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The enterprise-ready kiosks from Aila Technologies and Touch Dynamic have integrated with receipt printers from Epson America, Inc., to provide merchants the ability to offer contactless, socially distanced experiences.
FREMONT, CA: Merchants are reimagining their operations for the holiday shopping season. The time between Black Friday and New Year's Day is crucial because it traditionally brings in the massive majority of retailers' annual revenues. However, this year, merchants work towards creating environments where the customers can enjoy holiday shopping, also minimizing health risks. Enterprise-ready kiosks from Aila Technologies and Touch Dynamic, integrated with the receipt printers from Epson America, Inc., which is a leading supplier of value-added Point of Sale (POS) systems, bestows merchants with the ability to provide the contactless, socially distanced experiences that the customers expect this year.
The advantages of kiosks for line-busting and controlling labor costs are known to all, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, they've proven their value by allowing customer self-service applications. With the self-service kiosks, customers have complete control of their purchases from start to finish, reassuring that only they have touched their items, receipts, bags, and credit cards at the checkout.
Aila Technologies, is a leading provider of iOS-based kiosks and image-based scanning software for the enterprise, offers a fully managed mounting solution designed for the Epson TM-m30 thermal receipt printer with its Interactive Kiosk™ line of products. Featuring the integrated image-based scanning that doesn't need additional hardware and power management capabilities for added peripherals, Aila's Interactive Kiosk for the 10.2-inch iPad and 12.9-inch iPad Pro gives retailers the flexibility to quickly deploy a variety of self-service solutions including checkout/POS, buy online, pickup in-store (BOPIS), custom orders, price checking, and couponing. For example, Metro Canada leverages Aila's Interactive Kiosk with integrated Epson printers to enable digital signage and self-service price checking in more than 500 locations across Canada.
Designed to accompany traditional registers at convenience stores and grab-and-go locations, Aila's new Self-Checkout Kiosk also features Epson's TM-m30 thermal receipt printer along with customizable bagging and shelving options, allowing merchants to easily offer intuitive, cashless self-checkout experiences to their customers, complete with receipt printing.
Matt Kowalczyk, the CTO, and co-founder of Aila Technologies, say that Epson's TM-m30 thermal receipt printer's seamless integration with Aila's Interactive Kiosk gives retailers even more freedom to enable self-service workflows for both customer self-service and associate-facing experiences. By merging their solutions, retailers can deploy exceptionally compact and modern self-service solutions complete with receipt printing across their brick-and-mortar locations, quickly and with ease.
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