Ansible and Virtual Airtime two new plugins

Wednesday, June 04, 2008


CAD RETAIL have recently released the long awaited interface with Comm_Express, virtual airtime, and would like to introduce all our valued clients to “Ansibel” a product that is more than a little ahead of its time.

Now you can expand your product offering to include Virtual Airtime from Vodacom, MTN, Cell C, Virgin and even Telkom prepaid.
All of these amazing services without having to purchase upfront, or manage any stock.
Airtime can be provided on consignment and billed on a daily basis, as you sell.

Any till in your organization is able to print a virtual voucher, using your existing equipment and infrastructure. All PIN numbers are stored using TDES (Triple DES) encryption. (One of the most secure methods of encryption on the planet).

Field trials began a while ago and the system has proven to be secure and able to reconcile vast volumes of sales down to the cent!. To find out more about integrating Virtual Airtime, Credit Cards, loyalty programs and Bill Payments into your Point of Sale application, please do not hesitate to call us for a “no strings” demonstration.



“An ansible is a hypothetical machine capable of superluminal communication.” Wikipedia


The greatest challenge facing any Multi store Point of Sale collection device is the reliable collection and storage of huge numbers of records. The second, is to be able to transmit this “clean” data across great distances, reliable and in cost effective way.

With the most powerful and versatile database in the world , and leveraging the communications skill of Linux our software developers at CAD RETAIL have outdone themselves, with an automated product that Milks the stores in real time. No other commercially available point of sale solution can claim to move the kind of numbers that we have over the past year, with Zero failure rates.

Ansible brings sales back to the head office as they happen. All new items, and price changes are sent out to the stores in Real time as well. Any store in the group is able to able to query stock, budgets and sell off rates of any item, by size and colour. Studies by Department, supplier, category, size, colour, style, season are just a few of the amazing interactive indicators that the new technology has made possible and even common place.

One very special client planted the seed of the “Buyers Assessment” module (B.A.Module) and to him (he knows who he is) we are grateful. The BA Module allows an organization to go beyond the OTB (Open to Buy) studies and assess the profitability of the products brought in by the various buyers. Their spending, is monitored against their stock holding, Sales, profitability and seasonal markdowns. The resulting indicator is a remarkable tool that allows one to allow the buying team to focus on the Trade and not on the mundane IT details that seem to bog down most large companies.

We take this opportunity to thank you, our valued clients for the input and, often for all of the friendly criticism that has made all of this possible. Your pursuit of excellence, was the whip and the carrot that drove us to do better, and your patience gave us hope allowed us to perform not at our best but at a level that puts us technologically ahead of the pack. But for your support we would surely have given up, or settled for meritocracy.

Thank you, for staying with us, even when it looked like the long overdue retail suite seemed like an unachievable dream.

Accurate Sales, Multi store reporting, Size and colour matrixes, Client server databases, Slice and Dice business intelligence, amazing speed, Unbreakable Bullet proof POS and above all, secure and pure, data.

We share this achievement with the hundreds of clients who have touched our lives. You have all made this moment possible, and this is as much your moment too.

While we have come a long way, our insatiable need to invent a “better mouse” trap drives us to constantly explore new frontiers. When all software is able to use today’s amazingly powerful hardware to produce brute force results, the leaner and more efficient systems will prevail.