Replace your cash register—and revolutionize your business—with a flexible, affordable solution designed for independent retailers.

What is Microsoft Dynamics – Point of Sale?

Designed specifically for independent, single-store retailers, Microsoft Dynamics – Point of Sale streamlines inventory management and reporting, automates transaction processing start-to-finish, and makes it easy to track customer information and maintain detailed customer histories. Point of Sale also includes Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2007, delivering a true solutions suite that connects point of sale (POS) and financial management processes.

Connect retail and accounting processes with an end-to-end solution

Manage both your front-office retail operations and back-office accounting with a true solution suite: Point of Sale now includes Office Accounting Professional 2007.

•	Count on easy installation and setup that ensures all your business information is connected, current, and accurate.
•	Gain a complete view of your business and make more informed decisions due to the detailed sales, inventory, and purchasing information that flows automatically across your retail and accounting solutions.
•	Save time and reduce manual data entry and errors with automatic information updates across both solutions.
•	Manage cash flow and profitability in Office Accounting Professional 2007 with sales and financial reports based on up-to-date information.
•	Expand your sales opportunities from the start: Office Accounting Professional 2007 supports PayPal payments, online invoicing, and eBay Marketplace selling.

Manage information efficiently across applications and formats.

•	Exchange information between Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office Outlook, including sales, purchase order, and vendor data.
•	Share reporting information with other programs, your accountants, and your suppliers in formats that include Microsoft Office Excel, text, HTML, XML, or e-mail.
•	Easily build a database that can grow with your business using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (included) or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (available separately).
•	Exchange sales data and inventory receipts with Intuit QuickBooks.

Speed checkout processes and help ensure accuracy at the POS.

•	Process transactions quickly with bar code scanning, custom POS buttons, and an easy-to-use cashier touch screen.
•	Give sales associates an easy and quick way to check prices, inventory availability, and stock location.
•	Quickly tailor screens to provide convenient shortcuts to the function keys or department keys that cashiers use most frequently. You can even personalize screen location for left-handed or right-handed cashiers.
•	Help ensure fast, worry-free card payment transactions: Point of Sale gives you the flexibility to maintain your existing banking relationships or select a new one from a wide range of supported banks.
•	Verify check payments real-time at POS with support from First Data, a leading merchant services provider.

Replenish top-selling items efficiently and get rid of slow-moving items so you can merchandise more effectively.

•	View real-time inventory status such as quantity sold, on hand, on order, and more.
•	Track serial-numbered items.
•	Eliminate time-consuming, paper-based tracking and help reduce errors for records management.
•	Set reorder points and restocking levels to help eliminate out-of-stocks and overstocks.
•	Identify your best suppliers, negotiate the prices you want, and manage purchasing more efficiently with up-to-date vendor histories, detailed product information, and automated purchase orders.
•	Receive inventory shipments at the register or in the back office.
•	Track and pay bills for partial shipments with Microsoft Office Accounting or Intuit QuickBooks.
•	Easily import existing inventory information from files, Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2007, or QuickBooks.
•	Create and print bar-code labels with a built-in designer.
•	Export reports and purchase orders to Microsoft Office Excel, text, HTML, XML, or e-mail messages.
•	Use multiple employee security levels to track and control access and minimize shrinkage.

Improve customer satisfaction, market more effectively, and expand your sales reach.

•	Reduce customer wait time at the register by processing transactions quickly using bar-code scanning, custom buttons, and touch screen-ready controls.
•	Provide customers with what they want through better insights into buying patterns, fast checkouts, and flexible payment options.
•	Utilize multiple pricing structures for markups and discounts.
•	Provide customer-specific pricing and special discounts for frequent shoppers with automatic pricing tools.
•	Process credit and debit cards faster without card payment terminals and high transaction fees.
•	Acquire new customers and build loyalty by offering gift cards through support from First Data.
•	Help ensure your store is "top of mind" for customers with custom receipts and bar-code labels displaying logos and promotional messages.
•	Expand your reach into online sales by connecting Point of Sale with your Web site.
•	Target customer preferences and create customer mailings based on buying preferences and purchase histories.
•	Remind cashiers about up-sells and cross-sells so they can mention them during transactions.

Make confident decisions based on accurate insight.

•	Create up-to-date snapshots of your business with the customizable My Store view, including at-a-glance displays of important reports.
•	Analyze current, detailed data with more than 30 interactive, real-time reports, including best-selling items; most productive employees; detailed sales history by cashier, department category, or supplier; and more.
•	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.

Help protect sensitive information, reduce shrinkage and fraud, and manage employees more effectively.

•	Easily assign role-based user views and control access to sensitive information, reducing the need for you to be on-site at all times.
•	Track returns efficiently and help reduce shrinkage, false returns, credit card fraud, and unauthorized discounts.
•	Track employee actions at the POS to help improve productivity.
•	Track employee hours using the integrated time clock, export information to your payroll system, and compare hours with sales patterns to better predict staffing needs.

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