Independent Pharmacies Are IIAS Compliant with ECRS Catapult 5.0
ORLANDO, FL – December 8, 2008 - ECR Software Corporation (ECRS) is continuing the successful roll-out of their IIAS-ready, POS software Catapult 5.0. This software release enables retailers to meet all regulations restricting health benefit card acceptance in accordance with approaching IRS deadlines in 2009. Catapult 5.0 is the most recent addition to ECRS point-of-sale and inventory solutions that have been serving retailers in a variety of markets, including independent pharmacy, for almost 20 years.
East Burke and Burke Pharmacies, both located in western North Carolina, have been successfully operating with Catapult 5.0 since October 2008. Both retail pharmacies have also completed all required SIGIS documents to complete the IIAS certification process.
“This is the strongest version of Catapult to date,” said East Burke Manager, David Hoyle. “We upgraded in October with no issues and the software has continued to prove extremely stable, with exceptional speed, increased performance, user friendly interfaces and features allowing us to accept health benefit cards, effortlessly, according to IRS IIAS guidelines.”
“With assistance from ECRS the entire process, including completion of SIGIS documents, has been about as simple as possible. I pretty much had to just sign and date the documents. On a scale from 1-10, the ease of this process has been a ten,” continued Hoyle.
In addition to successful upgrades at East Burke and Burke Pharmacies, ECRS has completed multiple Catapult 5.0 upgrades to date, including a 11-store pharmacy chain located in North Carolina and Tennessee. All stores are running with 100% functionality after upgrade completion.
ECRS is also working with various credit card processors to provide choices for customers and to avoid locking retailers into having to choose one specific card processing company in order to accept health benefit cards.
“As a company, ECRS understands the strain new IRS regulations concerning acceptance of FSA and like cards have put on the independent pharmacy retailer. We want to extend our resources to do everything possible to help simplify this entire process for every pharmacy facing this challenge. Our development team has created an extremely stable, fully-functional IIAS-ready software solution backed by our deployment and support teams to ensure customer satisfaction. We also placed great importance on creating a POS and inventory solution focused not only on solving one specific issue, but on providing a solution for every aspect of operating a retail enterprise,” said ECRS President Peter Catoe.
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ECRS products serve to streamline the most demanding retail enterprise with solutions including point of sale, self-checkout, reporting and analytics, multistore, inventory management, auto replenishment, supplier integration, warehousing, membership management, integrated video surveillance, digital customer billboard, gift card, signature capture, wireless hand-held, and a range of other retail automation components.
