QuickBooks Cash Register Plus 2009

QuickBooks Cash Register Plus lets a PC in a retail store perform the functions of a cash register while keeping track of customer information and purchasing history. Tracking customers' email and shipping addresses makes it possible to let them know about upcoming sales or new arrivals from their preferred manufacturers. Sales data can be transferred in summary form to QuickBooks financial software.

Cash Register Plus offers reports on customers, sales, items, purchasing, and payments. Predesigned report templates can be customized and saved: for example, sales could be checked by day, item, employee, and payment type.

Cash Register Plus can handle credit and debit card transactions if an organization has a merchant account. Merchant accounts that integrate fully with Cash Register Plus are available from the Intuit website.

Hardware is not included, but if it is desired, items such as card readers, cash drawers, and receipt printers are available from the Intuit website and are guaranteed to work with Cash Register Plus.

This single-user box includes one user license. Cash Register Plus allows a maximum of 10 workstations to work with the same data, but each one must have a separately licensed installation of the same version of QuickBooks Cash Register Plus.

Cash Register Plus includes free telephone support for certain types of issues. Other issues require a one-time fee or purchase of a support plan. See Intuit's Customer Care Policy. All support, including online access, will be discontinued approximately three years from the product's original release date.

Here are some notable features of this product:

• Built-in video tutorials guide users through common tasks.
• A wizard simplifies end-of-shift or end-of-day tasks.
• Clicking summary numbers in reports goes down one level of detail and continues until the level of individual transactions is reached.
• Report data can be presented in the form of graphs.
• Access to administrative features and critical data can be protected by password.

Products

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• QuickBooks Point of Sale Basic lets a PC in a retail store perform the functions of a cash register while keeping track of inventory, customer information, and purchasing history.
• QuickBooks Cash Register Plus has many of the features of QuickBooks Point of Sale but does not have inventory capabilities or advanced synchronization with QuickBooks financial software.

• Hardware:
• 1.6-GHz (or higher) processor; 2-GHz recommended
• 512 MB RAM for Windows XP (1 GB recommended); 1 GB for Windows Vista (2 GB recommended)
• 1 GB available hard-disk space (additional space required as data files grow)
• 1024x768-pixel display
• 4x CD drive
• Software:
• Windows XP; Windows Vista (32-bit versions)
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