Smartcard based Loyalty e-Rewards Solution & Prepaid e-Cash subsystem
Why you should Choose iBonus Terminal
  1. Very easy to deploy
  2. Complete transaction and card control functions
  3. Work with your cashier as well as receipt printer
  4. High Scalability
  5. High dependability
  6. High Protection
  7. Customizable
Very easy to set up

Unwatched Server Style
When implementing iBonus Terminal each and every outlet, it only required to enter the Machine IP as well as Server interface at each Terminal. iBonus Server instantly register sthe actual Terminal once the Terminal links to the machine the first time. Deregistration can also be to be carried out at Terminal side. The actual setup procedure can be done since there is no one attending the actual iBonus Server. This saves in the man energy during implementation.

Dynamic Digital IP Procedure
Every TCP/IP contacts between iBonus Terminal and iBonus Machine is started at Terminal side. Using the simplicity from the protocol, Terminals can function perfectly along with just a powerful virtual Internet protocol. Port sending at the Terminal side is not required. It will save the effort upon configuring the actual tricky modem settings.

Program Health Checking
The system wellness can be supervised at machine side. Manager can make use of information provided at the monitor screen to trace the Terminal which requires maintenance





Web report viewing terminal status



Application viewing terminal status
Complete transactions and card control functions

Complete transactions and card control functions
iBonus Terminal models the standard associated with transaction kinds of prepaid as well as loyalty program. It provides universal transaction kinds for carrying out calculations associated with stored ideals, such as, pre-paid, bonus stage and gathered spending stability. The behavior of transactions kinds are in conjuction with the combinations of card status, program setting as well as system standing, like, decryption secrets, expiry configurations, decimal mode, reward rate, blacklist, card sector utilization and card value limitations. For example, deal limit is actually defined within Staff card. It limits the maximum pre-paid transaction quantity of all cash transactions. Penalized card is actually detected as well as expiry day in Final Visit setting is prolonged in all procedures. Without the need associated with redeveloping the complicated and advanced algorithm at the rear of, system integrators could make use of all of them and rapidly deploy the loyalty program.
Table associated with Generic Deal Types


Name
Card Purchase
Cash Purchase
Reload
Redeem
Quick Reload
Undo Card Purchase
Undo Reload
Undo Cash Purchase
Undo Redeem
Carry Forward
Description
Purchasing goods by card stored value while adding bonus values
Purchasing goods by cash while adding bonus point.
Adding stored value
Exchanging bonus points for gifts
Do Reload and Card Purchase at the same time.
Undoing a Card Purchase operation.
(Staff Card reconfirmation is required.)
Undoing a Reload operation (Staff Card reconfirmation is required.)
Undoing a Cash Purchase operation.
(Staff Card reconfirmation is required.)
Undoing a Redeem operation. (Staff Card reconfirmation is required.)
Setting a new member card to certain values
Member Card Calculations
- Prepaid Balance
+ Bonus Points
+ Accumulated Purchase
+ Bonus Points
+ Accumulated Purchase
+ Prepaid Balance
- Bonus Points
+ Reload amount to Prepaid Balance
Then
- Prepaid Balance
+ Bonus Points
+ Accumulated Purchase
+ Prepaid Balance
- Bonus Points
- Accumulated Purchase
- Prepaid Balance
- Bonus Points
- Accumulated Purchase
+ Bonus Points
In prepaid mode, set Bonus Points and Prepaid Balance

In Bonus mode, set only Bonus Points
Function Available at
Prepaid Mode
Bonus Mode
Prepaid Mode
Bonus Mode
Prepaid Mode
Prepaid Mode
Prepaid Mode
Bonus Mode
Bonus Mode
Prepaid Mode and Bonus Mode

Advanced Card Control

Misplaced card alternative, expiry day extension as well as card restore can be done from any branches

Real Time Balance Checking
Members are able to enjoy real-time balancing simply by presenting their own card i to iBonus Terminal. When the Terminal is actually connected to POS, the balance can also be sent to POS.

