RMS Lite

The main application for Visual Catalog is in the retail industries which deal with limited number of items that do not have barcodes and therefore are not scannable at POS. The solution is to have digital pictures attached to them in RMS. The cashier rings up an item by simply clicking on a button that has the item's picture on it. The user interface is similar to that of a simplified Restaurant POS. This graphical interface that integrates seamlessly with Microsoft RMS can display multiple inventory items with pictures that allow the retailer to identify items easily and accurately. It is also ideally suited to touch-screen applications for even faster service.

New in this version:

1. Fifteen large item buttons on each page and 6 additional buttons for the most frequently used items which are selected automatically based on how often a particular item is sold.

2. Buttons can be sorted by description, item lookup codes or custom order which allows free rearranging of the buttons on the screen by dragging and dropping.

3. Pictures added to the buttons by either dragging photos from your hard disk onto the buttons, using the context Add Picture dialogue or taking snapshots with your Webcam connected directly to the POS or back office PC.

4. The pictures get automatically formatted to fit the button dimensions and are kept in the database so the picture immediately becomes available to all POS stations at the store. A disk copy of an item picture is also created on each POS station in the default RMS Pictures folder so the picture also becomes available in the items properties in RMS Manager and POS.

5. A custom HTML status bar in RMS POS displays the item pictures during the transaction.

6. In Catalog View the RMS Department and Category buttons may now have pictures and be rearranged in custom order similar to the Item or Custom buttons.

7. The user may select certain items to become available on the Custom Buttons screen which has a structure similar to the Items screen. This way even the items from different departments and categories may be arranged on single screen for faster access.

8. Both Items and Custom Buttons screens have a quick search text entry which allows narrowing the list of the buttons in the current selection (department, category, all items or custom buttons) as the user is typing.

9. Catalog View always remembers the last used screen and page number and pops up next time on the same screen and page so the most often used information is always in front of the cashier in order to minimize the necessity for additional navigation.

10. Each POS station in a store keeps independent settings so the last known screen and other parameters are individual on each POS station.

Read more at http://www.retailhero.com/catalog_view_for_dynamics_rms.aspx