NAXML is a shared data format that lets convenience store systems and their suppliers pass item, price, and promotion information back and forth without custom translation.
NAXML is a data standard from Conexxus, the standards group for the convenience and fuel retailing industry. The XML part is the kind of computer file it uses. Put together, NAXML is an agreed way to write store data into files so different systems can read each other’s information.
It is the common language behind a c-store pricebook, which is the master list of every item a store sells with its cost and retail price. With NAXML, the register, the back office, and outside suppliers can share that item and price data in a format they all understand, instead of each pair of systems needing its own custom hookup.
For an operator the payoff is fewer errors and less rekeying. A price file from a supplier can flow straight into the pricebook and out to the registers, so the same number does not get typed three times and wrong once.
In useThe new POS reads the supplier’s NAXML price file straight into the pricebook, so the clerk no longer keys in cigarette prices by hand.
See also Pricebook, POS (point of sale)