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Dirt and residue can deposit and build on your Aralco POS receipt printer's printhead over time especially dust and small bits of paper generated from daily paper-roll receipting and auto-cutting.

 

Without regular cleaning, the residue could become permanent and cause a "barrier" between the printhead and receipts causing ... More

In banking, CDM is short for Cash Deposit Machine and it performs the opposite function to an ATM or Automated Teller Machine; it accepts deposits against a customer's bank account instead of dispensing cash from the same account.

 

CDMs are freestanding kiosks that may be wall mounted as well and they have a very similar... More

Aralco Retail Systems offers fully integrated E-commerce solutions for B2C and B2B businesses. This includes automatic product and inventory upload via the standard e-commerce API as well as web order import from e-commerce into Aralco’s main inventory Management System.

 

Using Aralco’s Application Programming Interface (... More

From the company that brought you WhatsApp Queuing, here are WhatsApp Appointments! This is a solution that is convenient for use and customer onboarding.

 

WhatsApp Appointment offers simple and swift onboarding for both existing and new clients (digital or non-digital), celebrating the values of convenience and accessible... More

Gift card is the perfect gift solution for birthdays, anniversaries and other celebrations. When customers purchase your store's gift card to give it to a friend or associate, they immediately become promoter of your brand. Gift card recipients are bound to visit your stores resulting in increased sales revenue.

 

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Getting IT right with a POS that has all the adequate inventory features is imperative for the apparel retail business to have efficient stock management and comprehensive performance analysis.

 

It is also essential that each POS communicates and exchanges real-... More

Retailers are looking for ways to facilitate online and offline integration and simplify the deployment and management of in-store technology.

 

This is a great step towards increased sales for bricks-and-mortar stores, as one benefit physical stores will always have over online retailers is the ability for the consumer to... More

Queue Management Systems have been almost synonymous with Digital Signage Systems, usually simple numeric ones to display ticket numbers and guide customers to the point of service.

 

Organizations are now integrating their queuing systems with multimedia displays to display ticket numbers and guide customers to their... More

Any frequent travelers will
most likely relate to this situation:

 

It’s late at night and you’re heading towards the airport, thinking about the high roaming charges and the possibility that you won’t be able to catch any signals at all. Before you even begin to call a cab to... More

Governments around the world have imposed social distancing regulations and preventive measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 in their communities. It also mandatory to control the number of visitors entering malls, buildiings and event activtities in compliance to the occupancy limit imposed for example the limit of 10 sq m per person of gross floor area.

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Decrease customer wait times, improve your service efficiency, and increase your revenues with Wavetec’s enterprise queue management solutions.

 

Wavetec’s customer experience solutions are based on the Wavesphere Philosophy that aims to ORGANIZE, ENGAGE & MEASURE waiting and disconnected service areas and enhance customer experience at key touchpoints.

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Speed up POS processing securely

 

Aralco Retail Systems has a ready interface for biometric fingerprint scanning options to secure staff daily check-in/out... More

 

The philosophy behind a customer loyalty program is simple: Repeat customers are rewarded and businesses increase sales. It’s a basic but powerful strategy. Whether the goal is to continually increase sales or to jumpstart sluggish revenue, customer-loyalty programs appear to have become a staple for many large... More

Butcher shop Mėsos parduotuvė in Nemenčinė, Lithuania; uses Cash Management system that helps speed up the payment process, customer service, and overall hygiene in their butcher shop.

 

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Real-time data is information that is accessible and visible immediately to all users within seconds, not hours or days later, after data is recorded such as creating new products, goods receiving, etc. and whenever sales transactions are completed and paid at the POS. 

 

 

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IRMCS delivers a robust and powerful SFF CPU unit with Aralco POS software and it features a metal casing with an aluminum top cover as a passive heatsink and has a fanless system design.

The passive heat sink has no mechanical components and is 100% reliable. Passive heat sinks are made of an aluminum-finned radiator that dissipates heat through... More

 

Aralco POS for grocery business has RS232c interface options to connect directly to most scale models perfect for grocery stores, supermarkets, and minimarts where customers who can pick up any amount of weight-based produce she or he needs that can be weighed later, conveniently at the POS checkouts.

 

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The Magellan 9800i scanner offers state-of-the-art imaging with high reliability designed to provide maximum throughput for both 1D and 2D bar codes. This scanner is the world’s first grocery checkout bar code scanner driven completely by high-performance digital imaging.

The striking design improves ergonomics with its lower bonnet height allowing... More

 

An mPOS (mobile point-of-sale) system is a smartphone, tablet on Android, IOS, or Windows, or dedicated wireless device that performs the functions of a cash register or electronic point-of-sale terminal (POS terminal) wirelessly.

