For comprehensive grocery store automation, the Torgsoft program offers a ready-made solution that takes into account the specifics of working with weighted goods, checkout speed, and fiscalization requirements. Below is a detailed list of necessary software, options, equipment, and a description of key features.
1. Torgsoft Licenses
The choice of license depends on the scale of your business (a single store or a chain).
Torgsoft-Start: basic version for one store (one workplace). It allows for inventory management, sales, and supports the connection of basic retail equipment. Suitable for small shops where the owner often works as a salesperson or supervises one cashier.
Torgsoft-Ultra: extended version for one store with the possibility of creating multiple workplaces on a local network (for example, a separate checkout and a separate computer for the merchandiser/owner). It features advanced marketing tools and flexible settings.
Torgsoft-Terminal: license for a retail chain. Allows connecting multiple stores into a single database via the Internet, working remotely, and viewing stock across the entire network in real time.
2. Necessary Additional Options for a Grocery Store
Given the specifics of grocery retail (high customer flow, weighted goods, excise), it is recommended to connect the following options:
Software RRO (PRRO): allows fiscalizing receipts directly in the program and sending them to the tax authority. This is mandatory for excisable goods (alcohol, tobacco) and most sole proprietors.
Bank terminal connection: integrates the POS terminal with the program. When paying by card, the amount is automatically transmitted to the terminal, eliminating cashier errors during manual entry and speeding up service.
Connection of electronic scales for weighing goods during sale: allows transmitting the weight of the item (vegetables, fruits, cookies) directly to the receipt at the moment of weighing at the checkout.
Packing of weighted goods and barcode labeling: if you pack products (cheese, sausages, cereals) in advance or in the sales hall. Allows generating a barcode containing information about the weight of the item for scanning at the checkout.
Excise tax declaration: necessary if the assortment includes alcohol or tobacco products, for automatic reporting.
Deleting statistics of closed periods: a useful option for grocery stores with a large number of receipts to clear the database of old information and speed up the program.
3. Retail Equipment
For the full operation of the checkout area and the grocery store warehouse, the following set will be needed:
Computer or POS monoblock: a touch monoblock is more convenient for the cashier as it takes up less space and speeds up work.
Barcode scanner: for a grocery store, it is better to choose a stationary multi-beam scanner (for quick scanning of goods passing by) or a handheld 2D scanner (if you need to scan excise stamps or phone screens).
Receipt printer: for printing non-fiscal receipts or PRRO receipts. If PRRO is used, a receipt with a QR code is printed.
Label printer: necessary for printing shelf labels and stickers with barcodes for goods that do not have factory marking.
Retail scales with PC connection: for weighing at the checkout.
Scales with label printing: for self-service in the hall or preliminary packing (if the packing option is used).
Bank terminal: a device provided by the bank, but must support protocols for integration with Torgsoft (for example, BPOS, JSON, WebSocket).
Cash drawer: for safe storage of cash at the checkout.
4. Main Features of the Grocery Store Automation Program
Torgsoft covers key business processes of grocery retail:
Quick sale (POS): convenient cashier workplace with touch screen support, quick addition of weighted goods, and automatic change calculation.
Accounting for weighted goods: the program "understands" barcodes from scales that contain the weight of the item and automatically calculates the cost in the receipt.
Work with excise: support for scanning excise stamp codes and transmitting them to the fiscal receipt (legal requirement for alcohol).
Expiration date control: possibility to specify the expiration date upon receipt and print it on labels during packing.
Inventory without stopping trade: possibility to conduct re-accounting of individual groups of goods (for example, the dairy department) without closing the entire store.
Loyalty system: setting up discounts, bonuses, "happy hours" (for example, a discount on pastries in the evening) or promotions like "1+1=3".
Warehouse accounting: full control of goods movement from receipt from the supplier to write-off or sale, control of mutual settlements with suppliers.
Fiscalization: full support for working with software RRO, generating Z-reports, automatic data transmission to the tax authority.
This complex allows minimizing queues, controlling personnel, and keeping accurate records of perishable goods.