Receipt Reprint as well as Auto Reprint
Whenever printer is actually connected, the receipt is actually printed anytime any deal is made. Push the switch A in order to reprint the delivery of the last deal. If car reprint is upon, two bills will be printing for every deal

Customizable Client ID
card issuing organization may customize their card quantity to be in their very own format. Manager can personalize the customer Identity of each fellow member card. In the event of customers dropping their fellow member card, the actual replaced fellow member card might have the same client ID. The number of client ID is actually 0 -- 9999999999999999.

4 Expiry Date Calculation Modes
You will find 4 different alternatives of Fellow member Card expiration schemes:
1. Always Legitimate
In scheme One, member card never runs out. This is easy. However card replace as well as blacklisting feature can't be used.

2. Fixed Month
In scheme Two, Fixed 30 days, you simply choose which month of the season you want the actual Member card to be run out. For example, the present month is actually February and also the expiry 30 days is set because January. The actual Member card will not be able to utilize in The month of january of the coming year.

3. In accordance with Card Initializing Day
In scheme Three, Relative to card Initializing Date, you need to define the amount of months with the Fellow member Card Initializing Day. For instance, if you arranged 12 months and also the Member card is initialized upon January 2002, the Fellow member Card is going to be expired upon January The year 2003.

4. Automated expiry expansion based on the final visit
In plan 4, Automated Expiry Expansion Based on the Final Visit, the actual expiry day will be instantly extended through the administrator described periods (several weeks) if People purchase, receive, or refill before the card expires.

Staff Card Reconfirmation
Staff card is required to be offered to the Terminal again for many transaction kinds which are less often used. It'll ensure staff intention upon using individuals transaction kinds.

Staff Card Transaction Auditing
Staff Card Identity is drenched for every deal. It will help auditing at the machine report. iBonus Statement can review the amount gathered by every individual staff.

Optimum Prepaid Restriction
iBonus Master card defines the most prepaid add up to be kept in each card. This security measure improves the safety for that card customers

Maximum Deal Limit
Optimum transaction restriction must be described in every staff card. All deal that changes the gathered spending or even prepaid stability is limited with this value.


Work with your cashier as well as receipt printer

Full Stage of Product sales (POS) Capabilities Coverage
iBonus Program unifies the wise card program with the Fea system. All of the transaction kinds in iBonus Terminal are obtainable by Fea through RS-232 sequential port. Arriving with a ready to use Windows dependent API, all the universal transaction arranged and sophisticated card dealing with functions could be accessed effortlessly. In addition, by using read fellow member card and browse staff card functions, Fea can order the most suitable deal based on the Fea side fellow member profile.




POS application supplied as test code for that API

Receipt printer Connectivity
Whenever printer is actually connected, the receipt is actually printed anytime any deal is made. Push the switch A in order to reprint the delivery of the last deal. If car reprint is upon, two bills will be printing for every deal. iBonus Terminal usually work with printer with the subsequent specifications:
  • Connector: Parallel port
  • Protocol: ESC/POS
  • Paper Width: 42 Characters per line


High Scalability

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 support
iBonus Machine also links to Ms SQL Server August 2005 through ADO .Internet technology. For any large implementation with advanced reporting or even clusters with regard to database, Ms SQL Server August 2005 can easily fit in to this kind of purpose. Additionally by using the confirming service function in SQL Machine 2005, iBonus Reviews - an internet based report could be leveraged. The actual iBonus System immediately becomes the hub with regard to generating product sales a financial statement centre.

Ms Access Assistance
iBonus Server links to Ms Access data source through ADO .Internet technology. Ms Access is actually supported with regard to deployment associated with smaller size. As Ms Access data source is readily built in Or windows 7. This is helpful for system assessment, or program with few member.

Order Operation
iBonus Machine writes every record in to its diary transaction line at it's local data source, and transmits back inform signal in order to Terminal. The actual server aspect transaction line is enhanced for information collection. The information stored in the actual queue may later on end up being processed through the batch. The actual replies for that request tend to be stored in listed tables. Once the Terminals are querying the actual Server, the actual server could possibly get the respond by easy table lookup. This style radically cuts down on the demand of machine processing energy and therefore permitting a large amount of Terminals for connecting to and enormous amount of fellow member to use the machine.

Branch Signal and Terminal Code
Department code as well as terminal signal can be described in every Terminal. These types of codes are helpful for upkeep and for confirming.



