Retail Automation solution is aimed at enhancing the efficiency of retail outlet operations and facilitating the management of retail network. IRIS as the name suggest provides a focused and unified view of the entire retailing activity. It helps you build a two pronged strategy by simultaneously focus on forecourt operations and aims at enriching the transaction experience of the customers.
IRIS with its flexible architecture enables oil companies to maximize return on investments that are made in automated systems.
Key Features
Flexible Architecture
IRIS has been designed to provide flexibility to the customer to decide the architecture of the solution to
suit the requirements of individual locations.
Flexible Business Processes
The work flow in IRIS is driven by the business processes and not technology. Business processes are a
function of type of customer and their requirements. Some of the options that IRIS provides are Post Sales Payment, Presales Payment, Top-up sales, Partial Sales, Testing transactions, Own Use transactions.
Flexible payment solutions (pre-paid card, fleet card, credit/debit multi-acquirer solution)
IRIS has the capability to accept cash, credit
/ debit bank cards, fleet cards, loyalty cards. The payment acceptance features are modular and can
deployed in a phased manner.
Flexible loyalty solutions
PineLabs loyalty solution is a
comprehensive offering encompassing, card issuance, terminal application, transaction acquiring, central
host application and the reporting module.
Remote management
IRIS is equipped to provide a web based centralized management interface of all IRIS locations.
GIS mapping IRIS is capable of providing GIS based network monitoring facility.
Web-enabled Central data Host
The POS and the related system modules generate enormous quantity of data at the gasoline station.
Through reports, this data can be generated into useful information for the gasoline stations. Once the individual station information is collated
onto a central host it can be analysed (data mining) for market trends, buying patterns, customer
segmentation, CRM etc. the database then becomes a strong marketing tool.
The transactions data stored in the site controller are periodically transferred to the IRIS
The Automation Central Host is a repository and a database of account masters of various entities such
as Dealers, POSs, Terminals, Customers, Vehicles, Cards, etc. The database also contains the
transactions data, which are updated from all the POSs in the field.
