Oakland 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 Oakland

Oakland is a major West Coast port, and is home to several major corporations including Kaiser Permanente and Clorox, as well as corporate headquarters for national retailers like Dreyer`s and Cost Plus World Markets.

The earliest recorded inhabitants were the Huchiun tribe, belonging to a linguistic grouping later called the Ohlone (a Miwok word meaning "western people"). In Oakland, they were heavily concentrated around Lake Merritt and Temescal Creek, a stream which enters the San Francisco Bay at Emeryville.

Oakland, along with the rest of California, was claimed for the Spanish king by explorers from New Spain in 1772. In the early 19th century, the area which later became Oakland (along with most of the East Bay), was granted to Luís María Peralta by the Spanish royal government for his Rancho San Antonio. The grant was confirmed by the successor Mexican republic upon its independence from Spain. The area of the ranch that is today occupied by the downtown and extending over into the adjacent part of Alameda (originally not an island, but a peninsula), included a woodland of oak trees. This area was called encinal by the Peraltas, a Spanish word which means "oak grove", the origin of the later city`s name. Upon his death in 1842, Peralta divided his land among his four sons. Most of Oakland fell inside the shares given to Antonio Maria and Vicente. They would open the land to settlement by US settlers, loggers, European whalers, and fur-traders.

The town and its environs rapidly grew with the railroads, becoming a major rail terminus in the late 1860s and 1870s. In 1868, the Central Pacific constructed the Oakland Long Wharf at Oakland Point, the site of today`s Port of Oakland. The Long Wharf served as both the terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad as well as the local commuter trains of the Central (later, Southern) Pacific. The Central Pacific also established one of its largest rail yards and servicing facilities in West Oakland which continued to be a major local employer under the Southern Pacific well into the twentieth century. The principal depot of the Southern Pacific in Oakland was the 16th Street Station located at 16th and Wood which is currently (2006–7) being partially restored as part of a redevelopment project.

A number of horsecar and cable car lines were constructed in Oakland in the latter half of the 1800s. The first electric streetcar set out from Oakland to Berkeley in 1891, and other lines were converted and added over the course of the 1890s. The various streetcar companies operating in Oakland were acquired by Francis "Borax" Smith and consolidated into what eventually became known as the Key System, the predecessor of today`s publicly owned AC Transit. In addition to its system of streetcars in the East Bay, the Key System also operated commuter trains to its own pier and ferry boats to San Francisco, in competition with the Southern Pacific. Upon completion of the Bay Bridge, both companies ran their commuter trains on the south side of the lower deck direct to San Francisco. The Key System in its earliest years was actually in part a real estate venture, with the transit part serving to help open up new tracts for buyers. The Key`s investors (incorporated as the "Realty Syndicate") also established two large hotels in Oakland, one of which survives as the Claremont Resort. The other, which burned down in the early 1930s, was the Key Route Inn, located at what is now West Grand and Broadway. From 1904 to 1929, the Realty Syndicate also operated a major amusement park in N Oakland called Idora Park.

Oakland is located around 37°48` North, 122°15` West (37.8, -122.25), in the longitudinal middle of California, on the east side of San Francisco Bay.

Dynamics (RMS) Retail Management Software POS 2.0 For Oakland

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 Oakland