You can configure alerts to communicate messages for specific events. You can choose from different modes to send alerts to each showroom in a chain of stores to ensure that distance doesn’t break the chain of communication between you showrooms.

Use the Alerts Management feature of Shoper 9 to provide critical information at the right time, i.e., notify price revision or sales promotion at the same time to all the showrooms. Choose a convenient mode of communication from e-mails, SMS, balloon tips, and message boxes. You can also select the type of alert that would call an appropriate user action, based on the severity – categorise alerts into fatal alerts, warnings, and information.

Designed to improve the efficiency of supply chains, the GS1 standards are the most widely-used supply chain standards system in the world.

Shoper 9 allows you to generate the GS1 Standard Numbers for the stock items, based on the Global Trade Identification Numbers (GTIN) assigned to your business. Introduction of GTIN system is of great advantage, especially in case of businesses dealing with international brands or having outlets across the globe.

You can define a pattern or multiple patterns for stock numbering, using pre-defined parameters in adherence to GTIN standards. Adopt GTIN which is the standardized methodology for numbering of items, enabling global trade compatibility and effective stock management.

Tills or POS counters are used to handle sales related operations like billing, return of goods, cancellation, cash receipts, cash payouts, and so on, in a retail outlet. The functionality is quick to enable and easy to use in Shoper 9.

With Till Management, you can set the status of each till to open, lock, unlock, and close, as required, and enjoy complete control over till operations based on the status set. Also, define cash limits for each till reaching, for which an alert will be displayed to initiate cash lift.

Shoper 9 is designed to handle a high volume of SKUs (items) and transactions. Effective and flexible inventory options make inventory management seamless with Shoper 9.

With Inventory Management, you can, generate purchase orders at HO, distributor, and POS, based on business requirements. Import a purchase order or an indent by a POS location using the .xml file sent by another POS location or a Distributor

• Capture details related to PO/Indent, supplier, delivery as well as configure its format and define the tax rate to be applied
• Consolidate the POS/Indents sent by all your POS locations, to place a combined order with your suppliers using the distributor or HO components. In the Shoper 9 POS application, you can ascertain the status of various PO/Indents raised by your POS locations on your HO/ Distributor
• Automatically create masters from flat files (Purchase Transaction (PT), Transfer Transaction (TT), Delivery Challan (DC), and so on.)
• Account for inward stock movements from the vendor/distributor to the stores on the basis of SKU or size
• Use the physical stock take option to compare the physical quantity of stock items against the values in the books periodically, adjust discrepancies, and clear negative stock values
• Barcode stock items in-house: define key attributes of a stock item for quick recording of details by just scanning the bar code
• Design and print barcode labels

Manage large volumes of your retail business data using catalogues and appropriate business regulations. Catalogues hold business data like products, supply chain network, stores, configurations, and data communication schedules.

Use the centralized sales person management to boost the efficiency of HO and have better insights into the performance of sales personnel across showrooms. Clear out non-moving stock by increasing footfalls, sales, and stock turn out. With Catalogue Management, you can pre-define conditions for schemes and discounts in catalogues and automatically or manually apply these in the bills. Also, apply the ‘and’ clause to build exciting promos even with multiple, non-related items.

Using Print Engine, the printing related logic and business logic are separated and generate outputs based on configuration. Print engine gives the flexibility to customise business logic according to business needs, and also enables configuring printing instructions for all transactions or nodes through the engine.

With Shoper 9’s Print Engine, you can,

• Enable transaction-wise and/or document wise configuration settings.
• The flexibility to override default settings.
• Select printer on-the-fly.
• Customise printing using TDL.
• Use different print modes like USB Port.
• Use multiple printing type options like winspool, DOS printing, convert DOS/Text printing to GUI printing and so on.

The number of prices you can create for a stock item is unlimited with the comprehensive multi-price capability of Shoper 9. There is complete flexibility to activate or deactivate prices as required. Define multiple prices and select the most appropriate price when recording the transaction.

Managing advance slips, and sales and service orders, are an inbuilt capability of Shoper 9. Link an expected transaction with your billing module to make your billing process faster, hence saving time.

The Predictive Bill Value feature in Shoper 9 enables you to cancel or modify an expected transaction within seconds, generate item level sale promos at the click of a button, reduce billing errors, quickening your billing process, and strengthening customer buying decisions.

Shoper 9 ensures security of all sensitive data. From a single POS store, to chain businesses, Shoper 9 boosts security management with enhanced security controls.

Shoper 9 is built with a flexible framework that manages all exchange of information and materials across your supply chain network. Define business rules at the highest level and extend the same across your network to ensure visibility and control of business operations.

Further more, use Shoper 9 to categorize your business entities geographically. Categorize in order of country, zone, state, city, and finally to the store levels as well. Define statutory and business operation processes for each category or entity. You can also determine and delimit data communication modes and interfaces for data exchanges.

Adopt the Dashboard Report – your one-stop report – for improved visibility on all data synchronisation processes. With Shoper’s comprehensive data synchronisation, you now have access to simplified, consolidated data and store-wise data management. Identify pending POS information and display day status’ after your last synchronisation.

Hardware

Hardware required for successful installation of Shoper 9 depends on various factors that include inventory size and volume of transactions recorded. Refer the following table for more.

Server (HO)

Particulars	Recommended Configuration
Processor	Intel Xeon 3 GHz or greater
RAM	2 GB (4 GB for more than 50 Stores)
Hard Disk space	160 GB
Backup device	DAT Drive
Network	100 Mbps, Switched

Server (HO)

Server (POS)

Client (HO & POS)

Devices Supported

Dedicated to enhance your billing experience, Shoper 9 is compatible with and supports various input/output devices, and POS machines. It can also be customized to support new devices and models. Be it dynamic customer display units, electronic cash drawers, magnetic card readers, and even barcode scanners, Shoper 9 supports it all, reducing your retail office space. You can also use portable data terminal devices, to enter stock data wirelessly. Print receipts, slips, and barcodes.

Architecture

Shoper 9 encompasses Shoper 9 HO and Shoper 9 POS to meet all your requirements from a single retail store to an extensive retail network. Install Shoper 9 HO at your head office or primary control center to monitor all Shoper 9 POS installed at each retail and distribution center.

With Shoper 9 architectural flexibility you can,

Customisation

Shoper 9 Retail Solutions can be customised by Tally Integrators to meet specific requirements. Catering to the constantly evolving business needs, Shoper 9 is packaged with a customisation framework designed to ensure easy handling of database connection and common features.

Interfaces

Eliminate the need to recreate data for external applications. With Shoper 9’s flexible and configurable interface frameworks, share and receive data from applications like SAP, Tally.ERP 9, and other custom/legacy softwares, in the required format. (.txt, .csv files, HTML, XML and spreadsheet formats).