POS OUTAGE DETECTION

POS Outage Detection That Shows the Store, the Cause and the Fix

HelmCore's multi-site retail monitoring correlates POS, network, IoT and energy signals across every store. When a store stops taking card payments, you get one incident with the root cause, the steps to fix it and what it is costing.

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HelmCore dashboard showing one flagged store and its incident
08:41 · THE STORE

See the Affected Store Before It Calls You

Every store sits on one dashboard. When terminals stop processing payments, that store's tile is flagged with the lanes affected and the time of the first signal. Your central team starts from the same symptom the store team is dealing with.

A store with card payments failing at the till
08:42 · THE SIGNALS

Four Alerts From Four Systems, Grouped Into One Incident

A power dip, a router restart, three tills offline and a chiller dropping off the network. HelmCore's rules engine groups related POS, network, IoT and energy events before any AI analysis runs, so your team investigates one problem with the whole story attached.

POS, network, IoT and energy signals connected into one incident
08:43 · THE CAUSE

The Cause, the Fix and Who to Tell, in One Place

HelmCore applies engineered runbooks to the correlated signals and the store's own history. The incident sets out what broke, why it broke, the remediation steps and who to notify. Your team makes the call and carries out the fix.

Incident card showing the root cause and remediation instructions
SAME INCIDENT, TWO VIEWS

IT and Operations Work From the Same Incident

IT sees the device, the configuration and the remediation steps. Operations sees which stores are affected, how many lanes are down and what happens next. Both views read from one incident record, so decisions about stores and field teams rest on the same evidence.

IT and Operations teams looking at the same incident

Illustrative views of a single incident.

WHILE IT IS OPEN

A Live Cost on Every Incident, Using Your Numbers

Your finance team sets the cost parameters once. HelmCore applies them to each incident while it is open, so finance and operations leads can see what each outage is costing and decide which one comes first.

Live financial impact figure on an open incident
QUESTIONS ABOUT INCIDENT DETECTION

Before You Book

What is POS outage detection?

POS outage detection identifies when point-of-sale terminals at a store stop processing transactions. HelmCore detects POS outages across a multi-site retail estate, flags the affected store and lanes, and correlates the outage with network, IoT and energy signals to find the root cause.

How does HelmCore detect a POS outage across multiple stores?

HelmCore monitors POS, network, IoT and energy signals from every store on one dashboard. A rules and workflow engine groups related events into a single incident, so a POS outage appears once, with the store, the lanes affected and every related signal attached.

Which signal sources does HelmCore correlate?

HelmCore correlates four signal sources: POS, network, IoT and energy. It runs on top of the infrastructure already in your stores.

What does an incident include?

Each incident includes the affected store, the correlated signals, the root cause, remediation instructions for your team, the people to notify and the real-time financial impact.

Who carries out the fix?

Your team carries out the fix. HelmCore provides root cause analysis and remediation instructions, so the people responsible for the estate have the steps and the context in one place.

How is the financial impact of an incident calculated?

HelmCore calculates real-time financial impact from cost parameters your team provides and validates. The figure updates while the incident is open, so finance and operations leads can compare and prioritise incidents across the estate.

How does HelmCore keep store data secure?

Every customer runs on its own isolated, single-tenant HelmCore instance. A sanitisation layer removes sensitive data before anything reaches the AI model, and HelmCore is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022.

Which retailers is HelmCore built for?

HelmCore is built for multi-site operators in Ireland and the UK with 50 or more sites and a central IT team managing the estate, including convenience and fuel retail, grocery and general retail, and food and beverage chains.
SEE IT ON YOUR ESTATE

Walk Through a POS Outage With Us

In a 45-minute demo, we follow one outage from the first store signal to the root cause, the remediation steps and what it is costing.