Cougar Mountain — CMS Professional 2010 POS

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From the September 2009 Review of Point-of-Sale Systems

Sold as a stand-alone product or as part of a front/back office suite, CMS Professional 2010 POS is ideally suited to smaller retailers that do not process high-volume transactions. Although fully functional as a stand-alone, the front/back office integration provides CMS users with a higher level of functionality.

EASE OF USE:
Cougar Mountain Software continues to be one of the easiest products to navigate, with a clean user interface found throughout the product modules. At the top of the main screen is a drop-down menu that provides access to standard system functions such as File, Sales, Reports, etc. Directly below is a series of icons representing all installed modules. New users will need to sign into the sales entry screen, where they can choose an existing customer or add a new one. Customers and items have a lookup function to search for the correct information. CMS Professional Point of Sale features two product entry methods: utilizing the computer interface for manual entry or scanning items for quicker sales processing. The sales entry screen is easily customizable to suit individual needs.

A series of shortcut keys found directly on the POS entry screen allow quick access to customer information, tender type, on-account information and all drawer functions. Customers and items can be added on the fly, and the program now allows users to select specific registers and post transactions processed, all from a single window. Additionally, CMS Professional 2010 includes a new lookup filter, the “contains” option, which makes search-ing for data quicker and easier than ever.

MODULES/SCALABILITY:
CMS Professional 2010 Point of Sale includes both Inventory and Data Exchange modules. For a more complete front/back office solution, CMS Professional 2010 Point of Sale with Back Office includes the regular POS modules along with GL, AP and AR modules. Cougar Mountain also offers a long list of add-on modules that can be purchased individually, including Job Cost, Multi-Location Inventory, Purchase Order, Bank Reconciliation, Payroll, GL Report Generator, BarTender Label Generator, Specialty Shop, and numerous Merchant Transaction Services items.

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