Retail POS - Products & Services

Car Wash  |  Liquor Store  |  Grocery Store  |  Florist  |  Dollar Store  |  Deli  |  Cosmetics  |  Convenience Store  |  Clothing/Apparel  |  Chain Store  Cellular/Electronics  |  Rental Store

Car Wash

A car wash owner knows what it is like to have long lines of cars waiting to be washed. pcAmerica has developed a system where cars can be processed while on line for the car wash. Imagine a system where a greeter can go to each car in line, punch in the customer's order onto a handheld computer that fits in the palm of your hand and processes the order on the spot.

If your car wash is full service, where a customer exits the car and enters the building to pay, you can use the Palm unit to enter an order in, put it on hold, print a ticket with a special on hold id and the customer can pay inside. When the customer is ready to pay, the cashier chooses the on hold id that is printed on the ticket to retrieve the invoice. You may even have some impulse buying items such as air fresheners or candy at the counter that can be added to the invoice before the transaction has ended.

A typical cash register system would include Cash Register Express, Pocket Register portable point of sale, a handheld wireless Palm Unit, Dell small form factor computer, cash drawer, thermal receipt printer, pole display, credit card reader and bar code scanner. A wireless system like this will speed the process of handling customers. In a busy car wash, the faster you service the customers the more money you will make.

Key features:

• Invoices on Hold
• Customer Loyalty
• Kits
• Internet Credit Card Processing

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Liquor Store

A liquor store’s main concerns are fast checkout, inventory control and age verification. Cash Register Express™ (CRE) helps address these concerns by introducing various tools that help a liquor store ring up a customer speedily, track inventory and ensure cashiers are checking a customer’s ID upon purchase.

Fast Checkout: CRE has the fastest checkout available. Items can be rung up by simply scanning bar codes; specific products that don’t have a bar code, such as cork screws by the register, can be added to the transaction by simply touching a button for that item on the screen. Sale pricing and any applicable taxes will automatically be calculated and displayed in a real-time running total. Taking payment from the customer is just as fast. Cash amounts can be quickly typed in, with hot keys for common dollar amounts. If the customer is paying by credit or debit card, the cashier simply swipes the card and it is processed in as little as two seconds.

Inventory Control: The CRE liquor point of sale system includes integrated, robust inventory tracking to help a business owner track stock levels, best and worst selling products, theft and overall inventory movement. Each item that gets sold will be automatically deducted from the store’s inventory stock levels. Additional inventory management features such as purchase orders, automated stock replenishment, mix/max levels, back orders, direct store and deliveries are all standard features within the Cash Register Express POS system. Supplement your point of sale system and make managing inventory easier by adding on Pocket Inventory mobile inventory tracking software. With Pocket Inventory you can track inventory, process deliveries, and create purchase orders away from the counter.

Age Verification: Age verification capabilities are built into the liquor store point of sale system with the use of a specialized bar code scanner (the Honeywell Focus or Genesis scanners with easy DL.) Specific items can be marked as age sensitive products that require the cashier to check the ID. As soon as the item is scanned, the cashier is prompted to scan the customer’s license, at which point the POS system will verify if the customer is old enough to purchase the product.

A typical point of sale system for a liquor store should include a computer, cash drawer, pole display, receipt printer and age verification bar code scanner. These capabilities, combined with detailed reporting, customer tracking with loyalty plans, and dozens of other features, Cash Register Express is an ideally suited point of sale solution for liquor stores.

Key features:

• Inventory Control
• Kits
• Customer Loyalty
• Special Pricing
• Purchase Orders
• Reporting
• Internet Credit Card Processing

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Grocery Store

Grocery stores are usually the busiest types of businesses. It is hard to fight against the long lines of people who are itching to be checked out fast. Cash Register Express POS system has all the necessary ingredients to not only check out the customers quickly, but to track each item being sold. Even in a multi-user environment, Cash Register Express is known for its stability on the network.

A typical point of sale system for a grocery store should include a Dell small form factor computer, cash drawer, pole display, receipt printer and laser bar code scanner or in counter scanner/weight scale. The pole display will inform your customers how much they are paying so they are likely to have the cash out quickly. A laser bar code scanner with built in scale aggressively scans bar codes that might be on bags or around bottles and quickly adds the item to the invoice as well as weighing items that need to be weighed. All these devices help to reduce the time it takes to process a customer and as any store owner knows, the faster you process your customers, the faster you make money.

Key features:

• Inventory Control
• Purchase Orders
• Reporting
• Internet Credit Card Processing

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Florist

A florist knows that each order must carefully be tracked. Many orders may come from an online web site or over the phone. Cash Register Express Point of Sale system has methods of tracking sales that will make your life easy. Imagine a customer calling in an order. While you are on the phone with the customer, you can acquire their name and address and create an invoice for them. Cash Register Express allows you to print that invoice and place it on hold so that you can keep your orders handy to fill them. Once the customer comes in to pick up the order, you can recall the on hold invoice and process the sale.

