Retail Pro Guided Tour - System Control
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One store could have a speed POS, a mail order station, a returns station, and a special order station
One store could have a speed POS, a mail order station, a returns station, and a special order station
All actions in Retail Pro are controlled by mouse, touch screen or keystroke. Users increase keyboard speed by defining their own shortcut keys.
A shortcut is a keyboard sequence (such as Shift F1 or Control F2) which directly activates a menu option.
A novice user may prefer to select menu options by mouse or touch. Expert users can race through menus faster with shortcut keys, at POS and elsewhere.
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A Basic screen design is for sales where speed is the total priority
A Basic screen design is for speed and simplicity at POS, where a minimum of information is captured. This sort of layout might be used for football stadium sales at half time, where speed is the total priority.
A Standard screen design would show customer name and address and the usual clerk information, and might provide comment fields, sales clerk data, and so on.
A Comprehensive screen design might distinguish a Bill To customer from a Ship To customer and could include many other fields appropriate to special orders or layaways or returns, or multiple currencies, tax types and special fields - whatever is useful in that particular store.
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Any POS screen design can have multiple pages
The user can shift between screen designs with a few strokes using the Layout Manager.
Any POS screen design can have multiple pages, indexed with tabs. You might display just the customer's name on the front page, but have the full address, phone and credit status accessible with the tab.
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One store could have a speed POS, a mail order station, a returns station, and a special order station.
POS stations in a store can use different designs or switch among them. One store could have a speed POS station, a mail order station, a returns station, and a special order or layaway station, each running a different POS design. On Saturday, they might set more stations for speed.
A clerk who only does fast checkouts only has to learn that basic format with no unneeded fields. This improves efficiency and training time, and reduces overload. You can design only what you need.
