Reasons to Implement the EJournal for NCR 2127
  • Dot Matrix v. Thermal Printers – With EJournal, stores have the ability to use thermal printers, since EJournal provides the necessary means of accessing the journal information. Thermal printers are quieter, faster and cheaper to operate, resulting in lower paper and maintenance costs, which helps the store’s bottom line.
  • Government requirement -The IRS can audit business records for the current year, plus the prior three years. Oftentimes, when the IRS wants to review a particular year’s taxes, they also request the records for the two years prior to the year being audited. Effectively, this means that business owners are required to keep a minimum of 6 years of detailed business records (current year plus 5 prior years). The IRS specifically mentions cash register tapes in many of their business-related tax publications as a primary source of information. Individual states may require records to be maintained for even longer.
  • Storage - No need to keep the journal paper rolls. 
    With EJournal, stores have the ability to archive the information on a CD-ROM or database, and therefore, reduce storage costs.
  • Timesavings - Save time in the checkout line – no need to change that second paper roll.
  • Clear and concise - Many paper register tapes are unreadable after a short time, due to how and where they are stored. Therefore, many stores do not actually have legible records now. Writing these files to a CD creates a far more stable and long-lasting data archive, as long as there is a method for generating any necessary reports from that data. EJournal for NCR 2127 provides the means to read an IDC file and generate reports at any time.
  • Reliability - To the best of our knowledge, there is no program available to produce a "fake" IDC file, without actually creating a store set-up and ringing up the transactions on the registers.
  • Customer satisfaction – EJournal provides the ability to quickly generate duplicate receipts or to research credit card problems.
  • More information and faster research - The journal paper roll doesn’t include all the information stored in the IDC file, which makes research more difficult (e.g., validating user exits). The EJournal displays all the information, making research with the EJournal much easier and faster (and cheaper) than with the journal paper rolls.