The XProtean^® C-BOSS™ is a powerful back-office management system designed to deliver greater control over key areas of store operations. It is built with exceptional tools and reporting capabilities that provide the manger with the ability to properly plan and control all mission critical processes in a more efficient and economical manner. C-BOSS provides management and reporting functionality around Price-Book Management, Inventory Management, Cash Management, Fuel Management and all other store management needs. This enhanced reporting highlights the ‘current state of affairs’ and allows the manager to focus on issues that need immediate attention and to improve overall efficiency, optimize all store operations, and provide effective customer service.

Enhanced Reporting

• Provides elaborate and customizable shift & day reports.
• Provides detailed shift report for each employee including cash balancing, safe drops, ‘Deletes’, ‘Voids’, ‘No Sales’, Sales by Category, Grade Sales, Meter Sales by pumps.
• Consolidated reports by day, week, month, year or for any user-defined date range.
• Creates detailed customer databases to analyze customer behavior and buying trends at each store location.

Product Management

• Easy and standard product search by UPC/PLU, SKU, Description, Supplier, Category & Department.
• Multiple suppliers can be assigned to the same product.
• Automatically suggests retail price based on ‘desired profit’ assigned to a product, department or category.
• Unique alerts for food-stamp acceptable products, suggestive messages for cashiers to up-sell.

Price Book Management

• Easy price book maintenance with capability to make retail prices and costs to become effective at a future date, define promotional prices that can run for a pre-defined date and hour period.
• Price Groups & Cost Groups allow quick price and cost changes for products grouped together for ease of management.

Inventory Management

• Informs the store manager about inventory levels of each individual product as well as fuel products and helps to ensure that the right products are stocked in the right quantities. A great tool to keep a check on any unusual variances, inventory shrinkage and ‘out-of-stock’ situations.
• Generates and submits a suggested Purchase Order based on inventory levels for a specific vendor or product category or product.
• Matches supplier invoices against deliveries and purchase orders. Supports electronic ordering.
• Supports synchronization with RF Handheld devices like C-HANDY™. Updates inventory and checks variances on a real time basis.
• A great assistant in Category Management by analytical use of pre-configured and customizable reports on various data for product categories.

Fuel Management

• Track Fuel deliveries.
• Track fuel inventory efficiently using various fuel management tools based on dip readings or data collected from tank monitoring devices.
• Unique pool margin tool.
• Web based fuel price control allows store managers to change gas prices instantly
• Real time alerts can be paged to managers about tank inventory levels and pressure levels.

Employee Management

• Ability to define access levels to various employees at the Point of Sale system based on their level of authority and responsibility.
• Effectively records employee time/attendance and facilitates payroll.

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.

Network Security

• Remote connectivity only through secure VPN access minimizes all network security risks. Uses Sonicwall Internet security appliances with backup Analog Modem for high performance & reliability.

Compatibility

• Reports can be saved in various formats like MS-Word, MS-Excel, etc. allowing them to be easily transferable as soft copies across the organization.
• Interfaces with major accounting software packages (Microsoft Great Plains, Solomon etc.).