Features in Detail

Blue text with asterisk* indicates features incremental to Actinic EPOS Network

Point of Sale (POS)

• Easy to use configurable sales screen
• Touch screen & POS keyboard support
• Bar code scanning
• Fast Product Lookup feature
• Cash drawer support (pops drawer automatically)
• Pole display support (displays purchase information to the customer)
• Receipt printer support
• Integrated credit card processing with Chip and PIN option
• Support for split tenders – cash, card, cheque or voucher.

Marketing and promotion

• Apply promotions, including individual product discounts, fixed price, quantity discounts and product bundling

Customer management

• Store customer details and purchase history
• Create customer accounts and provide credit limits
• Pay into and debit from customer accounts

Inventory

• Monitor and updates stock levels automatically in real time
• Track inventory by category / classification, department and product barcode
• Ability to maintain a list of suppliers
• Integrated purchasing module
• Automated stock replenishment / purchase order generation based on either items sold or minimum stock levels
• Print purchase orders locally, or send to head office electronically
• Receive orders and book into stock
• Add unique codes for products without barcodes

Management and reporting

• Easy to use, Windows-based management screens
• Create and manage products and categories
• Barcode generation and printing - all popular barcode types supported
• Multiple barcodes per product code allowing for differing pack sizes
• Ticket printing for shelf edges tickets or product bar codes
• Support for multiple printer types
• Print picking lists
• Create and manage customer accounts
• Track sales and sales value for each sales person
• Detailed reporting including profit, VAT, sales and stock analysis, branch, supplier, product, customer and sales history.
• Consolidated reporting across multiple stores

Security and networking

• Password-protected user logon
• Multiple user permission levels with full control of permissions
• Support for multiple networked tills
• Centralised product information and stock management, purchase ordering and reporting
• Network fail-safe feature, enables tills to continue working in the event of an individual till, network or back-office PC failure
• Fully independent store systems enable tills and stores to continue working in the event of a network or head-office failure *
• Support for multiple stores
• Back-office functionality
• Head-office functionality *
• Centralised dissemination of product, pricing and barcode information to multiple stores *
• Support for regional pricing *
• Supports portable hand-held terminals for inventory counting & order entry

Ecommerce Interface

• Ability to exchange product information and synchronise stock levels with the web site

Minimum System Requirements

• Pentium PC (1GHz recommended)
• Windows XP or Vista 32 bit edition
• minimum 128MB memory recommended
• 100MB free disk space

Supports all industry- standard OPOS hardware including receipt printers, customer displays, cash drawers and barcode scanners.