New in Checkout 3
Checkout 3 offers everything you want from a POS and it's still easy to use.
Sales
Checkout handles everything related to sales, orders and invoices with flair.
Management
Keep track of your store with Checkout's range of management tools.
Integration
Export your transaction journal to AccountEdge or QuickBooks.
Networking
Connect up to 20 Macs to your network and they auto-detect your database.
Hardware
Displays, scanners, printers: get everything you need for your store.
Product Manager
Besides offering matrix products Checkout's product manager is totally revamped to give you better search functions and you can now edit and delete multiple products at the same time.
Much Faster
Have thousands of products or customers? Checkout 3 won't break a sweat. Logging in and using your data is now much faster. Also, reports now load faster, to make sure you spend as little time as possible twisting your thumbs.
Label Printing
Printing barcode labels has never been this easy. Simply assign barcodes to your products, print the labels and attach. Scan them back in at the counter and let Checkout do the rest. Checkout supports popular Dymo labels and Avery sheets and lets you set up custom sheets as well.
Matrix Products
Checkout 3 has a brand new interface to set up product variations like sizes and colors. The choices are limitless. You can define as many product properties as you want, making it easy to setup and sell many different variations of one particular product.
Checkout Web Store
By popular request, Checkout now offers seamless eCommerce integration. The new Checkout web store lets you easily publish your products on the web and fetch new online sales periodically.
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Quicker Sales
A typical retail sale is now completed much quicker, without sacrificing flexibilty when you need it. Thanks to improved support for barcode scanners and swipe readers, Checkout now works even better in a high-volume business.
Deposits
Checkout now accepts deposits. Multiple deposits and mixed payment methods on one order are possible too. And to make sure nothing gets lost, Checkout stops your staff from accidentally deleting orders with deposits on them.
And so much more
- Support of pole and tabletop displays
- Support for multiple tax regions and shipping cost
- New "Sale" document type for fast, over the counter sales
- Connect up to 20 workstations to one store (Only when the store is hosted on an Intel-based Mac)
- Improved barcode scanner and swipe reader support
- Faster and more powerful search functionality
- Support for manually configured connections in the Login window
- Select and delete multiple customer records at once
- Improved Reports and Ledger performance
- Support for multiple suppliers per product
- New easy interface to enter serial numbers for sold products
- Edit properties of multiple products at once
- Display configurations of toolbars, lists, window sizes and much more are now stored per employee
Customize Your Printouts
Simply drag in your company logo and type your store address and you're ready to print. A range of options is offered to easily customize how product information, prices, payments and taxes are printed on each invoice and receipt. Use one of Checkout's professionally designed templates, or create your own in HTML and CSS.
Sell Fast or Take It Easy
Selling is easier with a POS system that is simple and intuitive. Use drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts and instant search to make a quick sale. Or take your time for a customized quote, order or invoice. Mix business and pleasure with Checkout's award winning interface.
Payments & Receipts
Record cash, credit card and other payments with the tip of your finger. Checkout calculates due change and prints complete product, payment and sales tax details on your customer receipts. Get the Checkout Credit Card Service Plan for even faster processing. Competitive rates included.
History & Notes
Ever wished you could figure out exactly what happened when? Every document in Checkout offers access to a handy History and Notes interface. One click gets you a complete list of changes to the document, when they were made and by whom. Add notes for yourself and your coworkers for later referral. Like every other bit of text, the contents of your notes can be used to instant-search through all documents.
Sales
- Order to Invoice workflow
- Instant search for Orders and Invoices
- Search using any infomation on a document (product name, serial number, client address, etc.)
- Filter order and invoice lists by date
- Easily change a Quote to an Order and back
- Use the Business Order feature to:
- View product and average sales margins
- Manually adjust product prices and names
- Tweak discount percentages
- Create Anonymous Invoices
- Create and track Return and Back orders
- Create tax-free orders
- Records order and invoice history and notes
- Extensive keyboard and barcode scanner support
- Live stock level indications for all products anywhere
- Instant-search for Customers and Products
- Use any kind of information (name, address, email, notes, product code, description, etc.) to quickly search through thousands of records.
- Extra info shows a clear overview of current orders, past sales and any remaining due amount for each customer.
Payments
- Credit card processing handled through a Checkout credit card processing merchant account (US only)
- Support for manually registering payments by type
- Cash, Credit/Debit Card, Check, Transfer
- Supports multiple partial payments per sale
- Automatically calculates and shows due change
- Prints complete payment details on customer receipts
- Multiple Sales or VAT taxes are supported
- Compound taxes, as used in parts of Canada, are not supported
Backup & Restore
Unlike most point of sale systems, Checkout can make reliable backups of your store. Make your own luck with as many backups as you want, no matter how busy the floor is. To restore from a backup, simply double-click the backup file in the Finder, type in your password, and as an extra security measure, provide a new login password for all employee accounts.
Bookkeeping
Checkout automatically records every in-store transaction in its double-entry ledger system. Use instant-search to find and review transactions in a summarized or fully detailed format. And to make your accountant really happy, hit export to save them to his or her favorite file format.
Employees
When you welcome a new member to your staff, Checkout's Example Store offers a great way to train them without messing up your data. You decide who gets access to what, only employees with a manager account can export data and use other management features.