High Dependability

5000 Deal Buffer
In the event of temporary system failure, deal is kept in the expensive memory associated with iBonus Terminal. As much as 5000 deal can be kept in the storage. As soon as the system is reestablished, the actual transaction is actually sent back in order to server

Diary Database
iBonus Terminal temporary stops transactions. In the event of network blockage, iBonus Terminal offers transaction barrier which shops up to Five thousand records. Since the database within iBonus is used because buffer, the information integrity from the database is actually taken in to great treatment. Journal data source is applied at iBonus Terminal. During Terminal start-up the expensive memory duplicate of the data source is decompressed in order to RAM. Throughout the transaction, every updating SQL order is documented at the diary file following successful delivery on the Memory copy from the database. The actual database is actually committed possibly periodically or even when the diary file gets to a certain dimension. During create back, the actual RAM duplicate is created back to the actual Flash storage. In case of unpredicted power shutdown, all of the commands within the journal document are re-executed from the flash storage copy associated with database.

Purchasing of card Transactions Completed in Distributed Terminal
It is possible which transactions which are done in various terminals for the same card are not achieving the machine chronologically due to short-term network lack of stability. In the necessity of updating machine side member's newest card worth correctly, every member card has a deal counter that's incremented after every transaction. Through attaching the worthiness onto every transaction, machine can serialize the actual transaction gathered from various Terminals in order to revise the fellow member record properly. There is a aspect benefit for implementing transaction counter-top. In case of report loss, it's still possible to inform what deal has been carried out based on the series of the deal record of every card.

Record Duplication Detection
iBonus Server helps to ensure that no report is documented twice within the database. This is accomplished by documenting the last report of that terminal in the Machine. If the identification of the move of the final record is actually missed, the actual Terminal might send back again the same report again. Through comparing the actual record becoming transferred using the last report, Server will easily notice whether there's duplication as well as reject the actual record appropriately.

Blacklist Overflow Safety
Each iBonus Terminal is competent to store 32767 card serial numbers within the blacklist. To further make sure the size of the actual blacklist will not develop indefinitely, blacklisting is actually allowed only if the fellow member card comes with an expiry day. The sequential number is taken away from the blacklist once the card is actually expired; therefore freeing up room in blacklist.


Higher protection

Anti-fraud card Control function
  • the newly changed card may reflect the actual pre-blacklist salvage worth of the misplaced card utilized at every other Terminals after documented loss,
  • only one replaced card is issued even the user intentionally report card loss in more than one terminal within a short time,
  • the repaired card must reflect the latest card information even the card has done a transaction at another branch a short time before needing to repair,
  • the blacklist will not be grown to an unlimited size by allowing only the card having expiry date to be blacklisted, only the valid card are blacklisted, and
  • the card being renewed must not be a blacklisted card.
iBonus Master card Key Launching
iBonus Terminal assure to operate with the card problem by the exact same company. This is done by launching key through iBonus Master card. As the crucial and organization code associated with iBonus Master card delivered to every company differs. iBonus Terminal are only able to recognize the actual member card with the same key.

Staff Card Transaction Auditing
Staff Card Identity is drenched for every deal. It will help auditing at the machine report. iBonus Statement can review the amount gathered by every individual staff.

Card Blacklisting
In case of dropping member card, the misplaced card could be blacklisted by utilizing Request Substitute function. Within 1/4 day, just about all terminals will gather the newest blacklist in the server.

Optimum Prepaid Restrict
iBonus Master card defines the most prepaid add up to be kept in each card. This security measure improves the safety for that card customers.

Maximum Deal Limit
Optimum transaction restrict must be described in every staff card. All deal that changes the gathered spending or even prepaid stability is limited with this value.


Customizable

Vocabulary localization
All the wordings as well as currency indicators at the Liquid crystal display display as well as receipt could be localized*. Customer might have iBonus Terminal modified to their vocabulary by posting their converting table in order to us. Converted wordings are restricted to the figures available at the actual LCD show and invoice printers

Decimal as well as Integral Foreign currency Support
iBonus Program supports each integral foreign currency and foreign currency with 2 places. In the event that decimal mode is actually chosen the most prepaid worth is 83,886.07. In the event that integer mode is actually chosen, the most prepaid worth is 8,388,607. This environment is single by the iBonus master Card.

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