Use Cases

1. Moving Business Forward With ASCII 6/5/2015

   The concept of ASCII is simple. What sets The ASCII Group apart is that it is a community open to all independent IT practices – ranging in size and scope from a single person operation to large companies with many employees.

2. Pivot From A Struggling Industry To New Opportunities: How To Make Your Own Success 9/3/2020

   In this edition, learn how a blockchain and AI application developer quickly adapted an existing solution focused on a challenged industry (oil and gas) to provide a much-needed solution for health care and other essential workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.

3. A Supermarket's Recipe For Reducing Labor And Cash Loss 7/16/2021

   Most merchants still welcome cash gladly, however, managing it and the associated cost, is another matter especially for big supermarkets. It’s a big challenge. Handling bills and coins often leads to mistakes at the checkout and the backroom. Cash counts are time consuming, especially when there are discrepancies and multiple lanes, taking staff and managers away from other tasks.

4. SMARTtill Solves Disappearing Cash Problem at Gainfort Stores 10/4/2021

   Gainfort Ltd. operates two convenience stores in Huntingdon, U.K., about 70 miles north of London. At the end of employee shifts, owner Sunil Lahal noticed a disturbing trend during cash counts: The totals were off.

5. A New Approach To Handling Cash: Cash As A Service 9/5/2018

   What if merchants had a way to accept cash payments without the costs and hassles of cash management?

6. POS System For Golf Tournament Scores "Whole In One" 10/9/2014

   The 2014 PGA Memorial Tournament hosted by golfing legend Jack Nicklaus delivered a couple of significant firsts. For the first time, Japanese golfer Hideki Matsuyama won the tournament, and APG Cash Drawer debuted its Stratis Integration System as part of a mobile POS solution used at concession and food stations.

7. Automated Cash Management Technology Becomes A Time Saver For Pennsylvania Hardware Store 12/4/2020

   Sometimes seeing is believing. Just ask the owners of Quincy Hardware in Waynesboro, PA, who were so impressed with a demonstration of APG Cash Drawer’s SMARTtill ® Intelligent Cash Drawer Solution that they simply had to have it. Never mind that the store had just deployed two brand-new cash drawers a year earlier.

8. Retail Stores In Dublin Eradicate Cash Shrinkage 6/9/2017

   Theft is one of the retail world’s biggest challenges, especially in the independent convenience sector where stores are often manned by a handful of people that are not equipped with the latest security gizmos. In fact, nearly half of retailers (49 percent) have experienced theft of cash from their premises. This hurts businesses and their customers because merchants often have to pass on these losses by raising prices. With cash management solutions, businesses can fight back against theft and achieve an advantage over competitors.

9. APG Sneeze Guards Strike A Chord For Music Stores, Keeping Employees And Patrons Safe 9/17/2020

   A music store is more than a place of commerce. It’s a community haven for musicians who gather to discuss their favorite gear, try out instruments, and trade techniques. And it’s a place of dreams, where aspiring young musicians picture themselves playing the world’s stages.

10. ASCII Provides Strategic Growth 6/5/2015

    Many solution and managed service providers feel like they are on their own in the business world and lacking the interaction for growth and change. The ASCII Group helps to shift that notion by relaying the importance of community and by bringing together like- minded peers in an IT space.