Fuel Automation

Every pump, tank, and shift in one system

Connect the forecourt to the back office: live tank levels, pump-accurate sales, shift reconciliation, and price changes pushed in seconds.

  • Live tank levels and water detection
  • Variances surface at shift close
  • Prices pushed to every site at once
Operator reconciling printed shift reports against a live sales dashboard
Fuel Automation · overview

A variance you can still investigate

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Fuel retail runs on a margin measured in cents per gallon, which makes small percentage losses serious money and makes the timing of their discovery almost as important as their size. A discrepancy found at month-end is a number without a story: it could be a short delivery, a drifting meter, water ingress, or theft, and by the time anyone looks there is no way left to tell.

The same discrepancy surfaced at shift close is a different object entirely. It has a shift attached to it, staff who were present, a delivery that either did or did not happen that day, and tank readings from either side of it. That is a variance somebody can actually investigate, and investigating it is what changes behaviour.

Fuel Automation makes that the default by tying the physical forecourt to the books continuously. Automatic tank gauges report live levels and water detection, pump controllers reconcile dispensed volume against recorded sales, deliveries are verified against gauge readings on arrival rather than trusted, and shift close balances cash, card, and fuel volume automatically.

Above that sits the commercial layer: multi-site price management that pushes a change to every pump and sign in seconds — which on a day when the market moves is a direct margin lever — plus wet and dry stock together, loss and variance alerting, and regulatory reporting. The convenience store runs on Pacific POS, and both halves of the site appear in one report rather than two exports and a spreadsheet.

What changes

The day-to-day, before and after Fuel Automation

Three frictions this replaces — described in the terms you'd recognise from your own week.

Today

Shift variances only surface at month-end, long after the shift

With Fuel Automation

Cash, card, and fuel volumes balance automatically at every shift close, so a variance is visible the moment the shift ends.

Today

Tank levels are checked by dipstick and guesswork

With Fuel Automation

Automatic tank gauges feed live levels, water detection, and delivery reconciliation, so wet stock is tracked without walking the forecourt.

Today

A price change means calling every site individually

With Fuel Automation

Price changes push to pumps and signage across all sites from one screen, so every forecourt shows the same number.

In practice

Where it earns its keep

Every shift reconciles against pump totalizers automatically, so variances surface the moment that shift closes rather than at month-end.

Manager presenting site performance figures to a back-office team
What it does

Inside Fuel Automation

Tank monitoring

Live levels, water detection, and delivery reconciliation for every tank.

Pump integration

Sales tied to pump totalizers so every liter sold is a liter accounted for.

Shift reconciliation

Cash, card, and fuel volumes balanced automatically at every shift close.

Pricing control

Push price changes to all pumps and signage across sites in seconds.

Built for

Who's in it every day

The three seats Fuel Automation is designed around.

Station manager

Opens it at shift close to balance cash, card, and fuel volumes and clear any variance before the next crew starts.

Wet-stock controller

Watches live tank levels, water detection, and delivery reconciliation to decide when each grade needs refilling.

Multi-site owner

Opens it to push prices to every forecourt and compare site performance without calling each station for its numbers.

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Getting started

How we get you live

  1. Connect the hardware

    Automatic tank gauges and pump controllers are wired into the system, so levels and totalizers report into one place.

  2. Map the forecourt

    Tanks, pumps, nozzles, and grades are mapped to your actual site layout, and wet-stock and dry-stock items are loaded.

  3. Set shift rules

    Shift patterns, cash handling, and day-end close are configured so reconciliation runs against pump totalizers without manual tallying.

  4. Add sites & pricing

    Remaining sites come online under one back office, with central price management and variance alerts routed to the right managers.

Everything included

Capabilities at a glance

  • Automatic tank gauge integration
  • Pump controller integration
  • Wet-stock and dry-stock inventory
  • Shift and day-end reconciliation
  • Multi-site price management
  • Loss and variance alerts
  • Convenience-store sales via Pacific POS
  • Regulatory and audit reports

Works with your stack

Fuel Automation connects to the systems and hardware you already run — tell us what you use and we’ll confirm the fit before you commit.

  • Automatic Tank Gauges
  • Pump Controllers
  • Pacific POS
  • Forecourt Price Signage
  • Card Payment Terminals
  • Fuel Delivery Records
  • Audit & Regulatory Reports
FAQ

Fuel Automation, answered

The questions we get asked before a demo.

Merilsoft team answering a customer's question

Not seeing your question?

Tell us how you run today and we'll answer specifically.

That depends on the controller and gauge models on site. The system is built to read pump totalizers and automatic tank gauges rather than replace them, so existing forecourt hardware is the starting point. We survey what each site runs before quoting, and say plainly if a unit cannot be read.

See Fuel Automation in action

Book a demo and we'll walk through your workflow — or ask us anything first.

Or call us: 1-225-573-9244