Our PASSION for Point of Sale Solutions
What do you call 4 days in Atlanta filled with 42,000+ college age people socializing, singing, and learning about ways to make a real impact in the world? We have come to call it the 2012 Passion Conference hosted by 268 Generation. From January 2-5, students from all over the world joined together to listen to messages from speakers such as Louie Giglio, John Piper and Francis Chan. They also sang along with Chris Tomlin, Christy Nockels and David Crowder*Band as they lead worship. The most amazing part was the support of the Do Something Now campaign to combat human trafficing and give hope to the 27 million people caught in modern day slavery. Over $3 million was raised to put directly toward stopping slave and sex trading and for providing recovery programs for people who have been freed from slavery.
American Metro is proud to have been a part of the Passion Conference again this year. 2012 marks our third year working with 268 Generation by providing the point of sale equipment and on site service personnel to the conference. This year was a much larger endeavor as the venue spread from the Georgia World Congress Center pouring into the Georgia Dome next door. In the past, all merchandise sales were centered around one location. This year, sales occured accross nine different locations. And the number of point of sale terminals nearly doubled to a total of 78 machines. Using a mix of Sam4s SPS-520s all-in-one registers and SPS-2000s touchscreen terminals, the American Metro Event Team came through in a time sensitive setup window.
Throughout the event, the on site team kept busy from store opening at 9:30 am through close at 1:00 am. During this time, you could find them:
- providing manager and cashier training
- making price changes as items went on sale
- coordinting credit card processing solutions during a venue-wide internet outage
- fixing a few minor issues like jammed cash drawers and finicky scanners
- collecting and consolidating reports at the end of the night
- and even running registers during peak sales hours
While behind a register at the main store during one such peak time, I overheard on 4 seperate occasions that the patrons who had been waiting in a line that wrapped out the store and down the convention center hallway, only spent a total of 15-20 minutes in line. I found out that about 5000 transactions were made on 25 registers during that stretch of 2 hours. That means that each cashier spent an average of 36 sec. per transaction. It can make a monumental impact on your customers' happiness and on your sales numbers having point of sale equipment that is easy to use, fast and accurate.
When the cause is good, we are that much more excited to allow our customers to focus on what they do best and not worry about their point of sale setup. American Metro, we make selling stuff easy.