POS Systems
POS stands for POINT OF SALE btw, you smartasses.
Okay Planeteers, I'm back for another advice session. My wife has a small retail business that also involves custom projects for people. We're needing a better POS system (currently we handwrite receipts and do almost no inventory tracking) in order to get a better handle on things. We use QB for our accounting, so we're currently looking at QB POS system. A fellow retail store owner we know uses it and has no complaints. But in reading about it online, the reviews were awful. Now I'm second guessing getting QB POS and looking into other options. Anyone have first hand experience? Needs: * Inventory tracking * Speedy checkout (bar code scanning) * Ability to track and bill custom orders * Printing bar codes for inventory * Integration with QB * Handling of cash drawer Wants: * Payroll tracking (we use PayChex to handle our payroll for us) * Remote access Probably other stuff we need/want, and we just don't even realize it. So yeah.. I'm here again, CP, hat over heart, asking for advice. |
Ask Clark Hunt about POS QB.
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Have you thought about getting a GOOD system instead of a POS?
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Spinner Defense.
Marty Ball. |
I do not about the barcode scanning because I used it in restaurants but, I'd be surprised if it can't be done; Aloha was by far the best system I used while in the service industry. And it is not even close.
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There's not currently anything out there on the market like that. I hear there will be some new releases on May 8, but there will be a lot of bugs in the system.
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It's called Shopkeep. |
Hate POS systems.
Seems WCO may be one of those POS systems, but maybe its QB. Not really sure. |
Handwriting receipts already sounds like a POS system.
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Don't know anything about available systems, but I'll tell you this: If you will email a copy of my receipt to me, you can have my email address and you can use it for marketing as well. Otherwise, you're probably not going to get it from me.
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We use Intuit GoPayment currently for CC processing, and that allows emailing of receipts. |
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I've noticed a lot of retail shops using an ipad/tablet with the square app. They also use a wooden register like this http://www.pocketables.com/images/20...ox-608x446.png
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I have one of these. Bought it for ten bucks at Starbucks and got a $10 credit. Looks pretty useful for some aspects you mentioned but doesn't do a realtime inventory... for now. Read somewhere that could be in the works though....
https://squareup.com/ FYI: they charge 2.75% of any transaction. That is it. No minimums or other variations I can see. |
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Anyway, I love that wooden swiveling register. Very cool. |
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Sadly, my wife and a bunch of chicks run this store. I frequently have to come do things on breaks from my real job like... change light bulbs. So I'm looking for idiot proof here.:D |
Packard Bell 386SX. Worst POS system I ever came across.
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Quickbooks or Peachtree can't handle it?
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But yes, Peachtree's AccuPOS system gets extremely good reviews. It's also likely overkill. |
If you want something cheap and simple with basic inventory and barcode scanning check out the solution I developed, www.USBSwiper.com. It works with PayPal, PayLeap, Group ISO, Stripe, and Authorize.Net. Depending on your monthly volume and avg. ticket price we can get you into a merchant account that would be the best as far as fees go.
We have lots of customers that use our stuff with PayPal and then combine that with the PayPal Here mobile app. They basically use the two as companion products and we've gotten lots of good feedback. We also have lots of people using our hardware card reader only with Intuit Merchant Services within QuickBooks. You can use it with regular QB, too. You don't have to get the POS version. |
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