General System
- Seamless, integrated Payment Processing of credit, debit, gift cards, and check verification/guarantee
- List View to display, search through items, styles, customers, departments, vendors, PO's etc. with user-controlled sorting ability
- Form View to display the full detail of any selected item, department, vendor or customer
- Page Designer to modify the layout of any form on one or multiple pages
- Built-in browser, in the opening screen, for company message
or data, and the ability to link directly to the world wide web if there is an established internet connection
- Consistent, logical navigation everywhere by touch, mouse or keystroke
- Shortcut (hot keys) definable by user to reduce keystrokes
- System can be placed into practice mode for training with store data
- Backup Point of Sale (offline ticketing) to continue selling if connection with server is lost
- Buttons, labels, menus and fonts are customizable by user
- Preferences can be defined for the entire system, as well as by individual workstation
- Real-time exchange of sales and inventory among stores over a Virtual Private Network
- Multi-store polling by internet or modem
- Embedded Oracle 9i SQL database administered by the program
- Security Administrator with user-defined groups and rights
- Scheduler launches activities or reports at set times or intervals
- Support of integrated e-commerce
- Customizations available to suit special needs; e.g. loyalty programs
- Document Designer for forms and tags
- Period-based Stock Audit with the ability to re-roll past periods
- Localized in dozens of countries and many languages including double-byte
- Select system display language on startup
- System diagnostics
- Size / attribute grids throughout with grid printing format option
- E-mail with polling
- Safeguard data backup
- Scalability for larger operations up to hundreds of regional or multi-national sites
- Over 650 in-program Help topics covering all functional areas
- Integrated electronic User Manuals in PDF format
- Accounting Link
- Tracking of Associate Commissions and SPIFFS
- Support for Item, Style and Customer Images and Video
- Support for Store Regions and Pairings
- Built-in HTML Viewer (Web Browser)
- Export Data and Reports to Excel, Text, HTML, PDF, or Clipboard
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Inventory Control
- Item/style view displays merchandise by item or by style
- Three-dimensional grid of quantities by attribute, size, location
- Print user-designed tags
- Pricing formulas defined by department
- Quantity pricing with user-defined rules
- Edit by style to modify all at once
- Default vendor terms auto-filled on POs with the ability to modify them on individual orders
- Vendor list and history lookup
- Barcode scanning of items onto documents
- Batch receive by barcode for an entire carton or shipment
- Receive against Purchase Order, edit by exception
- Transfer out slips for inter-store stock control
- Sophisticated in-transit control of inventory
- Physical inventory and memos to adjust quantities
- Support of Palm OS units for physical inventory and placement of items info documents (POs, Receipts, Sales Orders, Vouchers)
- Automatic purchase order suggested by min-max
- Remote POs and receiving of orders at store sites
- Price Manager mark-up / down utility
- Clean house deletes old items
- Committed inventory tracked and displayed
- Allocation patterns by department
- Multi-store receiving against central PO
- Model stock auto-generation by sales history
- Store groupings multi-level user defined
- Mix and match quantity pricing with user-defined rules
- Support for decimal and case quantities
- Support for non-inventory items
- Packages & kits
- SOS support mail/phone order and customer quotes, or clipboard
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Point of Sale
- Tender gift certificates, store credit, EFT, split tender, foreign currency
- Design POS screens to be as simple or detailed as desired
- Barcode scan UPC, Item #, or alternate #
- Lookup / Choose Items from inventory at POS
- On-hand quantities displayed for any store or all
- Hold / Unhold receipts
- Price Levels set or change at POS
- Sales Orders for special order, customer order, layaway; deposit capability
- Minimum Deposit set by type of sales order
- Create receipt or P.O. from a sales order
- Discounts tracked by reason and cashier
- Discounts by amount, percentage, or to specified total
- Quick Find items, customers, etc
- Lost Sales Receipts for unavailable or partially cancelled orders
- Shipping Labels at POS
- Customer Sales History lookup at POS
- In-Store Charge Account
- Add Customers on the fly
- Customer Discounting
- Filtered View of customers or items by chosen criteria
- ZIP Code entry automatically populates city and state
- X / Z-Out Report summarizes daily sales breakouts for store or station
- X / Z-Out for any period can be displayed, printed, or exported
- Cash Drawer Reconciliation with (optional) required manual counts
- Customer Sharing option among stores
- Shipping Priority by order
- Bank Deposit preparation
- Employee Check In / Out and view in/out status
- Customer Mailings filtered by any aspect of history or data
- Export Customer list in text format for third-party applications
- Enhanced Sales Tax and VAT features support virtually any tax requirements
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Reporting
- Completely user-designable Windows report capability
- Retail Business Analytics provides Turn, Stock-to Sales ratio, Gross Margin Return on Investment (GMROI), Days of Supply, Sell-Thru, Average Daily Inventory (ADI) by style, vendor store, etc.
- Journal Reports report on information document by document
- Merchandise Reports allow you to list multiple date ranges in chosen format
- Summary Reports consolidate information from many documents
- List Reports list all customers, vendors, departments or allow you to filter for selected criteria
- Groups of similar reports can run simultaneously
- Wizard sets up filters and reports to user specification
- Customize layouts, sorting, filters, field names
- Rich color and font print options
- Scheduler allows reports to be run during down-time
- Reports can be run from Consolidated Sales history, increasing speed
- Graphical Sales Charts
- Clerk Performance Reports
- SO Fulfillment Reports
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