NPD modernises its retail experience with Triquestra

Fuel and convenience retailer, NPD, has selected Triquestra to transform its retail system and provide a hub for future innovation. Triquestra’s Infinity unified commerce solution will be installed as NPD’s point of sale in stores to improve the customer experience and support retail operations excellence and profitable growth.

Following rapid New Zealand expansion over recent years – including the launch into the North Island market in 2021 – NPD has 95 sites nationwide. With ambitious growth plans to launch 32 new sites over the next three years, the company prides itself on offering an exceptional customer experience.

“We have a strong focus on innovation as we grow our network and expand our retail offering to meet changing consumer needs,” says Lewis Preston, Retail Operations Manager at NPD. “Our architecturally-designed cafes are inviting and spacious, and we offer a forecourt service to ensure customers are being looked after as soon as they arrive. What really sets us apart is our incredibly popular range of café products which are all freshly prepared on site.” 

According to Louise Mitchell, NPD’s Senior Category Manager, the team are looking forward to the move to a modern technology platform that will streamline processes, gather deeper insights and provide great customer experiences.

“Infinity will play a key role in delivering a fast and efficient service to customers, while also helping to better manage our pricing and promotions and operate our business in a more profitable, data-driven manner.” 

It was important to NPD to partner with another New Zealand-based company. “As a Kiwi owned and operated business, we really pride ourselves on supporting local businesses and communities,” says Louise. “The Triquestra team’s responsiveness and flexibility gave us the confidence that we’ll get the swift, on-the-ground support and reliability we need.” 

Infinity’s analytics capability was another key factor in the decision. “We wanted to eliminate labour-intensive manual reporting and give our management fast and easy access to real-time business intelligence to support their decision-making,” explains Lewis. 

NPD is looking forward to better inventory and order management to increase stock accuracy and reduce admin time spent on sales, transactions, stocktakes, receipting, cash balancing and reordering. 

 “Right now, we have one retail price point for all of our sites nationwide,” says Lewis. “With surging inflation and rising costs, this negatively impacts the profitability of our sites in expensive regions.  

 “We pride ourselves on bringing genuine price and service competition to the fuel market. With Infinity’s ability to customise products, prices and promotions by site and region, we can provide our customers with even more value,” he adds. 

 “And we expect Infinity’s user-friendly interface to speed up our service at the till,” says Louise. “That will be amazing for both our staff and our customers.” 

 “There is tremendous pressure on fuel retailers to create new business models and revenue streams to replace traditional sources of revenue,” says Triquestra CEO Kelly Brown. “Retailers that become destination stores with more of what customers want are best positioned for long-term profitability and customer loyalty. We’re proud to partner with an award-winning convenience retail leader like NPD that is innovating to differentiate the customer experience.” 

Infinity will be implemented in a phased approach starting in mid-2022, with deployment and support provided by Triquestra’s implementation partner, ECL Group.

If it’s time to upgrade your point of sale to one that will scale and adapt to shifting consumer expectations and new technologies, contact us.

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GAS selects Triquestra for nationwide fuel point of sale system

Gasoline Alley Services Ltd (GAS), New Zealand’s largest network of independent fuel retailers, has chosen Triquestra as its strategic partner to transform its retail system.

GAS’ goal is to support its retailers in providing great customer experiences that drive growth throughout the fuel network.

Triquestra’s Infinity unified commerce solution will be installed as the GAS point of sale in approximately 120 sites nationwide. GAS will benefit from a modern retail management system that offers more flexible and streamlined customer transactions and which delivers more control and agility right across the network. 

In 2020, GAS decided to replace the two legacy POS systems operating in its network with a single retail platform. “We needed a new state-of-the-art, industrial strength retail system,” explains GAS Executive Director Tim Ellis.

“Our long-serving current software is unsupported (or will shortly become so) and faces increasing administrative and commercial challenges,” Tim says. “In addition, our processing of AA Smartfuel loyalty transactions is relatively manual, and we want to integrate these into the routine transactional operations of our fuel stations.”

Following a competitive RFP process, GAS chose Triquestra to help it achieve its modernisation objectives.

“Triquestra’s local presence and market knowledge was a huge factor in our decision,” says Tim.  “With a local head office and an extremely competent and responsive team, there’s an agility in the relationship that is highly valuable and attractive to us.”

“We are confident that Triquestra’s extensive fuel sector knowledge and experience lowers our risk and offers us the most reliable path to a full, effective deployment and ultimately to a satisfactory return on our investment.”

Tim says the GAS network is looking forward to more visibility of its key data.

“Infinity will give us greater flexibility and granularity of information so that we can tailor our market promotions nationally, regionally and even individually,” he explains. “GAS retailers will be able to create targeted promotions for the needs of their own local communities - something which is game changing and genuinely exciting.”

“The agility that Infinity offers us will give us greater control over what we do, when we do it and how.”

Tim adds that they are looking forward to the extensive, sophisticated management information Infinity will provide both to individual GAS retailers and to the head office.

“Infinity will make it easier for our retailers to plan and make strategic business decisions. With greater efficiencies and higher quality management information readily available at our fingertips, we’ll all have a better perspective on how our businesses are performing.”

Kelly Brown, Chief Executive of Triquestra, adds: “GAS is an iconic, 100 percent Kiwi brand. We’re very proud to be selected as GAS’ platform partner and are looking forward to helping to modernise its retail experience by providing the speed, convenience and simplicity that customers and individual retailers are increasingly demanding.”

