Quantum Blue Technology LLC 1424 Welsh Way Ramona, California  92065 U.S.A.
Phone:	(858) 837-2160  (USA)
Email:	info@QuantumBlueTechnology.com
Web:	www.QuantumBlueTechnology.com

The user is encouraged to evaluate the demo version of the POS Business Application in order to ensure it meets their requirements prior to purchasing the appropriate application software license.

 

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Press Here -->    Download POS Business Application  to Install Software Version 2.2.3.88 OR Download from the cnet download.com site    Tested spyware free     Note: This new version uses a database structure which is incompatible with earlier             versions of the POS Business Application.                The POS Business Application is developed using Borland  C++ Builder  and it             currently stands at  3,514,931  lines of Source Code.

 

This version of code has the following new features:

1.  Faster Database Downloads to the Client POS Systems.

2.  Enhanced POS Register screen displays.

3.  Enhanced Client Quote handling during Server/Network recovery.

 

Note:   The POS Business Application Software major.minor revision has been

            changed to  Version 2.2 and may not be used to access previous

            Version 2.1 databases.   The "Enhanced Client Quote Handling"

            feature mentioned above required the modification of the common

            database header.

 

Note:   The POS Business Application Software must be downloaded and

            installed on each networked Point-Of-Sale computer system. 

 

            Please refer to the Installation Guide for complete details...

Microsoft Vista Users: When using the Microsoft Vista Operating System, the POS Business Application must be executed in "Windows XP Service Pack 2" compatibility mode.   The reason for this is because Vista blocks specific system calls required for normal operation of the POS Business Application.    Please refer to the Installation Guide appendix for details.

 

POS Business Application (POSBA) Software Licenses

                                                                                  

Software License -     2 User (Server +   1 client)    @   $295.00 

Software License -     5 User (Server +   4 clients)   @   $495.00 
Software License -   10 User (Server +   9 clients)   @   $795.00  
Software License -   20 User (Server + 19 clients)   @ $1295.00  
Software License -   50 User (Server + 49 clients)   @ $1695.00  
Software License - 100 User (Server + 99 clients)   @ $1995.00   

 

or please contact:

 

Quantum Blue Technology LLC 1424 Welsh Way Ramona, California  92065 U.S.A.
Phone:	(858) 837-2160  (USA)
Email:	info@QuantumBlueTechnology.com

 

The POS Business Application (POSBA) may be installed on one or more networked computer systems.  Of these computer systems, one is designated the POS Business Application "Server" (since it holds the primary databases) and the remaining computer systems are designated "Client" systems.  Both POS Business Application Server and Client computer systems may be used with a cash register in order to take sales.  A maximum of 100 computer systems (1 server + 99 clients) may be used to provide 100 Point Of Sale cash registers.

 

POS Business Application Documentation

The POS Business Application is fully documented and the following manuals are available for download:

	Product Brochure
	Product Overview
	Installation Guide
	Inventory Manual
	Point Of Sale Manual
	Accounts Receivable Manual
	Systems Manual
	Import Database Manual
	Import Database Manual (Cougar Example)

       

       An Adobe PDF Reader may be obtained from the following site: 

 

 

What sets this product apart from other POS Systems

The principal features which set the POS Business Application Software apart from other POS accounting software systems are the following:

	Distributed databases which allow POS transactions even when the server or network fails.
	Calendar Indexed Databases
	The re-posting of POS Sales transactions if database recovery is required
	A safer Database Backup and Restore Operation




 

Distributed Encrypted Network Databases

A major restriction with most POS systems is their total reliance on the network and the Server computer which contains the central database. If the network or the Server computer fails then the other Client computer systems can not be used and the business staff employees are required to continue making sales by writing hand written receipts and referring to previously (perhaps outdated) printed price lists. This operation is tedious and slow and also fraught with possible user errors. Later, when the Server and network are once more operational, the handwritten sale transactions have to be manually entered into the accounting system - another time consuming operation which is also fraught with possible errors.

The POS Business Application system, however, uses a distributed encrypted database and is therefore not totally reliant on the network nor on the Server. Although our Server contains the central database, any changes to this database are shared with the Client computer systems such that if the Server or the network were to fail, each POS Business Application Client computer system would still contain copies of the latest relevant databases and may still be used to perform Point-Of-Sale transactions with the current inventory stock part numbers and prices. Once the Server and network are once more operational, the transaction sales data collected by each POS terminal may then be posted to the Server thereby updating the central database.

All Server and Client databases are encrypted to provide basic system security. For higher level security, the file system encryption features of Windows XP Professional may be utilized.

 

Calendar Indexed Databases

General POS accounting systems are very responsive when the system is first installed.  As the days and months progress, more and more history data is created and the system can start to get sluggish.  After several years of history data has been collected, the system can take a long time to scan an entire database in order to access and obtain specific information pertaining to a report (eg. a tax year report).

In order to minimize this effect, some accounting systems impose database size limitations which restrict the amount of data history which may be retained.

 

The POS Business Application

Firstly, our POS Business Application has no program size limitation regarding the number of years of data history which may be retained - the amount of data which may be stored is determined by the hard drive capacity.

In order to have direct, fast, access to sales history information, the POS Business Application Sales History Database has been indexed by calendar year and month sub-directories.  This means that when searching for data pertaining to a specific year and month, the data file for that calendar period can be quickly accessed and the information speedily obtained - this enables reports to be quickly generated.  The indexed database structure also permitted the implementation of the transaction reposting feature.

