by John Keller | Apr 7, 2017 | Customer News, Fuel Price Management, Fuel Price Optimization, Fuel Pricing Software, Fuel Pricing Strategy, Fuel Pricing Technology, Fuel Software, Industry News
CSP Magazine in their April 2017 issue recognized nine PriceAdvantage customers in the inaugural CSP “Fuels 50” list, with five PriceAdvantage customers in the top 15. The Fuels 50 spotlights the most effective fuel brands, and calls the retailers on the list “the magicians of the fueling industry”.
The Fuels 50 ranks fuel brands with 15 or more stores by market efficiency, which is defined as market share divided by outlet share. Here are the PriceAdvantage customers who made the list, along with their ranking:
Sheetz #4
Royal Farms #7
Maverik #8
Spinx #10
Rutter’s #13
Parker’s #22
Family Express #32
CEFCO #37
High’s Dairy #38
The PriceAdvantage team is proud to offer our customers the retail fuel pricing solution they need to be fueling industry magicians!
by John Keller | Apr 3, 2017 | Customer News, Fuel Price Management, Fuel Pricing Software, Fuel Pricing Technology, Fuel Software, Industry News
The PriceAdvantage team would like to welcome Euro Garages as our newest customer and partner. Euro Garages is executing their fuel pricing strategies and eliminating manual fuel price processes among their expanding portfolio of 341 sites located throughout mainland UK.
PriceAdvantage is fully integrated with the Oracle EPOS in use at Euro Garages – allowing Euro Garages to establish new fuel prices and push those prices to the Electronic POS, price signs, and pumps with just one click. This automation removes the tedious process of having staff manually update price signs. In addition, PriceAdvantage provides deep analytics and robust reports – allowing EG to see daily fuel volumes as well as correlations between in-store sales and fuel volumes sold.
PriceAdvantage is providing a superior level of customer support to Euro Garages through a strategic alliance with TLM Technology Group of Bedford. The TLM world-class support services include unrivaled service response times from an expert team of dedicated support staff based at their 4000 square foot U.K. Support Hub.
by John Keller | Jan 24, 2017 | Fuel Price Management, Fuel Pricing Technology, Fuel Software, Industry News
The PriceAdvantage team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of price change integration with VeriFone Commander version 43 or higher.
This version of VeriFone Commander supports TLS 1.2, which is required for EMV compliance.
Many PriceAdvantage customers work with Shell and Exxon, which have mandated the immediate compliance of EMV. That means these customers are upgrading to the newest version of VeriFone, which PriceAdvantage now supports.
All PriceAdvantage customers using VeriFone as their POS should contact PriceAdvantage support to coordinate an upgrade.
by John Keller | Jan 9, 2017 | Customer News, Fuel Price Management, Industry News
The PriceAdvantage team would like to welcome Par Pacific Holdings as our newest customer and partner. The company will use PriceAdvantage to determine optimal prices and execute faster price changes among their 80+ stores in Hawaii.
Par Pacific will use the PriceAdvantage cloud offering to automatically send price changes when specific strategy business rules fall within specified market conditions. PriceAdvantage then notifies the fuel team of market anomalies that require review. PriceAdvantage reports and analysis views, along with the integration to PDI and OPIS, allow the fuel team to make the best pricing decisions in this manage-by-exception based model.
“Speed and accuracy are critical when pricing fuel,” shared Jim Yates, President of Par Hawaii. “PriceAdvantage gives us both by removing so many of the manual processes that tend to either delay prices changes or cause pricing errors. Quite simply, it gives our fuel pricing team a new level of confidence and it provides our executive team with robust store performance reports.”
Welcome Par Pacific!
by John Keller | Dec 30, 2016 | Fuel Price Management, Fuel Pricing Technology, Fuel Software, Industry News
The PriceAdvantage team is excited to announce the general availability of PriceAdvantage version 2016.3.0. Highlights of this new release include more configurability, numerous usability improvements, and the Sign Diagnostics component. All of these ideas came directly from PriceAdvantage customers.
This is our fourth major release of 2016. The PriceAdvantage team uses Agile software development best practices to rapidly build and deliver iterative releases throughout the year, always staying in close contact with the latest needs of our customers.
Please contact your Account Representative, or anyone on our Support team, to learn more about this new release, to schedule a demonstration, and to arrange for an upgrade.
by John Keller | Sep 26, 2016 | Fuel Price Management, Fuel Pricing Software, Fuel Pricing Technology, Industry News
Skyline Products, a leading electronic price sign manufacturer, announced today the launch of its new software feature, PriceAdvantage Sign Diagnostics. This robust software makes it easier, faster, and more efficient for customers to remotely manage the health and price accuracy of their signs from a headquarters location.
“We’re incredibly excited to make remote sign diagnostics available to all our customers,” said Chip Stadjuhar, CEO of Skyline Products, “Our feedback method is by far the most robust on the market and now our customers can remotely access each of their signs from their headquarters office. It provides an extraordinary amount of control and confidence.”
Skyline has led the industry in powerful, full-loop feedback and diagnostic technology for years, giving customers the ability to receive critical information about their signs using an on-site handheld device. Skyline’s feedback feature set is designed to ensure a scroll or LED price sign is functioning properly and displaying the correct price at all times.
PriceAdvantage Sign Diagnostics makes it possible for customers to harness this information not only through their in-store handheld device, but remotely through PC-based software installed at headquarters. Remote access to these diagnostic and feedback features will now allow customers to better manage sign maintenance across all their locations, while allowing in-store staff to focus on the customer.
PriceAdvantage Sign Diagnostics will now be included with every new Skyline price sign, and is available to any existing Skyline price sign with a low-cost hardware upgrade.