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Point of Sale Features (Cashier Station) |
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| ScanScan/Key/Search for items by UPC, Description and Department |
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| Transaction suspend/recall - any lane w/ barcode scannable receipt for recall |
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| Floating cashier |
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| Floating suspend & recall |
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| Cashier can override tax status at the item level |
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| Reprint receipt option and ability to turn feature off and on |
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| Display item picture on customer display |
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| System can customize receipts with a company logo |
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| Ability to customize receipts headers by adding a special message |
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| Ability to ad receipts footers |
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| Ability to sort receipt by organizing the items by department |
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| Sort receipts by organizing the items by item price |
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| System can print total coupon savings on receipt |
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| POS system can issue a refund at the POS |
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| POS can issue a return at the POS |
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| Ability to price check items on the POS systems (without starting on order) |
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| System can check department level age verification (for alcohol and tobacco sales) |
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| Validate gift certificates, upon G.C. purchase, from the POS |
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| POS System apply sales tax automatically |
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| System can display item description at POS on customer display |
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| Ability to print "You Saved $_______ today" on receipt |
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| Cashier balancing report |
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Payment Features |
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| Ability to warn cashier when off-line situations arise |
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| Supports Charge Cards and Debit Cards via internet authorization |
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| Ability to configure Foreign Currency |
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| Has miscellaneous additional tenders that can be user defined customized |
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| Card account numbers can be mag swipped |
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| Card account numbers can be manually entered |
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| Support for Gift Cards |
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| Gift Card Cand be Activated and Reloaded at POS |
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| Gift Card Balance Inquiry |
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| Gift Card Redeemable at POS |
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| Allow split tender capability on sale |
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| Have an off-line procedure for credit/debit authorization |
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| Supports In-store Charge (A/R accounts) with printable verification on slip |
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| Ability to support electronic signature capture |
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DSD Receiving |
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| Generation of purchase orders/suggestions based on sales history (quantity sold) |
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| Software can auto generate purchase orders/suggestions for a specific supplier, manufacturer, department or category |
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| Software allows for multiple suppliers for each item |
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| Electronic transmission of purchase orders (Transfer PO's directly to vendor's computer via EDI/internet/web services) |
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| View open purchase orders/ DSD Invoices |
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| System allows end users to view purchase order/DSD Invoice history |
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| Software has the ability to support multiple allowances |
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| Software can store and view cost information |
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| Software has the ability to receive against Purchase Order |
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| Software allows the entering of new inventory items at receiving |
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| The system allows for adjustment of invoices |
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| Receive merchandise without a purchase order |
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| Software has the ability to print price tags at receiving |
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| Interface with the inventory system to increment on-hand quantity when item is received |
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| Store and view vendor information including items, method of shipment, and terms |
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| View/print a supplier list report |
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| Generate audit report of DSD adjustments |
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Wireless Scanner / PDA Functionality |
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| Ability to review order on hand held device and perform manager override remotely |
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| Software can perform DSD Receiving and Item verifying with scanner/PDA |
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| Customize DSD Reveiving and Item veriftying PDA screens |
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| PDA view sales at any point of the day |
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| Enter/update an items invnetory |
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| PDA Enter Price Change Data |
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General Pos System Features |
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| Software supports no sales and payouts |
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| Software has a training mode |
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| System can still perform at the register while network is down |
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| Customer's signature to be electronically captured and stored in a central database |
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| Print Customer Survey on receipt with a coupon that can be an activated coupon |
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| Cashier has the ability to override and change tax status at POS |
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| Ability to complete a partial receipt print within a transaction |
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| System interfaces to DVR system |
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| Software can issue Store Discount Coupons |
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Electronic Journal |
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| Software has an Electronic Journel |
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| Electronic Journel is searchable |
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Customer Display Screens |
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| POS Software Supports Customer Display Screens |
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| Customer Display Touch screen capabilities |
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| Customer Display can show scale status for weight and price |
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| Can display messages on all customers display terminals |
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| The software is dynamic and display messages based on items scaned |
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| Software has the ability to display messages with discount information |
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| Software has the ability to turn off all customer messages |
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POS Backoffice |
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| Store and view item desc information (POS) |
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| User definable (customizable) screens on backoffice Server |
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| User definable menus on Backoffice Server |
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| Store and view multiple suppliers for each item |
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| Assign and view a department, category for each item |
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| Allows multiple UPC numbers linked to the same item record |
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| Assign prices based on a customer level |
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| Support item search/maintenance by several methods inlcuding UPC, dept, vendor |
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| Support item search/maintenance by partial item desc (w/ wildcards ?,*) |