 

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Modern. Modular. Made for Retail.

 

The versatile EloPOS System combines modern aesthetics, modular flexibility, and commercial-grade reliability. Purpose-built for point of sale, EloPOS offers a 15.6-inch touchscreen display, choice... More

Clothing, apparel, and footwear retail stores can have a high turnover of inventory to keep up with the latest trends as well as seasonal products. It is important that you have an accurate point of sale and inventory management system that can keep your business organized.

 

No matter what your business size is, Aralco... More

No matter what industry you are in or products you buy & sell, Aralco Retail Systems is bound to meet your inventory & POS requirements for improved & accurate controls. Hence Aralco can eradicate your existing software limitations so that you can focus on growing your business.

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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software System comes as a standard module in Aralco Retail Systems, extensively integrated from the back office to the POS Systems.

One of the special features is the demographic profiling of customers where a screen and... More

The POS Conditional Promotion Management module is a versatile tool from Aralco that allows retailers to set up discounting and promotion rules in the back office that will be applied at POS at the time of customer purchase. 
 
Conditions can be set up as follows:
 
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IRMCS brings high productivity and efficiency to retailers with Aralco Retail Systems, an enterprise-grade business software solutions automating everything from the back office, warehouse, and E-commerce to retail stores.

With the significant time saved, your employees can spend more time focusing on customers and engage them with accurate real-... More

The gift card is a perfect gift solution for your customers and it is also a great marketing tool for you all year round to add drive new traffic from the gift-givers - your existing customers, whenever they purchase gift cards for their family and friends. 

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Tiliter Technology has created a breakthrough product called the Tiliter Vision. With highly successful results across many different environments the Tiliter Vision System is able to detect any fruit or vegetable placed in front of the device and is easily integrated into any Point of Sale (POS) or Self Checkout (SCO) system with further advancement allowing any product put... More

Socket 800 Series of mobile scanners allow you to attach it to your smartphone for a one-handed solution with Universal Klip, Klip Case or DuraCase. You'll have a convenient, one-handed solution that's easier to carry for any stock... More

The Aralco Retail Management Systems is designed to work in a large multi-store network or in a simple single-store operation.

Aralco Retail Systems is capable of multiple registers within one location using local area networking (ideal for department stores or multi-lane grocery operations), or single POS registers in each location, communicating... More

DOT is the lifestyle and multi-label chain-store retailer and distributor carrying sportswear, footwear, bags, and accessories from international brands such as Adidas, Puma, Hellolulu, Nixon, Herchel, New Balance, Anello, etc.

In 2015, Aralco Retail Management and POS Software Systems were successfully rolled out at DOT from Head Office, warehouses... More

 

IRMCS recommends the best enterprise-grade POS hardware and peripherals for any retail store regardless of the environment. Enterprise-grade POS hardware is made for speed and robustness, and stores can run these equipment 24/7 reliably.

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In Singapore, Aralco POS software/terminals are implemented across shopping malls - major malls in this country require mandatory extraction of daily sales data from their tenants' POS systems for computer network transfer to their mall's tenant management server.

IRMCS provides this service regardless of a simple single POS or multi-lane POS... More

With negative inventory in your computer record, merchandisers will not be able to analyze to plan stock allocation for distribution to their retail stores.

Negative inventory can be controlled only with correct data entries such as goods receiving etc, starting with the back office, warehouse and at every store.

 

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Capability Development Grant (CDG) at a Glance - applicable to Singapore market only

 

The Capability Development Grant (CDG) aims to support SMEs to scale up business capabilities and ensure business sustainability . You can take on... More

There are a growing number of specialty supermarket stores that have a strong focus on imported food products. Do you know how many actually focuses on Australian produce? I can tell you, not many.

Just a couple of months old, Farm N Pantry at Tanjong Pagar Centre has been introducing Singaporeans to Australia’s best fruit and vegetables and unique... More

Cathay Cineplex opens its eighth cinema at Parkway Parade shopping mall in Singapore this September with the deployment of CashGuard Cash Management Systems for both sales of tickets and food and beverages.

Both (note and coin) recyclers face customers who pay for their purchases by inserting the currency notes and coins themselves, and the cash... More

Smart technology investments are key
to achieve a competitive advantage
while mitigating risk

 

 

Advances in technology offer retailers unprecedented opportunities to achieve operational advantages, and these opportunities are emerging... More

For the last few years, traditional grocers in Canada have been engaged in a hard-fought battle with retail giants Costco and Walmart, their lower price points often being quite attractive to cost-conscious Canadians. However, according to recent statistics, the tide may be turning.

