Pre-Christmas Revenue was boosted for several independent fashion retailers who used the Touchretail Gift Card system. As usual we received a surge of requests for new Gift Card systems in November, when retailers were looking to replace paper Gift Vouchers. The Gift cards are particularly useful when relatives or friends of your customers want to buy them a present but not sure what exactly to buy.
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10th March 2011 saw the attendance of Yohji Yamamoto and Zinedine Zidane for the opening of the first Y-3 flagship store in London, in collaboration with luxury retail partner Hervia. Located on 54 Conduit Street, Mayfair the first Y-3 stand alone store in the UK sits across from the Yohji Yamamoto boutique. Touchretail have provided the back office stock control and instore EPOS for the Y-3 Mayfair store, in addition to the GCAS Y-3 Gift Card module. (more…)
Touchretail Gift Card System
For retailers who require an automated, on-line and reportable Gift Card facility, Touchretail have developed the ideal solution. Designed as a module to work alongside Touchretail EPOS and back office systems, the Gift Card module provides you and your customers with a simple and secure way to extend the shopping experience.
Whether your requirement is a simple Gift Card issuing and redeeming function, or a way of monitoring Gift Vouchers and Credit Notes, Touchretail can supply the total application, including installation and card supply.
Customers can purchase Gift Cards from your store with any amount of cash added. The cards can be redeemed either in part or in full, and can be ‘topped up’ by any number of additional cash amounts. Gift Cards are not usable until they are activated at the till by the addition of the initial cash value.
Each activated Gift Card is individually recorded, real-time, at any of your stores at which the Gift Card is acceptable.
Each time the Gift Card is presented at point of sale for topping up, balance checking or to be used against a purchase, the barcode on the card is scanned which sends a query to our System Server. The query or transaction is validated and recorded, and the sale proceeds in the normal way. This internet based operation enables Gift Cards to be used across several stores, or even for different companies to have a shared Gift Card scheme.
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Concept Retail have issued their last Credit Note, as they have now started to use Touchretail’s GCAS system for adding Cash to Card instead of issuing paper Credit Notes. Concept Retail operate 9 fashion stores in the North West, trading under the Designer Outlet and Infinities fascias, and they have been keen to move towards a unified paperless system for handling customer Credit as well as covering Gift Card sales.
paperless Gift Card & Credit Notes
Touchretail’s GCAS was the ideal solution, as it utilises a single store card for both Gift Card use and Credit handling. The credit for goods returned by customers is put onto the store card. The funds on the card can be used immediately at any one of the group’s stores – regardless of which fascia.
A customer may check the balance on the Card at any till point at any time – they could even pass the card on as a ‘Gift Card’. Not only does the Card carry the company logo all the time it is in the customer’s possession, it enables instant analysis of liability due to outstanding customer credit.
A range of GCAS reports will enable Concept to identify credits issued by staff, stores and amounts, as well as credits redeemed and outstanding at any time by company and by store – and even by customer.
The GCAS Gift card and Customer Credit System is part of Touchretail’s portfolio of web-based retail products that offer cost effective store management with latest technology implementation.
For more information on GCAS or any of Touchretail’s range of products contact david.powell@touchretail.co.uk.
BOSS Gift Card
For retailers who require an automated, on-line and reportable Gift Card or Customer Accounts facility, Touchretail have developed the ideal solution. Designed as a module to work alongside Touchretail EPOS and back office systems, the Gift Card and Customer Accounts modules provide you and your customers with a simple and secure way to extend the shopping experience.
Hugo Boss Cambridge recently installed the GCAS Gift card system in the run up to Christmas. Customers can purchase gift cards in-store and top-up with whatever value they choose. The gift cards can be redeemed and topped up as required with balance checks available at any of the Cambridge store’s Touchretail EPoS terminals.
The GCAS Gift card system is a service hosted by Touchretail. Your EPoS till systems communicate with our secure server in a similar fashion to how a credit card terminal works allowing company wide Gift Cards, Credit notes, Vouchers and Accounts. All data communications are encrypted using 256bit 3DES data encryption making sure your data is safe and secure.
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