Solutions: Keep in touch with critical measures of success while you’re on the road. Retail fuel profit margins are more fragile than ever with today’s volatile fuel costs. Make timely, competitive decisions by using Pinnacle’s business intelligence solution, EPM, with mobile technology. Keep your margin data at your fingertips and take action at a moment’s notice. Pinnacle’s Enterprise Performance Management™ ...

Solutions: Capture Bills of Lading (BOLs) in real time and deliver that information to your home office. Only with bill of lading information can you accurately calculate the cost of your existing inventory. Pinnacle’s Andalé can bring bill of lading, split drop, and splash-blend information back to the home office in real time for you to make ...

Solutions: Give customers the opportunity to earn points when shopping at their grocery store, redeemable for PPG discounts at your store.  Pinnacle’s Palm POS integrates with 3rd party fuel coalition loyalty programs, so customers earn points at their grocery store and redeem those points for discounted fuel at your stores. This keeps them coming back to your ...

1.Fund Holds – When a customer uses a debit or credit card, the bank puts a hold on funds for a period of time. With total fuel transactions rising due to price, those fund holds are more inconvenient than ever. 2. Upper Limits on Pay-at-the-Pump – Banks and payment processors often impose an upper limit on ...

Solutions: Improve your fuel margins. Pinnacle’s Palm POS has valuable features that can help retail chains improve their margin. Palm’s cash/credit pricing option can influence more people to tender with cash rather than cards with expensive interchange rates. Palm also supports cash acceptors at the dispenser so you can accept cash for pay-at-the pump transactions. Finally, with ...

Solutions: Maintain shopper convenience while securing your pumps. Stop fuel theft today and remain convenient with Pinnacle’s LoyalPass®! Everyone knows that fuel theft increases are consistent with rising street prices, and there’s nothing worse than losing revenue at your forecourt with today’s tight fuel margins. Utilize LoyalPass to secure shopper information, giving you the control over their access while providing ...

Solutions: Reduce credit card fees by offering an alternative payment option. Consider ACH processing, which continues to have a lower per transaction cost than any typical credit/debit card option. Pinnacle’s LoyalDebit™ tackles the significant rise in credit card fees by adding payment capabilities to a non-payment card that the consumer already carries in their wallet, such as a loyalty card. Cost ...

Thousands of convenience stores and fuel retailers nationwide rely on Pinnacle as their single-source supplier for best-in-class products and services that automate store operations and heighten business efficiency. High transaction volumes and multiple access points make fuel pumps and convenience stores particularly vulnerable to credit card fraud, yet few of these organizations have secured their ...

As Master of Ceremonies for Pinnacle Summit 2009, I was extremely pleased with this year’s event, from the educational track sessions, to the dynamic General Session speakers and the outstanding networking opportunities. As an Executive of Honey Farms, Inc., a chain of 35 convenience stores, I oversee the day-to-day operations of our business and I ...

The “new normal” is well on its way to becoming one of the catch phrases that we’re all going to get sick of. It’s in headlines everywhere, especially as pundits and consultants try to figure out ways to market their services around a phrase that has more alliteration than meaning. The essential question is this: ...