The XProtean^® C-Station™ Point-of-Sale solution effectively processes all customer sales transactions within a store and captures business data needed to gain real-time insight into store operations. C Station’s - rich and user-friendly interface provides store employees with ease of use and reduces training time, resulting in improved customer service. C-Station™ provides advanced features and capabilities that can change the Point-of-Sale into a Point-of-Service by helping the cashiers, the most vital point of contact with the consumers, to serve customers accurately and promptly thus making their shopping experience truly convenient and worthwhile.

Easy to Learn, Easy to Use

• Interactive and easy-to-learn display puts the cashier in the driver’s seat in the minimum possible time. With a basic orientation to start with, C-Station™ guides the cashier on what to do next.
  

Rich Interaction for Better Sales

• Provides friendly interaction through either a touch-screen or a keyboard.
• Unlimited speed keys such as Lottery, Phone Cards, Hot & Cold Beverages, etc can be customized.
• Distinct audible alerts for non-scanned products, Voids, No Sale, etc.
• Easy log-in and log-out.
• Allows only one cashier to log-on at any point of time.
• Suggestive messages to the cashier to up-sell.
• Ease of counting cash by using the on-screen calculator at the time of logging in & logging out.
• Forces safe drops depending on preset limit.
• Product buy-downs by quantity.
• Allows tender type splitting on a single sale.
• ‘Sale Resume’ feature facilitates cashiers to add more items to the sale upon customer’s request.
• Suspend mode to keep the checkout process going.

Effective Customer Service

• Provides a simpler, faster, and more secure checkout process.
• Electronic display provides information on the customer side on price, quantity, fuel sales, amount tendered, total, and change due.
• Faster credit / debit card transaction processing time (as quick as 3 seconds on a DSL line)
• Capability of handling multiple tender types such as Cash, Credit, Debit, Food Stamp, Manufacturer Coupons, Store Coupons, Checks, EBT, etc
• ID checked confirmation on age sensitive items like - lotto, lottery, tobacco products and alcoholic beverages.

Easy Fuel Transactions

• Interfaces with all major fuel dispensers.
• Easy fuel authorization and collection.
• Gas refunds & pump status from any C-Station™ terminal.
• Credit card pre-authorization available for prepaid gas locations.
• Sale Stacking

Complete Product Control

• Complete product scanning and PLUs for unscannable items.
• Capability to capture UPCs of unscannable items to assist in adding the products into the Price Book.
• Restricts Food Stamps tender type to only Food Stamp eligible items.

Promotions on the Fly

• Promotions can be enabled to run at any desired time (date/hours) on a real-time basis.
• Promotions on multi-packs can be handled efficiently.

Enhanced Reporting

• Easy shift reports & cash accountability enable quick changeover of shifts.
• Generates detailed shift reports – sales by categories, transaction count by each category, Voids, No-Sales, Safe Drops.
• All cashier activities are logged & printed on shift report including Voids, Deletes, No Sale etc. with exact time and transaction amount.
• Unique cash formula accounts for cashier’s shortages right in the shift report.
• Pay-in and Pay-out by relevant category on the register.

Better Receipts

• Formats and prints receipts with customized headers and footers including Sales ID, store/corporate logos.
• Prints receipts with a unique sales ID in the form of a barcode to ease refunds.
• Stores and retrieves previous transactions by date & time for issuing duplicate receipts.

Reliable, Secure & Efficient

• No single point of failure. Each POS independently talks to the fuel controller via LAN.
• Designed and deployed with standard hardware components for better performance, flexibility and for minimizing cost. C-Station™ is OPOS compliant.
• Windows XP Embedded version available.
• Remote connectivity requires VPN access, thereby reducing network security threats.
• Each POS can store data locally in case of connectivity failure and automatically synchronizes when the connection is restored.
• Capability to interface with video surveillance cameras.
• Role based security restricts cashiers from using managerial functions such as fuel price change and other product price changes.
• Reduces cashier theft by allowing you to monitor all the sales transactions by cashier and POS remotely via a web interface.

• CRIND (Pay at the Pump) interface for all major dispensers for both Credit and Debit cards.
• In dispenser cash acceptors
• Car wash controllers
• Tank gauge/ leak detection systems
• Electronic Price Signs