Point of sale software gives business owners a convenient way of checking out customers and recording sales. It can keep a record of the store inventory, updating it when an order is processed.
Point of sale software allows users to input via keyboard, mouse and barcode scanner. When checking out a customer you can either input the sales item yourself or use a bar code scanner. The point of sale software will look up the item in the inventory and bring up the price. It can also calculate tax on the item and change for the customer.
POS software can print out receipts and reports. Point of sale software makes your business accounting a lot easier by creating reports on inventory, sales, customers, etc. Since it is already recording each sale, it can easily tell you the sales and revenue of the day.
POS software is generally easy to install and easy to use. You will need to know how to update inventory and record a price change for an item. Point of sale software usually provides an easy to use interface to do this. It can make the job of the cashier a lot easier by automating the routine tasks of the day.
Point of sale software can more than pay for itself over time by making checkout faster and doing your accounting for you. Point of sale software may be the right solution for your business and can provide you with tons of benefits.

Salient Features Include :

Dynamic update of item sales and inventory data as sales occur

Combined Sales/Refund on one transaction (exchanges)

Item inquiry before and during sales using look up tables

Bar Code Scanning and Printing for speed and accuracy

Prints invoices and paper tape receipts (user definable)

New items can be added to inventory from point of sale screen

Development Tools Used:

Frontend : Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0

Backend : Microsoft Access/ SQL Server 2000

Minimum Hardware requirements :

Microsoft Windows Operating Systems (95/98/2000/ME/XP/2003/Vista).

128 MB of RAM

100 MB of Hard

486 MHz Processor.

IBM Compatible