SOLUTIONS

All FutureNet solutions come as a complete package, renewable annually, and including software licences, training, installation and support.  Hardware can also be provided by FutureNet as an outright purchase, with hardware support optionally included in the package. See below for recommended hardware options.

Convenience POS

Convenience POS delivers sales checkout functionality, and can be run on a fixed POS terminal, a self-checkoutor a mobile device, allowing you to meet the needs of all your customers, whether they want traditional checkout service, do-it-yourself checkout, or the benefits of mobile checkout and queue busting. It is fully tailorable to fit your business – from grocery to café, bakery to pub, fuel station to deli.

It offers:

• Touch screen user interface, with visual keypads for ease of use for your operators; 
• Fully integrated EFTPOS and Epay for efficiency and security; 
• Instant price changes, promotions, adds and deletes, and live updates to the back office for real time management;  
• Electronic journals, financial reporting by cashier/by shift, product activation and supervisor authorisation for sales integrity;   
• Receipt management – search and reprint, customisation with tailored messages;
• Customer interface - 15 in customer displays, showing promotions.
• Manager price change at the register and price override
• Full integration to POSTEC pump management  
• Weigh and pay  - integrated scale, POS and EFTPOS 
• Suspend and interleave transactions
• Split bills
• Mixed tender payments
• Loyalty point payments

Convenience BACK OFFICE

Your back office is as important to the running of your store as the checkout, and FutureNet Convenience Back Office is Australia’s most functional and user- friendly back office management system.
It includes interfaces to external warehouse systems including Metcash, Campbells, ALM, SPAR and Foodworks.
Convenience Back Office also interfaces to Wedderburn, Avery and Bizerba scales systems, and to the Ilid electronic shelf labelling system, as well as to our own Convenience POS, Scales, Mobile and Fuel applications.

FutureNet Convenience Back Office has an extremely easy to use interface and the ability to design and customise your own screens.  Its extensive capability offers everything you need to manage your store, including:

Convenience Mobile

FutureNet Convenience Mobile delivers key store management functions on a mobile device, to enable you quickly and efficiently carry out key tasks without having to go to the office. From a single mobile device screen, you can work where you need to work, with data being automatically transmitted to the back office. With Convenience Mobile you can:

• An extensive item database
• Carry out ordering and stocktaking – see all product details, and instantly transfer all data to back office for full data integrity
• Verify pricing – see whether an item is active/non-active, activate the item, request a label, show normal sell and promotional prices and make price changes
• Process customer sales for queue busting
• Receive orders by scanning TUN codes on boxes
• Markdown items instantly with markdown printer

Convenience SCALE

Convenience Scale is a simple, easy-to-use scale application for your Delicatessen or Meat Room. FutureNet Convenience Scale allows you to weigh goods and print a barcode label for scan at the POS.

Convenience CONTROLLER

If you’re running a multi-outlet, and/or multi-venue business, you’ll need tools to help keep you on top of what is happening in every location. FutureNet Convenience provides management tools for multi-site businesses,  including:

• An extensive item database
• Stock management – Manual and Automatic ordering, electronic invoicing, stock taking and full inventory control
• Integrated video surveillance
• Financial management – accounts receivable, electronic invoicing, export to MYOB or Quicken
• A range of reports and management tools, including Gross Profit, Department Sales, Item Movement, Margin Management
• Customer Loyalty Program, Promotions and Offers management
• Price labels, product barcode labels and shelf talkers 
• Host processing and host editing
• Consolidated reporting showing the overall business picture, with the ability to drill down to individual venues or outlets.

Because FutureNet Convenience Controller is specifically designed for multi-venue businesses run from a central point of control, it doesn’t require a large IT team or network overheads – the functionality is delivered via a normal reliable ADSL or NBN line.

HARDWARE

FutureNet can supply a range of POS hardware products, but has two recommended hardware partners.
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions (formerly IBM Retail Store Solutions)

Toshiba SurePOS 300 Series

The Toshiba SurePOS 300 Series brings smarter store solutions to retailers of all sizes who need a high-performing, energy-efficient point-of-sale system with a small footprint - and at a lower cost.

HP RP2

Sleek, stylish and great for small spaces.
Add a touch of class with this compact all-in-one with a 14-inch diagonal touchscreen that fits wherever you need it. Tailor the system to your specific environment with your choice of operating system and touch technology, and an expanded portfolio of HP Point of Sale (POS) peripherals that meet your needs now and in the future.

HP RP9

Reliability your customers can count on.
Attractive in customer-facing locations and behind the scenes, this model offers an intuitive, comfortable user experience, housed in a fanless chassis that you can deploy in your most demanding environments. The user experience is enhanced with an intuitive touch technology and adjustable tilt plus height positioning for optimal viewing, easy inputting, and accurate order processing.

HP Elitepad

Expand what you can do.
You can deliver great customer service and improve operational efficiency with a mobile solution that works seamlessly with your installed applications. The HP ElitePad is a powerful tool, allowing you to assist customers and complete transactions right on the sales floor. Create a fixed POS with an optional dock, or mount it for easy customer self-service.

PDT

Zebra MC3200 Mobile computer

For efficient back office operations, we recommend and supply the Zebra MC3200 mobile computer.  It allows you to easily capture barcodes in any condition, with its 1D laser or 1D/2D imager scan engine.   It comes in a choice of three lightweight models – brick, gun and turret- for a range of store management tasks,  from cycle counting to putaway, replenishment and voice-directed picking.