Market Style In-Person POS Shopping Software for Food Pantries
With SmartChoice’s market style in-person POS (point of sale) shopping software, food pantries are able to offer their clients a truly dignified food shopping experience – just like they would receive if shopping at a retail supermarket.
Clients can walk the food pantry aisles in-person with shopping carts, make whichever food selections they wish, and when finished, proceed to the checkout counter to have their selected food and other pantry items scanned by a standard barcode reader and PLU code for fresh produce. Point “costs” for each item are deducted from their monthly (or more frequent) allotment, and the pantry’s inventory for each is immediately updated to reflect the POS checkout quantity transacted.
This supermarket style shopping provides food pantry clients with an additional layer of choice – not just allowing them to choose the food they want, but also choose the manner in which they access and receive that food. While online ordering from their smartphones or computers is certainly an option for them with SmartChoice’s online ordering functionality, many people instead prefer to shop in-person market style. To walk the aisles of the pantry market, view and touch what food and other items are available, interact with other shoppers, neighbors, volunteers, and pantry staff, and to walk through a standard checkout line just as if they were at a “regular” supermarket. However, instead of using paid currency, clients simply hand their account card to the pantry POS checkout cashier, items are scanned, and point credits from their account are automatically deducted at the point of sale from the software’s database upon checkout. Seamless. Efficient. Dignified.
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For more information and/or to view a live demo of SmartChoice’s market style in-person POS shopping software functionality and how specifically it would work for your food pantry contact a SmartChoice representative now.