Retail - Point of Sale (POS)
Retail Solutions that Bring It Home

The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Retail Solution provides an integrated end to end retail management solution from back office to Point-of-Sale. Microsoft Dynamics NAV Retail Back Office (RBO) provides a powerful link between the POS terminals in your stores and your business accounting software. It controls all the fundamental aspects in the retail business, such as stock, ordering and purchasing, staff customer and sales. It communicates with the software that runs on the POS terminals and thereby directs item sales, POS terminal functionality, and tender types, printing on POS terminals and calculation and posting of statements.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV PlusPoS is a fully featured POS software option. The combination of RBO and PlusPoS provides the greatest flexibility in operating a total retail solution. The PlusPoS is an easy-to-use point-of-sale application with both keyboard and touch screen facilities. It offers breakthrough features that make it easy to set up, manage, and process sales transactions for any retail business.

Retailing today is characterised by fierce competition and decreasing profit margins, forcing managers to focus on the two major issues:

• How to get more customers into the store
• Maximizing the revenue per customer

The answer to these questions lies in gathering good information about customer behaviour. The rich merchandising functionality in GoPro Retail for Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides this critical information and helps the retailer to understand the customer with respect to:

• How well do the products sell – when and in what stores?
• Which displays and shelves are the most profitable?
• How does the customer flow vary during the day - how to optimise opening hours?
• What is the effect of item discounts and promotional campaigns?

Furthermore, the GoPro Retail solution makes it easier to manage the store in regard to:

• Purchasing policies
• Human resource management

The GoPro Retail solution for Microsoft Dynamics NAV is scaleable from the smallest outlet to a largest multinational organisation, the same application can be used all the way, from the head office to store tills without the risk of errors in transferring data between different systems.

The solution is both flexibility and scalable, and is directly applicable to the business of most retail sectors including food, general stores and fashion. Modifications for vertical markets like video shops and photo shops have been very successful. Combined with the ease of use and flexibility of Navision applications, GoPro Retail offers the solution for individual stores as well as for the large multi-store retail chain environments.

Market Position

Two types of solutions characterise today's retail systems market: POS software running on the POS terminals with back office solutions running as a client server solution. The POS software ranges from just administering the terminals to solutions with merchandising functionality. Very often these solutions are integrated on an ad-hoc basis to diverse accounting and business management systems.

On the other hand, there are the client server solutions ranging from customised POS software and customised accounting solutions to advanced complete solutions with distribution, logistics and manufacturing - the full supply chain management solutions.

GoPro retail integrated with Microsoft Dynamics NAV Attain is conveniently positioned in the middle market, taking full advantage of the flexibility of the Navision business applications and the ability to integrate with a variety of leading POS solutions to provide a total and up-to-date solution. The solution offers exciting potential for vertical market applications where the flexibility of the Navision environment allows specific business solutions to be readily constructed and fully integrated.

The ‘GoPro Retail’ solution for Microsoft Dynamics NAV is developed by ‘GoPro Landsteinar Development’ based in Iceland and is supplied by approved national Microsoft Dynamics NAV Solution Centres. The GoPro Retail solution for Microsoft Dynamics NAV is comprised of two main components Retail Back Office and PlusPoS the integrated POS solution.

Retail Feature Summary

The GoPro Retail solution comprising Retail Back Office and PlusPoS offers many exciting features:

• Keyboard and touch screen facilities (PlusPoS)
• Reliable, fast and flexible
• Microsoft Windows compatible
• Developed in Microsoft Dynamics NAV Attain and is seamlessly integrated with the standard application in Navision
• PlusPoS works as a standard Microsoft Dynamics NAV session or as a stand alone Microsoft Dynamics NAV client
• PlusPoS can run under Citrix MetaFrame (NB Needs same quantity of clients as with online connection)
• Designed to require minimal training - Easy to learn
• On-line update of data
• Euro and Multi-currency handling
• Multiple tender within the same transaction
• Advanced discount facilities
• Multiple price per item or price levels
• Promotions
• Customer discount matrix facility: On customer, item, customer group, and item group level
• Various types on unlimited groups of Multibuy and Mix and Match discounts
• Payment authorization
• VAT (TAX) groups
• Card detail entry through magnetic card reader or keyboard (PlusPoS)
• Sales input from keyboard, scale, flatbed scanner and/or hand-held scanners (PlusPoS)
• Infocodes, Sub-Infocodes, Colour-codes, Size-codes and Style-codes give detailed information and assist the cashier throughout the operation
• Item entries can be voided (PlusPoS)
• Current transaction can be voided (PlusPoS)
• Stock management improvements
• Automatic shop reports
• Return transactions
• Franking and endorsing of documents (PlusPoS)
• Transactions can be put on hold and retrieved at any time on any service station on the network
• Removal of tender for banking
• X and Z-Report at each terminal (PlusPoS)
• Cash declaration facilities
• Float entry (PlusPoS)