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Solutions: C-Store, Cardlock & Degree Day

FireStream offers comprehensive software modules for managing your c-stores and cardlock locations and tracking degree-day orders.

Convenience Store Automation

FireStream’s recent acquisition of TMI Services’ C-Store Automation System brings together some of the petroleum industry’s finest brands for elite jobbers and high-end retailers.

Now marketed as FireStream’s Ascend Retail solution, the product is not only highly functional but also very stable and is in use at nearly 5,000 convenience stores across the United States.

Ascend Retail helps petroleum marketers fine tune C-Store operations for maximum efficiency and base business decisions on instant, accurate accounting information.

Ascend Retail Features

Daily Store Reporting Accurate, flexible and easy to use, the Ascend Daily Store Reporting System is the preferred choice among store automation systems for its simplicity of use. Offers easy daily report balancing between register, report and bank deposit.
Home Office Centralized PriceBook Ascend’s centralized PriceBook, built on a SQL Server database, offers unlimited price zones, mass price changes, unlimited future price changes, and nested promotions in one setup window!

Direct Store Delivery
Receiving invoices at the item level ensures that only authorized items from authorized vendors are accepted at authorized costs.
Scanning Automate your stores with Ascend scanning technology. Automatically update prices and markup/markdown inventory based on item level sales data. A handheld scanner simplifies receiving and inventory audits and automates printing shelf tags. The final level of scanning is producing a true perpetual item level inventory, which enables you to minimize inventory and maximize margins.
Product Item Movement Ascend reporting tools quickly identify which store items are hot, and which are not.
WorkForce Management Ascend’s WorkForce Management system offers advanced labor management functionality with PC time clock, drag-n-drop scheduling, and real time payroll reporting. It helps managers keep track of shift distributions, authorized and borrowed labor employees, and provides automatic distribution of payroll hours.
Internal Messaging Service Ascend provides internal email capabilities between the home office, store locations and remote supervisors. In addition to e-mail, the messaging service also provides transaction reporting, or T-Mail, used to design and distribute customized electronic forms for time critical information such as competitive fuel surveys, accident reports, supplies, etc. T-Mail then automatically compiles completed employee responses and distributes reports.
Online Reporting HTML based reports can be posted on company intranet or protected Internet to support communications and reports for remote supervisors.
Lottery Inventory Control Ascend offers complete scratch lottery inventory control at the ticket level with detailed reporting as well as lottery game/book receiving integration.
Money Order Processing Keep track of money orders with detailed reporting and reconciliation to register sales.
Operations Management Information System Operations reporting tools watch over 10 critical areas of store operations and provide a quick snapshot of the business so supervisors, managers, and executives can spot trends and problems in real time and react quickly.
Comm Server Comm Server is a seamless communications tool that links your home office accounting system to your retail stores. Using advanced technology, Comm Server delivers the appropriate information for executives, financial managers, store supervisors and managers with greater speed and accuracy, permitting them to make informed decisions in a timely manner.
POS Interfaces AutoGas, AutoGas Regal, Gilbarco Gsite, Gilbarco Passport, RSG Latitude, Suntronics 2000, Verifone Ruby, Verifone Sapphire, Wayne Nucleus OS2, Wayne Nucleus NT, Wayne Plus3, Advanced “Soft Interface” mapping tool.
Windows-Based, Data Accessibility All application and report development is Windows-based with open/ODBC data access.

Retail

Workforce Management

Item Level Inventory

Cardlock
The Ascend Cardlock module gives you control over electronic unmanned fueling systems. It gathers and converts raw data from each sale and processes the data into detailed transactions that can be invoiced to your customers.

Cardlock


Degree Day
The Ascend Degree Day module uses weighted degree-days, computed on a national and regional basis, to predict the demand for energy to heat homes and businesses. Based on calculated depletion rates and prompt order creation, it keeps track of which customers need heating fuel, and when and how much they need delivered.

Degree Day

To speak with a sales representative, please call 877.206.9400. or email us at retail@firestreamww.com.


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