Any Ideas About A Decent Accounting + POS System

[invader spooge]

Hi there everyone, I'm hoping that i can get some help on a matter that I am facing in work!

We are currently going through a refurb in the shop so we are getting rid of our current standard cash register and are hoping to move toward a Point Of Sale system that can keep track of our customers, purchases, stock, accounts etc.

I was wondering what others currently use in their stores or if anybody has any good ideas, GNU, freeware or paid!

I'm sure since there are so many experience techies here that somebody has a few suggestions!

Thanks in advance.

[invader spooge]

realised that it might not be in the correct section but thought someone would have some ideas!

[pauln375]

I use retail ice it is $20 to order the discs. You may be able to download it from there site free but for $20 they will send you the software on disc my copy came with a training dvd. It works well for me as well as the shop i used to manage in Michigan. I just use the accounting features and invoice/receipt stuff here. But at my old place of employment we used touchscreen features and bar code scanners also it has valued customer promotions and will handle residential and commercial accounts easy. Also has job tracking that can be linked up to a web page for customers to see. It is a very feature rich software for a small business . I.M.H.O hope this helps
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[invader spooge]

Thanks paul, ill look into it!

[pc-wiz]

Here's and article with alot of free options: http://www.possoftwareguide.com/arti...t-of-sale.html

[Rob]

Originally Posted by pc-wiz

Here's and article with alot of free options:

I've been using the first one in that list for the last few years. DHPOS doesn't do customer tracking, but its a reasonable system. There's good support for it via forums and online chat, and it is regularly updated with bug fixes and new features. Don't get turned off by the ugly website or the DOS interface, it works well.

[SeedlessOne]

Probably not your solution but Ive had very good luck using quickbooks POS. Quickbooks Cash register would probably be enough for you.

[ComputerRepairStpete]

EPSON KS-7315 and EPSON KS-6215 is good to go, Provides all the functionality that suits your requirements.

[usacvlr]

Quickbooks the paid starter edition for 100 bucks is all we use for the walk in traffic works great. Credit card processing and refunds are simple.

Originally Posted by invader spooge

Hi there everyone, I'm hoping that i can get some help on a matter that I am facing in work!

We are currently going through a refurb in the shop so we are getting rid of our current standard cash register and are hoping to move toward a Point Of Sale system that can keep track of our customers, purchases, stock, accounts etc.

I was wondering what others currently use in their stores or if anybody has any good ideas, GNU, freeware or paid!

I'm sure since there are so many experience techies here that somebody has a few suggestions!

Thanks in advance.

[PcTek9]

retail ice is a great product. you will find that accounting stuff like quickbooks and peachtree are great, though peachtree is more for intense accounting b/c it let's you go behind the scenes and modify transactions, to change which journal things get posted to. Sometimes that's helpful if you need to decrease inventory items and increase capital or break items out of a sales invoice that may have been costed out. Just remember the simple rules of double entry accounting. to increase an asset you debit it, but to decrease an asset you credit it. for liabilities the opposite is true. to increase a liability you credit it and to decrease a liability you debit it. It can get confusing sometimes, but you really should try to find one of those bookkeepers that's been doing it for 30 years, and there is a great difference in rates they charge. In the same day I had found an accountant that wanted $2,000 a month, and one that wanted only $50. I suggest you use barcodes, everytime you receive inventory sit down with it, go through it, punch it in the pc and let the system print barcodes on the barcode label printer. Then when you stock the items, stick YOUR barcode on each one. This way if you pull out inventory to fix someone's pc, you can scan the item, and type in the customer ID no. on their work request sheet, and have the system automatically attach the item to their invoice (to be generated).
PaulN375 is absolutely right about retailIce. They have other software you can buy too. Also, you can find barcode scanners on ebay for a little of nothing if you get the old serial port attach things, it's supported by many pos packages, and use can use an old pc linked into the network to do stuff from the inventory room.