Indianapolis Microsoft Dynamics (RMS) Retail Management POS Software

Designed specifically for independent, single-store retailers, Microsoft Dynamics - Point of Sale streamlines inventory management and reporting, automates transaction processing start-to-finish, and makes it easy to track customer information and maintain detailed customer histories. Point of Sale also includes Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2007, delivering a true solutions suite that connects point of sale (POS) and financial management processes.

Get started fast with a solution that's easy to use

Minimize disruptions to your daily business operations.
• Get up and running quickly with intuitive wizards for installation, store setup, data importing, purchase orders, inventory management, pricing updates, and more.
• Count on fast, automated installation for a wide range of hardware devices and peripherals, including magnetic stripe readers, scanners, cash drawers, and receipt printers.
• Quickly customize POS screens to meet your retail needs. Add custom buttons and images, display your store name and logo, and tailor screens with the graphics, fonts, and colors that work best for your business.
• Learn POS procedures in minutes with a familiar user interface that looks and works like Microsoft Office system programs.
• Simplify and speed training for new employees with online tutorials and the "practice mode" option.
• Get fast answers to questions and help ensure your system runs smoothly with 30 days of unlimited free support.

Connect retail and accounting processes with an end-to-end solution

Manage both your front-office retail operations and back-office accounting with a true solution suite: Point of Sale now includes Office Accounting Professional 2007.
• Count on easy installation and setup that ensures all your business information is connected, current, and accurate.
• Gain a complete view of your business and make more informed decisions due to the detailed sales, inventory, and purchasing information that flows automatically across your retail and accounting solutions.
• Save time and reduce manual data entry and errors with automatic information updates across both solutions.
• Manage cash flow and profitability in Office Accounting Professional 2007 with sales and financial reports based on up-to-date information.
• Expand your sales opportunities from the start: Office Accounting Professional 2007 supports PayPal payments, online invoicing, and eBay Marketplace selling.

Work easily with the Microsoft Office system and other solutions

Manage information efficiently across applications and formats.
• Exchange information between Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office Outlook, including sales, purchase order, and vendor data.
• Share reporting information with other programs, your accountants, and your suppliers in formats that include Microsoft Office Excel, text, HTML, XML, or e-mail.
• Easily build a database that can grow with your business using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (included) or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (available separately).
• Exchange sales data and inventory receipts with Intuit QuickBooks.

Automate transaction processing start-to-finish

Speed checkout processes and help ensure accuracy at the POS.
• Process transactions quickly with bar code scanning, custom POS buttons, and an easy-to-use cashier touch screen.
• Give sales associates an easy and quick way to check prices, inventory availability, and stock location.
• Quickly tailor screens to provide convenient shortcuts to the function keys or department keys that cashiers use most frequently. You can even personalize screen location for left-handed or right-handed cashiers.
• Help ensure fast, worry-free card payment transactions: Point of Sale gives you the flexibility to maintain your existing banking relationships or select a new one from a wide range of supported banks.
• Verify check payments real-time at POS with support from First Data, a leading merchant services provider.

Manage and track inventory efficiently

Replenish top-selling items efficiently and get rid of slow-moving items so you can merchandise more effectively.
• View real-time inventory status such as quantity sold, on hand, on order, and more.
• Track serial-numbered items.
• Eliminate time-consuming, paper-based tracking and help reduce errors for records management.
• Set reorder points and restocking levels to help eliminate out-of-stocks and overstocks.
• Identify your best suppliers, negotiate the prices you want, and manage purchasing more efficiently with up-to-date vendor histories, detailed product information, and automated purchase orders.
• Receive inventory shipments at the register or in the back office.
• Track and pay bills for partial shipments with Microsoft Office Accounting or Intuit QuickBooks.
• Easily import existing inventory information from files, Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2007, or QuickBooks.
• Create and print bar-code labels with a built-in designer.
• Export reports and purchase orders to Microsoft Office Excel, text, HTML, XML, or e-mail messages.
• Use multiple employee security levels to track and control access and minimize shrinkage.

Deliver professional, personalized service

Improve customer satisfaction, market more effectively, and expand your sales reach.
• Reduce customer wait time at the register by processing transactions quickly using bar-code scanning, custom buttons, and touch screen-ready controls.
• Provide customers with what they want through better insights into buying patterns, fast checkouts, and flexible payment options.
• Utilize multiple pricing structures for markups and discounts.
• Provide customer-specific pricing and special discounts for frequent shoppers with automatic pricing tools.
• Process credit and debit cards faster without card payment terminals and high transaction fees.
• Acquire new customers and build loyalty by offering gift cards through support from First Data.
• Help ensure your store is "top of mind" for customers with custom receipts and bar-code labels displaying logos and promotional messages.
• Expand your reach into online sales by connecting Point of Sale with your Web site.
• Target customer preferences and create customer mailings based on buying preferences and purchase histories.
• Remind cashiers about up-sells and cross-sells so they can mention them during transactions.

Analyze data with flexible reporting options

Make confident decisions based on accurate insight.
• Create up-to-date snapshots of your business with the customizable My Store view, including at-a-glance displays of important reports.
• Analyze current, detailed data with more than 30 interactive, real-time reports, including best-selling items; most productive employees; detailed sales history by cashier, department category, or supplier; and more.
• Identify sales trends in every department or category.
• Evaluate operations and financials, track results from sales and ad campaigns, and set and monitor business policies.

Maintain tight control over information and improve employee management

Help protect sensitive information, reduce shrinkage and fraud, and manage employees more effectively.
• Easily assign RoleTailored user views and control access to sensitive information, reducing the need for you to be on-site at all times.
• Track returns efficiently and help reduce shrinkage, false returns, credit card fraud, and unauthorized discounts.
• Track employee actions at the POS to help improve productivity.
• Track employee hours using the integrated time clock, export information to your payroll system, and compare hours with sales patterns to better predict staffing needs.

