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Experience tell us that business owners want to do things thier way. For this reason, the Smart Retailer was intentionally designed to be flexible. There are hundreds of customizable parameters to make the program operate the way you want to do business. These parameters may be set in any combination to offer literally millions of different configurations.
When planning your installation, careful thought should be given to the master control settings. By spending a little time to decide which settings will most closely match the way you do business, you will save yourself and your employees work, time, and keystrokes.
The master control settings are set for each work station using the smart retailer.
| Category | Described |
|---|---|
| General | The general settings are used to set your company name, address, phone number, the sales tax rate, workstation ID, and if used the alternate exchange rate. |
| Miscellaneous | This settings category is used to set a receipt banner message, clerk point of sale reminder message, auto launch the selling screen, and to enable sound. |
| Hardware | The hardware setting allow you to configure printers, cash drawers, and pole displays, There are additional settings relating to receipt layout and the barcode interface. |
| Customer | You can set the default configuration when adding new customers, designate prompting for three user defined dates and two user defined character fields. There are also settings relating to finance charges, layaway processing, statement printing, and the customer lookup screen. |
| Inventory | The default profile for new products added can be set. There are also settings relating to physical inventory, use of quantity breaks, and the product lookup screen. |
| Invoicing | In the invoice settings category there are settings to control the printing and displaying of costs, clerk, and customer information. Other settings relate to gift certificates, printer redirection, and the order lookup screen.. |
| Selling | These settings affect the way the selling screen operates. There are setting relating to the use and validation of clerk IDs, displaying costs, controlling the cash drawer, prompting for quantities, applying discounts, and the use of vendor item numbers. You can also set the type of receipt to print. |
| Purchasing | These settings affect purchase order printing, reordering, and barcode printing. |
| Directory | These settings determine where the program looks for its data files. |
| Credit Cards | The processing credit cards may be configured. |
| Multi Store | If your a multi location company, you can assign the store number and set controls to affect the information that is transfered to other stores. |