 

POS Sales Transaction Re-Posting

Most POS computer systems each perform a posting operation at the end of each business period (ie. normally each day). This operation adds the collected POS sales transaction information to the sales history database.  Once this operation has been completed, the original information is then deleted since it is no longer required. Normally this approach is successful, except under conditions when the database has had to be recovered due to system related problems (eg. a new hard drive was installed). 

If the database is recovered, it may be several days old.  Sales transaction data between the backup recovery date and the current date would now have been lost and would have to be re-entered manually.  This is a time consuming operation which is also fraught with possible errors.

 

The POS Business Application, however, keeps each POS Client sales information on local files within the respective Client's computer system. At the end of the business period, the collected sales data is posted to the POS server and added to the sales history database. On our system, this sales data is not deleted but is placed into a file in a backup directory on the Client's hard drive - this file is also given a unique name which includes the date and time when the posting operation occurred. If a Server related problem (eg. hard drive failure) were to occur at this point and the previous day (or weeks database were to be restored), the intervening sales data stored in each POS Client's backup directory can simply be re-posted thereby bringing the Server database up to date in a matter of minutes.

During the re-posting operation, the POS Business Application software ensures that no duplicate sales entries are stored in the database and that subsequent databases operations (ie. adjustment of the Inventory On-Hand quantity, etc.) only occur once.  This protects the database even if the identical sales data were to be re-posted multiple times. 

No manual re-entry of POS Sales transaction data would normally be required.




Database Backup / Restore

The Database Backup operation allows the various databases to be converted to a single backup file for transfer to removable media. The system generated backup file name includes the current date and time and is therefore easily identified. The Database Restore operation takes a specified backup file and expands it into the various system databases. Prior to performing the restoration process, the previously existing database directory is renamed and is therefore not overwritten during this process. The Database Restore operation also has the capability of restoring a previous database directory.

The Database Backup and Restore features do not erase or modify any existing database files, therefore the user is never faced with the situation where the system database could be overwritten due to operator error.




Inventory

The Inventory Section allows the user to edit and/or view the various inventory items. 

       

 

The following reports are provided which may be viewed and/or printed as required:

1. Quick Stock List Report

2. Price Book Report

3. Under Stock Report

4. Over Stock Report

5. Stock Value Report

6. Stocktake Worksheet Report

7. Stock Label Report (with Bar Code 39 Generation)

 

Point-Of-Sale (POS) User Interface

The POS User Interface permits the user to perform cash or account sale transactions as well as creating quote statements. Cash or account sale transactions are recorded and transferred to the Server at the end of the business day. The POS User Interface permits the use of a bar code scanner during sales line item entry. When sales are entered they are grouped according to product (ie. a number of different items entered in random order would be listed as multiple quantities of a single line items for each product type on the POS User Interface and receipt).

If, at any time, were the network or Server to fail, the POS User interface would still continue to operate, thereby allowing not only the current sale to be completed, but also allowing subsequent sales to be performed.

 



 

The following POS User Interface features are available:

1. Single or multiple purchase price breaks

2. Transaction line item price modification (specify price or discount percentage)

3. Overall discount for items not previously discounted

4. Indicate special handling instructions (ie. delivery information)

The POS feature also provides a register summary end of day report, a register full report which identifies each sales transaction (and if required, each line item), and a sales tax report.

Sales data is stored in a hierarchical directory file structure which permits fast and efficient access to database records. Any number of sales transactions may be stored without adversely affecting the system performance, for instance, the time required to generate a sales tax report for a specific month will take approximately the same amount of time whether the sales database contains data for a single year or for ten years (on a Pentium IV, 2 GHz machine this is a few seconds - On other POS systems which use other database structures, this can take tens of minutes or longer).

 

Point-Of-Sale Quotes

A Point-Of-Sale Quote can be created by placing entries into a sales transaction and then converting the sale into a Quote.  The Quote expiry date and customer details can also be specified.  Quotes may be entered either on the POS Server or any of the POS Client computer systems.  When the Server and Network are operational, Quote information from each of the Client systems will be transferred to the Server where it is combined into a system-wide Quote database.  Expired quotes are automatically deleted from the database.  The system-wide Quote database is then transferred to each Client system where it may then be accessed.

If a Server and/or a Network failure has occurred, each POS system manages its own local Quote database.  Quotes entered into a specific POS system may be accessed and converted into a sale as and when required.  During such Server / Network failure conditions Quotes can not be shared with all other POS computer systems and any Quote entered on one POS computer system will therefore only be available on that machine for conversion into a sale.

However, when the Server and/or Network are once more operational, the Quote information from each POS computer system will again be shared and a new combined system-wide Quote database created.  This database will then be transferred and made available to all POS computer systems.

 

Accounts Receivable

The Accounts Receivable Section allows the user to edit and/or view the various Account Receivable customers. A number of reports are also provided which may be viewed and/or printed as required.

 

       

 

System User Password Control

The POS Business Application software provides user login and password control to permit access only to authorized system features. During POS Sales operations unauthorized users require a supervisor to enter an override password in order to change discount prices or select higher level features.




Single or Multiple Networked Computer Systems (Server / Clients)

The POS Business Application may operate either on a single IBM PC compatible computer system (Server) or on multiple networked IBM PC compatible computers (Server plus Clients).




Database Import / Export

The Database Import Section allows existing data from a different accounting system to be imported into the POS Business Application. Imported data must be in Comma Separated Variable (CSV) format. A conversion utility has also been provided to convert dBASE files to CSV format. The Database Import feature permits the user to specify the name/location of specific CSV variables to be imported as well as their destination position within the new database structure. Multiple databases can be combined during the import process into a single destination database.

The Database Export Section permits exportation of POS Business Application database data to CSV files.

 

For a complete description of the entire system,  please refer to the POS Business Application Documentation.

 

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