Run any business with the essentials

Our Essentials Solution1 is everything you need to power your point of sale devices. 

Stay on top of inventory

Stay on top of inventory

The Essentials Solution makes inventory management easier. Manage up to 50,000 inventory items at once.

Drive new and repeat business

Drive new and repeat business

Share special offers, discounts and promotions with customers through email marketing and loyalty programs.

Keep operations seamless

Keep operations seamless

Manage employees across one or more locations and offer sales and profitability reporting as well as tax reporting.

The Sales Dashboard displays a real-time snapshot of business metrics.

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Reporting is key to your business and provides key data, insights and analytics to help you track and analyze performance and overall business health.

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The Customer Dashboard provides key data about email and marketing campaigns in a single view.

The dashboard includes:

  • Integrated loyalty program (point or punch) that shows the amount or percent off and tracks purchases.
  • Integrated email receipts that show the loyalty balance on receipts.
  • Email marketing that includes an opt-in for emailing and automatic Welcome and Miss You emails with an option to include offers/coupons in emails.
  • Social media that includes links to Facebook®, Twitter® and Instagram® in emails and receipts.

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Our Essentials Solution includes:

  • A built-in loyalty program to help you connect to customers and increase sales from repeat buyers. Because it’s fully integrated, you don’t need any cards, devices or other apps.
  • You’ll be able to track the effectiveness of your program with integrated reporting from the Essentials Back Office.
  • We’ll provide you with everything needed to identify customers and reward them for their business.

Customers will appreciate the simplicity and can earn loyalty rewards by one of two methods that you select—by number of visits (with punch cards) or by dollars spent (with reward dollars).

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Fully integrated email marketing tools can save you time and money, eliminating the need for an external, third-party email marketing tool.

The Email Marketing section displays key information for the results of your various email campaigns.

The email marketing engagement includes the ability to:

  • Send bulk email marketing messages to your customer base.
  • Send recurring emails at specified times or on a regular basis, like Welcome or Miss You emails.
  • Connect with your customers on Facebook®, Twitter® and Instagram® through links on emails and receipts.

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You’ll know exactly what you have on hand for items tracked. As items are sold or returned, the system will track the quantity accordingly. Adjustments to total quantity can also be made manually at any time to suit your individual needs. Inventory management with the Essentials Solution gives you the ability to do the following:

  • Support up to 50,000 inventory items. (Upload is limited to 999 items at a time.)
  • Track and manage vendors.
  • Manage items by department and categories.
  • Track inventory (quantity on hand and cost).
  • Support item variations.
  • Create modifier groups (with an option to charge).

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You’ll be able to set up (1) item-level discounts, (2) ticket-level discount, (3) promotions.

  • Item-level discount: You can only assign one item-level discount to an item. On a receipt for a sale that includes discounts, each item-level discount displays directly below the corresponding item.
  • Ticket-level discount: You can only assign one ticket-level discount to a ticket. On a receipt for a sale that includes discounts, the applicable ticket-level discount displays above the subtotal amount.
  • Promotions: Special offers are designed to promote specific products and/or generate sales. For example, buy one get one free, buy three for the price of two or buy 10 items and get each at $1 off.

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Our Essentials Solution is compatible with these optional value-added services: Online Ordering2, Customer and Billing Tokens3, Recurring Billing4 and Account Updater5.

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