Reports
Clear information is key for any manager. Checkout's reports give an interactive overview of a wide variety of performance metrics. Choose from a wide range of ready-made reports from the Report Gallery that can help you run your store more efficiently. For some serious number-crunching, you can simply export reports to an Excel, Numbers, CSV or TSV file.
Stock Room
Set a minimum stock amount for popular products in the Product Manager and Checkout automatically calculates each product's needed amount, based upon the minimum, current stock and outstanding orders from your customers. When you receive a shipment, instant-search finds its purchase order in the Stock Room and verifies and submits your freshly received goods.
Bookkeeping
- Seamless integration by journal entry exporting to AccountEdge and QuickBooks
- Supports FIFO and Average Cost Bookkeeping
- Live switch between the Double Entry and Simplified bookkeeping view
- Fully automatic transaction recording, based on sales and inventory information
- Helps maintain GAAP -compliant business records
- Use any type of information to instant-search through transactions in an adjustable time-span
- Export transactions in a double-entry or simplified journal layout to Excel, Numbers, .CSV (Comma separated) and .TSV (Tab separated) files
Management
- Choose between profesionally designed invoice templates
- Product management
- Full support for product Barcodes and Serials
- Easily manage product Stock Correcions, Taxes, and Value Changes
- Support for Stockless products
- Multiple tax rates per product
Reporting
Data management
- Easily backup and restore your data.
- Host as many stores as you want from one Mac running Checkout.
Inventory Management
- Manage Suppliers and Purchase Orders
- Receive inventory against outstanding Purchase Orders
- Get live detailed updates of stock levels while creating Purchase Orders
- Easily import new stock using .CSV (Comma separated) and .TSV (Tab separated) files
- Using the Count Sheet and Stock reports you can easily track your inventory
Share Your Information
Already have a customer database? Checkout imports customer records from TSV, CSV and vCard files. So whether your contacts are stored in FileMaker, Address Book, Entourage or an Excel file, you can take them with you. Products can be imported from CSV and TSV files. And if you ever want to use your data somewhere else, it's just as easy to export it in even more file formats.
AccountEdge & Quickbooks
For a complete end-to-end business solution, Checkout integrates with both AccountEdge and Intuit QuickBooks. After setting integration up once, exporting your latest transactions is just a couple of clicks away. Checkout supports current versions of AccountEdge Pro and Basic. Checkout only supports current US Quickbooks versions. Other versions might not be compatible.
Solid Data Storage
Checkout runs on PostgreSQL, used by the US State Department, Skype, and IMDb among others. What this means for you is that your information is safe, and can be backed up even while other computers are accessing and modifying it.
Easy to Setup
Setting up a point of sale system was never this easy. Simply install Checkout on all your machines throughout your store, turn on Store Sharing in the Manager window, and create either Manager or Employee accounts for your coworkers.
Log in. Done.
Built for Speed
Checkout is optimized for fast searches. So whether your network is wired or wireless, and whether your database is large, extra large, or ridiculously large, when a customer asks you a question about a product or an order, you can answer as quickly as it takes you to type a word or two in the search field.
Real Time for Real
One of your salespeople is on the floor and calls you with an urgent question about an order. Wouldn't it be great if you could help them out without having to walk over? Simply double-click their order on your Mac, and you'll see it as it happens, in real time.
Networking
- Concurrent access over a local network
- Up to 20 connected users at once.
- Airport Extreme recommended for wireless networking
- Access to any document by multiple users at once
- Real time updates of remote changes
- Simple Employee user-account management
- Auto-detects shared stores through Bonjour
- Uses the worlds most advanced open source PostgreSQL database server technology
Standard Hardware Bundle
- Receipt Printer
- Cash Drawer
- Bar Code Scanner
$799 ea.
iMac for display onlyBar Code Scanner - wired
Voyager Series, Auto Triggered, USB HID Emulation, Interface Cable & Stand Included Color: Gray
$279 ea.
Pole Display
USB Powered, 2 line x 20 column, Green vacuum Fluorescent Display, 5mm Character Height, Auto Scroll, and Mounting Plate. Color: Black
$199 ea.
Point of Sale hardware
Checkout connects with a wide range of the POS hardware you require in your operation, including label printers, cash drawers, and barcode scanners. Configuration of these devices is generally very simple, and can be completed quickly following a few basic steps.
Premium Hardware Bundle
- Receipt Printer
- Pole Display
- Cash Drawer
- Wireless Bar Code Scanner
$1199 ea.
iMac for display onlyBar Code Scanner - wireless
Bluetooth handheld scanner, 100m range, 300 scans/sec, 0-270mm scanning width
$599 ea.
Table Top Display
9.5 mm, 2 line x 20 column, Blue-Green vacuum fluorescent display, Port Powered, USB and Logic Control Command, Color: Gray
$229 ea.
Easily ring up sales, accept credit cards, manage inventory and track customers and stay organized with credit card transactions, sales, inventory, customer and employee data in one place. Instant reports show you top-selling products, customer stats, sales information and more.
Credit Card Reader
Secure Card Reader Authenticator, 3-Track, USB, MSR MAGNESAFE 2.0 KBE Color: Black
$89 ea.
Cash Drawer
Vasario Series, Dual Front Media Slots, 16.2"x16.3"x4.3" Case, Printer Driven 320 MultiPRO Interface, Includes Cable Color: Black
$159 ea.
Receipt Printer
Direct Thermal, Two Color, Auto Cutter, USB Interface, Includes USB and Power Cable Color: Gray
$399 ea.
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