Point of Sale

Save time and improve customer service with a better, faster, smarter checkout process.

Sage BusinessVision 2011 software enhances your customer and employee experiences throughout the checkout process by delivering key enhancements to the point-of-sale module. Highlighted by a new touchscreen interface, this essential software release provides a complete point-of-sale solution that’s compatible with popular touchscreen and point-of-sale hardware and integrates with Sage Exchange for optional credit and debit card processing¹ functionality.


Speed up checkouts with a new touchscreen interface.
Sage BusinessVision Point of Sale module puts speed at your fingertips. The new touchscreen-compatible interface helps you increase the efficiency of the checkout process by enabling you to enter all aspects of the sales process directly on the screen. No matter what checkout function you’re performing, you won’t be slowed down by your keyboard and mouse.

The sizes of buttons and interface objects have been increased, so you can make quick work of every checkout process while increasing accuracy. Onscreen keyboards and number keypads automatically pop up when the user touches a field that requires information to be entered. Button commands—such as delete item and return item—are conveniently placed, making it easy to manage individual checkout items. Additionally, commands associated with the sales process now display along the bottom of the window. Do you prefer to use the keyboard? No problem! While we’ve updated the interface, keyboard shortcuts have been maintained so there’s no learning curve.
See the video demo here.

Easily reprint receipts anytime.
Printer out of paper or ink? Or worse, jammed? With Sage BusinessVision 2011 software, you can easily reprint receipts. Simply click the View History button to look up a previous sale. Choose “Reprint” and voilá, a copy of the receipt prints. And a reprinted receipt displays *** REPRINT *** at the bottom so you know it’s a duplicate.
See the video demo here.

Simplify returns with the click of a button.
In addition to looking up sales history for a previous sale, Sage BusinessVision 2011 software now includes a Reverse Sale button to make sales returns quick and easy. Simply press “Reverse Sale” and Sage BusinessVision creates a new sale that includes the same items as the original sale but applies negative quantities to all items. Only need to return one or two items? No worries! A clerk can use the same method to return only one or some of the items on the same receipt.

Eliminate frustration when you need to “hold” a sale.
We’ve all done it . . . forgotten an item and need to go back into the store to retrieve it. Now instead of forcing other customers who are in line to wait—or canceling the sale in progress entirely—you can hold the sale. Clicking “Hold Sale” enables the checkout clerk to put the current sale on hold, saving it and allowing the clerk to serve the next customer in line. When the initial customer returns, the clerk can press “Unhold Sale” to retrieve the transaction and complete it without reentering items.
See the video demo here.

Give your customers the gift of gift receipts.
When you give a gift, it sure is nice to provide the gift recipient with a receipt in case the item doesn’t fit or it’s a duplicate. But providing the original receipt with the pricing can be awkward. It’s no wonder gift receipts have become so popular. Now you, too, can handle this common request with ease thanks to the new option to print gift receipts during the sales tender process in Sage BusinessVision 2011.
See the video demo here.

Help customers keep their accounting in order.
It’s easier to do all your shopping in one trip, right? But, for example, if you’re a contractor, you may need to keep track whom—or which site—the items are for. The Sage BusinessVision 2011 Point of Sale module stores multiple addresses in your customer profiles—enabling you to align goods purchased to a particular address. No more wondering which job supplies have been purchased for.

Save time and reduce errors with quick cash tendering.
Accelerate your cash transactions with the new “Quick Tender” buttons that allow clerks to quickly define the cash denomination received. For example, when a customer pays with two $20 bills, the clerk can press the onscreen “$20” Quick Tender button twice and press “OK.” It saves time and improves accuracy versus manually entering the amount of cash received on the touchscreen or keyboard.

Eliminate keystrokes with default quantities.
Say goodbye to that unnecessary quantity keystroke because Sage BusinessVision software can now assume a quantity of “1” for all items sold in normal mode. Now your clerks don’t have to enter a quantity of “1” for every item being purchased. They can now enter the item, and the transaction will automatically register the quantity as “1.” The quantity only needs to be updated in cases of sales that include multiples of the same items.

Put smiles on commission employees’ faces.
If your sales force works on commission but the checkout process is managed by a different cash register clerk, tracking who made what sale can be cumbersome. Sage BusinessVision 2011 makes it easy, allowing the sales clerk to record sales for multiple salespersons without logging on and off of the system.
See the video demo here.

Handle high-volume checkouts with ease.
Previous versions of the Point of Sale module limited the number of items in a single transaction to 99. The 2011 release enables you to include up to 999 items in a single sale. Now you can checkout high quantities without going through multiple tender processes.


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