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The ARTS Board invites your company to join ARTS and support the reduced costs of technology in retail through standards and education.

ABOUT MEMBERSHIP

ARTS membership is open to retailers from all segments: general merchandise, food service, forecourt, etc and vendor partners that provide software and hardware to the retail industry. There are no classes of membership, all members have equal rights to participate and vote on committees and work teams. 

Membership in ARTS enables companies to express their point-of-view and discuss ideas in the creation of standards, technical reports that benefit the worldwide retailing community. ARTS standards are referenced and implemented in more than 70 countries. Creating global standards requires participation by members of the information technology community; retailers, application developers and hardware companies from many countries. The ARTS membership is almost 50% from outside our US base as a division of the NRF. Active participation by international companies is facilitated by web collaboration and annual meetings in Europe and Asia Pacific.

Membership in ARTS is available to all retailers, retail associations and vendors to the retail industry who agree to adhere to the ARTS Logo and Intellectual Property policies and the license agreements associated with available standards. Members of NRF do not pay the ARTS initiation fee and receive a $250 discount on ARTS dues. Click here for membership form and information about membership dues.  Click here if you wish to join online.

MEMBER BENEFITS

As a member of ARTS:

  1. You receive the Operational Data Model and the Warehouse Data Model including full Help Desk support through the web and new releases that are issued every 12 months.  Million dollars and thousands of hours by leading retail companies have been invested in the creation and maintenance of the data model.  This investment helps our members reduce development costs and simplifies the information system life cycle for in-store systems.

  2. You receive access to the complete library of XML Schema, currently 17.  The XML schemas have been specifically designed to ease the integration of application with a focus on POS and merchandise management. 

  3. You receive access to currently 7 Requests for Proposal (RFP’s) to assist you select the “right” application for your company.  POS, Warehouse Management, Loss Prevention, Master Data Management and Business Intelligence are some of the available RFP’s.

  4. You receive at no charge: the SOA Blueprint and Best Practices, PCI Best Practices and Best Practices for XML.

  5. You receive a discount on registration to ARTS events, European Retail Technology Summit, ARTS Annual User meeting and education sessions.

  6. You are provided access to the Members Only area of the Web Site that provides advance review of standards for your comments and early adoption, member discussion groups, and procedures to suggest changes to existing standards.

  7. You have the opportunity to serve on all ARTS committees that develop and maintain our standards:  ARTS-XML, Data Model, RFP and UnifiedPOS.

  8. Receive a complimentary subscription to Stores Magazine.

ARTS/NRF JOINT MEMBERSHIP 

A joint membership in ARTS and NRF provides retailers maximum support for critical business and technology issues and a $500 discount off an ARTS membership (waiver of the $250 initiation fee and $250 off ARTS dues).  Visit the NRF Membership site to review membership benefits and costs and position your company optimum growth and success..

MEMBERSHIP FORMS