Restaurant Maid Software Suggest All The Special Hardware I Can Use

Here are some suggestions for additional / optional hardware for your POS software.  Keep in mind these are optional additions to the PC that you'll run this software on and even though they will make your work a lot easier, help you accomplish tasks a lot faster and make you look more professional in front of your customers, these additions are not a must, they are not required, the software can run on just a standard PC with no special POS additions as well. 
 
For great offers on POS Hardware, please visit our web site at www.AlexandriaComputers.com
and go to our "POS Hardware" section.
We offer great pricing on POS hardware since we are a direct factory reseller of POS-X ( a US manufacturer of POS Hardware) and we offer FREE 2-4 Day Ground Shipping with Insurance and Tracking to all of our USA customers. 
Do not miss out the opportunity to save a lot by purchasing from a Direct Factory Reseller that offers FREE Shipping on, what is many times, heavy POS equipment that is costly to ship, which makes a big difference on the total price for your POS Hardware needs. 

 
1. Barcode scanner: Technically speaking all the USB and PS2 barcode scanners work with our software, just watch out and do not buy any serial port barcode scanners because this is a very old standard, therefore these scanners would be very old or from an old stock.  Almost all of the USB and PS2 barcode scanners come with no drivers because they are plug-and-play compatible, but if you run into some that require drivers make sure they include Windows compatible drivers.  As long as you purchase brand new equipment you should not have any problems and our software works with all of them. 
 
 
2. POS receipt printer: There are dozens of printers you can choose from, our software works great with other brands like POS-X, Epson, Ithaca, Samsung and many others. You must make sure though, that this printer will be capable of opening a cash drawer if you are interested in a electronic cash drawer in the future and when you purchase this cash drawer you must make sure it is compatible to this printer. Another little advice is to make sure this printer regardless if purchased new or used, comes with Windows drivers, since our software is a 100% Windows software , it only works with properly installed Windows compatible devices, so just make sure this printer works for your Windows and it comes with its Windows drivers. 
 
 
3. Electronic cash drawer: Please note that in order to use/operate an electronic cash drawer (to have it open automatically on sales), you must have a receipt printer that is compatible to that cash drawer because the electronic cash drawers for "Point of Sale" systems do not connect to the PC but are connected to and controlled by a receipt printer. That is why it is always recommended that you purchase the cash drawer and the receipt printer together; to make sure they are fully compatible to each other. 

 
4. Credit card / Magnetic Card swipe-reader: This device is very handy and has many uses:
a) Swiping credit cards for customer's purchases (instead of manually entering every digit of information from every single card);
b) Swiping security clearance cards (manager's passwords can be impressed on magnetic cards);
c) Swiping employee security clearance / log in / time clock cards (employee's ID # can be impressed on magnetic cards).
Technically speaking all the USB and PS2, "3 Track" magnetic card readers work with our software, just watch out and do not buy any serial port magnetic card readers because this is a very old standard, therefore these readers would be very old or from an old stock.  Even if the USB and PS2 , "3 Track" magnetic card reader comes with no drivers because they are plug-and-play compatible, this shouldn't be a problem at least for credit card reading, but if you run it to some that require drivers make sure they include Windows compatible drivers.  As long as you purchase brand new equipment you should not have any problems and our software works with all of them.  
 

5. Barcode printer: Even though many smaller companies do not use this device, because the task of printing barcodes can be accomplished with a regular printer with good printing quality capabilities, some more professional businesses prefer to have a special barcode printer. This provides a higher quality barcode printing (assures barcode scanning from the first attempt, without many problems) and eliminates the need of manually cutting the barcode from the regular printer's page and wasting paper that has only a portion of it printed in barcodes and a large unused portion for disposal. Just like a standard printer, there are no special needs or instructions for setting up barcode printers, you just purchase it and install it on your PC according to its manufacturer's instructions and you are ready to use it and print professional barcode labels.
 

6. Touch Screen Monitor: Even though not necessary, if the mouse and keyboard slow you down, you can work faster utilizing a Touch-Screen monitor. Any Windows 2000, ME, 2003,  Xp or Vista compatible Touch-Screen monitor with properly installed drivers and a supported resolution of at least 1024x768 pixels, will work perfectly.   

 
7. Pole Display: Our software supports POLE DISPLAYS that are 100% Epson Compatible (work with Epson mode commands) with COM Port connection / interface.
We strongly recommend POS-X brand display poles as most compatible to our software.
For great offers on POS Hardware, please visit our web site at www.AlexandriaComputers.com
and go to our "POS Hardware" section.
We offer great pricing on POS hardware since we are a direct factory reseller of POS-X ( a US manufacturer of POS Hardware) and we offer FREE 2-4 Day Ground Shipping with Insurance and Tracking to all of our USA customers. 
Do not miss out the opportunity to save a lot by purchasing from a Direct Factory Reseller that offers FREE Shipping on, what is many times, heavy POS equipment that is costly to ship, which makes a big difference on the total price for your POS Hardware needs. 
 
 
8. Weigh Scale: Our software integrates with Weigh Scales that support the NCI / ECR Serial Communications Protocol, with COM Port serial connection / interface.
We recommend those Weigh Scales, as the compatible Weigh Scales to our software.