NCR Silver Special Promotion

OK - so NCR is very interested in having their existing dealers offer the NCR Silver point of sale system. As a reminder, NCR Silver is designed to work on iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch) while allowing access to the management and reporting part of NCR Silver through a web browser.

NCR Silver is not a full blown point of sale system but falls in between what a cash register and computer-based based of sale system can do.  NCR Silver is more advanced that other tablet based solutions like Clover and can be used in both retail and food service environments.

So...here is what I can offer you if you sign up for NCR Silver through me before June 30th, 2013:

• First month free (credit card still required for signup)
• Next five months at only $49/month (normal price is $79/month)
• Free standard ground shipping on hardware (cash drawer, receipt printer, barcode scanner, etc)

The above represents a savings of around $150/station and expires on June 30th, 2013.  You need to contact me to take advantage of this special offer. 

We have our first NCR Silver customer about to go online this week so I will also get some feedback from them in a few weeks to see what they think of NCR Silver.

-Kevin

Setting Sale/Promotional Pricing in Retail Point of Sale Software

Planning a sale?  The right point of sale software program can be a huge time saver when it comes to making price changes for a sale or promotion (ie. 25% off).  Here are a couple of key things to look for in point of sale software when it comes to sale or promotional prices:

• The system should allow you to select item, departments, categories, or even the whole inventory to change to sale prices.
• You should be able to set a start and end date for when the sale pricing should start and end (so you don't have to redo price changes when the sale ends).
• The system should allow for flexibility when it comes to choosing percentages and whether to use cost or retail prices to set the sale price.

Here is what the Change Price Wizard looks like in Microsoft RMS:

(in the previous step I was able to select departments and in the next step I get an option related to rounding).

If you happen to use NCR CounterPoint, here is the Promotions function found under "Inventory" and then "Prices":

The "Rules" tab allows you to set more criteria.

Considering how time-consuming it would be to change prices "item by item', these price change features are a huge time saver!