If you own multiple stores or plan to expand your operation to multiple locations, you can be assured that QuickStore Point-of-Sale can provide the capabilities that you need.

QuickStore Point-of-Sale was designed to accommodate the inventory control needs of companies with multiple locations. Since the cost of maintaining a fast (10Mbps) always on network connection or a Metaframe server between multiple locations is usually cost prohibitive, QuickStore Point-of-Sale consolidates and distributes data between locations once a day in a nightly polling operation. The polling operation runs automatically each evening and only sends data that is new or has been changed by a location. At the start of each business day, each location will have information that was accurate at the close of the previous day for the other locations.

The Polling Location
The polling location is the physical location that is usually the centerpiece of a multiple location operation. The polling location is usually either the largest store in the retail operation, a warehouse for ordering and distributing merchandise, or the corporate headquarters. It is the location determined to be the most central or the most strategic to the entire retail operation, and it is the location where operations only allowed by one location are best performed. The polling location is the location responsible for contacting each remote location in the nightly polling operation.

Remote Locations
Remote locations are locations physically located away from the polling location. They are contacted nightly by the polling location and send newly added or changed information.

The Batch Process
The Batch Process refers to the nightly polling operation conducted to consolidate and distribute data between the polling location and the remotes locations. The polling operation is conducted by using a phone line and modem to connect the polling location with a remote location. Since the data being sent between locations contains only new or changed information, the polling operation is very fast.

Duties of the Polling Location
Some information in QuickStore Point-of-Sale can only be maintained at the polling location. New inventory items, the user list, customer standards, and inventory standards are a few examples of information maintained at the polling location. Requiring this information to be maintained at the polling location simplifies the polling process as well as the entire inventory control operation.

Sharing Data
The polling operation in QuickStore Point-of-Sale allows each remote location to share as much or as little data with the polling location as you like. It also allows you to choose what data from what locations you would like to see.


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