# Princess Alice Hospice chooses Maxa Solutions' system for shops

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/01/16/princess-alice-hospice-chooses-maxa-solutions039-system-shops/
- Published: 2009-01-16T09:45:39+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Princess Alice Hospice Trust has selected retail management system CHARiot
from Maxa Solutions to help it develop its charity shops fundraising activities.**

Retail EPOS system CHARiot includes a Gift Aid module that enables charities to 
claim Gift Aid on donated goods with a mainly paperless system with “a full retail
recording, reporting and communications functionality”. The completion of Gift Aid
details can either be prompted on screen, or a form can be printed on the receipt
printer.

Its tiling screen is touch-screen based. It includes features that are designed 
to reduce entry mistakes: for example, if the keys are pressed in the wrong order,
it will either not allow the function or it will suggest what the user might wish
to be attempting.

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The [Princess Alice Hospice Trust](http://www.pah.org.uk) reports that the system
has improved the availability of business information both within the shops and 
at head office, and has helped the integration of its merchandise planning, purchase
ordering and distribution network.

www.maxasolutions.co.uk

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