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Serial/Lot Number Tracking
Option
Serial number tracking provides you with a detailed record of each
unique piece of merchandise, when it was received, what it cost,
which customer bought it and when, etc. Serial number tracking is
beneficial to any business that sells big ticket items, tracks product
warranties, or deals in regulated commodities.
Lot tracking lets you track distinct "groups"
of inventory within a given product. Lot tracking is useful for
products such as pharmaceuticals and limited shelf-life products,
or products such as fabric, wire or chemicals, which are tracked
within individual spools or containers.
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Kits Option
The CounterPoint Base System supports "Loose kits",
which are lists of connected items that are automatically suggested
at time of sale. The Kits Option allows you to use a "Miscellaneous
kit", which when sold, deducts on-hand quantities of its components.
You control whether component substitution is allowed, and whether
it affects selling price. Kits also supports "Prebuilt kits".
Assembly, disassembly, and modification of prebuilt kits takes place
prior to time of sale using a quick, one-step transaction process,
with full support for serial numbers, lot numbers, and detailed
component tracking.
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Price Pack Option
The Price Pack Option offers you advanced pricing capabilities,
including 6-level prices, price-by-location, and apparel "oversize"
pricing (price-by-cell).
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Cost Pack Option
The CounterPoint Base System supports Average Cost valuation
and the Retail Inventory Method. The Cost Pack Option allows inventory
accounting using Standard Cost, LIFO, or FIFO valuation.
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Receivables Options
The Receivables Option adds charge sales, receivables tracking,
revolving charge, and statement printing to the Customers application.
With Receivables, you can monitor and collect monies owed to you
by your customers.
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Order Entry Options
Order Entry shares the Point of Sale database, and supports
Multi-Site, Apparel / Grids, Credit Cards, and all of the built-in
CounterPoint features. Workflow is organized around taking orders,
printing picking tickets, billing selection, and batch printing
of invoices. There are no "end of day" or "open drawer"
processes (as in Point of Sale). Order Entry line items may be entered
in "full screen" mode to provide all available information.
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Data Interchange Option
Data Interchange retrieves inventory information from an ASCII
file to create new CounterPoint items or revise existing items.
Data Interchange can update item prices using data supplied by the
manufacturer, convert inventory data from third-party packages,
or mass modify your existing inventory data.
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Open to Buy Option
Open to Buy is a merchandise planning tool that assists you
in setting sales and inventory budgets, placing purchase orders
to meet those budgets, and monitoring your open-to-buy amount (the
amount that needs to be purchased to meet budget). Open to Buy planning
is by "classification" (department, vendor, etc.), and
figures may be tracked using retail value, cost, or units.
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Credit Card Option
Credit Card processing with CES is built into the CounterPoint
Base System. If you prefer to maintain your existing clearing bank/card
processor relationship, the Credit Card Option allows you to select
from VisaNet, MAPP, NaBANCO, Gensar, or NDC.
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Offline Ticket Entry Option
Offline Ticket Entry allows CounterPoint registers to continue
Ticket Entry operations in "offline mode" in the event
that connection to an operational server is lost. In offline mode,
tickets are captured on local disk drives at each register. When
the server becomes operational again, you can import the offline
register's recorded tickets into the server's data files.
The ability to continue operations offline is also
known as "lane redundancy" or "fault tolerance".
The Offline Ticket Entry Option provides lane redundancy, and is
also useful for applications such as sidewalk sales and portable
kiosks (such as carts in a mall). This Option is also invaluable
in a Wide Area Network (WAN) configuration to allow "local"
Ticket Entry operations to continue when WAN communications lines
are down (or when the data files on the WAN server are otherwise
unavailable).
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Modem Server Option
Modem Server allows DOS and Windows workstations attached to
a network to share phone lines and modems for credit card and check
authorizations and for credit card settlement. This Option is particularly
valuable in configurations that require high speed authorization
of credit cards or configurations that use a single phone line and
modem for multiple workstations.
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Rentals Option
The Rentals Option allows you to enter rentals, rental returns,
deposits, and late fees so that you can track the status and history
of your rental inventory.
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SQL Connection Option
The SQL Connection lets you easily access and display real-time
CounterPoint data in charts, graphs, and tables. With the SQL Connection
Option, you can run a client application, such as Microsoft Excel,
and view the CounterPoint data files in the format that you want.
This is accomplished by using DDF's and establishing an ODBC connection
to the server, then executing SQL statements to retrieve and organize
the information that you want to see. Excel allows you to present
that information in the format you want - as charts, graphs, and
tables.
The SQL Connection can also be used with development
tools such as Microsoft Access or Visual Basic to produce more sophisticated
applications that access the CounterPoint data files directly to
present information. (Updating CounterPoint data files directly
without the validations built into CounterPoint software is dangerous
and is not supported by Synchronics.)
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WAN Workgroup Option
Wide-area networks (WANs) allow users at remote sites to run
CounterPoint from a single server, connecting to a single database.
The WAN/Workgroup Option provides features to support the unique
requirements of a WAN or Unix environment, including workgroups
(groups of users who have similar requirements) and security settings.
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Wireless Option
The Wireless Option works with CPWireless to extend your CounterPoint
system to handheld, wireless PDA devices. With CPWireless, you can
use handheld devices for real-time viewing and updating of your
CounterPoint records. CPWireless applications include Mobile Tickets
("line-buster"), receivings, transfers, price verification,
price updates, physical count, and more.
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