when it was received, what it cost, which customer bought it and when, etc. Serial number tracking
is beneficial to any business that sells big ticket items, tracks product warranties, or deals in
regulated commodities. Lot tracking lets you track distinctive "groups" of inventory within a given
product. Lot tracking is useful for such products as pharmaceuticals and limited shelf-life products,
or products such as fabric, wire or chemicals, which are tracked within individual spools or containers.
printing to the Customers application. With Receivables, you can monitor and collect monies owed
to you by your customers.
all of the built-in Counterpoint features. Workflow is organized around taking orders, printing
picking tickets, billing selection, and batch printing of invoices. There are no "end of day" or
"open drawer" processes (as in Point of Sale). Order entry line items may be entered in "full screen"
mode to provide all available information.
automatically suggested at the time of sale. The Kits Option allows you to use a "Miscellaneous Kit",
which when sold, deducts on-hand quantities of its components. You control whether component
substitution is allowed, and whether it affects selling price. Kits also supports "Prebuilt Kits".
Assembly, disassembly, and modification of prebuilt kits takes place prior to the time of sale using
a quick, one-step transaction process, with full support for serial numbers, lot numbers, and
detailed component tracking.
revise existing CounterPoint iitems or customers. Data Interchange can update item prices using
data supplied by the manufacturer, convert inventory or customer data from third-party packages,
or mass modify your existing customer or inventory data.
placing purchase orders to meet those budgets, and monitoring your open-to-buy amount -- the
amount that needs to be purchased to meet budget. Open to buy planning is by "classification"
(department, vendor, etc.), and figures may be tracked using retail value, cost, or units.
price-by-location, and apparel "oversize" pricing (price-by-cell).
The Cost Pack Option allows inventory accounting using Standard Cost, LIFO, or FIFO valuation.
Base System. If you prefer to maintain your existing clearing bank/card processor relationship,
the Credit Card Option allows you to select from VisaNet, MAPP, NaBanco, Transnet, or NDC.
information from your CountePoint files. With SIQ, you can query data files, design and run
specialized reports, generate graphs, and transfer data to spreadsheets and wordprocessors.
If the data fields you need are not in SIQ's ready-to-use data dictionery, the SIQ Dictionary
Toolkit allows you to customize the dictionary for your unique needs.
merchandise in addition to your for-sale merchandise. Each specific unit of a rental item is
tracked by a unique rental ID that can maually entered or automatically assigned. CounterPoint
will track the rental, return, any deposit amount, and late fees for each rental ID. At any time,
you can view the current status of each rental ID, and any current reservation information.
can continue ticket entry operations in offline mode in the event that conection to a server
is lost. In offline mode, tickets are captured on local disk drives at each register. When the
server becomes operational again, the workstations can upload the offline tickets, which can
then be imported into the servers data files.
By leaving the phone connection to the processor open after completing one authorization, Modem
Server allows subsequent authorizations to take place more rapidly. With Modem Server, processing
time for each authorization can decrease to as little as 3-5 seconds.
