Has anyone ever used or evaluated a product from Nodus Technologies called Retail Advantage. It is supposed to be an interface between RMS and Great Plains. (It is actually part of a whole suite of products from Nodus, including their eStore Solution Stack used to connect Great Plains to a webstore, and Credit Card Advantage to handle credit card processing from within Great Plains).
We had a demo of Retail Advantage yesterday, and on the surface, it looks pretty good. According to their developer, this product can actually replace RMS Headquarters. You setup your individual stores within the product, and a web service runs on a scheduled basis to update Great Plains with RMS sales, inventory, customers, purchase orders, store-to-store transfers, etc, and also works the other way, updating RMS with Great Plains data. All of the reports that you would normally run from within HQ would be run from Great Plains.
Anything that will help us mate up RMS and Great Pains is a good thing in my book, but billing itself as a HQ replacement has me a little nervous. In particular, I'm not quite sure how it handles multipe store inventory and if it allows store-to-store lookups of inventory. If anyone has anything good or bad to say about this product, I'd appreciate it.
Bill Yater The Worth Collection snipped-for-privacy@worthltd.com