PRODUCT NEWS
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Howletts and Port Lympne add to their collection |
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11 Jun 2008 . BY |
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Howletts and Port Lympne Wild Animal Parks in
Kent have acquired a number of modules
from Gamma Dataware's LeisurePOS range of solutions.
Covering more than 50 Point of Sale units across both sites, the modules selected include: Admissions & Ticketing, Gift Aid Processing, Bookings & Event Management, Web Bookings, Retail Point of Sale, Catering Point of Sale, Stock Control & Purchase Order Processing, Membership CRM, Integrated Chip & PIN credit card processing and Integration with the Parks' back office Accounts Software package.
Howletts and Port Lympne Wild Animal Parks were set up by the late John Aspinall with the aim of protecting and breeding rare and endangered species and returning them to safe areas in their native homeland.
World leaders in conservation, the Parks have so far returned to the wild Przewalski's horses, black rhino, Sumatran rhino, Cape buffalo, ocelots, pythons and gorillas.
Elsewhere, the River and Rowing Museum at Henley-on-Thames have also opted to acquire modules on the LeisurePOS platform to help them in certain key areas of their operation.
Included are: Admissions & Ticketing, Gift Aid processing, Bookings & Event Management, Membership CRM, Retail Point of Sale, Stock Control and Purchase Order Processing and Integrated Chip & PIN Processing.
Set on the banks of the River Thames, the award-winning museum has three permanent galleries devoted to the river, the international sport of rowing and the Henley-on-Thames itself.
There are also three special exhibition galleries, the Riverside Café, shop, Education Centre, library and function rooms.
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