What Your POS Is Really Trying to Tell You

Actionable data rings up every up every minute at the register. A c-store can’t take hours to figure out what it all means.

Being a central routing point for sales information and pump readings make the POS the source of data for store performance indicators, a treasure trove of information that the operator can use to make pricing, inventory, or other operational adjustments.

There’s more to it than that, though. While the ability to accumulate a mass of POS data is essential, without filtering and context the volume of information may overwhelm the operator. A decision-maker has to find insights that aren’t buried in the details; ones that become apparent in a timely enough matter to get the store out in front of potential issues, allowing for corrective action.

To help store management efficiently sift through valuable POS data, SSCS developed Transaction Analysis (TA). The software takes the continuous feed of sales information from the POS, captures it, and serves up key performance indicators (KPIs) that can be grasped quickly with the assistance of graphics and charts. It’s an insightful look into the business that only the POS can provide, a view that TA continually updates.

TA organizes POS activity into complimentary data sets that reflect major areas of interest and activity at the register: sales trends, customer traffic patterns, promotional effectiveness, staff behavior at the register—and that’s only a fraction of what’s available. Taken together, they provide an evolving, changing view of the store and its performance—especially given that the user can drill down to the receipt level for unmatched focus during troubleshooting, and see what’s really going on.

In addition to providing clearly rendered insights on a desktop computer display, Transaction Analysis also allows for POS data output into printed reports and PDFs, as well as export into the Excel spreadsheet format. Our latest software release, Station Sense, takes the theme of accessibility one step further by placing the feeds from the POS through TA right in the palm of your hand.

It also helps that SSCS has always been a leader in integrating POS systems with our software. The following chart shows the register technologies with which our technology is currently compatible.

If you think you aren’t getting actionable insights out of your cache of POS information, Transaction Analysis might just be the tool for you. Find out what your POS is really trying to tell you. Call us at (800) 972-7727.