The Provide-A-Voucher POS (Point of Sale) system and has now been expanded with the addition of a mobile terminal solution. The company has rolled out about 400 terminals since November 2011 and is dispensing airtime, electricity and various other electronic vouchers. The existing system was developed by Netgen over the last 6 years and the mobile solution is added to the current stable of software and compliments the touchscreen Windows POS system and the web based back-end and real-time deposit system.
The POS terminal connects via the GSM network and communicates its requests and transactions to the central server at Netgen. The server verifies the terminal identity as well as issues stock and transactions for the terminal. Once the stock is validated it prints automatically on the terminal. The back-end system maintains an exact audit trail of each transaction so in the event of the unit being disabled for any reason a full sales and stock summary is maintained on the server. The unit has quick function keys for easy selection of popular stock. The terminal software is also updated by the OTA (Over the air) Software easily and quickly. Bar coded slips also easily assist retail stores in selling the downloaded voucher and allow cross platform selling.
Netgen believes that as the price of these terminals drops lower we will see more and more applications open up and be developed by us. Netgen will also be releasing a new Internet Based Browser Point of Sale system early in 2012.
The advent of HTML5 has allowed us to develop a offline/online POS application that runs in a browser. We will be posting more information on this and release details shortly.
For more information on mobile or POS systems contact Grant.
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