Futura Retail Solutions - Native Integration to Givex, Afterpay, ZipMoney, AliPay & WeChat

Futura Retail Solutions is a leading point of sale technology company founded in Hamburg, Germany. Some 40 years later Futura now powers over 35,000 different retail sites in 27 countries around the world, with an ever-increasing footprint in Australia. Part of Futura Australia’s growth is credited to its diversity of native integration tools. There are six such tools that can act as a turnkey for your POS system: Givex Giftcard, Givex Loyalty, Afterpay, ZipMoney, AliPay and WeChat Pay.

Givex Giftcard offer physical gift cards, E-gift cards and mobile wallets within their gift card system. With the proven experience of more than 300,000 installations worldwide, Givex provides multi-lingual support, translated user interfaces, and dynamic currency conversion. Gift cards can be set up to be sold as corporate incentives and sold through third parties such as supermarkets. While GiveXpress allows you to create a gift card online and receive what you need for a gift card program in a few weeks.

Givex Loyalty allows for custom design or improvement on an existing loyalty system. Either way, they have spend based and frequency packaged programs that work in real-time. A loyalty website can be set up at the same time with only brand colours, logo and images needed to be provided, the rest is done by Givex. A range of reward types are also available including points + promo code, points conversion to local currency, charity, action and lucky winner.

Afterpay is one of Australia’s fastest growing payment providers taking the retail market by storm. With over 1 million retail customers, Afterpay is an option that can be used at checkout and it is quick and easy to get approved instantly as a customer. Afterpay pays for the customer, while the customer pays back the purchase interest free in four equal installments, due every two weeks. Late fees apply.

ZipMoney offers a similar tool to Afterpay, and through their innovative e-wallet you can purchase things such as larger white goods items worth up to $10,000, without the pain & hassle of paying for it all up-front. The differences include that you set up a weekly, fortnightly or monthly repayment schedule. Payments can also be made additionally at any time, but a $6 monthly fee applies for each month a balance is still owing. ZipPay is always interest free and limited to $1,000, while ZipMoney is for above that amount with a guaranteed 3 months interest free, and up to 36 months through some retailers.

AliPay is currently China’s largest payment provider with over 400 million active users, and it is increasingly being seen in the Australian retail landscape. It is largely centred around the AliPay app for smartphones and the website, which has four key features: it allows for retailers to set up online stores within it; it allows for retailers to targets users through a range of promotion methods; it is a secure payment product that can meet different business needs, through scanning barcodes, QR codes, and is available in 25 currencies; it gives the retailer a clear overview of their business data to understand habits and preferences of AliPay users, while showing indicators for what could be done to improve reputation and get more customers.
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China’s second largest payment provider is WeChat Pay, and they now have 500,000 active users in Australia. WeChat Pay is a payment model similar to AliPay, in which it is integrated into the WeChat app. WeChat Pay offers Quick Pay, QR Code Payment, In-App Web-based Payment and In-App Payment. Major currencies are supported, and when a Chinese buyer purchases abroad, a spot exchange rate is used to convert the foreign currency into CNY. The WeChat app enables people, services, and businesses to connect not only in China, but around the world.
 
If you want a POS system that does more than just the transaction and comes with native integration tools that increase the bottom-line of your retail business, Futura is the right choice.