Retail Automation

Billing Systems

Thotaka has designed and delivered a variety of billing systems for use in retail :

Desktop Billing Machines:

These are complete billing systems with a variety of in-built features:
- Offline and Cloud integrated online inventory
- Customizable GST and tax-slabs
- Bill parking and retrieval
- KOT: Kitchen Order Token handling for restaurants
- Upto 10000 PLU in the box
- Multiple roles and users
- 80 different end of day reports
- Ready interface with popular barcode scanners, weighing scales and serial printers
Portable Thermal printers(PTP):

These are ubiquitous in a retail environment. These are used to print everything from receipts, invoices to labels. Thotaka has developed innovative PTP's that not only support standard features such as ESC protocol but also feature cloud based order retrieval and handling.

If you are looking to develop retail solutions focussed on frictionless user experience, while retaining traditional motifs such as printed bills, talk to us for innovative solutions!!

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Kiosks & Dispensers

Thotaka has experience in building innovative kiosks and dispensers. Some innovations featured in our designs include:

QR enabled Recipes: Dispense custom-mixed food and beverage based on QR coded favorites
Wallet & Payments: Retain loyalty be enabling pre-paid wallets & integration with major payment gateways
Touch free dispensing: With non-contact interactions, touch free dispensing systems are a mainstream in the post COVID world.
Smart refills: With personalized mixes and recipes, refill is about delivering the personalized experience to customer, be in the office pantry or the airport. Our cloud analytics expertise can provide these and more insights to ensure the customer is hooked to your brand.

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e-Price tags, Signage, People Counting

Beyond billing and kiosks, Thotaka has designed a variety of retail enablers:

e-Price Tags:

Remotely displayed eInk, ePaper based price tags:
- Display price based on proximity and loyalty
- Centrally updated based on insights from analytics
- Low-maintenance with more than 12 months on a single CR battery
Digital Signage:

Our custom signage stack allows for displaying a variety of multimedia content. The signage integrates loyalty features: Imagine the signage announcing a customer birthday and offering a special discount autonomously.

Further, Imagine signage transforming into an interactive mirror that engages the customer.
People Counting: People counting are an essential ingredient of smart-retail. Thotaka has designed people counting systems with many smart features:
- Identify people flow rate of a store
- Identify the number of people in a store at any given time. Classify beings: kids, pets, seniors
- Identify metrics such as:
  - Rack and section where most time is spent
  - Head-turner media on signage
  - Number of people watching a media on a signage