The GAS transition to Infinity’s point of sale is targeted for completion during 2021.

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New Zealand Post chooses Triquestra as its strategic partner for transformation of its retail system

NZ Post has signed a multi-year agreement with Triquestra to support its retail transformation. The national delivery provider’s goal is to accelerate its digital transformation and provide richer, more seamless omnichannel customer experiences.

Triquestra’s Infinity unified commerce platform will be installed as NZ Post’s point of sale system in 244 outlets across New Zealand and create a central hub for omnichannel excellence and innovation in the future.

NZ Post will benefit from a modern retail management system that will keep pace with shifting customer expectations and new technologies, and offer more flexibility in how NZ Post engages with its customers.

“We required a modern, scalable and highly available retail management solution to replace our aging POS and create a platform for innovation,” says Mark Yagmich, NZ Post GM Physical Channels.

“After a thorough tender process, we chose Triquestra to help achieve that vision,” adds Mark. “Triquestra has a referenceable track-record of success supporting multi-store retailers at the forefront of omnichannel innovation, with a broad product capability and experience, and the right people and processes to move fast.”

Infinity will replace NZ Post’s legacy POS solution and support its retail operations and management, including point of sale, inventory, customer data, order management, analytics and loyalty.

NZ Post’s transition to Infinity’s point of sale in stores will be a phased approach that starts in August 2021, with deployment and support provided by Triquestra’s implementation partner, ECL Group.

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University of Canterbury selects Infinity to improve customer experience and keep data secure

University modernises its retail operations to give staff and students seamless experiences using Infinity unified commerce platform

We’re delighted to announce that the University of Canterbury has chosen Infinity for the standardisation of its point of sale systems.

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In 2019, the University kicked off a wide-ranging programme of work to upgrade its technology infrastructure and transform the student experience. This included a project to unify its disparate, legacy point of sale systems across the campus onto a single retail platform.

Toni O'Donohue, Finance Shared Services Manager at the University, says that a key driver for the project was to eliminate security risks and ensure the University met the payment card industry (PCI) security standard. “By upgrading our retail system we would not only ensure that our customer information was protected, but we could also provide our staff, students and stakeholders with a seamless customer experience, now and in the future.”

Deloitte was appointed to manage the project and, after evaluating a wide range of retail solutions and conducting a competitive RFP, the contract was awarded to Triquestra.

Toni says the University needed a partner with strong retail sector knowledge and experience to support the University’s growth and reduce the administration burden.  A key factor in their decision was Infinity’s maturity and support for a broad range of retail environments.

“We needed a proven solution that could seamlessly integrate with our enterprise finance system and technology stack spanning a large number of apps, data and business systems. Infinity was the best solution to meet that need.”

During August 2020, Triquestra’s support partner ECL Group deployed Infinity across six Business Units providing a diverse range of online and on-site offerings, from parking permits, cashiers, accommodation, lockers and printing centres, through to products and services sold by the Schools and Colleges.

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Fast, easy and accurate

The University now has a modern retail management system that will adapt and evolve to the University’s future technology, business and regulatory requirements.

“We've had really positive feedback from users about how easy the system is to use and how it's made the whole sales process a lot quicker and more efficient for them,” says Anne Campbell, the University’s Team Leader at Finance Shared Services.

“Many of the Business Units previously grappled with multiple systems that didn’t easily integrate and were taking a lot of time and effort to maintain. They now have a single system with a consistent process that saves time, reduces errors and frees them up to focus on the customer rather than the transaction.”

Their users can now see sales data in a more timely way, with Infinity giving them accurate, up-to-the-minute reporting on transactions to help them improve their forecasting and purchasing.

“And, of course, we’re now PCI compliant,” says Toni. “This is critical for our customers’ security and peace of mind, and protects our operations and business reputation.”

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If it’s time to upgrade your point of sale to one that will scale and adapt to shifting consumer expectations and new technologies, contact us.

Challenge gets up and running with Infinity in a few short weeks

A group of Challenge service stations is now using Infinity unified commerce platform, after a fast rollout.

Nine Challenge service stations located around the country and owned by nine individual businesses gave us a big challenge: Understand our requirements and get Infinity up and running in 6 weeks. We had this deadline because the existing system was reaching its end of life. Add in the Christmas holiday break and we had even less time to scope the project, configure Infinity, test and deploy to the sites.

A high feature fit + centralised data + great support = success

Infinity has a configuration and built-in features specifically for fuel and convenience stores so there was no change required to get Infinity up and running. Infinity is intuitive and fast for staff to learn and it processes sales very quickly so customers can be in and out with no fuss.

In addition to point of sale, Challenge is using Infinity to unify inventory and pricing and promotions data. This visibility lets owners see which items are selling so they can stock more accurately and confidently offer relevant promotions. Behind the scenes, Infinity integrates with Xero and Reckon to automate general ledger transactions.

Our partner, ECL Group, managed the rollout and provide ongoing support backed by Triquestra’s 24/7 support.

Sandra Frazer of Challenge Darfield sums up the deployment best:

“We have recently installed Infinity on our site and we just love it. It is so simple to use and all of our staff took to it like ducks to water. Our install was the week before Christmas and staff were literally thrown in the deep end, as the first time they saw Infinity was when we went live. ECL Group’s training was very clear and easy to follow. The thing I love most about Infinity is that it is very quick to process a sale which is so important in a busy site like ours.”