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Understand the features you want out of your POS system to determine the integration you are looking for between your POS and pharmacy management systems

Pharmacy integration with point-of-sale (POS) systems can be misleading. There are different levels of integration, methods of operation, and benefits. Understanding these differences will better equip you to
ask the right questions when considering a POS system for your pharmacy.  READ FULL ARTICLE
     

Getting Business Savvy with POS

Hemingway, S.C., is a farming community about an hour from Myrtle Beach where you’ll find three stop lights. You’ll also find Wise’s Family Pharmacy, which Wayne Wise opened four years ago after the chain in town had bought out the local independent competition.     READ FULL ARTICLE


More Value Than Ever

While different pharmacists will offer different motivations for installing a point-of-sale (POS) system, one thing is very clear: Pharmacists of all kinds are  increasingly finding that an integrated POS is central to closing the loop on dispensing workflow by allowing them to track prescriptions from data entry through checkout.   READ FULL ARTICLE


Integrate Multichannel Data With POS Software

Based in Scarsdale, NY, Zachys offers about 8,000 SKUs of wines and liquors from 1,500 to 2,000 producers. In terms of annual sales volume, it is one of the largest retailers of its kind in the United States. In addition to a brick-and-mortar store with 5,500 square feet of selling space, the retailer maintains thriving online and catalog sales divisions built up over the past few years. READ FULL ARTICLE


Improving the Shopping Experience

Customers want a satisfactory shopping experience whether in the store, online or shopping by catalog. They expect assurance that the item is in stock, that several payment options are available, and that check out will be quick and easy. MerchantSoft is built from the ground up to improve the customer’s shopping experience two ways. Our touchscreen POS is user configurable, which allows the user to secure and arrange over 200 sales and operating functions.   READ FULL ARTICLE


Emporos Systems Makes Niche

Multichannel retailers recognize that they need a centralized operating platform that provides a “single version of the truth” for inventory status, product movement and even customer shopping patterns. Systems must be integrated, and they must control all replenishment, merchandising, and of course, order processing.  READ FULL ARTICLE


POS Poised for Growth

Point-of-sale systems are coming off a good year, and the players in this sector voice optimism that 2004 will see further acceptance of these systems. "We find pharmacists wanting to use technology to manage the total business, not just the pharmacy," says Steve Wubker , "and this accounts for the interest we are finding in POS."    READ FULL ARTICLE


Announcing Emporos' Central Office Solution

Through Central Office, Emporos offers a Multi-store POS/Inventory Solution with
these capabilities:

  • Central real-time inventory control
  • Central purchasing/distribution
  • A/R real-time to POS
  • Multi-store sales audit READ FULL ARTICLE