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Purchasing software for Point of Sale is easy when you have all the right information at your fingertips. Here at Accounting Software Advisor, we have compiled a comprehensive listing of all of possible distribution system features we could find. If we've missed one, please let us know. 

This list is provided to help you get started evaluating the needs of your company, and we hope that you find this useful. No matter what your company handles, your software needs are unique and can be satisfied. 

• Accept food stamps

• Accept payment on account

• Access and/or modify detailed customer data directly from active reports

• Access customer info (i.e., total sales, number of visits, last visit date)

• Access detailed database information directly from report preview

• Accessory and optional up sales

• Account activities

• Account credit limit

• Accounts receivable aging

• Add customer account

• Adjust report header/columns on-screen

• Aged receivables option

• Alias and substitute lists

• Allow cashier to view others' time clock entries

• Allow customer account modification

• Allow deletion of customers and items

• Allow editing of time clock entries

• Allow generation of x reports

• Allow item cost display

• Allow item information modification

• Allow new customers at pos

• Allow no sales (open drawer)

• Allow pay outs

• Allow pos serial number creation

• Allows embedded GUI elements

• Alternate currency tender

• Analyze profitability by items and vendor

• Apply finance charges on accounts

• Assembly inventory type (bill of material)

• Assign item substitutes

• Assign log on password

• Assign security levels to grant specified access privileges

• Assign sub-total amount

• Attach special notes and reminder to specific item

• Auto add inventory

• Automatic inventory bulk breakdowns

• Automatic price lookup

• Automatic quantity lookup

• Automatic tax computation

• Automatically calculate inventory replenishment based on restock level or quantity sold

• Automatically compute tax

• Automatically generated purchase orders

• Automatically look up price (sales, quantity discount, promotional)

• Auto-sort menu items

• Back order summary and detailed lists

• Balance inventory levels by transferring merchandise from locations which are overstocked

• Balance due

• Bar code labels/price labels

• Bar code scanner at register

• Bid / quotations

• Bill payments for net terms

• Blind closeout

• Built-in security system for both manager and pos programs

• Built-in time clock

• Buy x, get y discount capability

• Calendar event planner and reminder

• Cancel current sale

• Cash drawer interface

• Cash bases SL 2000 cash drawers

• Cash tender 

• Cashier log

• Change price at point-of-sale

• Change tax amount at point-of-sale

• Check number validation

• Check tender

• Clerk number entry and totals by clerk for commission calculation

• Clock in/out

• Commission

• Comp sale

• Companion item purchase requirements

• Complete coupon support

• Configurable bar code templates

• Configurable menu interface

• Consignment sales

• Consolidated purchasing functions

• Correct last item

• Count physical inventories on a rotating basis

• Coupon acceptance

• Coupons can only be applied to an order if the item is part of the transaction

• Create and process layaway, back orders, work orders and sales quotes

• Create and store layaway sales

• Create customer accounts at the pos

• Credit card processing software included 

• Credit items sold to selected sales reps

• Currency conversions

• Current invoice profit analysis

• Custom pos buttons (on-screen shortcuts to websites, software packages and application tools

• Customer billing/statements

• Customer history files

• Customer list

• Customer loyalty programs

• Customer pricing

• Customer tracking

• Customizable, resizable transaction screen

• Customize and use reason codes

• Customize pos buttons for web-based application shortcuts

• Daily sales graph

• Daily/monthly/annual reports

• Database entities allow search and edit capabilities

• Day / hour restrictions on sales of certain types of merchandise

• Debit/credit tender

• Define different account types (i.e. revolving)

• Define master pack quantity for ordering

• Define multiple shipping addresses per customer

• Define sales commission schedule

• Delivery tracking

• Department and category daily sales

• Department items listing

• Department sales/cost

• Departmental reports

• Design graphical labels

• Detail sales by department

• Detailed sales

• Detailed tax collected

• Directly interfaces to charge card software

• Discount by dollar amount

• Discount entire sale or selected item at time of sale

• Discount from retail

• Discounts on all or selected products

• Display item picture

• Display product image

• Drawer close required or not

• Edit time clock entries

• Electronic couponing

• Electronic receipt on net display

• Employee access badges

• Employee commissions

• Employee database

• Employee time card functions

• Employee’s menu option lead through

• Enable global customers for multi-store

• Enter opening or closing amounts

• Enter items with zero price

• E-receipts

• Every menu and field can be protected based on cashier’s security level. data fields can be hidden, view-only or editable.

