by John Keller | Aug 12, 2011 | Customer News, Fuel Pricing Technology, PriceAdvantage
“Now that we have PriceAdvantage rolled out to all our 70 stores, I can change gas prices any time of day or night!” That was the feedback we just got back from one of our PriceAdvantage c-store customers in the Southeastern US.
Prior to using PriceAdvantage as their fuel price management solution, this well recognized c-store chain could only effectively change gas prices once a day. They would start the gas price change process by sending an email out to all stores. Only the store manager had the managerial code required to change gas prices, so that meant if there was no manager onsite, there could be no gas price change.
Now with PriceAdvantage, the Fuel Price Management team can change gas prices whether the store manager is there or not. The Fuel Price Manager sets the new gas price in the PriceAdvantage software, and automatically the price change appears at the store. Any cashier can click the accept gas price change button on the POS, the price change completes at the store, and the PriceAdvantage headquarters software is automatically updated with the completed price change confirmation time stamp, letting the Fuel Price Manager know that the gas price change is complete.
Now that there is no reliance on the store manager, they are changing gas prices at all hours of the day, sometimes multiple times a day. And that’s what they say makes PriceAdvantage so valuable.
by John Keller | Nov 10, 2010 | Customer News, Fuel Price Management Solutions, PriceAdvantage
Royal Farms is now using PriceAdvantage as their exclusive fuel price management solution at all 95 stores. With PriceAdvantage, Royal Farms has fully automated their fuel price management system, giving them complete command and control over the Skyline electronic price sign, POS, and pump for all retail fuel price changes. Fuel price optimization now happens in minutes, as Royal Farms headquarters sends the price of the day each morning via PriceAdvantage, and receives a confirmation date and time stamp when the price change is complete.
by John Keller | Sep 13, 2010 | Customer News, Fuel Price Management, Fuel Price Optimization, Fuel Pricing Software, PriceAdvantage
CEFCO C-Stores has completed their rollout of PriceAdvantage to 100% of their stores as of September 10, 2010. CEFCO is now using PriceAdvantage fuel pricing software to optimize fuel prices at each of their 124 stores throughout Texas, Alabama and Mississippi. Total time for the rollout with field training was under three months, including configuration to automatically push prices from Headquarters to stores which use the VeriFone POS. Next up for CEFCO is configuring PriceAdvantage to automatically push prices to those stores which use the Gilbarco Passport POS.
by John Keller | Sep 9, 2010 | Fuel Price Management Solutions, Fuel Pricing Software, Fuel Pricing Technology, PriceAdvantage
PriceAdvantage 3.3 is the latest fuels price management solution from Skyline Products and provides a fully web-based version that allows access from any mobile web-enabled phone or iPad. Volume targeting and performance measurements by day of the week, month, year-to-date are included. Enterprise global navigation enhancements are also part of this new version.
PriceAdvantage Web may be accessed by any browser on any device, including iPad, iPhone, Droid tablet, PC, Mac, or BlackBerry.
by John Keller | Sep 1, 2010 | Fuel Price Management Solutions, Fuel Price Optimization, Fuel Pricing Software, Fuel Pricing Technology, PriceAdvantage
PriceAdvantage 3.3, the latest fuels pricing solution from Skyline Products, includes key new features in direct response to customer input.
A new reporting system enables fuel managers to gain insight into market pricing trends, store profitability, and price history. Version 3.3 provides the first set of 8 reports that will be added to with new versions.
The Roles and Privileges feature controls who has what access to each part of the fuels pricing solution. Version 3.3 ships with a set of predefined best practice roles and privilege sets to provide built-in system security.
With Variable Volume Targets, Fuel Managers can now set volume targets based on month of year and day of week. Version 3.3 can look at past date ranges and show historical variances across months and days of the week, providing insight into typical traffic flow differences throughout the week and year. These variances allow the Fuel Manager to better understand realistic volume performance targets at each location.
by John Keller | Aug 12, 2010 | Customer News, Industry News, PriceAdvantage
Convenience Store Decisions picked Rutters as their winner of the 2010 Convenience Store Chain Of The Year award. Rutter’s is the second consecutive chain under 100 stores to receive the award, emphasizing that it’s not the size of the chain that matters, rather the quality of its offering. Rutter’s has evolved from small town player to industry leader and has impacted the way the industry does business, especially in the area of technology. President and CEO Scott Hartman has emerged as an industry leader instrumental in pushing technology standards that allow convenience retailers to compete more effectively with supermarkets and mass merchandisers.
“Retailers are under enormous pressure as they battle depressed margins, unprecedented competition and high credit card processing fees both in store and at the pump,” said Tom McIntyre, group publisher of The Convenience Store Decisions Group. “The purpose of the Chain of the Year Award is to showcase the best of the best in convenience retailing and Rutter’s certainly meets that definition.”
Skyline Products is proud to have Rutter’s as a PriceAdvantage customer for over five years.
