Just as customers shouldn’t compromise on the products they purchase or the food they consume, retailers and restaurateurs shouldn’t settle for second best when it comes to point of sale solutions. In the past, there existed almost no choice but to do so because most available applications were generic in nature.  Today, however, fewer small and medium-size independent retailers are willing to settle for point of sale solutions that don’t entirely address unique situations. And they don’t have to.

Some forward-thinking ISVs, including pcAmerica, have made it a point lately to design point of sale software to reflect the individual needs of a vertical market or related group of multiple vertical markets. On the retail side, consider Version 12.5 of pcAmerica’s Cash Register Express retail point of software. Released in mid-September of 2010, the software features a utility that allows tips to be added to transactions in retail establishments where tipping is customary–for instance, hair and nail salons. Another option–applicable in such markets as specialty apparel–permits commissions to be split by item, rather than allowing only one salesperson to earn an entire commission for a multi-item transaction.

The same is true in the restaurant sector. Such software applications as Restaurant Pro Express include enhancements that allow employees to place combo meal orders more easily and stimulate upselling/suggestive selling of menu items.

To find out more about customized point of sale software, visit www.pcamerica.com.