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Thank You...And A Look Back at 2004!
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
Despite many mixed results in the economy over the past year, you have helped Budget POS have our best year ever -- for the third year in a row.
We hope that you have enjoyed our periodic newsletter. We estimate that 10 percent of our sales come from our periodic newsletter and we encourage you to use the customer loyalty features within our software to help increase your business.
We have added over 300 major features and changes to Cash Register Express and Restaurant Pro Express. 95 percent of these changes are added as a direct response to a request from one or more of our customers. Your suggestions count. E-mail your suggestions to sales@budgetpos.com -- we listen!
A few of the major new features and enhancements:
** Dozens of Speed-Ups and Short Cuts to help you ring up your customers and place orders faster
** More customer marketing tools to help you increase your repeat business
** More reports to help you make better business decisions
** New security features to help you better track and audit employee activity
** New options for sale pricing and coupons added to help you creatively increase sales and move old inventory faster
** An automated process for returns (including store credit slips so you still keep your money) to make the process more pleasant and ultimately more profitable
** New features for restaurants, including an excellent check splitting interface, multiple menus, modifier groups, enhanced kitchen printer and monitor functionality and restaurant specific reports
** Speedy credit card and debit card processing, 2-3 seconds over the internet
** Enhanced the time-clock keeping interface so you can automate another area of your business
Some advice related to your computers and equipment. The world changes fast; especially computers! To keep your business sales up, you have to change even faster. A retailer or restaurateur can not afford to stay still. You have to update your store or restaurant, change what you sell, change how you sell it, and always stay on your toes.
If you have older computers, you should upgrade them. It is ideal to have a computer with Windows XP, a Pentium 4 or equivalent, and 512 Megs or 1 gigabyte of RAM. You should back up your data on a daily basis. Your data is VERY important. USB 2 high-capacity hard drives are selling for less than $200 now. There is no excuse for not backing up. You should also protect your computers; virus protection (updated every 2 weeks and whenever there is a new virus or worm warning in the news) is essential. A router is essential. Running programs to eliminate spyware on your computers is essential. There is no excuse for not protecting your computers.
Retailers and restauranteurs spend 2-3 percent of their gross sales on technology. It should be part of your budget.
Finally, please make sure that you have an updated technical support and upgrades contract with Budget POS. The reasonable annual fee is well worth it for the over 300 major new features and enhancements coupled with knowledgeable technical support. Many of our customers have used the new features to significantly increase their profits.
Thank you for being a Budget POS customer! We appreciate every one of our customers! And we love your suggestions and responses to our newsletters
To purchase an upgrade for Cash Register Express or Restaurant Pro Express, or for more information about Cash Register Express, the # 1 rated Restaurant Pro Express, Budget POS, being added to our testimonial site or to submit a suggestion, please call your account manager below or write to sales@budgetpos.com.