Commanding Point-of-Sale Technology
Working for You
Catapult harnesses the latest point-of-sale technology to help ensure that you have the control of your day-to-day operations that you demand. Your customers will appreciate the benefits this technology brings to them - faster and more accurate checkouts - resulting in greater customer satisfaction. You'll be amazed at the richness of Catapult's POS feature set, which comes from years of experience meeting the needs of retailers just like you.
POS Hardware Integration: Embracing Industry Standards
Catapult is designed to work seamlessly right out of the box with hundreds of name-brand POS terminals and peripherals. Catapult was the first off-the-shelf product to fully embrace OPOS (OLE for POS), the retail interface standard for Microsoft Windows, taking full advantage of all the functionality of your receipt printers, scanners, scales, and other peripherals, the way the manufacturers intended.
Out-of-the-Box Customization...With Room to Grow
Catapult's flexibility is the key advantage to enhancing, expanding, and streamlining your retail operation. Catapult's interface is powered by our exclusive Function Generator technology to help you facilitate unlimited tenders, tax tables, discounts, preset item keys, menu keys, and a variety of other functions tailored to fit your operation. This exclusive feature provides you with the solutions your business needs today with the built-in adaptability you need to expand in the future.
Power at Your Fingertips
POS touch screen technology is a standard feature on Catapult. This breakthrough in flexibility allows you to design the POS screen around your specific requirements. While most systems offer a few choices at the point of sale, Catapult POS screens can be set up in an endless variety of configurations, including location, color, size, and font controls. Catapult also allows users to have an unlimited number of configurable menus and prompts to organize and streamline your cashier activity.
POS Redundancy - Why You Should Demand It!
Nearly all competing systems on the market today depend on a network server for keeping the POS terminals up and running. The simplest interruption in communications-a cable coming loose or a power supply failure-will cause a domino effect and bring the entire POS system to a standstill. This can mean big trouble for you when the network goes down for any of a thousand reasons. Without access to necessary data, you can't checkout customers. You lose profits and they lose patience. Many competing systems provide quasi solutions to this problem, such as scheduled item file preparations. However, users have found these techniques to be disruptive, time consuming, and better in theory than actual practice.
RegisterGuardTM - The Redundant 24/7 Solution
Catapult is the one software solution you can trust to keep your store checking out customers quickly and efficiently hour after hour, day after day. After many years of design and development, ECRS has perfected true POS data redundancy. RegisterGuardTM was designed with you, the retailer, in mind. If the local network stops working, each Catapult POS terminal continues to operate independently without relying on the network to process transactions. Unlike competing system, RegisterGuard assures that nearly all of your POS functionality continues to operate as normal, even when your network has stopped functioning. Price promotions will start and end as scheduled. Item lookups, customer lookups, house charges, house payments and even credit, debit, and EBT continue to function with little or no restrictions.* Once the network and POS terminals are restored the system automatically updates the Catapult server. RegisterGuard is fully automatic, requiring no scheduled item file preparation. The competition just can't match this type of automated reliability. We call this redundant security RegisterGuard. You'll call it "Good Business!"
Register EmulationTM
If you prefer cash register or desktop style keyboards at the checkout, Catapult accommodates. The same flexibility found in the touch screen interface is available for POS keyboard programming, allowing you to design your keyboard layout to meet your exact needs. In many cases Catapult can be configured to emulate the keyboard on your current cash register or POS system, thereby significantly reducing the training time of your cashiers. This concept of Register Emulation puts Catapult far ahead of the competition. Our in-field results verify that it's not uncommon for new cashiers to be trained to use Catapult's POS touch screen or keyboard- based systems in as few as 15 minutes of use. We've simplified the POS transaction sets to empower your cashiers to be more efficient and effective customer agents.
Hardware:
The ECRS Freedom PanelTM
The Freedom Panel is ECRS's very own panel PC for use in every corner of your retail enterprise. From point-of-sale, to manager workstation, to back office, to kiosk applications, the ECRS Freedom Panel represents a robust, space-saving, and versatile series of ECRS-branded PCs to accommodate any retail application while maintaining consistent hardware styling across all points of your enterprise.
