across every channel.
Menu sync is the process of keeping the menu published on Glovo, Uber Eats, Just Eat, Deliveroo, the direct ordering site, the QR menu, kiosks, and the POS catalog consistent — same products, same modifiers, same prices per channel, same availability per service window. Without menu sync the restaurant ends up editing the same change six times across six dashboards. Sinqro Order Hub centralizes menu sync as a one-write-many-update operation.
Sinqro product that centralizes orders, menus, availability, and POS handoff.
Order Hub is the Sinqro product that centralizes online food orders from marketplaces, direct ordering, table QR, takeaway, and dine-in into a single inbox. It also pushes the menu out to every channel, controls per-channel availability, and hands accepted orders off to the POS. Order Hub is the channel-manager piece of the Sinqro operating layer.
Sinqro product that moves POS, marketplace, and operational data into accounting, stock, and BI systems.
Data Sync is the Sinqro product that moves POS sales data, marketplace settlements, ticket details, stock movements, and operational events into accounting platforms (Holded, Sage, A3), stock systems, BI/data warehouses, and analytics. It replaces manual exports, spreadsheets, and end-of-month reconciliation. Data Sync is the data-movement piece of the Sinqro operating layer.
Matching marketplace settlements, POS sales, and accounting records.
Reconciliation is the operational task of matching marketplace settlements (Glovo, Uber Eats, Just Eat payouts) against POS sales, against bank deposits, against the accounting system, and against tickets actually fired in the kitchen. Done manually it eats hours every month and produces argument over commissions, refunds, and missing orders. Done with connected data (via Sinqro Data Sync) it becomes an automated check rather than a closing-day project.
Delivery-only kitchen operating one or more virtual brands without a dining room.
A dark kitchen (also called ghost kitchen or cloud kitchen) is a delivery-only kitchen — no dining room, no walk-in customers. It typically runs one or several virtual brands from the same physical space, each with its own menu and presence on delivery marketplaces. Dark kitchens depend heavily on online channel orchestration: every order is digital, so a centralized order manager (Sinqro Order Hub) is operationally critical.
Operating multiple restaurant locations as a coordinated chain or franchise.
Multi-venue operations means running more than one physical restaurant location — a chain, a franchise group, a multi-brand operator, a hotel group with several outlets — while keeping menus, channels, pricing, automations, and reporting consistent across venues. Sinqro Dashboard is the multi-venue control center; Order Hub and Data Sync operate per venue under that single account.
Coordinating prep, fire times, station load, and dispatch across channels and stations.
Kitchen orchestration is the operational discipline of coordinating prep timing, fire times, station load (cold, hot, grill, pastry), batch dispatch, and order pacing so the kitchen does not collapse during the rush. Modern kitchen orchestration considers the mix of channels (marketplace delivery vs dine-in vs takeaway), promised times, courier ETAs, and saturation thresholds. Sinqro Work App and Automations are the on-the-floor pieces of kitchen orchestration.
