StoreWin Overview                                                           See viPOS Overview
 

The Storewin product is installed in hundreds of retail locations nationwide. It is comprised of a comprehensive suite of features that enable retailers the control over massive amounts of information found in today’s retail operations, control that quite literally translates into an enhanced bottom line. It features an integrated, open database for all products in the store that supports single or multi-store operations.


Features at a glance

  • Multi or single store
  • Client-Server register communications.
  • Cost and retail zoning
  • Integrated Frequent Shopper support.
  • Electronic price book
  • Host communications
  • Multi-tasking
  • Shelf price audit
  • Graphical user interface
  • Shelf label generation
  • Enhanced file export
  • In-store sign creating
  • Direct Store Delivery
  • Management reporting
  • FM Support
  • Report archival and retrieval
  • Cash manager
  • Automatic job scheduling
  • Department scale interface
  • Function level security
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    Product/Retail Management

    StoreWin facilitates the management of products and the associated price and cost information. Through sophisticated data entry screens, users can view and edit all levels of information that control the pricing of products at the register.

    • Extensive support for dated sale, temporary price reduction (TPR), and base retail prices, including future pricing and nested promotional events.
    • Extensive support for loyalty programs, including dated and nested frequent shopper discounts and multi-tiered pricing.
    • Extensive support for dated cost and vendor promotion (deals) tracking.
    • Time-proven, flexible database maintenance screens and procedure allow highly efficient data entry and customization to task.
    • Provides shelf-label generation capabilities, and supports popular in-store sign programs and software packages.
    • Flexible reporting on products and movement data, including an extensive set of selection criteria, report sequencing, and output options.
    • Pricing data can be either batched to POS systems or communicated as it occurs, at the store’s option.
    • Provides for the establishment & maintenance of instant discounts to be triggered by the scanning of a preferred customer card anywhere within a transaction.
    • Maintains movement at each price point at which product was sold, allowing the accurate reporting of markdowns provided to loyalty program participants.

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    StoreWin FM (Handheld Devices)

    The Storewin FM subsystem liberates the store pricing coordinator and other store management personnel from the back offices. Storewin provides the retailer with tools to facilitate the control of the store operation from the selling floor.

    • Supports a rigorous DSD receiving process that verifies product authorization, costs, deals, UPC codes, and retail prices in real-time as product enters the store
    • Promotes scan price accuracy by allowing price audits and routine file maintenance operations to be performed from the selling floor
    • Concurrent multi-terminal operation, each performing a different function
    • Provides necessary audit trails and security mechanisms
    • Supports for narrow band, spread spectrum, and wireless LAN technologies
    • FM terminal support is a fully integrated part of Storewin, not an add-on product or option

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    HostComm - Host Communications

    Host communications provides support for single store or HQ operation, with HQ providing hosting to stores. Turn-around hosting from stores for positive confirmation of host file application by stores is also provided.

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    DSD - Direct Store Delivery

    The control of DSD purchases and receipts represents a well-known opportunity to positively impact a store’s bottom-line. The DSD subsystem that is an integral part of Storewin provides the tools necessary to ensure retailers maximize their profits while minimizing loss due to invalid product codes, inaccurate pricing, missed vendors deals and allowances, unauthorized deliveries and invoice extension errors. Compared to manual processes, the DSD subsystem lessens the labor-intensive nature of DSD receiving through the introduction of Exception Work lists and the automated interfaces with Accounts Payable software.

    • Supports back-door receiving & front-end scanning from a single in-store database.
    • Provides multiple modes of data capture, including FM terminals & PC workstations.
    • Permits the immediate printing of receiving documents and reconciliation of invoices while the vendor is still on the premises.
    • Promotes an exception-oriented approach where problem invoices are routed to electronic work lists for easy identification and resolution.
    • Includes a simple, yet comprehensive, reporting mechanism as a means of measuring a vendor’s contribution to profits.
    • Provides an analytical tool for evaluating the reliability of a vendor’s invoices over time.
    • Includes a interface generator that enables the system to provide data to virtually any A/P software
    • Permits the extraction of receiving data for later transmission to headquarters

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    Register Integration

    The POSICOM component of Storewin provides a real-time communications interface with the POS equipment. This further empowers the retailer to make the appropriate management decisions based on up-to-the-minute information. Storewin provides the ability not just to manage pricing in POS equipment, but also to provide price management for the scales typically found in the meat and product departments. This further enables the maintenance of product information and pricing in a single location.

    • Adds value to the Storewin product by permitting it to participate actively on the point-of sale loop.
    • Pricing data is either batched to POS systems or communicated as it occurs, at the store’s option.
    • Supports immediate & automatic communication of current price changes to the registers.
    • Allows for real-time movement & sales inquiries.
    • Provides a full array of financial & productivity reports on a flash, daily, weekly, or periodic basis.
    • Includes an intuitive user interface for the maintenance of register program parameters.
    • Maintain accurate scale department information
    • Eliminate erroneous or inconsistent random weight meat item pricing
    • Track movement of scale department items
    • Integrated support for scale item pricing with communications to departmental scales.
    • POS movement is collected daily and maintained in the Storewin database. Movement is collected at each price point, allowing sophisticated markdown reporting.
    • RegComm is a fully integrated part of Storewin, not an add-on or option.
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    viPOS Overview

     viPOS is installed in thousands of lanes across the nation, and allows small to medium size retailers to take advantage of product-scanning technology. This helps to build the foundation for implementing a wide range of information-intensive programs crucial for succeeding in today’s supermarket business environment. viPOS delivers a point-of-sale scanning alternative with a price point attractive to any sized grocery retailer.