More about Indianapolis

Indianapolis has shed its image as a Rust Belt city, due in part to an aggressive downtown revitalization campaign. The diversification of the city`s economic base since the 1960s has also contributed to this transformation. A large part of this diversification involves the holding of events, especially sporting events. The labels of The Amateur Sports Capital of the World, and The Racing Capital of the World, have both been applied to Indianapolis. The city has hosted the 1987 Pan US Games, the NCAA Basketball Tournament, the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, the US Grand Prix (2000-2007), and is perhaps most famous for the annual Indianapolis 500. The attendance at both the Indianapolis 500 and the Allstate 400 makes them the largest two single day sporting events in the world, with well over 250,000 fans in attendance at each. Indianapolis has the second most monuments inside city limits, behind only Washington D.C.. There have also been two US Navy vessels named after Indianapolis, including the famous USS Indianapolis (CA-35) which suffered the worst single at-sea loss of life in the history of the U.S. Navy.

Indianapolis was selected for the site as the new state capital in 1820. Jeremiah Sullivan, a judge of the Indiana Supreme Court, invented the name Indianapolis by joining Indiana with polis, the Greek word for city; literally, Indianapolis means "Indiana City". The city was founded on the White River under the incorrect assumption that the river would serve as a major transportation artery; however, the waterway was too sandy for trade. The capital moved from Corydon on January 10, 1825 and the state commissioned Alexander Ralston to design the new capital city. Ralston was an apprentice to the French architect Pierre L`Enfant, and he helped L`Enfant plan Washington, DC. Ralston`s original plan for Indianapolis called for a city of only one square mile (3 km²), and, at the center of the city, sat the Governor`s Circle, a large circular commons, which was to be the site of the Governor`s mansion. Meridian and Market Streets converge at the Circle and continue N and south and east and west, respectively. The Governor`s mansion was finally demolished in 1857 and in its place stands a 284-foot (87 m) tall neoclassical limestone and bronze monument, the Indiana Soldiers` and Sailors` Monument. The surrounding street is now known as Monument Circle.

The city lies on the original east-west National Road. The first railroad to service Indianapolis, the Madison & Indianapolis, began operation on October 1, 1847, and subsequent railroad connections made expansive growth possible. Indianapolis was the home of the first Union Station, or common rail passenger terminal, in the US. By the turn of the century, Indianapolis had become a heavy automobile manufacturer, rivaling the likes of Detroit. With roads leading out of the city at all directions, Indianapolis was on its way to becoming a major hub of regional transport connecting to Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit, Cleveland and St. Louis, as is befitting the capital of a state whose motto is "The Crossroads of America." This same network of roads would allow quick and easy access to subcitified areas in future years. Natural gas and oil deposits in the surrounding area in the late 19th century helped the economy of Indianapolis prosper. City populus grew rapidly throughout the first half of the twentieth century. During this period, rapid subcitifiedization began to take place, and racial relations deteriorated throughout the 1960s, although, on the night that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, Indianapolis was the only major city in which rioting did not occur. Many credit a speech by Robert F. Kennedy, who was in town campaigning for President that night, for helping to calm the tensions. Tragically, his life was cut short a few months later in California. Racial tensions heightened in 1970 with the passage of Unigov, which further isolated the middle class from Indianapolis`s growing African US community. Court-ordered school desegregation busing by Judge S. Hugh Dillon was also a controversial change.

The opening of Circle Centre Mall in downtown Indianapolis signaled a revitalization continued. Currently, the city is experiencing growth in the hospitality industry with the Convention Center expansion and the construction of Lucas Oil Stadium. A new Conrad Hotel will be built to add more hotel rooms. This adds to the growing list of downtown accommodations and restaurants. Indianapolis International Airport is currently building a new midfield airfield terminal. Both the stadium and aiport are expected to open late in 2008 with the hotel and convention center sometime in 2010.

For the past decade, crime rates inside Indianapolis city limits have fluctuated greatly. In the late 1990s, vicious crimes in inner-city neighborhoods located inside the old city limits (pre-consolidation) peaked. The former IPD police district, which serves about 37% of the county`s total populus and has a geographic area covering mostly the old pre-consolidation city limits, recorded 130 homicides in 1998 to avg approximately 40.3 homicides per 100,000 people. This is over 6 times the 1998 national homicide avg of 6.3 per 100,000 people. Meanwhile, the former Marion County Sheriff`s Department district serving the remaining 63% of the county`s populus, which includes the majority of the residents in the Consolidated City, recorded only 32 homicides in 1998, averaging about 5.9 murders per 100,000 people, slightly less than the 1998 national homicide avg.Homicides in the IPD police district dropped dramatically in 1999 and have remained lower through 2005. In 2005, the IPD police district recorded 88 homicides to avg 27.3 homicides per 100,000 people; nonetheless, the murder rate in the IPD district is still almost 5 times the 2005 national avg.

Largely, the immediate downtown area of the city around most main attractions, venues, and museums remain comparatively safe. IMPD uses horseback officers and bicycle officers to patrol the downtown area or the city. Certain areas of Indianapolis, most notably portions of the city`s East Side, remain a challenge for law enforcement officials.

Dynamics (RMS) Retail Management Software POS 2.0 For Indianapolis

Get started fast with a solution that's easy to use

Connect retail and accounting processes with an end-to-end solution

Work easily with the Microsoft Office system and other solutions

Automate transaction processing start-to-finish

Manage and track inventory efficiently

Deliver professional, personalized service

Analyze data with flexible reporting options

Maintain tight control over information and improve employee management

More about Indianapolis