Another key ingredient for a good POS system is the ability to create special pricing. Special pricing in Cash Register Express allows you to sell items in bulk at a special price, or set up sales between certain dates or even certain hours of the day. This is perfect for a florist as you can program special occasions, such as Valentine's Day, or Mother's Day well in advance. These sales will simply kick in for any item (or any group of items) on the dates you specify. Features like this coupled with other customer loyalty features will keep your customers coming back over and over again.

A recommended system will include Cash Register Express (single or multi-user), Dell small form factor computer, cash drawer, receipt printer, pole display, bar code scanner, credit card reader and touch screen monitor.

Key features:

• Invoices on Hold
• Kits
• Special Pricing
• Customer Loyalty
• Customer Tracking
• Inventory Control
• Internet Credit Card Processing

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Dollar Store

A dollar store can be one of the busiest types of stores. Most dollar stores have thousands of items that need to be tracked and sold as well as customers who need a speedy checkout. Speed an efficiency are the key to running a successful dollar store.

Cash Register Express POS system has special features for increasing the speed of checkout and decreasing costs related to inventory shrinkage. Theft will automatically be reduced simply by using a point of sales system as well. Cash Register Express allows you to keep careful track of your inventory in real time. Each sale that is made will adjust the levels of inventory on the spot.

Recommended peripherals for a dollar store include a cash drawer, receipt printer, pole display, credit card reader, and bar code scanner. Internet based credit card processing is also recommended as it only takes between 3 and 5 seconds to process a credit card.

Key features:

• Mix and Match
• Customer Loyalty
• Inventory Control
• Internet Credit Card Processing

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Deli

A deli can be difficult to manage. Selling deli items requires special features in a point of sale system. Cash Register Express POS has been developed to handle this type of business. Weight scales can be used with Cash Register Express to help aid in ringing up customers. Two types of weight scales can be used. One type will send the quantity directly to Cash Register Express, so you place the item on the scale and add it to the invoice. Cash Register Express will invoice the appropriate amount based on what the scale weighs. The other kind of scale is the type that prints a bar code for the item where the bar code contains the price. This type of flexibility makes Cash Register Express the choice of many delis.

A typical point of sale system for a deli store should include a cash drawer, pole display, receipt printer and laser bar code scanner and a weight scale. The pole display will inform your customers how much they are paying so they are likely to have the cash out quickly. A laser bar code scanner aggressively scans bar codes that might be on bags or around bottles and quickly adds the item to the invoice. All these devices help to reduce the time it takes to process a customer and as any store owner knows, the faster you process your customers, the faster you make money.

Key features:

• Inventory Control
• Purchase Orders
• Kits
• Reporting
• Internet Credit Card Processing

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Cosmetics

Tracking inventory for a cosmetics store is not an easy task. Cosmetics consist of many small items scattered throughout the store that would be hard to keep track of. Cash Register Express point of sale software has been written with this in mind. Many items are sold in packages and with Cash Register Express' kit features, tracking these items are quick and easy. You can create a kit, which is a packaged item that is comprised of other items in your store. When you sell this kit, Cash Register Express automatically deducts all the inventory items from stock.

Besides inventory control, Cash Register Express will keep your customers coming back with its customer loyalty features such as gift cards and coupons. Additionally, you can set Cash Register Express to automatically give a discount based on any number of items being sold in a particular group with its Mix and Match features.

Not only will you save money with tighter inventory control and reduced theft, but you will keep your customers happy with fast checkout and special package deals with Cash Register Express and make more money.

A typical point of sale register system includes Cash Register Express point of sale software, Dell small form factor computer, cash drawer with organizer, thermal receipt printer, pole display, credit card reader, ELO flat panel touch screen monitor and a bar code scanner.

Key features:

• Mix and Match
• Group Maintenance
• Customer Loyalty
• Inventory Control
• Internet Credit Card Processing

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Convenience Store

If you own a convenience store, then you must know what it is like to have a line of customers waiting to be checked out. One of the reasons a customer goes to a convenience store is to quickly make their purchases. Speed is a major factor and Cash Register Express Point of Sale is the solution.

It is important to also keep tight track of your inventory in a convenience store. As part of inventory tracking, Cash Register Express provides information on how well your inventory is doing. Some items may sell quickly while other items may sit on the shelf for a while. Reordering is a snap as well with Cash Register Express.

A typical point of sale system for a convenience store should include a cash drawer, pole display, receipt printer and laser bar code scanner. The pole display will inform your customers how much they are paying so they are likely to have the cash out quickly. A laser bar code scanner aggressively scans bar codes that might be on bags or around bottles and quickly adds the item to the invoice. All these devices help to reduce the time it takes to process a customer and as any store owner knows, the faster you process your customers, the faster you make money.

