Store Integrator

Highlights

• Dynamic new “look and feel”
• Touch-enabled receipts
• Vibrant, customizable design and images
• Easy integration with existing applications, devices

Transform checkout

Today’s retailers are adding self-service, real-time inventory viewing, dynamic pricing, mobile, fuel, and many other store applications to stay competitive. The challenge is to create a seamless experience for customers, so that as they move from the point of sale (POS) to a kiosk, to a fuel pump, to the web; they see the same prices, receive the same discounts, and accrue the same loyalty points.

IBM Store Integrator allows retailers to deliver a unique and highly differentiating customer service from virtually any touch point. With this capability you can:

• Offer fuel customers the same service options, promotions, loyalty programs and payment choices at the pump as they would have in the store.
• Give customers who visit a self-service kiosk—for example, photo processing—a choice of the same products, payment options and customization options previously available only at the POS.
• Deliver a consistent view of your store to customers and employees at every touch point

Extend and expand the POS storewide

IBM Store Integrator enables retailers to distribute existing business logic and information storewide. Pricing, item information, transaction data and promotional details can be shared from POS applications, self-checkout systems, kiosks, handheld sales tools, smart phones and other store devices. So you can add new services without recreating POS software.

New or expanded services might include fuel stations; DVD rental and deli orders; home shopping; line busting; in-store inventory management; returns management; mobile POS, radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled checkout, personal shopping assistants, third party promotions and advertising.¹

To make integrating IBM Store Integrator as easy as possible, both Java and XML interfaces are available. The Application Extension Facility (AEF) is an open, Java technology-based application programming interface (API) that allows your current POS application to run in a virtual register session within other applications or web interfaces. It can be used with existing IBM SurePOS Application Client/Server Environment (ACE) applications and IBM Supermarket Application to distribute POS functionality to an even wider range of non-Java clients. It supports virtual sessions on 4690 V6R2 enhanced controllers, enabling hardware choice, increased virtual sessions, and vibrant, dual resolution support across multiple displays.