Microsoft Business Solutions

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.

View Microsoft Point of Sale Flash DEMO* (7.24 minutes)

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:

• Wine shops
• Gift/Novelty/Souvenir
• Hobby/Toy/Game/Craft
• Convenience food (coffee shops, fixed item cafeterias)
• Tobacco shops
• Pet stores
• Retail kiosks
• ...and more

Microsoft Point of Sale Specifications

Availability
United States

Languages
English

Integration with other software and hardware
Microsoft Point of Sale works with the Microsoft Office System and QuickBooks accounting software. It also works with a wide range of PC-based point-of-sale hardware and peripherals, including printers, magnetic stripe readers, and bar code readers. 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.

System Requirements

• PC with Pentium III 733 MHz or faster processor
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine - MSDE (included)
• Minimum 256MB of RAM
• Approximately 50MB of available hard disk space for the Point of Sale program and files. (Hard disk usage will vary, depending on Point of Sale's configuration and the location of database files.)
• CD-ROM drive
• VGA (800x600) or higher-resolution monitor with 16bit color for the Point of Sale POS program; VGA (1024x768) or higher resolution for the Point of Sale Manager program
• Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

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