Key features:

• Inventory Control
• Purchase Orders
• Reporting
• Internet Credit Card Processing

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Clothing/Apparel

Inventory control for a clothing or shoe store is unique. When selling items like clothing or shoes, you must take into account that the same model comes in different sizes and different colors. This can inflate your inventory levels exponentially and make it difficult to track what you have in stock, what you need to order and what is selling well. Cash Register Express is the clothing store POS system that makes it easy with special features like Group Matrix info for tracking items with different sizes and colors.

Bar coding your items will enable you to ring up your customers quickly. The speed at which Cash Register Express processes a sale will be appreciated, not only by your employees, but by your customers as well. Install a system that has a bar code scanner, pole display, thermal receipt printer, credit card reader and cash drawer and you are on your way to speeding checkout and tracking all the variations of items sold in seconds.

Cash Register Express can also get your customers to come back. With the use of customer loyalty features like gift cards, coupons and customer bonuses, you are sure to have repeat business.

A typical point of sale register system includes Cash Register Express point of sale software, Dell small form factor computer, cash drawer with organizer, thermal receipt printer, pole display, credit card reader, ELO flat panel touch screen monitor and a bar code scanner.

Key features:

• Group Maintenance (Size Color Matrix)
• Customer Loyalty
• Inventory Control
• Special Pricing
• Internet Credit Card Processing

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Chain Store

If you own a chain of clothing, electronics, gift shops or any retail type store or restaurant, then you know how hard it is to manage all the locations. Cash Register Express (Restaurant Pro Express) Point of Sale System is your solution. pcAmerica has incorporated a state-of-the-art method for controlling all stores in a chain through the internet.

Imagine being able to view the inventory levels, sales figures, customer records and employee information from your main office in practically real-time. The Internet has made wide area networks increasingly popular and easy to set up. If you have a virtual private network set up between your stores and a main office, you can have this functionality with Cash Register Express' Corporate Host Module.

You can create purchase orders, view sales data, add or edit inventory, transfer stock, make on account payments and much, much more from your main office. Each store will be updated in the background while they are connected to the main location.

Each store can also send stock, view other store's in stock levels of inventory and create purchase orders that get sent to the main host location. Managing your chain of stores has never been easier!

A typical point of sale register system for each store includes Cash Register Express point of sale software, Dell small form factor computer, cash drawer with organizer, thermal receipt printer, pole display, credit card reader, ELO flat panel touch screen monitor and a bar code scanner. Add a broadband internet connection from each store to a corporate office and set up a VPN to communicate between the stores. The corporate office can use a standard computer for the Cash Register Express Host Module.

Key features:

• Store Wide Reporting
• Inventory Control
• Purchase Orders
• Group Maintenance
• Customer Tracking
• Inventory Transfers

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Cellular/Electronics

One of the major features an electronic equipment store owner looks for in a point of sale system is serial number tracking. When selling devices such as audio or video components, cellular phones, appliances or virtually anything that has warranties, you must track the person who is purchasing the device. Cash Register Express point of sale software does exactly this with its serial number tracking.

Sometimes, customers call over the phone to ask for a price quote. Cash Register Express has instant price checks to determine a quick price including tax and how many of the item are in stock. Another benefit to Cash Register Express is the invoices on hold. You can quote a customer, print the quote, then when the customer comes in to purchase, simply recall the on hold invoice and process the sale. Cash Register Express' customer loyalty features, like gift cards and coupons, will keep your customers coming back.

A typical point of sale register system includes Cash Register Express point of sale software, Dell small form factor computer, cash drawer with organizer, thermal receipt printer, pole display, credit card reader, ELO flat panel touch screen monitor and a bar code scanner.

Key features:

• Invoices on Hold
• Serial Number Tracking
• Customer Loyalty
• Kits
• Special Pricing
• Internet Credit Card Processing

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Rental Store

Customer tracking and tight inventory control is the main focus on a rental store. You must always know where your products are and who has them. Cash Register Express POS system will help you do just that. With its extensive rental capabilities, you can rent an item with all the flexibility you need and track where the item is and who has it.

When you add an item to the invoice, you can set Cash Register Express to prompt you whether you want to sell or rent the item. If a customer is late on an item and they try to make a new try to make a new purchase, you will be notified that this person still owes you the item they rented. At the touch of a button you can even put the late fee on their account.

Along with its customer loyalty and inventory control features, Cash Register Express incorporates an easy-to-use display that can be enhanced with a touch screen monitor. Teaching your employees how to write up a sale is a job that can be done in seconds

A typical register system for a video store would include Cash Register Express, Dell small form factor computer, thermal receipt printer, cash drawer with organizer, laser bar code scanner, credit card reader (with credit card authorization software) and a customer pole display, When you combine all these peripherals for your register, you are sure to have optimized your checkout process.

Key features:

• Rentals
• Invoices on Hold
• Special Pricing
• Inventory Control
• Customer Loyalty
• Customer Tracking
• Internet Credit Card Processing

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