Usage and Benefits of Electronic Point of Sale System

Majorly, the Point of Sale system is seen in the place where the retail transaction is completed with the help of electronic systems. After purchasing some goods and services every customer comes to the point where he/she needs to make the payment. This is the process which includes calculation of the amount for the goods and services purchased by the retailer. Many times retailers also asked for some various options for the customer to make payment. All these processes end up with a retail transaction and so it is called a point of sale.

Usage of Electronic Point of Sale

Below mentioned are few uses of Electronic Point of Sale 

1.      High ROI: The Electronic Point of Sale system is a computerized and includes high return on investment just within 18 months after it is installed. 

2.    Provide Some Tools: The System mechanism is created in a manner which also helps in taking any important business decision regarding sales. Useful and relevant information also helps us to take a business to the next level.

3.      Increase Productivity: POS System is very helpful for the small and large business enterprise because it saves your time, money and it can be utilized positively in the growth and expansion of business.

4.      Stock Management: Bring up benefit to the business which manages the stock electronically with faster transaction and showing up better sales reports.

Benefits of Electronic Point of Sale

1.   Increase in Transaction Speed: The POS System process is so well managed that it increases the transaction speed and quality of service due to its screen touch and EPOS terminals that operates faster

2.  User Friendly: POS System is very user friendly and operates quicker, faster at just one figure touch. So any person can operate it easily without training.

3.    Quick Stock Search: Process for Searching the availability of the stock at faster paces helps customers from waiting around

4.      Accurate billing: As this is an electronic process and identifies the product with the help of barcode, so the final amount paid by any customer is accurate which improves the trust towards that business.

5.      Staff Productivity: The staff working and managing the retail operation their productivity gets increases as well as their efforts might be utilized fruitfully in other business operations.

6.    No Chance of any frauds:  The staff managing retail transaction does not have any chance of fraud because all the process is managed electronically

For more details please do kindly visit the site East Coast Point of Sale which offers point of sale, service, supplies, paging systems, mobile system and surveillance equipment.

The Future of Grocery Shopping Comes to Wisconsin

This winter, shoppers at the Woodman’s Food Markets Gammon Road location in Madison, Wis., got a look at the future of grocery shopping when the store unveiled and conducted demos for customers of the Woodman’s Mobile Shopper, powered by NCR Corporation.  The app is currently available on the Apple App Store.

With Mobile Shopper, shoppers can:

• Save time and make shopping easier by using their own iPhones to scan items in the aisles as they shop;
• Use the app to create virtual shopping lists before going to the store, further increasing the speed, efficiency and ease of shopping trips;
• Checkout at the Woodman’s self-checkout (SCO) stations with a QR code on their phones that transfers their mobile shopping information to the SCO.  The SCO station confirms the weight of the items scanned with the phone against the items being bagged at the SCO station;
• Pay with their preferred method of payment;
• Quickly be on their way. 

During the checkout process, attendants can quickly help customers reconcile any discrepancies the system identifies and answer any other questions they may have.  Produce, other non-barcoded items and impulse items can also be added at the self-checkout.  The store also features free WIFI throughout so shoppers do not have to use their own data plan while using the Mobile Shopper app.

“NCR brings unique and powerful technology that helps Woodman’s achieve our goals of customer service and convenience,” said Chad Greenwald at Woodman’s.  “We’re excited about launching this Mobile Shopper solution with NCR and look forward to delighting our customers with this new, high-tech shopping and check-out option.”

“With this launch, Woodman’s is moving toward making the shopping experience faster and more convenient for their shoppers,” said Chris Lybeer, vice president and general manager of retail marketing and mobile solutions at NCR.   “Launching mobile checkout takes Woodman’s to the forefront of the 21^st Century and creates additional opportunities in the future for Woodman’s to interact with their customers in real time during the shopping experience.”

Following deployment at the Madison location, Woodman’s will explore deploying Mobile Shopper at their other 13 stores in Wisconsin and Illinois.

For more information about the Woodman’s Mobile Shopper, follow the feed on Twitter, @WoodmansApp.  Or, check out this Mobile Payments Today video that shows how this great shopping tool works!

See more at: http://blogs.ncr.com/converged-multi-channel-retailing/point-of-sale/the-future-grocery-shopping-comes-wisconsin/

Why Restaurants struggle

A lot of people ask me, why do Restaurants struggle? In my opinion it’s because they spend so much money making things look good, the last thing they think of is controls. A lot of owners think they can do it manually, but then realize 6 months into it that they are losing money and then they think they can’t afford a proper POS system.

For over 19 years I have watched the industry change and grow. When I first started helping clients try to understand how to put controls in their business and help with their bottom line profits, it was a struggle because I watched servers, managers, and owners try to do everything “old school” with paper and pen, which was understandable considering there was not a lot of technology besides a basic cash register. Then when cash registers became more popular, we discovered that it was a lot easier than using a calculator to ring in orders and we could do things like ring in PLU’s (price Look up) but the problem that occurred with that is that the order would not go directly to the kitchen.

