St Gemma's Charity Shops go Techno With Maxa Solutions' Charity EPOS System

Services Provider Installs State of the Art Point of Sales Solutions

ALTRINCHAM, England, February 18, 2010 - Today, charity epos solutions provider Maxa Solutions announces that St
Gemma's Hospice Charity shops has selected its Point of Sale (PoS) solution
which includes: EPOS terminals, barcode scanners
(www.maxatec-europe.com/content/pages/products/peripherals/scanners.shtml ),
cash drawers, thermal receipt printers and chip'n'pin terminals all running
Maxa Solutions CHARiot EPOS software which has been created specifically for
the charity retail market.

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The software's Gift Aid Module was a key driver for the investment of
this technology installation. GAoDG (Gift Aid on Donated Goods) allows
charities to reclaim the tax on sold donated goods as long as they can
provide an audit trail, and they have the permission of the donor.

St Gemma's is a major provider of specialist palliative care and also
plays a key role in educating both health care professionals and the general
public on the issues around hospice care. To raise money for the organisation
they have 18 charity shops which are located across Leeds which sell
everything from second hand books, clothes, games and bric-a-brac to some new
goods, plus the hospice gift shop which sells purely bought in goods.

Maxa Solutions CHARiot EPOS software and hardware is specifically
simplified for the needs of a charity shop environment. The user-friendly
graphical interface software is designed so that it is simple for volunteers
to understand, and at the same time, the system is sophisticated enough to
interact with the demands of multiple management and back office functions.

Vicki Burnett, fundraising manager (trading) at St Gemma's explained,

"Before we implemented this new technology solution, we just had normal
mechanical tills in our shops. However, with the onset of Gift Aid we were
forced to look at what technology was available to allow us to effectively
take advantage of this legislation. Done right we knew that our investment
would pay us back many fold as we recoup the Gift Aid tax on our
transactions."

Andrea Percival, managing director of Maxa Solutions said: "We have a
long heritage in providing POS systems for the Charity market. This sector
has very specific challenges and we work closely with the charities to design
a solution that suits their unique needs. St Gemma's knew what they wanted to
achieve and we devised a solution that matched their requirements, timeline
and budget."

Maxa Solutions CHARiot EPOS software is a configurable structure
providing an integrated and powerful EPOS solution for management
information, transaction processing and reporting to improve retail
operations.

To read more about Maxa Solutions CHARiot EPOS software and solutions
visit: www.maxasolutions.co.uk/index.html

About Maxa Solutions:

Maxa Solutions provide integrated business IT solutions for
the retail market. It is providing a first of its kind solution to a sector
that demands exclusive functionality in order to reap full benefits and
return of investment from IT investments. Maxa Solutions has focused on an
integrated solution for EPOS
(www.maxatec-europe.com/content/pages/products/pos/ )and Retail
Management specifically for Charity Shops, since there were no generic
systems offering anything bespoke for this market. CHARiot's volunteer
friendly EPOS covers both donated and purchased goods, time and attendance,
petty cash and banking. Powerful retail management tools at Head Office
provide real time visibility and control of critical shop activities and
performance, whilst also managing purchased goods, suppliers and stock
management. Interface at Head Office to accounts systems ensure that the data
from retail operations is available to executive accounts reporting and fund
raising marketing.

Maxa Solutions is a trading name of the Maxa Technologies
group of companies, providing uniquely tailored solutions for specific
sectors within the retail market.

Maxa Technologies (Maxatec - www.maxatec-europe.com/ )
has more than 35 years experience in supplying IT to the UK retail sector and
other markets. Maxatec (www.maxatec-europe.com/ ) has strong
partnerships with a number of key suppliers enabling the provision of 'best
of breed' solutions to our customers; those suppliers include NCR, TPG and
Cognitive.

    Tel: +44(0)161-942-7874
    Fax: +44(0)161-942-7875
    info@maxasolutions.co.uk
    www.maxasolutions.co.uk

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