I have been tasked to set up a New General/Retail/Grocery type store with about 5 lanes, and 1 Mobile Flower/Plants Lane. I have looked at other options while looking at Microsoft RMS 2.0 and POS 2009. Here are the few questions that I have, and was wondering if an expert here can help me with them.
- The store will have General Items (with Barcode Labels), Produce (with No Barcode Labels), Meat and Fish (w/ or w/out Barcode Labels) and Plants (Barcode Labels). Some of these items will have weight as well, and some of these items will use price embedded in Barcodes (Meat etc). Which option will serve me best in this scenario and let me do all that needs to be done without any issues, Microsoft RMS 2.0 or POS 2009?
- Which ever solution is suggested, which is the best compatible hardware for it to use in the scenario above. Please also note that the owners want to use the combo SCALE/SCANNER units, the big ones like Magelan or Datalogic, will they work as well, if yes, how do I find out which are the compatible models.
- Instead of using Pole Display, can a second Monitor/Screen be attached facing the customer, and if it will just show the items being ringed up, plus related advertisments on one side of the screen. Is this even possible with either Microsoft RMS or POS 2009?
- Since this is a Brand New implementation, which would be the best Software solution to use, which does not run into upgradation, end of life kind of issues in the next 5 years. Which version of Windows Operating System to use, Which version and flavor of Microsoft SQL to use which does not run into any kind of space issues.
- Is it possible to archive say previous years data to a back office or a different kind of system or even a dummy or duplicate system to offload unnecessary data from the servers.
- Any/All other issues that I might need to keep in mind once I start on this project if I were to use either Microsoft RMS 2.0 or POS 2009. I am sure I could use expert help from people here who have implemented already and ran into issues.
Thanks a lot.