Today Software offers two suites of Integrated POS and Retail Management software:

POSperfect II

POSperfect is the POS and Branch Back Office system. It is written in Delphi and the latest versions use an Interbase or Firebird database through the InterBase Objects (IBO) Database engine.

The principle design criteria was that “The POS Terminals must not depend on a Server or Network to process sales” and that “Online/Offline transitions must be seamless”.

The system maintains a mission critical database on every terminal so that the POS functions are not Server dependent. This allows the POS terminal to function when a network or Server is down which eliminates the need and cost of a Backup Server to achieve redundancy. In addition this design divorces the POS processing functions from any network or Server bottlenecks so that a major processing task on the Server does not impact on standard sales processing. The background network management processes in POSperfect handle any offline/online conditions seamlessly.

The Server or Master terminal for each store maintains an up-to-the-minute detailed stock and sales history of every stock item movement and every transaction. In addition, the database automatically consolidates individual product history into group history for up to 4 hierarchical groups (e.g. Department/Class), plus Vendor consolidation and up to 4 horizontal user definable groups e.g. Label, Brand, Pack Type, etc. The system also supports SKU/PLU, SKU/Barcode and SKU/Size/Colour (matrix) merchandise types.

POSperfect provides a comprehensive suite of reports that allow reporting across ANY Date Range, and with drill-down through the group levels to individual products and a detailed audit trail of every stock movement and transaction. No 3^rd party reporting tools are required. Flexible data export facilities are provided for loading into 3^rd party applications.

POSperfect also provides a Multi-Store Controller (MSC) that manages a Wide Area (WAN) or a DUN (Dial-Up) network with multiple stores. Updates and data retrieval into the Multi-Store Controller system is seamless and automatic. The MSC offers individual or consolidated reporting for a single store or all stores. Typically an MSC will be the Back Office of the main store or Administration store.

Corporate Controller

The Corporate Controller (CC) is a multi-branch Retail Management System written in the Progress 9 GUI (Graphical User Interface) Development Suite and typically using the Progress RDBMS database.

The CC retrieves every transaction and stock movement from every store and records this in its database. The database is designed for maximum efficiency and performance when reporting on sales and inventory in large retail chains. The store selections are completely versatile so that any combinations of any stores linked to store types, regions, advertising groups etc may be selected for a report and the report optionally consolidated.

Drill down is also provided with Graphical reporting at any of the drill down levels. In a few seconds the system can provide an Inventory snapshot report for any combination of stores and across any date period with consolidation of stores if required.

Powerful tools for central administration of the many aspects of the Product/Price and Group catalogues are available. The flexibility of the database and communications allows for data elements to be either centrally or store level maintained, and for different stores to have different capabilities.

The CC can allow store level inventory management, or central inventory management. A Centralised Purchase Ordering system allows single purchase orders for multiple stores/warehouses integrated with store level stock receipting and Interbranch Transfers. The CC retains a copy of every inventory order or other control document such as Inter-brand Transfers, and distributes these documents to each branch system.

Flexible Fiscal periods can be defined for Weeks, Months, Years, Seasons and other user defined fiscal periods. A suite of integrated multi-branch accounting modules are integrated with the inventory, stock, sales and purchasing modules to deliver a comprehensive and flexible multi-branch Retail Management System integrated with the POSperfect POS and Branch Back Office system.

The data communications between systems are integrated into the applications, but make use of standard TCP-IP networking protocols. Communications can be inline (permanent but non-dependent) connections to each store, or via scheduled batch polling.