EPOS Head Office

For retail chains with multiple stores Actinic EPOS Head Office enables any number of shop sites in any number of regions to be managed centrally with consolidated sales and stock reporting across all sites.

Head Office provides centralised dissemination of product, pricing and barcode information to multiple sites.

Features in Detail

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 minimum (1.4 GHz recommended)
  • Windows XP or Vista 32 bit edition
  • minimum 512 MB memory
  • 100MB free disk space
  • Supports all industry- standard OPOS hardware including receipt printers, customer displays, cash drawers and barcode scanners

Text with asterisk* indicates features incremental to Actinic EPOS Network