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ProphetLine POS has been our lifeline for seven years in our four retail stores. The software is robust and offers many more functions and ...
Read MoreWhen you establish your department structure in your POS Software, think of each department as a profit center you would like to look at from time to time and make some good informed buying decisions. If department ‘A’ is 30% of your revenue and only 15% of your inventory, you might think about increasing your inventory in this department and decrease inventory in a poorly performing department. The only way you are going to know about these trends are with automated reports that track through the POS Software. The departmental comparatives, retail stock ledger and open to buy plans are all part of the ProphetLine POS Software System that are totally automated, work in unison with each other and require no maintenance or large time outlays.
One of the premises of an explosive new book titled The Secret is positive reinforcement. If you think good things, good things will happen. The Secret takes this much further and also states that ‘thoughts become things’. If you ‘think’ about a new car, it will be materialized for you. Wouldn’t it be nice if it really worked that way?
Imagine thinking you had a million dollars and poof, there it is. Why operate a business when you can ‘think’ success into existence.
At ProphetLine, we understand what is actually required to succeed. Yes, positive outlooks will help, especially when followed with rolled up sleeves and a commitment to some good old fashioned hard work. At ProphetLine, we also understand the value of time and have built time saving features into our Point of Sale (POS) Software. We know you work hard, but why work harder than you have to? Shouldn’t your POS software be able to assist you in making smarter decisions? We at ProphetLine think so!!!
Multi-Store Ordering, Customer Marketing, Retail Stock Analysis, Best/Worst reporting, Reorder Suggested values based on Stock Levels, Sales/Special Orders, Automated Transfers of Inventory, seamlessly integrated Accounting and Payroll. The list goes on and on. Give us a call to find out how you can use ProphetLine’s POS software to use your time more wisely and give your business ‘The Secret’ of success.
When your POS Software Sucks, You Feel Trapped, Don’t You?
We Have Some Simple and Cost Effective Solutions!
1) You can subscribe to ProphetLine POS Software for a low monthly fee. No long term contract. You have an option to purchase when you find out ProphetLine is the right POS software for your business and subscription money spent will apply toward purchase. If you decide to purchase, you will receive a trade-in for your current POS software.
2) Stay on subscription and let us be your technical and support staff.
3) Purchase and we will give you a liberal trade-in for your current POS software.
4) Hold status quo, do nothing and be unhappy. Your choice!
Only a quality POS Software Company with great support can be confident enough in their product to give you a no risk, month to month rate without a contract.
If you are reading this, you have probably tried just about everything, however, we need to check the basics first. The first thing to do is remove the 1.1 framework using the control panel uninstall. If this is successful, reinstall the 1.1 framework and then SP1 if it was not included in the version you downloaded.
If, like me, during the unistall, the framework is not removed and no notice as to why is displayed, you will need to use a different method to do the uninstall. A .NET removal tool is available, Click here to download. For more information on the tool, you can read the blog entry of Aaron Stebner at Aaron Stebner’s Weblog
Once the framework is removed, proceed with a normal installation.
How many times do you see an article in the paper about a loyal and trusted employee that is caught stealing? Unfortunately, it happens every day and the only way you can stop it is to make your employees accountable for their actions. The best deterrent is strong exception reporting functionality in your Point of Sale (POS) Software that makes you aware of every unusual action taken at the transaction level. You will never be able to totally eliminate theft, but you will be able to catch it early and minimize the damage. If you have an employee that is always voiding, backing out of transactions, excessive discounting or doing anything other than a normal,full retail sale, he or she is either poorly trained or stealing. If your POS Software is programmed to automatically print the exception report every morning, you can see immediately who your silent partner is.
Potential employees can be divided into three groups; the ones that would never do anything dishonest, the ones that will be dishonest given the opportunity and the ones that stay awake at night trying to figure out how they are going to steal from you. If you do not have accountability built into your POS Software, you have reduced the labor pool down to a third. If you do have accountability built in, you not only have the third that are totally honest to pick from, but you also pick up the third that are honest if they are accountable for their actions. Our POS Software costs less than a trusted and loyal employee can steal in a week.
