Point of sale and barcode, as one setup
A till is not a device but a collection: a screen, a scanner, a receipt printer, a drawer and the mounting that keeps it on the counter. They are often ordered separately and only then find out whether they fit each other, or not.
Six parts that together are one workplace
This is the category where one thing is most often forgotten.
- Till terminals and touchscreensThe screen the employee works on, with or without a computer inside. Choose on how long the model stays available: with a second branch you want to order the same setup.
- Barcode scannersAt the counter, in the hand or fixed under the till. The choice depends on the labels that have to be read and not on the price of the scanner.
- Handheld terminalsFor warehouse, stock and delivery. A device running Android that survives a drop onto concrete and lasts a shift on one battery.
- Receipt and label printersThe receipt at the counter and the label on the box are two machines, not a setting.
- Cash drawersThe part that opens and closes a hundred thousand times, and that opens on a signal from the receipt printer, not from the till.
- Mounting and polesBrackets that hold the equipment on the counter and keep cables out of sight. Without this, in six months something different stands there than on handover day.
How we fit out a branch
Three steps. The first prevents most of the surprises.
Start from the software
The till software decides what can be attached and how the drawer is driven. Starting the other way round produces equipment that fits and does not work.
Fix one setup
One combination that is the same in every branch. That makes instructions, spares and fixing a fault remotely possible.
Deliver complete and tested
The parts arrive together, connected and tested, instead of in four boxes across three days.
What belongs with this
Retail and logistics use this equipment hardest.
A till that is the same in every branch
Tell us which till software runs and how many counters are involved. You get one setup that can stand the same way everywhere.
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