| Feature | Benefit |
| Award-winning modular platform with separate scanning, payment and bagging units | Designed based on human factors research to enhance the customer experience with fast, easy, intuitive interactions
Gives retailers unprecedented flexibility plus investment protection as store needs continue to evolve
Speeds checkout to maximize throughput; reduces footprint to optimize floor space; improves cash management and security |
| Intuitive experience with 100% of user interaction above counter height, and LED guidance lighting | Makes scanning, bagging and payment fast, easy and convenient
Payment interactions grouped together within the shopper’s natural viewing area
Receipt printer located in close proximity to the bagging area |
| Minimizes reach distance for the shopper’s most frequently performed task—scanning and bagging | System 6 reduces shopper effort associated with scanning and bagging by minimizing the distance between the middle of the scanner and the first bag by up to 36 percent compared to other self checkout hardware |
| Fast, easy, personalized user interface with Toshiba CHEC software | Latest CHEC software release includes more than 20 new features to enhance the user experience
Context-sensitive customer guidance that’s there when you need it—and gone when you don’t—simplifies self-checkout for both novices and experts
Disability access option allows shoppers to lower all touch points to the lower half of the screen for improved accessibility
Personalized experience with new support for shopper preferences, plus a new “trust levels” feature—enabling retailers to tailor self-checkout to the individual shopper based on the customer's loyalty card and past shopping history
New “swipe-to-scroll” receipt that's cleaner and more readable
Faster EFT transactions with smarter integration between POS and the pinpad
Loyalty cards can now be scanned straight from a shopper’s smart phone with imaging-capable bi-optic scanners |
| Easy to manage with proven, extensible software environment | CHEC offers retailers a totally integrated self checkout solution that can effectively manage and help lower total cost of ownership
Minimizes interventions with a highly intuitive consumer interface and a rich set of shopper assistant functions to address any issues at the lane.
Comprehensive, remote systems management capabilities accessed from the enterprise, store or through configurable proactive alerts.
High availability due to a rich, message-based integration approach between POS and self checkout that eliminates the need for screen-scraping in any environment
Greater control of retailer environment, through software development tools and training that allow retailers or partners to better manage the environment themselves
Validated against PCI PA-DSS and PABP security standards to reduce risk, time and money associated with assuring compliance and managing audits |
| Capability to run on 4690 OS | Simplify operations by leveraging all checkout functions on one platform
Self checkout can now be installed and maintained like any other point of sale register in the store
Convergence of self checkout with POS on a common platform enables retailers to drive down complexity, enable faster innovation, help minimize cost of ownership and maximize operational efficiencies. |
| Centralized reporting and administration capabilities with Enterprise BOSS | Centralize critical functions of the BOSS that can be managed from the enterprise while other functions can still be managed locally within the store via in-store web browser
Centralize the administration of shopper assistants, reports, user management, quick-lookup screens, lane configuration, and item security data. |
| Global support and services and eco system of business partners | Support and services crucial part of end to end focus that helps optimize its hardware and software and ensure Toshiba Self Checkout success in virtually any retail environment
Substantial ecosystem of Toshiba Business Partners around the world can help customize and support self checkout systems to address retailers’ unique needs |
| Best practices for store operations | Proven set of practices helps ensure that the project is well defined, effectively managed and consistently monitored |