Anything from a cheap register from Sam's Club to the massive 50+ register systems you see in WalMart powered by IBM. What does your store use?
We use a pretty obscure system from NCR... NCR is a major player in convenience stores and food service, you hardly ever see their actual registers in a large setting (but most scanner/scale combos I see used are from NCR). It's NCR's ACS (advanced checkout solution), running on NCR RealPOS hardware. It's a really, really easy system to use (entirely menu driven), but it can be sluggish at times. And when a register crashes, you get the lovely Windows blue screen of death on both the cashier and customer displays. Thankfully when they crash, 99% of the time it's while they're idle or right after finishing a transaction.
We have 20 registers in my store - 12 regular checkstands, 4 express, customer service, coffee bar, smokehouse, and a portable one that runs via wireless.
I've never, ever seen NCR's ACS software anywhere except my employer, nor have I ever seen much beyond their scanners in major retail settings.
Also, NCR's service "techs" that they send out are jackasses... 5 visits to replace a broken cash drawer recently, 4 to replace a crashed HD (they replaced everything, including the motherboard, in the machine... except for the HD). The other day they were out to replace a broken scanner/scale. Instead of actually repairing/replacing the broken one, the jackass swapped it with one from a register we don't use every day, and didn't even bother hooking up the "broken" one to make the power light come on. My boss and I are both fuming about it and we're going to take turns cussing him out next time he's out. We do use this register during the holidays, but not much any other time of year. So instead of waiting for them to play find their own balls again, we're probably going to just swap the scanner out ourselves with the one from the portable register (which we only use a few times a year) so we can get it running for the holidays.
We use a pretty obscure system from NCR... NCR is a major player in convenience stores and food service, you hardly ever see their actual registers in a large setting (but most scanner/scale combos I see used are from NCR). It's NCR's ACS (advanced checkout solution), running on NCR RealPOS hardware. It's a really, really easy system to use (entirely menu driven), but it can be sluggish at times. And when a register crashes, you get the lovely Windows blue screen of death on both the cashier and customer displays. Thankfully when they crash, 99% of the time it's while they're idle or right after finishing a transaction.
We have 20 registers in my store - 12 regular checkstands, 4 express, customer service, coffee bar, smokehouse, and a portable one that runs via wireless.
I've never, ever seen NCR's ACS software anywhere except my employer, nor have I ever seen much beyond their scanners in major retail settings.
Also, NCR's service "techs" that they send out are jackasses... 5 visits to replace a broken cash drawer recently, 4 to replace a crashed HD (they replaced everything, including the motherboard, in the machine... except for the HD). The other day they were out to replace a broken scanner/scale. Instead of actually repairing/replacing the broken one, the jackass swapped it with one from a register we don't use every day, and didn't even bother hooking up the "broken" one to make the power light come on. My boss and I are both fuming about it and we're going to take turns cussing him out next time he's out. We do use this register during the holidays, but not much any other time of year. So instead of waiting for them to play find their own balls again, we're probably going to just swap the scanner out ourselves with the one from the portable register (which we only use a few times a year) so we can get it running for the holidays.
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