Catapult Self Checkout

Our self-checkout design starts with software that is focused on a user-friendly experience, from start to finish. We are leading the industry down a new path for self-service by designing our solution to be more autonomous, and less likely to ever need store personnel interaction.

The goal is simple: design and build solutions that act as one with the consumer, allowing them to quickly interact, scan, resolve discrepancies, and tender transactions with little-to-no attendant interaction.

Below are a few of the software features that help achieve our goal:

JCR Systems line of self-service kiosks allows consumers to associate themselves using a variety of identification technologies, such as barcode scanners, magnetic stripe readers, biometric readers, and RFID readers.

Because of the array of available customer identification methods, all varieties of Catapult kiosks now provide visual guidance for consumers to help them understand the different options they have to associate themselves to transactions.

To accomplish this, the software application is device-aware so that it automatically senses what the available options are, based on what peripherals are connected and working. Therefore, it automatically configures itself and only displays photos of the appropriate identification methods anytime the customer needs to associate themselves to the transaction.

This device-aware approach to consumer guidance simplifies and expedites setup and ongoing maintenance across all flavors of the Catapult self-service kiosks.

You can expect your Catapult self-service and self-checkout systems to automatically navigate the various daily issues that normally cripple competing systems (and of course their consumers/operators.)

For example, when CATAPULT senses that a bill or coin dispenser is jammed or out of currency, it will automatically print out a barcoded receipt, which enables the consumer to quickly and effortlessly retrieve their exact owed change from another self-checkout unit, or from an attended POS station.

The consumer simply scans the barcoded receipt at an adjacent self-checkout unit and the change is quickly dispensed and reconciled within the store reporting system.

Additionally, the software will automatically disengage the failing equipment and display a notice on the customer display proactively notifying future customers that cash handling is temporarily unavailable, while communicating that e-payments are still available.

Additional intuitive software intelligence includes:

Over the years, self-checkout technology has improved and consumers have become more comfortable using this technology. Consumers can now be provided with convenient, simple, and fast checkout transactions with minimal attendee interaction required.

Modern self-service automation, consumer acceptance, and rising labor costs present the perfect opportunity to consider implementation of self-service for the first time, in addition to replacing and/or upgrading aging units.

Self-checkout can elevate your grocery business by: