If you’ve been reading this blog for the past few months–and maybe, even if you haven’t–you probably know which basic capabilities to look for in a retail point of sale solution. However, there’s more to this issue than meets the eye.  Increasingly, savvy retailers are also insisting on point of sale software with one or more special features that yield their own set of benefits. And you should consider following suit.

One such feature allows tips to be added to transactions in retail establishments where tipping is customary–for instance, hair and nail salons. This makes it easier for patrons to reward employees for good service, in turn encouraging personnel to treat consumers well, bolstering staff morale and cultivating repeat business going forward. A feature that permits commissions to be split by item, rather than allowing only one salesperson to earn an entire commission for a multi-item transaction, has a similar effect. Associates will work harder to sell individual pieces of merchandise when they are assured that they themselves will “collect” as a result.

Yet another new, highly desirable point of sale system capability paves the way for easy, effective, simultaneous price-changing on multiple goods. Even better, mass updating of prices can be set to take effect at a certain date and time; lists of items, departments or goods with specific properties can be selected for price change action.

Version 12.5 of Cash Register Express from pcAmerica, released on September 13, 2010, offers these and many more accoutrements among its menu of 40-plus new features. To learn more, visit pcAmerica.