After many years, I realized that the cash register was not enough to keep things under controland that the most important part to controlling a business was the kitchen printer,if your staff doesn’t see it, they can’t make it. It was a struggle for kitchen staff as well, because of common mistakes like penmanship errors which often resulted in food not being prepared the way the customer asked which resulted in food waste. Not long after this,Panasonic cash registers that had a kitchen printer was introduced. This is when the restaurant industry changed dramatically and noticed a great improvement on the bottom line profits.

But it was not until my company and I were installing more advanced touch screen POS systems that I realized why restaurants continued to struggle. I began to create solutions to help my clients make higher profits. First we started with things like making sure the system reminded servers to ring in beverages and side orders, for example: 5 servers in a restaurant forgetting to ring in 2 coffees per day over a 30 day period is approximately $525.00 per month. Those same 5 servers forgetting to ring in 2 side orders per day at an average of $1.00 per side is approximately$300.00 per month. Then we came up with ways for servers to speed up table turns, and to print bills faster. We thought of a way to prevent restaurants from having their administration adding up slips to get the total daily sales and the servers adding up bills to get the client totals,think to yourself:  hiring the extra staff just to do reporting, that results in a huge amount of labor costs, we are talking thousands per year! So we thought to ourselves, why not create one simple report that shows everything and that’s what we did. 

We strive to help our clients make the right choices for their business. The hospitality business is hard now and always changing, and with restaurants only making, on average between .03 -.08 cents on each dollar, the correct solutions need to be installed to make sure you are getting paid on every dollar.

The days are gone now when POS systems were just made to ring in orders and printing bills. Social media is everywhere, and technology is constantly expanding and becoming more powerful. Why not grow with the times instead of fearing it? With our Aloha POS, it is changing the way we do business in restaurants. With Aloha, we now can do things like ordering items and paying your bill on your phone, your customers being able to  share their comments through Facebook and Twitter, loyalty programs to show your customers how much you care, and gift cards so that your customers can give them to their family and friends.

Aloha allows us to show you how to drive more business to clients than ever before, and it’s only getting better!

So why struggle anymore, make the right choices upfront and install Aloha today, because it works!

Marvin Hayes - Solutions Advisor
East Coast POS

NCR Launches Aloha Mobile

NCR declared NCR Aloha Mobile, a modern expansion of the NCR Aloha Table Service point-of-sale (POS) software.  Aloha Mobile allows restaurants to easily and safely set up mobile technology for table side purchasing and payment. In addition, this allows for an increase in rate and services information and order precision, thereby enhancing visitor fulfillment. 

Aloha Mobile is comprehensive, feature-rich application that gives web servers full mobile access many of the solid features of the Aloha POS. The UI for Aloha Mobile mirrors the well-known UI of the Aloha POS application. This makes it quick and simple for restaurants places to practice web servers and have them begin table side purchases and payments instantly and very effectively. Further, Aloha Mobile provides web servers this ability across many mobile components systems, such as the newest creation of NCR Orderman devices as well as Apple® iOS devices like the iPad®, iPad Mini®, iPhone® and iPod touch®.

Original Source: http://www.ncr.com/newsroom/resources/aloha-mobile-launch

Hotels POS system - New Technology

The NCR Hospitality team in Midtown Atlanta area has been operating all season on a remedy known as NCR Mobile Pay.  Of course you can pay with it, but it’s much larger than that.  NCR Cellular Pay is a individual assistant that allows a cafe visitor get what they want without awaiting someone to ask.  The technological innovation has not been simple but when you see it in activity, it’s amazing.  Cellular Pay is the first technological innovation that completely holds the consumer-centric characteristics of cafe dealings.

Get more information on Mobile Pay by downloading the PDF document mobilepay.pdf

Short Payment method:
Your pos system server takes orders purchases and opens a check. When a new check is started out, the POS prints a chit containing information describing how to view the check. Your server delivers the chit to your desk.

Benefits of using POS System in restaurants

Increase your Bars/Yacht Clubs/Restaurants performance and rate of service. Whether you run a quick assistance or table assistance restaurants, your coustomers expect the best possible assistance in a practical and efficient way. The key objective is having POS software technology is fast, efficient, versatile and easily-managed service.

Here is an example by a survey done of a restaurant using pos system.

A Williamson County restaurant is now using high tech menu system of the future.El Monumento which is located just blocks away from Main Street in Georgetown is using hand held pos devices for table service ordering and payment.

The order is made by these systems and goes to the computers in the kitchen and bar and the order of the food and drinks are ready.
This has increased the service speed and the accuracy of orders. If there is any problem we can know about it right away.

Get more details on Bars POS Software, Yacht Clubs/restaurant POS system
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