National Maritime Museum Cornwall
The award winning National Maritime Museum Cornwall opened in November 2002. The Museum’s requirements covered a number of areas including admissions, retail point of sale, advance bookings, membership, stock control and purchase order processing, accounting and payroll. As a registered charity, the Museum also required a system that could process Gift Aid transactions.
In addition, the Museum’s finance department required accounting and payroll packages. Initially, four Point of Sale (POS) units were required to manage admissions, with three units being used in the retail area.
The solution
The National Maritime Museum Cornwall chose to implement the Gamma LeisurePOS system for their entire front of house and back-office management systems. The software modules installed were:
As well as admissions, ticketing and Gift Aid, the booking system is used for those wishing to book tickets in advance, as well as dealing with group visits, lectures and corporate events.
The membership module manages the museums corporate, family and individual membership schemes and included direct debit and credit card processing. The system also produces credit card style membership cards.
ACCPAC Advantage Series Small Business Edition was implemented to produce the Museum’s management accounts.
Within a few weeks of opening, the Museum’s catering facilities were brought in-house, replacing an existing franchise arrangement. As a result, additional POS functionality was added and the stock system was expanded to handle catering requirements.
In June 2003, the Museum added a remote entry site introducing a Park and Float/Ride scheme. This resulted in additional admissions access from the remote site with live access to the main server to ensure accurate online visitor number and capacity analysis at the Museum.
