What's new at MacPOS Solutions

MacPiOS Lookup is an iPod/iPhone app designed to integrate with MacPOS v2013 and provides price and stock lookup of items in the database.  A feature in MacPOS will enable you to update stock quantities from scanned items during a physical inventory or add the item to a Purchase Order. Shown below are screenshots from Lookup running on an iPod. The Clerk Logs on and authenticates with MacPOS. The Clerk ID must exist in the MacPOS employee database to continue. Enter the Item ID or scan with a bluetooth bar code scanner of the product to lookup and MacPOS will return the price, cost and current stock level. The cost can be displayed to managers or those employees with privileges to see sensitive data. If the product has a URL in the MacPOS database you can open and display it to view more product information.  This enables product linking directly to your online store or any desired URL.

We have finished installing X-Cart eCommerce software which now runs our online store at store.macpos.com. We also have a demo store of X-Cart located which will be setup to work with a MacPOS Pro demo to highlight interoperation between them. Feel free to visit the new store : http://store.macpos.com  and get MacPOS while it is on sale!

Happy New Year MacPOS v2013 is available for purchase and updates are ready for download. New PDF manuals and online help  that can be quickly accessed from the MacPOS Help menu and your Download page. We have many new features that are coming to MacPOS in 2013 so check back often and see what's new at MacPOS Solutions.

Many of you may have heard about the recent Dexter Malware that has infiltrated POS systems worldwide.  In case you haven't, here is a  link  for more information about it. The good news is it cannot infect your Mac as it is only on other platforms.  Nor can it intervene in  MacPOS credit card processing as it employs Triple DES encryption of sensitive card information that prevents thieves from skimming that from your POS system. An excerpt from securitywatch.pcmag.com : Encryption As Defense  If the data collected by the PoS software had been encrypted, Dexter would not have been able to do anything with the stolen data. If the business had encrypted the data from the moment it was captured, either by swiping the card's magnetic data or paid in cash. Even encrypted, the format and integrity is retained, so the software can still access the data without any problems.  As far as the attacker is concerned, there's nothing of value to steal. ...

Scene To Believe will be using MacPOS Pro in 167 locations throughout Australia, New Zealand and Singapore this Christmas season. This is their 4th season of using MacPOS for tracking sales information and uploading the day's sales totals, payments and stock quantities to headquarters. Visit them this season in your favorite Mall and have your children's pictures taken with Santa Claus.

AmuseMatte is starting their 2nd season with MacPOS Pro for tracking sales in their digital event photography business. With 37 locations in the US, they collect data from each location and correlate the totals into a single report that management can access via a secure web page.

MacPOS v2012 is compatible with the new release of OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion and is supported on Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6  and 10.7 The new version 2012 is up to 30 times faster than MacPOSX v2011 and with many new features .