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 September 2011
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Display Products for Sale
Utilize ExtremePOS Fully
SyncToy
ExtremePOS Enterprise Preview
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As the calendar turns to fall, it's time to prepare for another holiday season.  In preparing for it, we have a few display units and used items available for you.
Display and Used Products for Sale  
We're attempting to clear out some old units used for display and for demos.  You can contact sales for a list of current items at 919-387-7595x100; supplies are obviously limited and these are first come first serve.
Features for Your Store   
In these tough economic times, leveraging ExtremePOS to run your store as efficiently as possible can make all the difference in the world.  Are you fully utilizing the following features?

-Do buy, sell, trade and rental transactions all on the same invoice.  If your store hasn't been doing used product or rentals, consider it - with many libraries sharply cutting back budgets, and many large video rental chains going out of business, side business in these areas is certainly viable.
-Use industry databases for drawing data from.  While some of these are subscription services, investing $100 a month to save hours and hours of labor each week can be an investment well worth making.
-Set up reorder levels in inventory.  This can make reordering much easier, with a little bit of upfront work to get things organized for it.
-Consider using the Cipherlab 8000 to enable quarterly or even monthly physical inventories.  This can give you a great handle on loss prevention.
-Sell in-store gift cards, and promote them heavily, particularly around the holiday season.
Folder Synchronization 

We've had a few people ask about backing up their database to other stations on their network.  Microsoft offers a free utility to synchronize folders across a network, and you can do this with your backup directory to keep copies of those backups on multiple computers.  The tool, called SyncToy, is available on Microsoft's website.  

 

Microsoft describes the tool in the following way:  "SyncToy, a free PowerToy for Microsoft Windows, is an easy to use, highly customizable program that helps users to do the heavy lifting involved with the copying, moving, and synchronization of different directories. Most common operations can be performed with just a few clicks of the mouse, and additional customization is available without additional complexity. SyncToy can manage multiple sets of folders at the same time; it can combine files from two folders in one case, and mimic renames and deletes in another case. Unlike other applications, SyncToy actually keeps track of renames to files and will make sure those changes get carried over to the synchronized folder." 

ExtremePOS Enterprise    

 

Releasing in Quarter 4 of this year, ExtremePOS Enterprise is the replacement for ExtremePOS HQ Corp/Store.  Offering real time stock checking, stock transfers, multi-store customer accounts and gift cards, and central management of inventory, customers, vendors, categories, and departments, Enterprise will also feature an API for services (such as web sites) to connect to, allowing for easier interaction with E-Commerce applications.

 


For customers on an update plan, the most recent version of the software is 2.09.0009.

 

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Jeremy Spencer
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