    A reliable and scalable point-of-sale application, viPOS is installed in configurations ranging from one to over 32 lanes. Architecturally, the system runs on Windows across a TCP/IP Ethernet LAN. viPOS allows each lane to operate independently, ensuring no single point of failure. Each lane contains the full PLU file and only communicates to the POS server at the end of a transaction. This allows the front-end terminals to function even if the server is not available – by scanning from a local PLU file and temporarily storing all transactions and electronic journal information to the local disk until the server comes back online. When the server becomes available, all stored transactions are forwarded to the server to re-synchronize.

    Features at a glance

    • Frequent Shopper
    • Reporting Features
    • Check Processing
    • Store Charge Posting
    • Gift certificate tender.
    • Graphical screen savers
    • Receipt Coupon Generation
    • Customer database
    • Electronic journal.
    • MTX/EPS WinEPS Support
    • Flexible report selection.
  • Drill-down Financial Reports
  • Integrated Electronic Payment Support
  • Multiple transaction discounts.
  • Secondary & back-up totals.
  • Loans/Pickups from any terminal to any cashier.
  • Transaction Suspend/Resume
  • Vendor & Store Coupon Processing
  • Multiple user programmed PLU lists
  • NCR FastLane self-checkout integration
  • 24 Hour store operation support
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    Lane Software

    The POS lane component facilitates the operation of the store by integrating with a wide range of devices. Each lane can be configured independently to operate with differing devices. In addition, a lane can continue functioning independently as needed to provide the greatest amount of support to your customers.

     

    • Introduces a low-cost point-of-sale scanning alternative targeted at the small-to-medium sized operator, yet scalable to large installations.
    • Utilizes Vendor Independent PC architecture so that support is simplified & future extendibility is assured
    • Provides a scalable software and hardware solution that will fit any retailers needs
    • Redundancies in design ensure that the remainder of the system will continue to operate in the event of an individual component failure
    • Large screen/large print display that provides excellent customer visibility
    • Running total display on screen
    • Scrollable virtual receipt on screen for quick item identification beyond the last item scanned
    • Very high ease of use and minimal cashier training required
    • Training mode provided for training new cashiers during regular operation
    • Highly configurable and customizable
    • Extensive keyboard configuration capabilities, with the ability to secure or require multi-level authorization on any key, support for department and item pre-set keys, and a broad list of common POS functions
    • Provides a flexible set of choices to customize operationally
    • Graphical thermal receipt printing
    • Coupon printing at the POS lane based on transaction or departmental thresholds
    • Extensive payment processing support
    • Check processing support, including local negative check and velocity checking, automated check writing, and network negative check and velocity checking
    • In-house store charge control, with real-time balance information available at the lane
    • Gift card support
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    • Support for both electronic and voucher WIC, as well as CVB and Food Stamp, product eligibility validation and totaling, with WIC check verification
    • Support for age restricted products and age verification
    • Extensive pricing support, including frequent shopper, tiered, premium pricing (buy n, get $), discounts, and others
    • Immediate display and verification of price savings on screen
    • Support for multiple tax itemizers, tax exemptions, and tax modifiers
    • Support for customer-specified pricing, including tiers, stored awards, or stored messages for specific customers
    • Not on file data capture and reporting
    • Fully detailed transaction data collect for all or frequent shopper transactions only
    • Price-check kiosk support using the Symbol MK1000 device
    • Dual graphical customer and cashier display support
    • Powerful tool for front end marketing with the fully graphical cashier and/or customer monitors, using graphics screen savers, product linked graphics and messages, and customer-specific features
    • Catalina Coupon support
    • Dual cash drawer support for improved cashier accountability
    • Unlimited transaction suspend/resume capability
    • Support for multiple scrollable PLU lists for non-scanning items
    • Support for FM terminal order pre-scan (“line buster”) for busy environments
    • Support for scrollable department lists permits infrequently charged department to be omitted from the keyboard.
    • Support for scrollable customer list for stores running house charge accounts.
    • Support for continuous (24-hour) operation
    • Support for integrated MICR readers in POS printers
    • Full integrated support for debit, credit, and EBT payments, via dial-up, VSAT, or IP-based connections
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    Back Office software

    The viPOS product includes an extensive back office component that supports financial reporting, cash management, and cashier monitoring. The back office functionality also provides for maintenance of cashier, department, charge account, and check cashing files.

     

    • Provides store, cashier, and terminal reports, including departmental sales and hourly sales.
    • Provides a full suite of tools for cashier accountability, including blind balancing and safe accountability, with real-time reads of POS totals.
    • Provide a basic Accounts Receivable system, with support for purchase recording, payment application, finance charges, and statements.
    • Provides a terminal monitor displaying transactions in real-time.
    • Provides a searchable electronic journal with archive tools to maintain these records over time.
    • Interfaces with ShrinkTrax for more extensive cashier reporting
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