POS - 10 New Features

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At the moment I’m deliberating what new features we’ll develop for Amicus over the next few months. Amicus is our Point of Sale system for hospitality, retail and fuel so whatever I choose it will need to present the best value across the three verticals. At the moment, the choices include:

1. Make the touch screen entirely configurable. The Amicus touch screen point of sale interface is already the best looking touch screen on the market (in my humble opinion of course), but you currently can’t change the basic structure of the page. The proposal on the table at the moment is allow for multiple templates to be made by end users so that the screens are laid out exactly as they would like them.
2. Integrate with an electronic shelf labelling system such as SES.
3. A voucher management system. Amicus POS already accepts payment by voucher but I’d really like to enhance that functionality to include the ability to track issued vouchers and the credit remaining on them. The solution would of course need to be multi-site friendly to make it suitable to retail chains and the like.
4. Enhance our booking module and perhaps include a few generic templates for repairs and general services.
5. Enhance the table booking feature for Amicus for Restaurants (hospitality in general).
6. Develop SMS and email notification services for audit events (like NO SALE, VOID and so forth).
7. Integrate with a security solution to overlay text on what is happening on a particular till on a video feed.
8. Add Bluetooth strip printing functionality for tax invoices / receipts for Amicus PDA.
9. Add a quick method of adding customer specific pricing.
   If anyone has any feedback on what they would like to see in future versions of Amicus point of sale and business management system please feel free to comment here.

Dan - Neotechnology Business Systems