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02.26.2009 -- Can Your Cash Register Do This?

February 26, 2009

Retail Solutions Online Point Of Sale Special Edition Newsletter

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Point Of Sale Special Edition Newsletter

Welcome to Retail Solutions Online's Point Of Sale Technology Spotlight. The most basic function of retail point of sale is to collect and monitor your revenue; but this is just the tip of the functionality iceberg. It is also a capture point for game-changing customer feedback, it's a valuable marketing/advertising outlet, and a critical choke point for loss prevention -- just to name a few. The crux of this special edition: enhance your success with the right point of sale system.

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Roach On Retail: The Latest Tech News & Views
Can Your Cash Register Do This?
By John Roach, Editor, Retail Solutions Online
Retail POS technology's 21st-century makeover offers the promise of customized sales pitches, interactive upsell opportunities, and cost savings for retailers. And that's just the start: Wait until consumers get their hands on it. Click here for the full story.

Featured Point Of Sale Articles

Factors To Consider When Selecting A POS System
By Richard Cuttler, stj Retail
One of the most critical and possibly frightening purchases a retailer will ever have to make is a point of sale system. It is a critical purchase because it will force the retailer to reexamine their business policies, procedures and plans for the future. It is a frightening purchase because few retailers have experience in selecting a point of sale system and with such a large investment required they will have to live with their decision, be it good or bad, for quite some time.

Evolving From A Multichannel Retailer To A Cross-Channel Enterprise
By Jim Brownell, Manhattan Associates
Almost every retailer is migrating from being simply multichannel to becoming a true cross-channel enterprise. The number of processes requiring cross-channel enablement can seem limitless, and no one will complete them all in a single leap. 

Reduce Shrinkage By Catching POS Exceptions With High-Quality Network Video
By Axis Communications.
Every day, millions of dollars disappear from POS (Point of Sales) terminals in retail stores. The ways to manipulate cash counters are many, ranging from unauthorized discounts to actual theft. So far, finding proof for POS incidents has been difficult and time-consuming. With the introduction of network video, retailers are now provided with revolutionary means to detect and analyze cashier-related shrinkage.

How Retailers Can Avoid Credit Card Data Losses
By Aaron Bills, 3Delta Systems, Inc.
Retailers today face a "perfect storm" of security threats when it comes to safeguarding sensitive credit card data against internal and external threats — a worsening global economy, a growing underground of cyber criminals intent on stealing confidential customer and payment information, and a greater likelihood of suffering a breach if confidential customer payment and customer data aren't protected properly.

Featured Industry News

Payments Study Highlights Continued Growth Of Credit, Debit Cards
More Segmented, Creative Merchandising Strategy, Increased Transparency Of Point Of Sale Data And Collaboration Seen As Key For Retailers And Suppliers
A798 & A799 POS Printers Certified With CAP Software 
Celerant Technology Included In Aberdeen Best-In-Class Retail POS AXIS
Canada Post Selects Epson For 7000-Unit POS Printer Rollout
Small Grocers Get Access To Big POS Technology Through New Agreement Between Unified Grocers And NCR
Retalix To Resell Solidcore POS Security And PCI DSS Compliance Software
AVE Investments, Inc. And Tomax Corporation Debut Combined HaaS And SaaS Solution
The NPD Group Launches Ecommerce Weekly Tracking Service For Consumer Technology Point-Of-Sale Data
Lidl Upgrades To Latest Version Of GK SOFTWARE AG
Featured Downloads
Going Global: Five POS Essentials To Consider When Planning Your Global Expansion Strategy
According to a recent report, global GDP growth for 2006 was 5.4 percent, one of the largest year-over-year increases ever recorded. Relatively rapid economic expansion took place in disparate locations, worldwide.

The Art Of Shaving Retail Chain Supports Growth Strategy With HP POS System
Standing in the way of this company's ambitious plans for expansion was a collection of standalone point-of-sale systems that could connect neither with one another nor with corporate headquarters.

Solution Overview: ExpressPoint Warranty Management
ExpressPoint's expert warranty management team handles the end-to-end processing services on products manufactured by more than 20 computer and point-of-sale equipment manufacturers.

Point Of Sale Solutions

Datasym POS MobileXL

The Datasym MobileXL offers you the option to operate as a stationary, or as a mobile POS System. This powerful terminal requires little space when utilized as a stationary terminal and is easily transported to remote locations. The Datasym MobileXL is proof that big things do come in small packages!  Download the product sheet.

Oracle Retail Point Of Service

Oracle Retail Point of Service provides the responsiveness, flexibility, and scalability required to meet the point-of-sale needs of even the largest retailer. Download the product 



DigiPoS Utopia Self-Checkout

The innovator who introduced the world's first award winning blade-based POS is introducing the Utopia Solution &mash; a self checkout solution for the 21st century retailer. Download the product sheet.

MMF Cash Drawer pcCashdrawer

MMF's new pcCashdrawer combines the best of class MediaPLUS cash drawer with a compact, fanless, industrial grade PC in a 17" W x 20" D package. Download the product sheet.



Retail Pro POS & StoreOperations

Retail Pro is the premier retail store management system with integrated POS and back-office functions. The system supports the simplified operations of the entire store through receiving, sales, inventory management, and replenishment. Role-based security ensures that access to specific functionality is limited to the appropriate levels.  Download the product sheet.

Raymark Xpert-Store: POS Software

Easy to use and fully customizable, Xpert-Store™ offers a full array of retail point of sale system features. It is designed to increase sales associate productivity, streamline the checkout process, and improve customer satisfaction. Xpert-Store allows you to react instantly to any change in the environment to counter competitive activities at a store level.



Jesta I.S.: Vision Store

Vision Store offers your organization a dependable and robust point of sale solution with the ability to manage your stores using powerful workflow management and effective control over employees' access to information.  Download the product sheet.

ChainDrive Integrated Retail Management System

ChainDrive is an advanced, intuitive, fully integrated retail management system that provides you with end-to-end control over your business processes and real-time, shared access to valuable data and analytical tools.

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