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Fieldpine Configuration Examples

Fieldpine Point Of Sale can be assembled in various ways to suit large and small retailers. This page shows some configuration examples.

Large Retailer, Multiple Independent Stores, Central Definition with local management

This model is suitable for franchise operations where the franchisee stores are independent as different from being fully controlled corporate stores.

Data Master
Darwin
Perth
Sydney
Melbourne
All Stores Reporting
  1. Each store is independent and operates as their own configuration. These can be single or multi store operations.
  2. Enforced seperation of data sent to stores and reporting received from stores.
  3. Highly scalable, issues in either data or reporting do not affect each other
  4. Logically easy to understand
  5. Stores do not share private data such as customers and accounts with each other by default. Possible if required (not shown)

Large Retailer, Multiple Corporate Stores, Central Management

This model is suitable for large chain retailers where stores are corporate stores and data is, or can be, shared over all stores

Raglan
Stratford
Head Office
Napier
Lower Hutt
  1. Each store is bound to head office.
  2. Same head office system used for data and reporting
  3. Logically easy to understand
  4. All data is, or can be, shared between all stores. For example, charge accounts are visible in all stores, balance changes in one store are visible in all stores

Large Retailer, Multiple Corporate Stores, Central Management, Seperate Reporting

This model is suitable for large chain retailers where stores are corporate stores and data is, or can be, shared over all stores

Aberdeen
Glasgow
Head Office
London
Southampton
All Stores Reporting
  1. Each store is bound to head office.
  2. Same head office system used for data and reporting
  3. Logically easy to understand
  4. All data is, or can be, shared between all stores. For example, charge accounts are visible in all stores, balance changes in one store are visible in all stores

Owner/Operator, Three Retail Stores, One Checkout in each Store

Wanaka
Queenstown
Arrowtown

Importer, Trade and Retail operations

Import Business
Trade Sales
Head Office
Corporate Store 1
Corporate Store 2
  1. The Import business and Retail Operations are seperate legal entities, but owned by the same person
  2. The retail business buys from the import business, same as external trade sales. That is, the import business is buying, marking up and selling even to the retail side of the operation
  3. Product Management is done in the Retail Head office, and this data is cloned to the import business. No need to double key.
  4. Stock levels in Import business can appear to corporate stores as "head office"
  5. Trade Sales in this diagram is likely a website or head office sales team

Multiple Stores, Distributed Control

Head Office
München
Berlin
Unterföhring
Tegel
Schawbing
Schönefeld
Each store sends and receives from both head office and its parent controller. This is only drawn on the Unterföhring store above, but applies to all stores. The primary flow is via the parent store (München in this example).