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Harbortouch releases POS software for retail merchants

April 12, 2012

Harbortouch, a national supplier of touchscreen point-of-sale systems, has launched new versions of its free POS system program for the retail, spirits and convenience store industries. The new software packages offer numerous time- and money-saving features to accommodate the industry specific needs of these markets, Harbortouch CEO Jared Isaacman said in a company press release.

"While our free POS program has been a tremendous success in the restaurant and hospitality arena, we were always committed to developing a solution that fit the needs of retailers, convenience stores and liquor merchants," he said.

The new offerings include Harbortouch Retail, Harbortouch Spirits and Harbortouch C-Store. Each solution has customizations that suit them to the market they serve, Isaacman said.

"Our age verification feature helps convenience stores and spirits retailers remain in legal compliance, protecting the business and the community at large," he said. "The sizing and color matrix available for retailers means new efficiencies for the order process. All of our features are fundamentally based on improving efficiency, boosting revenue, and ultimately encouraging end customer satisfaction."

Harbortouch Retail is designed for retail environments of any size and includes a color/size/style matrix that allows merchants to build custom attribute matrices for a particular piece of apparel. This function helps to streamline order selection for a more efficient process, according to the release. Additional features include gift receipts, registries, rentals and consignment functions, and layaway.

Harbortouch Spirits offers many of the same benefits of the retail system but adds some features to meet the unique needs of wine, beer and liquor stores. A key functionality of this version of the POS software is an age verification process that prompts cashiers to ask for consumer identification and alerts them if the consumer can legally purchase age-restricted products, Isaacman said. The system can also differentiate between single drinks and multi-packs when checking out customers.

Harbortouch C-Store meets the needs of the high-volume transaction environment found in convenience stores. It also includes the age verification function for age-restricted products along with many of the same features offered in the other packages.

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