Boyertown, PA – (September, 2004) Fire Island Ferries, Inc. of Bay Shore, New York, has chosen to continue its long standing relationship with Gateway Ticketing Systems and upgrade to the company’s latest admission control and revenue management system, Galaxy 2 - released earlier this year.
A total of nine licenses were installed for eight point of sale stations, three of which are in a remote location, and one back office system. Features included touch screen monitors, ticketing point of sale, and consolidated reporting. “The upgrade to Galaxy was a breeze and implementation was painless with little or no data conversion involved in the process,” says Ed Schlauch of Fire Island Ferries, Inc.
Galaxy 2 includes over 16 new enhancements, plus a newly designed - more visually appealing 'XP' style interface. Further, Galaxy 2's new Unified POS Device support ensures effortless connection and configuration of most all POS and ticketing peripheral hardware. Ticket and receipt printers, scanners, customer displays and more are now truly plug and play, resulting in far less installation and configuration time for external hardware.
Michael Andre, President and CEO of Gateway Ticketing Systems stated, “Fire Island Ferries provided very positive feedback in many areas of the Galaxy product and installation, including ease of training, transaction speed, and the cost efficiency of being able to use their existing hardware.” Fire Island Ferries, Inc. had been using the AX1180 system since 1990, when it began working with Gateway Ticketing Systems. Ed Schlauch finished, “Galaxy 2 is solid and does what it is supposed to - Our 14 years as a Gateway Ticketing Systems customer is indicative of our high level of satisfaction.”
Fire Island Ferries, Inc. provides service to the Fire Island communities of Kismet, Saltaire, Fair Harbor, Atlantique, Dunewood, Ocean Beach, Seaview, and Ocean Bay Park.
Gateway Ticketing Systems, Inc. has been providing the most cost effective automated revenue and access control systems to the entertainment and recreation industry since 1988. Gateway's client base ranges from small family entertainment centers to some of the largest theme parks in the world, making them the preferred solution. Because their Galaxy software is an open architecture, which provides the ability to use industry standard hardware and modular software design, Gateway is the leader in providing reliable, cost effective, state-of-the-art automated revenue and access control systems to the entertainment and recreation industry.
Gateway's products range from single user systems to fully automated revenue and access control systems with over 300 clients in 38 countries. As the demands for the industry change, Gateway Ticketing Systems is one step ahead of the curve providing solutions such as eGalaxy, the integrated e-commerce solution, a new kiosk solution, and continuous enhancements to their current product line. For more information on Gateway Ticketing Systems, please visit them at www.gatewayticketing.com or call at +1 (610) 987-4000.