Abacre Retail Point of Sale

A complete retail management system that encompasses all aspects of retail; taking orders, billing, purchasing, inventory and labor management. A rich set of reports covers all retail operations.

Pros: This POS solution provides a complete solution for managing retail sales. Whether for taking orders, billing, purchasing, inventory and labor management; this package handles all of these with ease. You could use this one multiple machines and secure authentication is built-in. High speed turn over is a design feature. Helps input customer order and billing calculations at high speed. All the necessary retail hardware can be interfaced easily with the system. These include POS printers, line displays, cash drawers, touch screens, barcode scanners. Multiple currencies are handled. Tax schemes and number formats can be set up as appropriate. Payment methods handled include credit cards, cash or even checks. As the whole retail process is standardized everybody gets trained the same way and work at highly productive rates so that your retail turnover and profits are maximized. A set of reports that give the managers a complete picture of the process helps tune the system optimally. Sales in a given period, hours of high load, Z-Out, on hand inventory, the most active employees, payment methods, and automatic tax calculations. The application is tuned for single register stores to large retail chains.

A built in e-mailer helps you manage e-mails to customers, prospects to launch special promotions and other such contact campaigns. One can make sure the mail messages have reached the intended contacts. You could request read receipts too. The e-mail sender maintains a consolidated report that helps you manage a campaign.

Cons: Not very clear how this would work in a multi store chain kind of set up. One would need a sturdy database in any realistic situation. The kind of database support available also not very clear.

Overall: Nice interface, good features this application is rated at 3 stars.

Abacre Retail Point of Sale is a new generation of retail management software for Windows. It is a complete solution of the retail: taking orders, billing, purchasing, inventory and labour management. The user interface is carefully optimized for high speed input of a client's order and prevention of common mistakes. It's designed for using on multiple computers, and contains reliable and secure authorization levels.
It works with all commonly used hardware: touch screens, POS printers, line displays (poles), cash drawers and barcode readers (bar code scanners). The layouts of the client bill can be customized, and the program can be set up for any currencies, taxes, and number formats. Payments can be accepted by cash, credit cards, or checks.
For managers, there is a rich set of reports that shows a complete picture of retail operations: sales by given period, hours of high load, Z-Out, on hand inventory, the most active employees, payment methods, and automatic tax calculations.
By standardizing the entire retail management process, the software makes better use of your employees' time and energy radically improving your turnover and profit margins.
It's easy to install and easy to use. Very affordable licensing allows this software to be used in any environment from small single-computer retail shops to large retail chains with multiple checkout lanes.