Yonoton and Elo bring their POS and self-service solutions to Kristiansand Park

The largest theme park in Norway, Kristiansand, has installed a digital infrastructure based on POS and self-service solutions Yonoton and Elo.

Yonoton has certified Elo hardware for its point-of-sale and digital kiosk solutions. This alliance seeks to facilitate omnichannel deployments in the hospitality and leisure sector. currently, are supplying equipment to Norway's largest theme park, the Kristiansand, to prepare for the holiday season.

Yonoton's SaaS platform offers an omnichannel solution for customers to manage their business, save operating costs and generate additional revenue. Its greatest advantage is that it allows you to manage easily from one place, regardless of channel (application, web store, point of sale or self-service kiosk).

“Our interactive devices with Android fit with Yonoton's modern omnichannel solutions, making it easier for customers to maintain their mobile apps, POS systems and self-service kiosks in the same architecture”, states Maarten Bais, Managing Director and Vice President of Elo EMEA.

From devices mobile handheld and small touch screens, the size of a tablet of 10 Inch, to the largest signage displays and all-in-one point-of-sale systems, modular designs provide customers with the building blocks to configure a multitude of solutions.

“We and our theme park partner select Elo touch screens for their reliability and quality, which gives us and our customers peace of mind, and with Elo's broad portfolio, we can maintain different form factors and sizes on the same hardware platform”, explains Teemu Karenius, ceo of Yonoton.

Zoo and amusement park Kristiansand

One of the main facilities that Yonoton and Elo are working on together is the equipping of Norway's largest theme park., Kristiansand Zoo and Amusement Park (Dyreparken in Norwegian), with a complete digital solution.

He is known for being one of the most innovative players in the theme park business., as it offers its visitors changing and modern experiences. Technology is used in the park in a variety of ways to improve the customer experience.

Digitization began in the summer of 2019 with the Kristiansand app, a solution developed by Yonoton. After the results obtained, a year later, of the 80% of the families who had visited the park had downloaded the Kristiansand app and all orders for food and drink went through this application.

For the summer of this year, Kristiansand is taking digitization a step further with the introduction of Yonoton's self-service and POS solutions throughout the park. In addition, allows its visitors to use payments with NFC bracelets and has installed a new virtual queueing solution.

These enhancements allow visitors to focus on the theme park experience rather than having to keep an eye on payments, receipts and entries.

During the spring of 2021 have been installed in the park near 50 Elo touchscreen devices, so they are ready for summer. All are Android-based and work with Yonoton's point-of-sale solution, which is not only a cash register but an ordering and management interface for various sales channels.

The I-series touch screens of 15 inches have been chosen for POS systems with staff, the interactive model of 10 inches for customers, and the touch of 22 from the same family has been the choice for an interactive self-service kiosk.

“We want to create lifelong memories for our visitors”, clarifies André Steinsholm, Head of E-commerce at Dyreparken. “For that to happen, we need to constantly improve and optimize your experience. One of our main goals is to reduce wasted time, and these new features will help achieve this.”

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