Retailers with fuel pumps have long utilized one point of sale system for pump-related transactions and another for transactions pertaining to other inventory, such as food and grocery items sold in their adjacent convenience stores or similar establishments. However, a much better alternative is now available in the form of solutions that handle fuel sales and other transactions from the same point of sale system.

Such solutions comprise fuel pump point of sale modules that interface with traditional point of sale software used at checkout counters. With these solutions in place, fuel sales and other transactions can be handled from a single point inside the store. Transaction times at the fuel island are greatly reduced, without interfering with compliance initiatives (such as adherence to data security requirements set forth in the Payment Card Industry-Data Security Standards, or PCI-DSS) and marketing endeavors (for example, promoting branded items with a fuel purchase).

What’s more, integrated fuel pump and point of sale software solutions make it easy to collect payment for fuel and significantly decrease the potential for such problems as customers driving away from pumps without paying for their gasoline purchases or attempting to pump more fuel than they have paid for. Cashiers are empowered to handle all fuel-related functions right from the in-store computers on which the “regular” point of sale system runs. Cash Register Express Fuel Edition processes pre-paid and post paid transactions, pay-at-the-pump, loyalty cards, fleet (gas) cards, & car wash sales.

Version 12.5 of pcAmerica’s Cash Register Express point of sale software can be seamlessly integrated with the company’s new Fuel Pump POS software module—affording you all of the above benefits, and others. The powerful, yet user-friendly system processes all standard fuel-related transactions, and meets all PCI requirements.

For more information, visit www.pcamerica.com.