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 April 2012
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Web Productivity Apps
Employee Maintenance
Summer Schedule
MSR Giveaway
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Summer is almost upon us, with the school year in many districts ending in only a month.  Check your sales analysis reports from last year to help see if you need to adjust your labor hours to handle the summer business.
Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps   

These competing products are essentially the leaders in online productivity applications, both having email, web-based spreadsheets, word processing, and other tools.

Both of them also have free trials available to businesses.  Google Apps has a slightly smaller range of features, but is also somewhat cheaper.  Their website is available at http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

Microsoft is slightly more expensive, but has a wider range of plans, and is compatible with all Office file formats.  Their free trial page is available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/free-office365-trial.aspx
Employee Maintenance        

The employee maintenance screen allows you to add cashiers and customize their permission levels, adding restrictions on what they can do within the software.  The employee maintenance screen is accessed from the login screen, before you enter your username and password.  It is in the tools menu.

Once you're in the maintenance screen, you can see two tabs - one for General, where you can add new cashiers, and one for permissions, where you can set what each cashier can do.

In order to add a cashier, hit the add button.  You are required to put in a unique two-character cashier id for each cashier you want to add.  You are also required to put in a password for this cashier - this can be up to seven characters long. Optionally, you may link the employee to a customer number, in order to associate them with a name, address, and other details.

After adding a cashier, you should set up their permissions.  To do this, make certain on the general tab that the cashier for which you would like to set up permissions is selected.  Then, click the permissions tab.  You will see a column of buttons, to allow you to select general categories of operations.

For each operation, you may select Yes, No, Prompt, or Override.  If the cashier is set to yes, they are allowed to do the operation.  If the cashier is set to no, they will get an error telling them that they do not have permission to do that.  If the cashier is set to prompt, they will get a prompt when they attempt that operation, allowing someone with override access or an administrator to enter their username and password to allow it.  If the cashier is set to override, they may do the operation and they may also allow enable someone who is prompted to do it.
Summer Schedule     

Summer is a great opportunity to draw in new and old customers, particularly families with children out of school looking to fill the time.  Now is the time to publicize these sorts of activities, through promotional fliers.

For bookstores, book readings are one obvious possibility.  Social events can work especially well for stores with cafes, but any store with some seating space can bring in pastries for a breakfast.

For game stores, tournaments are an obvious possibility, but depending on the store layout open gaming time could be a great tool to draw families and customers to your store.

Keeping up a consistent schedule can get people used to coming in to your store at the same time every week, and time spent within your store will give you the sort of connection to your customer that an independent store needs.
Credit Card Reader Promotion     

Until the end of this April, we're giving a magnetic stripe reader (for reading credit cards) with each purchase of a Musicware, ExtremePOS, or Praiz license.  Simply mention this newsletter to sales at time of order!



For customers on an update plan, the most recent version of the software is 2.09.0015. 

 

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Jeremy Spencer
Support Manager
Extreme Point Of Sale Inc
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