Retail Software
POS Maid is retail software, developed by our company Alexandria Computers, LLC. We have been professionally deploying and developing this retail pos software for years now. This retail management software was our very first retail management software, out of our full line of retail software systems.
Literally thousands of happy users enjoy POS Maid – our retail business software, all over the world, every day. Because our software for retail is one of the most affordable ones in the world, we have an unusually high volume of customers that use our retail software. This unusually high volume of users, allows us to hear, from an enormous amount of people, more praises about our retail sale software, but also more ideas of how we can improve our retail software and make it even better. Even though our retail pos software gets praised constantly, from users all over the world, we keep an open mind and truly take into consideration every idea passed on to us regarding improving our retail point of sale software.
So while we understand that no software is perfect and therefore there is no such thing as perfect retail software, we continuously strive to take our small business retail software closer and closer to perfection by constantly listening to our many users around the world, every day.
Great Retail POS Software Features
When talking about the most important features, of retail business software, we have to begin with the most important one, which is the Point of Sale feature or features. For those that need a better explanation of what point of sale features are, I guess the simplest explanation would be to say that this retail management software does everything that a cash drawer would do and completely replaces a cash drawer. So you could say that there is no cash drawer in the world that would do something that our retail software would not be able to do. Now all the features numbered below, are additional features and options that tell you what our retailer’s software does more and better aside from just replacing a cash drawer.
If you needed retail accounting software, look no more, our retail software has a full Accounting feature. With the help of this feature, our retail software systems can do bank deposits, withdrawals and transfers. You can easily reconcile all of your financial transactions with our Accounting feature and our retail software. Also it is important to note that utilizing our Accounting feature, in our retail POS software, does not supply you with accounting opportunities for only one account, but multiple bank accounts, credit accounts, customer accounts, etc.
If you create or develop your own items or for another reason you need to create barcodes in your business, you’ll be pleased to know that our retail software also accommodates barcode creation and printing. Aside from printing barcodes, this retail business software allows you to print full retail labels with the product code (barcode), full description of the item and their price.
If you have the need to manage your employees with your retail system software, then POS Maid is the perfect retail software solution for you also because it does have a full employee management feature.
In addition of employee management, this retail pos software offers a payroll feature that will calculate your employee salaries at the push of a button. Our pos for retail software will calculate the salaries of your employees regardless if you pay them by hours or commission, our retail software will accommodate either hours or commission and both pay methods mixed at the same time. And how does this retail software solution know for how many hours to pay your employees for? Great question, our retail software knows how many hours your employees work because it also offers a Time Clock feature.
If you need to manage your customers, with your retail software, keeping all of their contact info and purchase history, for later processing and use, in marketing tasks and for customer support, you will be pleased to know that our retail pos software, features great Customer Management options.
This retail pos software, as a bonus (free of charge), integrates with X-CHARGE, MerchantWARE and PCCharge, the three most famous software credit card processing solutions (they work in USA and Canada only). To process credit cards, on your retail POS system, with our retail software, using one of these solutions, in as little as 2-3 seconds, you will need any kind of internet connection or just a phone line. If you use a broadband connection, your telephone lines will always be free with our retail software systems. You can process checks with this retail software as well, so you'll never have to accept a bad check again. Also you can issue and process your own GIFT CARDS with this retail pos software.
Do not spend money by buying or renting expensive credit card machines; use your own PC with our retail software. Charge Cards anywhere, take this retail pos software on a laptop to a trade show, or wherever your business may take you. Even if (on the road) you are disconnected from a phone line or the internet, you can complete credit card purchases and they will process later when connection is established on our retail software.
Did you need to manage appointments in your business? No problem, our retail software will do that to. Take full advantage of our retail software solutions for managing appointments and do not use a pen and paper method anymore or an extra application. With our retail pos software, all of your tasks in your business, are taken care of in a all-in-one style, so you do not have to have a separate software for everything, but one retail management software (ours) and have all of this integrated in one application.
Our retail software offers numerous reports and custom reports.
Our retail business software also offers both letter size invoice printing for regular size printers and a small format receipt printing for receipt printers.
Our retail management software has innovative unlimited, customizable “Quick Menu Buttons” and “Sub Menu Buttons” to organize them better. In our retail software, this gives you the ability to sell items not only by scanning barcodes and/or by hand typing items, but also by simply pressing buttons of those items. So with this retail POS software you can sell faster than ever.
Our retail business software supports a lot of specialized POS hardware, which will make your job faster and easier. The supported POS hardware by our retail software is barcode scanners, magnetic card readers, PinPad devices, electronic cash drawers, pole displays, receipt printers, barcode printers and weight scales.
Retail POS System for Your Retail Management
The rest of the features and options in our retail software are also plentiful and we will quickly mention some of them below.
Aside from offering flexible taxes on each item separately, this retail pos software also accommodates options for multiple sales taxes, for those businesses that have the need to charge more than one tax with their retail software. When talking about taxes, our retail business software supports multiple sales tax systems (i.e. USA, VAT, PST, ST, HST and many more).
Since we are discussing international options, this retail software supports all world currencies. Also if your currency, by any chance, is not already available in our retail software, you can easily add it yourself, with our retail software’s “add currency” option.
This retail software is also multilingual. The ready-available languages in our retail software are: English, Finish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Also if your language is not ready-available in this selection, you can add it to our retail pos software, by utilizing its “self translating” tool.
Our retail software also supports all U.S. and International date, address and telephone format.
Of course, our retail software offers comprehensive options for Returns.
We also offer options for Layaways in this retail pos software.
Our retail management software also tracks employee’s sales.
Not only that our retail software offers many versatile reports, but you can also export these reports to Excel with one click of a button.
Also, in our retail business software the receipts and invoices are customizable (choose font name and size, receipt/invoice barcode number, logo, different details of customer info if needed, etc…).
Our retail software controls up to 3 printers per PC (Receipt Printer, Report Printer and a Barcode Printer).
You can also enjoy the touch screen features in our retail software, including our on screen keyboard for easier work with touch-screens.
This retail pos software offers full history lookup and reprint options.
With this retail software you can import inventory data from different programs (using MS Excel tables). So with our retail software, you have two ways to fill inventory (one-by-one and through grid/table – using Excel).
With our retail software, you can also create custom mailing lists, phone lists and e-mail lists, from the customer database, based on searches of different criteria. Also from these lists you can print mailing labels and other labels, with the hundreds of supported label standards by our retail software.