multiple stores

Are you already using a HQ environment? If so, then you would open your Front desk as an additional store and create and keep all items in HQ. What you would then do is set all store skus to a status of Inactive, and Do not Order for the Front Desk - and then all Front Desk skus to Inactive and Do Not Order for Store. When you create new skus - you can selectively issue (I use region) to specific store types. This will keep your reporting accurate - separate and together (HQ) - for each store.

If you use the same db - you will see cumulative sales - and both the Front Desk and Store will see/share each other?s skus. Not awful if you are bar-coded - but not great for HQ/SO reporting.

Does this make sense?

Ellan, We have worked with a couple museums to develop a lightweight bridge between RMS and the Ticketmaster Vista program. If you are using Ticketmaster for ticketing and are interested in learning more please give our number below a call and ask for Rick Feuling, or give him an email at snipped-for-privacy@rite.us.

Ellan, I recently installed an RMS system in a similar application, a Zoo. We have 6 touch screen pos terminals, 2 in the gift shop and 4 in the admissions booths. The gift shop and admissions share a common database and we use departments and categories to separate the two areas. It is easy to create reports that contain just the specific areas you are interested in for sales. We print barcodes for all items in the gift shop and we began our 6 digit ILC numbering at 100000 and the codes for admissions are using a different range of ILCs so there will not be conflicts if you wish to run range reports. As an aside, we are using the customer file to track patron zip codes and it is working really well and it is good demographic reporting data. I was able to find a site on the internet that allowed me to download every zip code in Arkansas to use to set up the initial "customer file".

Regards,

Kinnard

K> we are currently using rms in our museum store. Now we want to sell tickets

Retail Realm has a ticketing system built as an application on top of RMS with event planning, admission, membership, coupon and voucher handling etc... If you are interested contact me. This is a great application for Zoo, Museums, Galleries, Theme Parks, Theatre and Cinemas.