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WINTER
1999
EPOS -
FRIEND OR FOE? |
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Most people
now know that this stands for Electronic Point of Sale, and that the girl in the
supermarket sometimes has difficulty with it over the bananas!
But what does it mean to a busy TIC?
Basically, it means that you say farewell to your conventional till and hello to
big savings in time and effort.
Working as a standard till, each sale produces a receipt recording the item
description, quantity sold, item cost, VAT content and payment method. The item
is then automatically deducted from stock.
Item prices can easily be checked without the need for a sale to be processed,
and the software also includes separate screens for discounted sales and stock
to cut out the risk of errors.
Not only are all sales automatically recorded, but also stock levels are
constantly updated.
At the end of day, standard cashing up routines produce reports before the till
is cleared for the following day's transactions, or for auditing purposes.
What's more, comprehensive reports can be produced at the touch of a button,
yielding information which would have been either very time-consuming to
research or very hard to analyse without an EPOS system, eg Top ten Best Sellers
within given product types, percentage contribution to turnover…
What do I need?
To replace your till, we simply add a receipt printer, bar code reader and till
drawer to your existing PC which then becomes your till - although you can still
use it to access all your other programmes, as normal!
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