It's about high profit, not high price.
What do the so-called super stores, big box e-commerce sites and your own customers have in common?!?
-They all use technology to beat you up on price.
Competitors turn your products into commodities and customers treat your store like a showroom, ask for your advice then use "find the cheapest price" smartphone apps to take their money elsewhere. Well the technology pendulum swings both ways and it's high time for it to swing in favor of specialty retail. When you subscribe to Acme you'll join thousands of specialty retailers that have learned to use technology to their own advantage, often in ways you would never imagine. Best of all, you get tools and tactics that make saving a buck the last thing on your customer's mind.
The customer IS always right.
Even when they're show-rooming in your store or picking your brain before deciding where to buy.
Commoditization is inevitable and to thrive you have to dispense more than free advice. Acme's integrated and advanced marketing capabilities are designed to do just this. You'll have more than just software and concepts, you'll have access to the most profitable ideas and strategies in specialty retail. Acme's Ticket Entry replaces standard cash registers and gathers useful information you can use to wage war on the so-called super stores.
Control clerks, empower managers. Keep the lanes moving and feel that customer joy.
Start with a layout from our library. Add color, actions, labels and layers to match the way YOU do business.
Transactions (tickets) can be entered on your choice of five different Screen Types, or layouts. Two are shown below.
•Layout the screens to match the way you do business.
•Sell, Return, and Receive on Account all on one transaction, or configure otherwise.
•Look up Products and Customers with lightning speed. Even with over 250,000 products and 250,000 customers.
•Use Super Find to search for items. Use multiple words and find alternate spellings or abbreviations. Black, Blk. Louver, LVR. -All with no keywords to maintain!
•Have your pricing be system driven, yet deal with exceptions quickly. Acme handles customer specific prices, sale prices, quantity break pricing, trade discounts and price overrides. You have complete control over clerks and how exceptions are handled with "manager's key".
•Scan items in any order. Merge Scan automatically sorts the scans and looks for quantity break pricing.
Ticket Entry Layout -On touch Screen:
Touch Screen is ideal for specialty retail including liquor, pet, hardware, grocery, even coffee shops and cafeterias!
Everything the traditional Ticket Entry Screen includes plus:
•More programmable buttons.
•Layered screen design streamlines training by providing uncluttered screens.
•Use up to eight “overlays” to access 9 layers and over 250 buttons.
•Create ‘speed keys” for items you don't want to (or cannot) scan.
•Use the layered screens to group items and use "drill down" navigation.
•Use any major credit card processor. Process Credit, Debit, Gift and SNAP/EBT.
•Validate manufacturer coupons.
•Define unlimited tender types, split transactions into as many tenders as desired.
•Use customer specific pricing. You can even change customers mid-ticket and Acme will re-price accordingly.
•Have an unlimited number of checkout lanes and locations.
Ticket Entry Layout -On traditional (non-touch) screen with standard keyboard:
•Designed to work with standard computer monitor or touch screen.
•Use function keys to deliver high speed “heads down” user interface. On screen function key map is user definable.
•You can change color and actions of most keys. (also see touch screen layout below).
•Works with standard or programmable keyboards.
•Mouse-less interface eliminates lost focus problems that occur in other POS software when the clerk accidentally clicks into the wrong field or dialog and then tries to use the keyboard or keyboard wedge scanner. The data either goes into the wrong place, or goes nowhere. Mouse lovers can still click.
•Having Function Keys (F1-F12) displayed on screen makes learning easy.
•Merge Scan. Accurate quantity pricing regardless of scan order.
•Managers Key. Protect the features you want to control access to by password.
•Password protected Training Mode. Train clerks in between real customers without messing up the day’s receipts.
•If you use customer specific pricing Acme lets you change customers any time during a transaction and all prices are instantly and automatically recalculated.
Tender Entry, Getting paid should always be this easy.
Both touch and traditional Tender Entry screens include these tender entry features:
•Integrated Credit Card processing.
•Acme works with all credit card processors but we do have our favorites. Ask about a free no obligation quote.
When processors compete you win!
•Enter unlimited split tenders.
•Check credit limits. Take payments on account.
•Managers Key. Password protection of the features you want to control. Manager logs in to trump the clerk’s privileges.
•Use customer specific pricing and change customers at any time and all prices are instantly and automatically recalculated. On either the ticket entry or the tendered screen!
•Unlimited tender types.
oDefine unlimited tender types. Example:
✍Cash
✍Check Authorized, Check Not Authorized
✍Check Cashed
✍Credit Card
✍Gift Certificate
✍Gift Card
✍House Charge
✍Manufacturers Coupon
✍EBT –electronic benefit transfer. (Food Stamps)
✍Farm Plan, Mall Gift Certificate, etc.
Sell High. Enjoy highest possible retail margins while remaining competitive.
