Microsoft
Point of Sale Software
Get an easy-to-use application to
track sales, inventory, and customer information—giving you the
power to make more informed decisions, and the freedom to help
go home earlier.
You offer customers something they can't get anywhere else:
Personalized service and unique products. But you still struggle
to find the right balance of inventory, staffing, customer
information and business control to make your store as
competitive as it should be.
Microsoft Point of Sale—available for retailers in the United
States—now offers small, independent retailers like you an
affordable, easy-to-use way to serve customers effectively,
maintain tight control over business processes and performance,
and keep pace with competitors.
Microsoft
Point of Sale at a glance
Microsoft Point of Sale provides an easy-to-use application to
track sales, inventory and customer information. Designed to
replace a cash register, Microsoft Point Of Sale saves time and
money, automating stores at an affordable price. Microsoft Point
of Sale works with the Microsoft Office System and QuickBooks
Accounting Software to streamline store operations. Retailers
can use Microsoft Point of Sale out-of-the-box with existing PCs
and peripherals, or purchase complete hardware/software bundles
from leading technology providers.
With Microsoft Point of Sale, you can effectively manage
inventory and reduce manual and double-entry processes, as well
as integrate all your critical information from credit and debit
card transactions to accounting software.
Benefits
for single-store retailers
Microsoft Point
of Sale is designed for single-store retail businesses that
need an application that's affordable and easy to learn and
use, with functionality that can eliminate manual processes
and increase efficiency.
Microsoft Point
of Sale does not require an expensive IT staff to set up and
maintain, and it adapts to meet your retail needs. As your
business changes and grows, your Microsoft Business
Solutions Partner can provide support and assistance with
tailoring, integrating, and scaling your solution.
Microsoft Point
of Sale is built to work on inexpensive PCs, and works with
familiar Microsoft Office System applications such as Excel
and Word and QuickBooks accounting software, so you can
leverage your existing software and training investments.
Microsoft:
Technology you can count on
Start a long-lasting relationship backed by one of the world's
leading technology providers. Microsoft Business Solutions is a
family of connected applications and services for small and
medium-size businesses, with years of experience delivering
business applications and services known worldwide for top
quality.
Microsoft
Point of Sale Features
Streamline
business processes
Streamline and track
business operations, including inventory, supplier
management, and POS processes.
Process transactions quickly
with bar code scanning, custom POS buttons, and an
easy-to-use touch screen.
Give associates at the point
of sale an easy way to check prices, inventory availability,
and location quickly. They can access customer information,
handle multiple tenders and partial payments at checkout,
and quickly create and process returns.
Save time and money by
integrating credit and debit card transactions at the POS
and eliminating the need for expensive card payment
terminals and high transaction fees.
Make informed decisions with
accurate information and powerful reporting tools.
Integrate and exchange
information with the Microsoft Office System and Intuit
QuickBooks accounting software—make full use existing
software investments and share information across
applications without adding additional training costs.
Get up and running quickly
with easy setup and ease of use
Help users learn POS
procedures in minutes - even if they've never used a
computer before - with the intuitive user interface.
Train new employees quickly
using the practice mode option.
Define and track the exact
information you want to see about your customers with
user-defined custom fields.
Tap into the skills of
Microsoft Business Solutions Partners to provide expert
support and assistance, helping you set up and tailor
Microsoft Point of sale to meet your specific retail needs.
Track and manage inventory
efficiently
Save time and reduce
employee overhead by automating inventory tracking
View inventory status:
quantity sold, on hand, on order, and more.
Track and manage items
across your store using familiar and flexible stock and
sales methods.
Replenish top-selling items
efficiently and negotiate lower purchasing costs by tracking
item movement and supplier histories.
Create automatic purchase
orders and identify your best-price suppliers.
Create bar code labels with
a built-in label designer.
Help improve security- and
your bottom line
Help reduce shrinkage, false
returns, credit card fraud, and unauthorized discounts. With
several security roles that can be assigned to employees,
managers can control access to sensitive data and track
returns efficiently.
Make better, more informed
business decisions
Create interactive real-time
reports that identify best-selling items, most productive
employees, detailed sales history by cashier, department,
category, supplier and more.
Access and analyze current,
detailed data across your entire store. Identify sales
trends in every department or category, evaluate operations
and financials, track results from sales and ad campaigns,
and set and monitor business policies.
Export report information in
several formats: Microsoft Excel, text, HTML, XML, or email.
Use the "My Store" feature
to customize screens, setting them to display only the
reports that are most important to you.
Increase sales and build
customer loyalty
Target customer preferences
and display up-sells and cross-sells to cashiers, so they
can mention them to customers during transactions.
Implement automatic
discounts to frequent shoppers.
Create targeted customer
mailings based on buying preferences and purchase histories.
Count on technology from
Microsoft When you invest in Microsoft Point of Sale, you can rest
assured that it's backed by one of the world's leading
technology providers. You can count on Microsoft's years of
experience delivering business applications and services known
worldwide for top quality.
Who uses Microsoft Point of
Sale? Microsoft Point of Sale can be used by most small specialty
merchandise retailers with a single store or group of
independently operated stores. Types of retailers using the
system include:
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