10 Best POS Features for Supermarket Business.

The Supermarket Business Model has unique characteristics. Unlike other industries, supermarkets have many customers, reflected in member codes, many suppliers, and various price promotions and discount schemes.

Supermarkets, often with store locations spread across many areas, even different cities, require a robust POS system with seamless data synchronization to the head office, ensuring efficient operations across all locations. 

The “10 Must Have” POS System features for smooth supermarket business operations.

First, The Speed and accuracy of transactions at the POS Cashier are the main factors in measuring the Service Level of service to customers. This speed and accuracy must be felt by customers when the cashier serves customers with several shopping trolleys containing more than 100 product items – in one bill. Promotional bonuses and discounts are calculated when barcode scanning so customers can immediately find the promotions they get for each product item on the cashier’s screen without waiting until the POS Bill is printed. 

Second, Various discounts and promotions. Supermarkets provide various promotions to customers at the same time. Promo schemes that can be different for each store, product type, and customer require complete POS promo features. Also read: Some promotion strategies at supermarket.

Third, the Offline Mode POS System must be automatically activated when there is a connection problem from the POS Client to the server. Transactions not completed because the POS client computer suddenly shuts down must be available to be recalled to continue scanning the following barcode and printing the POS Bill. When the connection to the server is restored, the POS system must automatically go into online mode, and transactions are entirely synchronized with the server. 

Fourth, POS payment integration with the EDC machine is necessary to minimize the cashier’s entry errors and ensure the accuracy of the MDR fee calculation in the POS system. 

Fifth, Seamless Scale Integration for accurate selling prices of fresh food products. Fresh food is a ” Pull factor” for customers to visit the store more often. Fresh food prices, which can experience several price changes or discounts on the same day, require “Seamless Scale Integration” so that the price printed on the scale barcode label matches the applicable promo, and customers know the total cost of each fresh food product purchased immediately. Also read: Orlansoft ERP API Client Integrates selling price data into DIGI fresh food scales.

Sixth, Pending and Recall features are required for some instances. When the barcode label is missing or cannot be scanned, the cashier can perform a pending transaction and serve the next customer. (There should be a maximum pending transaction limit.) The cashier can use the Recall feature to display certain transactions and continue.

Seventh, The POS Return feature that produces Return Vouchers is needed to facilitate the control function over returning goods from customers and selling replacement goods.

Eighth, Price Checker Kiosks can be provided to make it easier for customers to scan barcodes to find out about prices and promotions.

Ninth, Shift Management makes it easier to set shift working hours for the POS cashier, and it is a mandatory feature. The Open Offline Shift feature can be used when one or more stores cannot connect to the internet to open online shifts.

Tenth, the POS Sales Dashboard, which displays offline/online mode status information of each POS Station, can be accessed easily from the head office. In real-time, users from the head office can view sales and payment transaction values for all POS Stations in all stores in a single Sales Dashboard. Also read: POS Sales dashboard provides access to consolidated all stores sales information in many cities from anywhere and at any time.

The 10 best Supermarket POS features are available at Orlansoft Point of Sale. Apart from the 10 best features, Orlansoft Point of Sale also provides membership, discount Coupons, Cash Vouchers, Print Price Tag, and Self-checkout POS. Orlansoft Point of Sale has a seamless integration with Orlansoft ERP. Centralized or decentralized Procure to Pay business processes can be performed easily in Orlansoft ERP. The Payment Run feature makes the payment cycle process more manageable so that the payment process for thousands of purchase invoices from hundreds of suppliers can be carried out with a single approval and integrated with Internet banking.

To get complete information about the best features of Orlansoft Point Sale and Orlansoft ERP for supermarket businesses, please contact our sales team via email at info@orlansoft.com