 

According to Global News, “While international retailers Costco and Walmart have gobbled up a... More

The Elo M-Series 1002L Touchscreen Monitor comes with tabletop pole stand and can be used as secondary customer-facing display showing product information and images as goods are being scanned by the cashier. Part of the 10" screen can be segmented to play in-store advertisement video as an upsell tool to engage the customer.

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There are many of Aralco's clients who have embarked onto integrating their website and ecommerce, streamlining their business operations since 2015, with Aralco's main retail channel's inventory database.

Today. this trend continues and has become even more important for businesses in order for them to respond quickly to their customers with real-... More

To say that digital commerce is killing off physical stores is lazy thinking and a half-truth.

On the contrary, pure-play online shopping is the imperiled model, evidenced by the lack of e-commerce-only retailers — save for Amazon and eBay — that have gained any meaningful heft and influence.

Of course, e-commerce is... More

 

Handling and processing cash costs retailers money. This post looks at some of the ways automated cash management can help cut costs through more efficient and secure processes.

 

1. Reducing the Cost of Inefficiency... More

Touchscreen Cleaning and Maintenance

Any standard glass cleaner can be used to clean the retail POS touchscreen, but avoid products containing ammonia.

Always spray the glass cleaner on the cloth or towel and then clean the touchscreen... More

Retail Management and POS Systems from Aralco is a comprehensive and fail-safe business software solution, and have been helping single and chain store retailers stay ahead of unceasing business demands since 1982.

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Any standard glass cleaner can be used to clean the touchscreen connected to Aralco Retail POS terminals, but avoid products containing ammonia.

 

 

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Taking care of your fingerprint reader at the POS is simple - while the fingerprint reader is tolerant of residues left on the reader, it performs optimally when kept clean!

 

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Catch CashGuard Closed Cash System and Aralco Retail POS in action at the newly opened grocery store in Singapore - you will see how the integrated solution simplifies and secures cash handling at the POS checkouts with the automated bank note and coin dispensing. 

The routine manual... More

Finally, here comes an all-in-one flexible and powerful business tablet -  Zebra ET 55, customizable for any job and any environment from retail associates and warehouse workers inside the four walls to salespeople, van sales force and service technicians out in the field.

You get the best of both worlds — consumer styling for your workers plus all... More

Retail POS Systems requiring high performance can run their applications on Thinkpad X1 Yoga - powerful, yet light and compact, suitable for mobile POS too.

Thin and light 14" 2-in-1 convertible, the ThinkPad X1 Yoga supports four flexible usage modes and its stand mode is most ideal for POS processing.

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Aralco Retail Systems offer multi-purpose data capturing functions with Cipherlab data collector for ease of stock processing at any time and anywhere.
 

  • Stock count processing
  • Sales processing
  • Sales order processing
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Each sector demands its own unique features in the retail and wholesale industries. Since 1982, Aralco has worked with industry leaders from different sectors to offer them a powerful and feature-rich Retail Management and POS solution from back office to each point of sale location.

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A virtual private network is a technology that creates an encrypted connection over a less secure network. The benefit of using a VPN is that it ensures the appropriate level of security to the connected systems when the underlying network infrastructure alone cannot provide it.

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With over 30 years of experience in the retail industry, Aralco Retail Management and POS Software System has a whole list of great tools to help both B2C and B2B grocery businesses.

For the Grocery industry it is imperative that your inventory stays current and accurate, your customers are loyal and you need real-time data visibility for... More

Aralco Retail Management & POS Systems allow you to prepare for stock-taking swiftly and accurately by taking a snapshot of your inventory file of a specific location or store... More

Aralco POS software system has evolved the last 30 years and today it is packed with powerful features needed by retailers to stay efficient and productive at the point of sale.

 

One of its key features is the real-time capability to communicate with the main database server automatically with 2-way data interchange over... More

The Sango Integrated EPOS Terminal is indeed irresistible with an exclusive, innovative concept designed to free up space beneath your terminal’s touchscreen!

This new EPOS will adapt to the technical requirements of all users: 4 types of processors are available (including a fanless i5 for boosted performance), as well as a range of connection... More

Retail marketing is changing

 

Today, success means connecting with your most important customer: the omnichannel shopper. 

 

Retailers can reap the revenue benefits of omnichannel shopping, but only if they know how to attract and... More

A Gift Registry is a service provided by a website or retail store, assists engaged couples in the communication of gift preferences, example to wedding guests.

