POS Electronic Registration

SIRAS’s POS Electronic Registration program is part of a patented business methodology and provides a tool used by retailers and manufacturers to improve levels of service to their mutual customers, while increasing operational efficiencies and profitability. SIRAS employs a combination of a product’s UPC with its serial number to establish a unique “fingerprint” for each individual product and tracks every product through its sales lifecycle.

At the time of purchase of a product Certified on the SIRAS program, the retail employee scans the UPC just like any other sale transaction. Then a special prompt by the system notifies the employee to scan the product’s serial number. The retail employee finalizes the sale transaction as he or she normally would. The POS system time and date stamps the transaction and prints the product serial number on the customer’s receipt. Then the retailer system transmits the transaction information to SIRAS’s national database, where it is stored for a variety of future uses by both the retailer and the product’s manufacturer.

To protect the privacy of the consumer, SIRAS logs transaction data without recording any customer information. But when this product fingerprint information is established, the retailer and manufacturer have an identifiable date of purchase, from which the start of the warranty and return periods can be tracked.

SIRAS is RFID-ready and can efficiently bridge the transition from “barcode” to EPC identifiers in the future.