Transact Insights for Campus Commerce
Turn real-time data into smarter campus dining decisions
Your operations deserve more than outdated reports and guesswork. With Transact Insights, you get actionable insights in real time—so you can serve students better, streamline operations, and drive revenue growth.
Talk to SalesWhy Transact Insights?
Today's campus dining teams face fragmented data, clunky exports, and reporting delays that make it hard to run efficient operations. You're forced to stitch together reports from multiple systems—by the time you get answers, they're already outdated.
Transact Insights was built to solve this problem.
Optimize operations on the fly
Get a real-time view of foot traffic and kitchen demand—adjust staffing, prep, and restocking in the moment, not after the fact.
Boost sales with menu intelligence
Identify top sellers and purchasing patterns by location and channel (register, kiosk, mobile). Offer what students want, where and how they want it.
Eliminate guesswork from planning
Use visual dashboards and historical trends to inform financial planning, labor allocation, and tax compliance—all from one place.
Make the most of your historical data
Access three years of Cloud POS and Mobile Ordering data to spot trends, track performance, and forecast with confidence. H3: Bridge the gap between people and data Body Copy: Insights turns complex data into simple, visual dashboards—making it easy for any team member, regardless of technical skill, to understand and act.
Bridge the gap between people and data
Insights turns complex data into simple, visual dashboards—making it easy for any team member, regardless of technical skill, to understand and act.
What your peers are saying
Use visual dashboards and historical trends to inform financial planning, labor allocation, and tax compliance—all from one place.
"Transact Insights has been a game changer for us.
The visibility into data, order volumes, and service levels—and the ability to compare term over term—has significantly impacted our operations and improved overall customer satisfaction."
Nirmal Palliyaguru, Property Management Director, Santa Clara University
"My initial reaction to Transact Insights—after first logging in and getting familiar with it—was the opportunity that could be presented with it. I was full of optimism. I thought, ‘Ok, this is going somewhere. It could really help us identify key KPIs and advance our use of data to make business-driven decisions."
Melanie Reid, Assistant Director for Dining Systems, University of Michigan
What is Transact Insights?
Transact Insights is your unified, cloud-based data platform for real-time reporting across campus dining and retail. It centralizes all your Transact Cloud POS and Transact Mobile Ordering data into one intuitive experience—no more jumping between systems or drowning in spreadsheets.
Here's how it empowers your team:
Real-time dashboards
Monitor sales, patron counts, and kitchen activity in 15-minute intervals. Make on-the-spot decisions about staffing and inventory.
Profit center and product mix analysis
Instantly identify over/underperforming locations. Compare product sales by venue and shift your menu strategy to increase revenue.
Tax and compliance reporting
Automatically break down taxation by profit center for cleaner, audit-ready compliance reporting.
Interactive, filterable reports
Slice and dice by time of day, menu category, item, order channel, and more. Export data instantly or explore trends right inside the dashboard
Power your own exploration with data connections
Want to explore your data your way? Transact Insights includes Data Connections, a built-in feature that sends your live campus transaction data directly to your preferred reporting and analytics tools—Power BI, Tableau, Excel, and more.
- Set it up in seconds—no manual exports or engineering lift required
- Pull in real-time data, as it happens
- Ideal for power users who want to build custom reports, run deep analysis, or train machine learning models
Whether you're building a predictive staffing model or creating executive dashboards, Data Connections gives you the control and flexibility to go deep.
We're just getting started
"The future of Insights lies in leveraging all the data we now have in one place through this fantastic, powerful, scalable platform.
The goal is to build predictive models that deliver actionable insights—empowering operators and benefiting students, staff, and the institution as a whole."
- Ian Ashworth, Senior Director, Campus ID & Commerce Data Analytics & AI, Transact + CBORD
Get real answers in real time—and finally trust your data.
It's time to stop spending hours searching for and piecing together data. It's time for Transact Insights. Let's explore it together.
