360Commerce Announces New Product: Unleashed Handheld Point-of-Sale for Faster Checkout and More Personal Service.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2000 360Commerce(TM), a leading provider of integrated commerce software for retailers, today announced the company's new Unleashed(TM) product, a mobile point-of-sale application that extends service to wherever the customer is. The newest product in the ExtendYourStore(TM) suite, Unleashed technology improves the customer experience by reducing checkout time n. 1. the latest time for vacating a hotel room without being charged for extra time; as, the checkout here is 12 noon s>. Noun 1. checkout time - the latest time for vacating a hotel room; "the checkout here is 12 noon" checkout during busy shopping hours Customs and regulations for shopping hours (times that shops are open) vary from country to country. Shopping days and impact of holidays Some countries do not allow Sunday shopping. In Islamic countries some shops are closed on Fridays during noon. and bringing POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale functionality to the customer where physical space or cost prohibit stationary cash registers. The Unleashed product is a server-centric, Java(TM) application running on a Palm OS(R), with a browser interface. Unleashed technology frees retailers to serve customers in a large variety of ways. Because it is wireless and lightweight, a sales associate can visit several areas of the store with the customer, increasing the market basket market basket n. 1. A grocery cart. 2. A group of products or services in a specific market, especially when considered in terms of its fluctuating cost in determining a consumer price index: value by recommending and scanning products or samples as they go. During peak shopping times, the Unleashed application can be used as a "line buster" allowing sales associates to scan customer purchases, suspend the transaction and print out a transaction ID bar code. When the customer gets to the front of the line, the cashier scans the bar code to retrieve and complete the sale. To accommodate outside checkout needs, such as sidewalk sales and garden centers, Unleashed technology can also be used for a full checkout. The application can scan items, accept credit cards, capture signatures on the screen and print receipts. "We previewed the Unleashed application at CrossTalk (1) Electromagnetic interference that comes from an adjacent wire. "Alien" crosstalk is interference that comes from a wire in an adjacent cable, for example, when two or more twisted wire pair cables are bundled together. , our user group meeting in early August, and the response was extremely positive," said Christine Lowry, Vice President of Marketing for 360Commerce. "The buzz continued throughout the meeting, and the attending retailers came up with more and more potential uses for this application in their stores." Demonstrations of Unleashed technology will be available at the NRF NRF National Retail Federation NRF NATO Response Force NRF National Research Foundation (South Africa) NRF Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (urban renewal funding package in the UK) NRF Nouvelle Revue Française .com tradeshow in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , September 25 - 28, 2000, in 360Commerce's booth No. 1015. About 360Commerce 360Commerce enables cross-channel retailing practices through the company's integrated commerce applications, the ExtendYourStore(TM) Product Suite: Point-of-Sale; Gift Registry; Conductor , a cross-channel integration engine; CrossReach(TM), an in-store cross-channel customer service desk and Unleashed(TM), a mobile POS application. 360Commerce empowers retailers to increase profits by extending their brand to capture customers whenever and wherever they shop - in the store, on kiosks, on the Internet and via handheld devices. 360Commerce customers include leading retailers such as Burlington Coat Factory Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a national department store retailer focusing on clothing and shoes, with over 360 stores in 42 states (as of 2006). In early 2007, the first location to be opened in Canada will be at the Vaughan Mills mall in Toronto. , Cole National, The Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box , Meijer and Sears. For more information, visit www.360Commerce.com. Trademarks: 360Commerce, ExtendYourStore, CrossReach and Unleashed are trademarks of 360Commerce, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective companies. |
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