We started as an online company and have now acquired a shop premises.
We've been using the online cart system that has worked really well for us and I have written software to interface with our Sage line 50 accounts system.
I am now a little undecided in how to manage various aspects of the business as we are also a UK distributer for products too, so have to take into account both the distribution and retail. The EPOS software looks to handle this quite nicely.
I'm not particularly keen on the Sage software so am looking at changing across to quickbooks and with the actinic back end being Access think that it would be easy enough to link sales data into either Sage or Quickbooks.
Questions are:
1. How do you guys do it? Do you have your accounts system also managing stock levels for you or do you just have it as an accounts system with EPOS managing your stock.
2. Has a module linking EPOS to sage/quickbooks been written yet? I noticed that the actinic's Link software works for their other offerings.
3. Do you have your online sites linked to the EPOS if it is managing your stock, and how do you find that? I am more than happy with zen, and so would like to maintain that, using my experience to create a link to the backend of actinic to update/maintain stock levels...this only needs to be a one way connection as we don't require nor need stock levels on the web side.
4.What auxillary equipment can you recommend. I noticed many people talking about the piccolink units, but information on them is fairly limited, do they come supplied with a base station or is that a seperate purchase? Are there cheaper units that are compatible available? It would be handy to have a wireless unit for the distribution side of things.
Any helpful hints and tips would be much appreciated.
Oh, and a note for the developers, not a great start when the 30 day download won't even install properly, coming up with errors so that you have to reinstall the epson stuff before you've even started! Only managed to solve that by looking on these forums!
We've been using the online cart system that has worked really well for us and I have written software to interface with our Sage line 50 accounts system.
I am now a little undecided in how to manage various aspects of the business as we are also a UK distributer for products too, so have to take into account both the distribution and retail. The EPOS software looks to handle this quite nicely.
I'm not particularly keen on the Sage software so am looking at changing across to quickbooks and with the actinic back end being Access think that it would be easy enough to link sales data into either Sage or Quickbooks.
Questions are:
1. How do you guys do it? Do you have your accounts system also managing stock levels for you or do you just have it as an accounts system with EPOS managing your stock.
2. Has a module linking EPOS to sage/quickbooks been written yet? I noticed that the actinic's Link software works for their other offerings.
3. Do you have your online sites linked to the EPOS if it is managing your stock, and how do you find that? I am more than happy with zen, and so would like to maintain that, using my experience to create a link to the backend of actinic to update/maintain stock levels...this only needs to be a one way connection as we don't require nor need stock levels on the web side.
4.What auxillary equipment can you recommend. I noticed many people talking about the piccolink units, but information on them is fairly limited, do they come supplied with a base station or is that a seperate purchase? Are there cheaper units that are compatible available? It would be handy to have a wireless unit for the distribution side of things.
Any helpful hints and tips would be much appreciated.
Oh, and a note for the developers, not a great start when the 30 day download won't even install properly, coming up with errors so that you have to reinstall the epson stuff before you've even started! Only managed to solve that by looking on these forums!
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