Here’s new functionality across the Infinity platform that will help you unify your physical and digital channels, create a differentiated omnichannel experience, and let your teams work more efficiently.
Infinity is a modular platform and you may need additional components or licencing to access some functionality.
INFINITY API
Access real-time fuel inventory
Fuel retailers can now get a near real-time view of fuel inventory levels at branches, helping to simplify their stock management. Fuel tank dip values and inventory levels can now be regularly posted as an event notification for processing by external downstream systems, such as fuel delivery management software.
PRODUCT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Easier updates to item costs
If your business uses Infinity’s inventory review function to manage price updates at branches, you can now update an item’s recommended cost at the branch when that item’s unit cost is updated at head office, saving you the time and effort of changing the cost manually. If you use Infinity ETL to bulk update item data, you also now have the option to update the recommended cost of an item for a specific branch or for all branches.
PRICING & PROMOTIONS
Launch new fuel promotions
Fuel retailers can now offer dollar-off fuel coupons with each fuel transaction, giving marketers another tool to incentivise customers to shop with them, and helping to increase customer retention and boost sales. It allows them to reach a different customer segment, with different purchase motivators.
REPORTS & ANALYTICS
Give stores access to sales data at-a-glance
You can now give your stores easy access to stripped-down sales information using the new Product Sales Summary Report. This report includes the number of individual items sold and total value, minus information you might want to exclude (such as costs or margins).
Better cash management reporting for branch managers
The Banking Transaction Report is now available at the Back Office, allowing branch managers to view the movement of money into and out of the trading location.
By viewing their banking deposits and receipt transactions, they can more easily reconcile bank statements or review cashflow within their store.
POINT OF SALE
Faster item data updates via Wedderburn scales integration
Infinity is now fully integrated with Wedderburn scales. This means that changes to item data in Infinity, such as price per kg, can be pushed directly to Wedderburn, rather than users having to update the prices again independently on the scales.
TECHNOLOGY
SQL Server Always On Availability Group
If your Head Office database is set up in an Always On Availability Group (AOAG) with appropriate read-only access, you can offload some Linker load to the read-only node to distribute the SQL activity for the Linker, thereby reducing the load on the primary SQL node. Note: At present, only one high-use query uses this feature.
To find out more about any of these enhancements and add them to your Infinity platform, contact us.
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