CTN or Convenience Store software

No city, town or village would be complete without a local convenience store. Providing residents up and down the country with those daily necessities we just couldn´t live without. Communities rely on Newsagents and CTNs being stocked with the morning paper to collect before work, a pint of milk when you´ve just ran out or that all important winning weekend lottery ticket. Convenience Stores nationwide continue to supply to neighbourhood demand and Merlin provide a solution to help make those busy day to day retail tasks a little easier.

Merlin has been specifically designed to meet the needs of the modern CTN or Convenience Store with it's automatic control of all types of items you may stock. These products can include weighed goods, newspapers and publications and multiple pack sizes. You can also create and produce your own special bar-codes for those locally produced items or where you have split large packs down into smaller retail units.

Merlin has helped stores to quickly process transactions and help keep those queues at bay. By using its own integrated accounting module Merlin ensures that sales can be made to any type of customer, and you can even have trade accounts if required. Merlin also allows for any number of special offers and special prices to be set up at any time or date, giving flexibility on all types of sales promotions.

Merlin has a fully integrated news management system, for control of the receipt and supply of all types of publications. The ´news´ module allows for individual accounts, whether by shop save or delivery and automatically allocates delivery charges as appropriate. The system also allows for the creation of customer loyalty schemes if required.

Key points to consider:

Provides full ´Home News Delivery´ facilities
Allows account view and/or payment at point of sale
Allows unlimited numbers of special offers
Allows unlimited number of products and categories
Provides Direct Product Profitability for ALL items
Automatically produces bar-code labels for special items
Can mix all types of goods in the same sale
Uses touch screen terminals with simple graphics for ease of use
Allows for the control of all accounts, both retail and news
Tracks all sales for management information and re-ordering
Allows for the operation of special loyalty schemes
Integrates fully into the total retail operation
No need for other external or 3rd party software