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| Mass item maintenance (update a certain field or fields on all or selected item records (by dept, report code, vendor etc.) on file) |
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Pricing - Store Level |
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| Ability to apply discounts automatically by day and time |
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| Issue discounts based on order dollar total |
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| Create price tables/matrixes that allow multiple pricing levels |
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| Assign price levels based on customer type, department, category, price range, or region |
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| Set prices based on a pre-defined profit margin (Calculate price based on cost and margin) |
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| Quantity price breaks based on order quantity, item category, weight, and total price (ex: 3 for $10) |
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| Mix and match quantity pricing with user-defined rules |
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| Automatically mark down or discount merchandise for a specified time |
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| Maintain discount history with effective dates |
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| Maintain item price history with effective dates |
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| Display item level discounts on sales receipt |
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| Discount by transaction total, $$, % |
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| Discount by Department total, $$, % |
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| Discount by Customer status |
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| Special Sale Day Discount |
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| Ability to track loyalty card numbers and discount the customer 's order when they have reached a specified dollar amount |
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| Ability to designate only certain items to receive discount |
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Employees |
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| Track and manage employee information |
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| Record Associate transactions (transactions with associate discount) |
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| Generate employee discount log reports with an audit trail |
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| Assign security levels to each employee for backoffice functions |
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Backoffice Reporting |
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| Reporting module can track/report profit loss by department anytime |
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| Software can generate an Sales reports, including lanes, customer, items $$$ by hour |
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| Software can generate an hourly department sales report |
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| Sales totals by specified time of day, week, month or year |
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| Sales totals for each department, category, manufacturer |
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| Sales totals for each cashier and lane |
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| Cash drawer reconciliation report |
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| Sales tax totals by day, month, quarter or year |
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| Projected sales reports vs real sales |
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| Daily sales transaction details by casher or department |
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| Number of items sold by time of day, week, month or year |
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| Number of items sold for each department or category |
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| View all printable reports on screen |
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| Built-in report generator (Ability to create your own reports) |
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| Cashier specific reports |
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| Ability to reprint reports (EOD Reports) |
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| Software can track cashier performance |
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| Software has security built in the report function to determine who can produce reports |
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| Ability to run store closes daily and/or weekly |
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| Ability to group reports together into a close procedure |
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E-Commerce |
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| E-commerce orders are created and posted in the POS system instantly |
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| E-commerce orders are created and posted with an automatic polling system |
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| E-commerce software alls website order notification |
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| Software allows you to select products to be displayed on the website directly from the inventory module |
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| There is real-time stock availability updates on the website |
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| The software can show stock availability updates with an automatic polling system |
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| E-commerce software ware shows consolidated customer history and tracking |
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Inventory Management |
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| View inventory by category or department |
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| Item reorder list and Item sales history |
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| On hand inventory valuation reporting by item number, product line, location, category or department |
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| Inactive, excess or obsolete inventory report |
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| Slow and Fast moving inventory report |
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| Ability to scan returned item, but increment inventory |
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| Reset inventory by item UPC, dept, or entire file |
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Customer Loyalty Programs |
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| Supports customer loyalty program |
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| Ability to link loyalty card number to current phone number to receive discounts if card is forgotten at the POS |
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| Software has the ability to allow customer to check current promotional program status at POS, Kiosk, Internet |
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| Software has the ability to collect frequent shopper data |
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| Is the loyalty data maintained from a central database or a store level? |
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Both |
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| Software has the ability for the system to give points to its customer |
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| Software can redeem points at POS for promotions when purchase level has been met |
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| Ability to display points on the customer receipt |
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| Software can offer promotions only to preferred customers who identify themselves |
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| Software can support customer specific promotions |
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| Ability to automatically discount partial or whole amount earned on an awards program |
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| Software has the ability to print custom messages on the customer receipt |
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| Customer can identify themselves at any time during the transaction prior to payment |
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| Customer loyalty points can be centrally managed |
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| Ability to access stored customer information through a hand held device |
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| Software can signup customers for the loyalty program at the POS and/or store office |
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| Software can display and/or report customer status |
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| Ability to use the same card multiple times in one day |
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| Ability to set multiple triggers for levels of pricing |
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Security |
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| Software has password protection for each module (back office) |
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Label Printing |
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| Software has own native label program and label size is configurable |
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| Software has ability to ad graphics to label |
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| Ability to specify starting label when doing shelf labels |
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Training |
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| Ability to train live |
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| Ability to train in separate mode |
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