Retail EPOS systems

½ the cost of MPLS & faster than VPN

Retail EPOS systems work with all EPOS vendors. Retail EPOS systems are designed for multi site retail organisations that want a fully managed network solution with low latency, flexibility, security, an SLA and half the cost of MPLS or leased lines.

Customer Feedback

Faster Transaction Times = More Customers per Hour

Faster transaction times allow more customers to be served per hour which increases takings at peak selling times. A higher EPOS through put allows more staff to be engaged in restocking shelves and selling product to customers further enhancing customers propensity to purchase.

How one customer accelerated transaction processing by 7.5 times

"With over 40 retail stores we needed a solution that would securely link all locations together without the burden of high equipment and support costs. Link Connect provided a solution that no one else could offer and we saw point of sale credit card transaction processing times reduce from around 30 seconds to just 4 seconds. This has reduced queuing time for our customers and means we can achieve more sales per day. I highly recommend Link Connect."
Damian Scarlett CEO Bank Fashion Ltd
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Connect head office, warehouses & retail units into a single high speed secure network

Access solution speeds range from 2MB to 1GB. The access speed and resilience required for each location can be created using the most appropriate Link Connect access technology such as ADSL, Bonded ADSL, SDSL and leased lines.

All access technologies are an extension to your Local Area Network (LAN) running the same private IP address schemes. These connections are secure, and because they are not NATed across the public internet they do not require site-to-site VPNs between firewalls. Removing the firewalls increases through put, reduces latency (delay) and creates a simple infrastructure without the need to manage firewall rules, VPN setup and multiple security policies.

Network routing ensures all sites are visible in the retail EPOS system allowing traffic to pass between any sites on the network as required. External users can be allowed in via VPNs terminated at the central firewall.

Add / move / close retail units as your business changes.

Retail is one of the most dynamic industry sectors and requires the ability to rapidly scale up and down as the economic climate and shopper’s habits change. A Link-Connect retail EPOS system allows the maximum flexibility to adjust your network profile as your business changes ensuring large exit penalty payments are not sitting on your books.

The solution is fully managed which eradicates support time leaving you more time to spend on supporting core business applications. For home workers there are no complex configurations to worry about and no extra software needs to be loaded onto their laptop.

Public Internet Access

Where public internet access is required this can be provided through a local site such as the head office or directly from the retail EPOS system; providing a fast and resilient connection to the public internet. For advanced requirements a fully managed firewall can be supplied allowing central control of group security policies (intrusion detection, anti-virus etc).

Centralise Applications.

Applications which place a heavy burden on the head office connection can be located at our private network centre at the core of your retail EPOS system. This can reduce the size and cost of the head office connection, allow all sites to have equal access to applications and increase application availability to remote sites.

Web applications such as intranets and SharePoint or CRM and ERP solutions are particularly suitable for centralisation.

Single Supplier 99.9% Money Back SLA 

All aspects of the PWAN are provided by Link Connect as a result we are able to provide an unrivaled money back guarantee based on 99.9% monthly availability. If you are unable to receive our service for more than 1 hour per month Link-Connect will credit you with 5% of your monthly location service cost, up to a maximum of 100% monthly location service cost, for every hour the service is unavailable.

Whilst we hope you never experience a service failure you can rest assured that, should this happen, we are highly motivated to get you working in the shortest possible time.

Half the cost of MPLS

Link Connect's network services deliver equivalent security with higher bandwidth at typically half the cost of MPLS services.

30 Day 100% Money Back Guarantee.

We are so confident in Smart-Connect....

..that in the first 30 days YOU decide if the service is right for you..

.. if not we take it back.

Your contract is cancelled and your money refunded - 100%

Why do we provide this?

We provide clear guidelines as to the expected performance of the service and all our customers are satisfied with the improvements they have seen.

All that we ask is that you give us an opportunity in the first weeks to assist you to get the best performance, but ultimately only you can decide if Smart-Connect meets your needs.

So why not enquire today.