The apps a supermarket adds to the one till

Till guard rules

Checks at Pay and at the scan, in one app. Each rule is off until you set it.

• A line at a placeholder price, such as 0.01, is refused at Pay, as is more of one item than you allow.
• A sale at or above your approval amount needs the cashier's answer, or a manager who is not the cashier.
• When an item you ticked is scanned, the till asks your question first, or says which batch to sell first.

Set up by the retail manager or the store manager.

The priced basket goes to a service iVendNext hosts, which reads your settings and writes nothing.

Coupon rules

Rules for your own coupons, checked when the cashier presses Pay.

• First purchase only: a coupon refused for a customer who has bought before.
• Only for one customer group: a coupon refused for a customer outside it.
• The cashier sees why, removes the coupon and pays.

Set up by the retail manager or the marketing manager.

The priced sale goes to a service iVendNext hosts, which reads your rules and writes nothing.

Gift card on spend

Reward a big basket with your own gift card, spendable after a hold.

• A sale that reaches your threshold earns a gift card of the value you set.
• The card becomes spendable after the hold, 24 hours unless you change it.
• A cancelled sale, or returns that take it below the threshold, void the cards it no longer earns.

Set up by the retail manager or the store manager.

A service iVendNext hosts reads your sales, returns and customers and writes the gift cards.

Payment method rules

Which payment methods each customer group may use at the till.

• On account only for your account customers; delivery-platform orders paid by the platform's method.
• At Pay the methods left out are dimmed, with your reason.

Set up by the retail manager or the finance team; the cashier sees it at Pay.

The priced sale goes to a service iVendNext hosts, which reads your rules and writes nothing.

Customers by store

At which stores each customer group may buy: account customers at their own store, trade customers at the trade counter.

• A rule per customer group: the stores or tills where its customers may buy.
• Anywhere else the cashier reads your reason, and no sale for that customer is paid there.

Set up by the retail manager; the cashier sees it when a customer is picked.

The customer and the till go to a service iVendNext hosts, which reads your rules and writes nothing.

iVendNext Loyalty

Points on every basket, spent at the till.

• Each member is one of your customers, enrolled in a loyalty plan.
• Points build up from purchases or visits, by rules you set, and the cashier sees the balance during the sale.

Used by the cashier and the marketing manager.

Needs a key from iVendNext; your partner adds it to your site.

Counter hardware

The drawer opens, the receipt prints and the customer display shows the sale.

• Receipts print on the lane's own printer, with no print window.
• The customer display shows your welcome, sale and thank-you lines.

Used by the cashier; set up by the shop administrator.

Needs a key from iVendNext; your partner adds it to your site and tries your own hardware with you before you go live.

iVendNext Handheld

Stock work by barcode on a rugged handheld or a phone, at the back of the store.

• Receive goods, move stock between stores, count, return to the supplier and look up items.
• Queue labels to print from the back office.

Used by stock clerks and store managers.

Needs a key from iVendNext; your partner adds it to your site. It works on a live connection.

Delivery marketplaces

Orders from delivery marketplaces arrive in iVendNext as orders against your store's stock, and your stock levels go back to the marketplace.

The lot rules at the till

The lot that expires first enforced at the till, a recalled lot named as recalled at the scan, and a recalled or expired lot refused on every stock document.