Point of Sale Software

Common Features

The following features are common to all the software solutions that we offer, with additional features specific to each type of software mentioned below

• Point of Sale: Fully-featured Point-of-sale module for processing capturing orders, processing returns and payments
• Sales Tax: Sales tax calculations can be a complicated and time-consuming process if they are done manually; fortunately, this software takes care of calculating all applicable sales taxes on all sales as long as you setup your sales tax rates prior to entering sales into the system. With our easy sales tax setup and configuration, you can configure the default sales tax rate for the state, city, and other municipalities. You can als disable taxing of individual products and services, and configure a product or service price to already include the applicable taxes by flagging the product or service to have VAT.
• SMTP Server Setup: The SMTP Email Server Configuration allows you to configure the SMTP email server that you want the software to connect to when sending emails to customers for marketing, reminders, and other purposes.
• Currency Setup: You can configure all the different currency denominations used in the state or country where you operate your business. This setup is utilized by the Cashier check-in and check-out feature.
• Payment Methods: You have the ability to create and manage the payment methods that your business allows customers to use to pay for the products and services you offer.
• Printers Setup: For each cashier station, you can connect up to 2 printers, and configure which printer is used to print reports, and which one is used to print customer receipts. Of course, you can also have a single printer that can be configured to print both reports and receipts.
• Cash Drawer Setup: If you use a Cash drawer at a station, you can configure the connection parameters in this software so it will automatically open the cash drawer when a payment is posted. The cash drawer setup allows you to configure the program to open the cash drawer directly by the software, or you can have the cash drawer connected to a receipt printer, in which case, you do not need to configure the software to open it, you will have to configure your receipt printer to open the cash drawer whenever a receipt is printed, you must consult your printer's manual for such setup.
• SMS Setup: This software does support sending SMS message using the SMS email address of a cellphone Carrier. When you do this, you can indicate the carrier of the cellphone a customer uses, and the software automatically uses that carrier info to send the SMS message to that customer.
• Customer Terms Setup to Allow you to create your business policies and terms for your customers
• Customer setup to allow you to keep track of your customer details, including the ability to set the payment term and whether the customer is treated as a wholesale or retail customer for pricing purposes at the customer level.
• Ability to manage employee titles which can be assigned to each employee based on the employee's role
• Employee setup to allow you to keep track of your employees records, including employment details, personal and contacts information, assign permissions to allow access to different features of the software by assigning each employee his of her own credentials.
• Keep track of your employees work schedule
• Keep track of your employees vacations, including upcoming vacations and time-off requests
• Vendor setup to allow you to keep track of all your vendors information, including the account information assigned to your business by each vendor.
• Ability to configure departments to allow you the ability to associate each employee with a particular department, you can add as many departments as needed
• Ability to configure categories to assign to products and services, this becomes very handy when you need to lookup a product by its category, this grouping makes it easier to find products quickly during order capture.
• Ability to add the products and services that your business offers to your customers, allowing you to configure each product and service to be taxable or tax exempt, the ability to indicate that the price your charge your customers for a product or a service already includes the tax, the ability to setup the costing details of a product or service, the ability to set the wholesale, retail, and return/refund price for each product and service, in addition to being able to set the minimum and maximum inventory levels for each product.
• This software allows you the ability to configure product add-ons, and then associate these product add-ons with various products. When you associate a product add-on with a product, upon adding a product to an order, the software will prompt you to optionally select product add-ons to add to the order realtime, this is a very powerful feature for products that can be purchased with or without additional accessories.
• Promotions: You create create promotions that have a starting and an ending date, and configure the promotion's discount rate as a percentage or a fixed amount. You can also associate certain promotions with specific products and service, or make them applicable to all products and services. The software automatically prevents multiple discounts from being applied to the same item.
• Purchase Orders: You can create and manage purchase orders, print them or email them to vendors right from the purchase order screen.
• You can enter any received inventory shipments, with and without a purchase order. Received inventory automatically updates the inventory level of the items that you received. You can always go back and update the received inventory if you made a mistake with the quantities or products that you received.
• Inventory adjustments: If your inventory count reveals discrepency between actual inventory and inventory reported by the software due to theft or damage to products that had to be thrown away, you have the ability to add adjustments per product and indicate the reason for each adjustment. This will also automatically update the inventory levels of the adjusted product.
• Labor hours: You can manually enter the hours each employee has worked during a specific day, or over a range of dates.