• Fast cash functionality

• FedEx and ups shipping and tracking via the internet

• Filter and export options

• Filter data attribute information

• Fiscal requirements found in many countries

• Food stamps

• Foreign currency (can be mixed with multiple tenders)

• Frequent customer / on account

• Gasoline - inventory

• Gasoline pricing (to 3 decimal positions)

• Generate cashier log report

• Generate mailing list

• Generate purchase orders

• Generate service orders

• Generate time card report

• Gift certificates

• Grant or deny cashier permissions to:

• Graphical user interface

• Graphs (numerical/graphical format)

• Group discount

• Hardware reset

• History of products sold at pos

• Hold transaction (suspending or stacking)

• Hold transactions in progress

• Home, up, down on­screen

• Incorporate company logo

• Input filters used to parse input

• Integrated on-line credit card verification

• Internationalization display fields

• Inventory control

• Inventory movement

• Inventory tracking

• Inventory transfers in/out

• Inventory visibility across all store locations

• Inventory weight (tare, actual)

• Issue or redeem credit notes

• Issue store credit

• Item back order list

• Item discounts

• Item movement report

• Item prerequisites

• Item price and quantity lists

• Item quantity list

• Item reorder list

• Item reorder list

• Item size and weight invoke special pricing options

• Item value list

• Item price report

• Keyboard lock/unlock with password entry

• Keyboard attached scanners 

• Label wizard to design and print labels

• Layaway expiration report

• Layaways

• Line item discounting at pos

• Line void

• Link any keyboard key to pos

• Linked items

• List price/your price type receipts

• Localization of common fields such as phone numbers addresses and customer numbers.

• Logs lookup information in transaction record

• Look up and modify matrix items by specific attribute info (i.e., size, color)

• Look up quantity and item attribute

• Look up, adjust and track invoices for specific customer account

• Lookup item price

• Lot matrix kit inventory type

• Lot pricing (single, six pack, case, etc.)

• Mailing campaigns

• Manager log in 

• Manager override

• Mark up from cost

• Matrix inventory type (apparel)

• Media swap

• Media void

• Memorize report settings

• Menu panel keys allow navigation through levels of menus

• Mix and match pricing

• Monitor and control inventory levels

• Monitor promised delivery dates for special order merchandise

• Multi-lane scanning systems

• Multi-media advertisements

• Multiple currencies

• Multiple languages

• Multiple outstanding sales without storing and recalling. 

• Multiple price levels/customer (price break tables)

• Multiple sales tax (gst, pst, etc.)

• Multiple sales taxes

• Multiple tax rate tables (percent, base, cap)

• Multiple tenders per transaction

• Multiple level menu interface

• Multiple user contexts allows more than one operator 

• Multi-store collaboration

• Multi-tender (i.e., cash, check, credit card)

• N for x, pay x amount for n items, e.g. 3 for a dollar.

• Net display channels (broadcast pre-selected websites, web pages and ads)

• New item wizard to quickly add inventory to the database

• Not in file processing

• Offer spiffs to your employees to eliminate slow moving items

• Offline inventory list

• Online access to the internet

• Online credit card processing

• Online help

• Open layaways report

• Operator entry of situation sensitive data

• Operator always prompted for price

• OPOS compliant

• Optional prompt for reason code

• Organize and modify assembly, matrix and lot matrix items using easy-to-use spread sheets

• Out of stock messaging

• Overall discounting at pos

• Override item price

• Parent/child inventory

• Payment only transactions for account balances

• Per sale and per item

• Perform online credit authorizations using ic-verify or pc-charge

• Perform post-voids

• Place limits on customer purchases for given time period

• Place transaction on hold and recall

• PLU key, attach item to a key

• Points accumulation

• Post void

• Preview, search and print journals by register, batch and/or receipt number

• Price inquire

• Print account activities report

• Print accounts receivable aging report

• Print bar code labels

• Print check validation endorsement

• Print customer statements

• Print kit components on receipt

• Print receipt, invoice and pick ticket with logos/graphics

• Print unlimited notes on invoice

• Print x, z and zz reports

• Process deposits on orders

• Process external file (data collection unit)