Sounds like tennis to me; point, set, match, game over! You don’t have to break the bank in your IT spending, but you do need to spend enough to match or beat your competitors. Depending on the size and type of retail business, anywhere from 1 to 3 percent is a number that should be set aside for your technology budget. Most growth in spending for small retailers is in POS Software, supply-chain solutions, warehouse management, CRM applications and business analytics. I think most small retailers should spend closer to the 1 percent than the 3 percent. That means for a small retailer doing $500,000 a year in business, a little over $400 a month should be budgeted for in-house retail systems.
ProphetLine Point of Sale (POS) Software has all the above mentioned components in one seamless application that will allow you to beat your competitors. You can subscribe to the software for less that most POS Software vendors charge you for support and updates alone. Our subscription model gives you software, support, updates and upgrades for one low monthly fee of $187. There is also no long term contract to sign, which guarantees that we will work hard to keep your business. Call today to enhance your business and keep your technology budget under 1 percent.
Everyday retailers ask “Does your POS Software do certain critical things? In the case of ProphetLine, our POS Software is a very rich and proven software package that has been on the market for many years. It is designed for retailers of hard- and soft-goods, such as apparel, sporting goods, and specialty retail. These retailers typically have certain features that are required, such as size-color matrix, serial number tracking, customer tracking, accounts receivable, and multi-store support. Any worthwhile point of sale (POS) software on the market will have these features and others considered mission-critical for the specialty retail market. If your business is mostly accounts receivable, then it is imperative that the software properly manage accounts receivable, such as invoicing, statement generation, and reporting. ProphetLine also has many features not found in other systems, especially for many micro-verticals within specialty retail, so it is literally designed for hundreds of different types of retailers and is usually a good fit for most of them.
However, sometimes retailers get caught up in insignificant function points of the POS Software, thinking that every single thing about their business must be automated, and forget that there are enormous gains in automating just the larger parts of their business. Often, and regrettably, some get so consumed with finding this perfect software package (that often does not exist or is cost-prohibitive) they spend months or years searching without success to find POS Software that performs this function exactly how they think it should work. I have known some to search for years, and every year I ask them if they have found what they are looking for. Invariably, the reply is “Not so far, but there is this new POS Software company that looks like they have it right.” Next year, same story, and they never buy. Their clerks fill out invoices by hand, he has no idea of what is in stock and merchandise and cash walk out of the store every day. If you’ve been searching for months or years, spoken with over 5 or 10 companies, and have yet to find the perfect software, you may be over-analyzing function points – RELAX.
As you evaluate software, when a feature is missing, ask yourself how important that feature is. Weigh this feature against the big picture. In fact, you should make a list of features that are mission-critical, needed but not critical, and nice-to-have. Assign a weight value to each so that you can score pos software packages as you evaluate them. Features, while certainly important, are not the only things you should evaluate, either. Ask the vendor what platform the software runs on; what database; how long has it been on the market (for the current architecture), programming language, support hours and costs, upgrade policies, and most importantly, a list of references from other retailers in your market. Try to obtain your own references as well. Manufacturer sales reps are a great start – they can turn you on to retailers just like you that have pos software systems. Choosing and buying a point of sale (POS) system is an important task – just don’t be obsessed with doing business exactly like your father did it.
While Microsoft’s Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel (download from MajorGeeks here) will work in Windows Vista, it only works for Administrative users. If you need to mount drives for standard or limited users, you must either run the program with administrative rights (less secure) or find another solution.
One such solution that works extreamly well is Virtual CloneDrive by Elaborate Bytes software. CloneDrive can be found under their free software download located at Free CloneDrive Download.
The free version allows a maximum of 8 drives in parallel, you can change the icon for the ‘clone’ drives to display Elabrate Software’s ‘angry sheep’ and you can have the last image to automatically be loaded when Windows starts.