Selecting merchandise from store stock, the couple lists desired products and files this list with the chosen merchant. The list is then made available to wedding guests, either by the... More

Aralco is a leader in developing solutions for retailers.. Their POS system not only tracks sales and inventory but also archives, tracks, and analyzes literally thousands of types of data related to products, sales statistics,... More

An all-in-one Retail Solutions is absolutely an important information technology infrastructure for retailers to leverage on in the continuous optimization of stock turns, human resources, and customer experience. 

The result is lowering the business cost, better customer services and higher sales revenue through efficiency.

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At IRMCS, we started shipping 64-bit version of Windows 8 Pro with 8 GB RAM and 128 GB SSD  since early 2014 as part of our standard configuration on Aralco POS systems. This version will give you optimal point of sale user experience and high speed perfomance at the point of sale.

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Hear what gift retailer, Jennifer from JM Project has to say in her reviews on Aralco POS software and how she feels about the new integration option in Aralco Retail Back Office Systems with her e-commerce.

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Real-time is the actual time during which a process or event occurs such as input data is processed, and within milliseconds the information becomes available virtually immediately to any employee from back office to each store front.

Real-time information are critical for businesses in order to be able to maximize analytic so as to extract accurate... More

Retailers can now improve its efficiency further in each retail store with an in-store ZebraZXP3 card printer to print member card, loyalty reward and gift cards at the Aralco point of sale terminal. 

With this integration, the POS software allows flexible configuration to drive the Zebra card printer, such as:

A point of sale survey recently conducted by Software Advice, a firm that compares POS technology, has turned up some unexpected results that speak volumes about the state of retailers today.

The most common reasons given for wanting to upgrade or install new Point of Sale software included lack of functionality of the current system, a desire to... More

The 10 warning signs to replace your Point of Sale (POS) software in order to stay productive, efficient and ahead of competitions:

1. Your offline business isn’t connected to your (current or future) online business

2. Your POS software needs expensive updates or offers no update

3. Your POS user... More

Radio frequency ID (RFID) primarily functions like the traditional barcode, but instead of relying on a visual scan on barcode, it uses radio waves and reads data on the RFID tag containing... More

Socket Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner (CHS) 7Ci

Socket series CHS 7Ci is a wireless barcode scanner certified by Apple for iOS devices and compatible with Android, BlackBerry and Windows smartphones and tablets. It is the #1 choice for tablet-based retail point of sale !

Socket Bluetooth scanners are... More

Zebra manufactures a wide range of mobile printers such as model QLn220, QLn 320 and QLn420.

Trust these drop-resistant mobile printers to improve efficiencies throughout operations– in the warehouse, trade events, in-store, van sale... More

Omni-channel marketing, which involves a merchant reaching out to customers through both online and physical stores for a seamless shopping experience, is no longer an option for retailers. With Ecommerce taking off in this part of the globe, omni-channel is a must-have platform to retain existing customers and key to reaching out to new customers in the base country and... More

Opticians and eyewear staff at the retail store no longer need to spend tiime unnecessarily recording and looking up customer's information, eye prescription data between separate databases or manual records.

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Real time retail systems refers to its built-in capability in instantly updating any data processing (done at any location) automatically at its central server, such as:

  • Adding and depleting stock at hand upon goods receiving; transfers of goods between locations; products sold at each POS/store, etc
  • Summing sales... More

IRMCS is thrilled to share with you yet another positive review with excellent ratings by MJM Furniture Showcase on Aralco Retail Management and POS software systems:


Aralco retail furniture pos software system is designed... More

IRMCS is proud to share this positive reviews with superb ratings on Aralco POS software system by Moe Home Collection, a furniture and home decor retailer in the US and Canada.

 

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IRMCS is pleased to share this positive reviews and high ratings by Gary, the business owner of Toy Jungle on Aralco POS software systems. Hear why the toy retailer chooses Aralco solution over other retail pos systems.

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IRMCS is pleased to share a recent review on Aralco retail pos software system by Glam and Fame, apparel chain store retailer based in Canada - hear why they say "Aralco is the Best POS Solution".

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Layaway is an in-store system of letting customers secure an article or product by paying a deposit while the retailer "lay" the  product "away"in reservation until the payments are completed by the customer.

This system is widely offered by retailers in North America, Australia and New Zealand. The term "Layaway"is used in North America and... More

Certainly, with a big YES! SSDs have finally reached an affordable level to consider replacing the existing hard disk drive (HDD) on your POS terminal and workstation or ensuring your new POS terminal comes with SSD.

Well, if retailers want... More

The most ideal retail systems are the perpetual (real-time) ones while batch/off-line systems are just too inefficient for managing today's businesses.

In summary, real-time Retail System offers substantial benefits:

  • Information is always current, accessible anytime anywhere via the Internet
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