• Process returns

• Produce mailing lists based upon customer purchase history

• Profit reports

• Programmable reason codes

• Promotional sale pricing

• Promotions

• Prompt for % or absolute amount markdown

• Prompt for cash back

• Prompt for receipt printing

• Prompts for price

• Purchase orders

• Put items on sale/promotion

• Quantity pricing

• Quick calculate change

• Quick customer lookup

• QuickBooks interface

• Quickly drill-down from summary reports to more detailed reports

• Quick sell assistant to facilitate large changes to the database

• Quote summary and detailed lists

• Rapid UPC checkout

• Recall items

• Receipt control

• Receive payment(s) for individual invoices

• Receive shipment

• Regional sales

• Register analysis

• Register daily sales

• Rentals with auto check-in 

• Reprint an invoice

• Reprint statement for selected customer

• Reprint the last receipt

• Require serial number

• Retail UPC bar code scanning

• Retrieve and process orders from virtual storefronts

• Return & refund transactions

• Return in local currency

• Sale cancellation

• Sale may be stored on local pos or to store server

• Sales analysis tracking

• Sales rep and cashier daily sales

• Sales reports

• Sales tax management

• Scale/weight transactions

• Scan or manual enter

• Search by account number, name, company, address, phone/fax number, e-mail address and ship to information

• Search by customer ship to addresses

• Search product by item description

• Select shipping carrier and calculate shipping charges by weight/value

• Sell and redeem vouchers/gift certificates/gift cards

• Send messages to cashiers

• Serial number list

• Serial number tracking

• Serialized inventory type (up to 3 serial numbers)

• Service and rental transactions

• Service inventory type

• Set cashier floor limit

• Set cashier return limit

• Set default account type for new customers

• Set minimum and maximum stock levels

• Set percent of discount

• Set profit margin

• Set up mix and match pricing structure

• Set up sales rep commission structure

• Set up weekly sales schedules

• Show customer addresses at pos

• Show item extended description and sub-descriptions

• Sign on before each transaction

• Simple markdown, % off current item.

• Sort and group report data directly on print preview screen

• Special pricing options

• Specific modifiers tied to each item

• Specify item quantity/size/weight 

• Split tenders

• Standard inventory type

• Start­-of-day and end-­of­-day scripts capabilities

• Store and track offline inventory (items not for sale)

• Store transfer of goods

• Suggested sell messages

• Summary daily sales

• Summary daily tax collected

• Supplier daily sales

• Supplier list

• Support euro and value added taxation

• Support mix and match pricing structure

• Support multiple suppliers for each item

• Support parent and child quantity

• Support up to three serial numbers per item

• Supports all OPOS devices

• Supports cash drops and cash drawer limits

• Supports pos or standard printers

• Supports scanner for ease of checkout table service

• Suspend a sale and later recall

• Suspend current sale and recall later

• Tag along for inventory

• Tag along/carry along items

• Tax exempt tracking

• Tender

• Toggle return sale

• Toggle training mode

• Top customers

• Top departments and categories

• Top items

• Top sales reps and cashiers

• Top suppliers

• Touch screen

• Track and manage all inventory types

• Track and manage employee information

• Track purchases by date, price and amount

• Tracking of bad check customers

• Training mode

• Transaction discounts

• Transaction summary 

• Transfer inventory in/out

• Unlimited item aliases

• Unlimited line item entry

• Unlimited network site license

• Unlimited number of UPC's

• US or VAT tax support

• Use promotional sales

• Use for entire sale or single items

• User definable quick keys

• User-defined fields for customer information

• User profiles

• User-definable keyboard-shortcut macros

• User-defined reminder messages

• Variable price PLU, (operator entered price)

• Vendor coupons linked to qualifying items

• Versatile receipt/invoice formats

• View and print journals from any register

• View item details

• View sales graph

• View sales journal

• Void transaction

• Void the current sale

• Voucher (gift card/gift certificate)

• Vouchers summary and detailed lists

• Weighted items

• Work order summary and detailed lists

• Work/repair/service/open orders

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