FAREWELL TO BIZTRACKER RETAILER
We have come to the end of the product life for our Biztracker Retailer POS Software after 9 years. We will no longer be selling that product. With the questions about how much longer the Microsoft FoxPro database will be supported and the inherent issues with that product, it is time to say good-by. This is like when we as an industry moved from DOS to First-Generation Windows software, now it is time to move to the Second-Generation Of Windows software. If you are using version 8.0 we recommend that you contact us for a download and apply the latest free upgrade to their software. This will be the last upgrade from Biztracker for that product.
Upgrades are available from Biztracker Retailer to Biztracker Infinity.
SUPPORT WILL CONTINUE ON THE BIZTRACKER RETAILER & NICKELTRACKER SOFTWARE
JUST CALL OUR TOLL FREE PHONE NUMBER.
Biztracker Infinity Retail Management System is What is New!
The Technology Behind Biztracker Infinity
RDBMS at POS
Ask most other vendors whether they have a genuine RDBMS at their POS and the answer will be "No." Biztracker Infinity is the POS software solution that uses a genuine relational database - Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 Database Engine.
OLAP
You'll be glad to know that you can interrogate your data any way you want using Microsoft's OLAP tools. Whether you want to keep a month, a year or a decade's worth of sales, Biztracker Infinity can be used to build a complete data warehouse for on-line analytical processing.
The Linker(tm)
Biztracker Infinity has a patented Linker(tm) technology, which allows for a genuine distributed database set-up.
Imagine your marketing department wants to know what effect your latest promotion is having on sales.
With Biztracker Infinity, they can receive this information on the fly! Biztracker Infinity's Linker(tm) technology can be configured for minimal latency ensuring that POS can be seamlessly updated with the latest Head Office configurations within seconds. What's more, sales made at POS can be viewed back at HO as they happen.
Platform independence
Biztracker Infinity is 100 per cent Microsoft Windows SQL Server based. So whether you're running a stand-alone operation with one lane, or you're a super store with thousands of lanes across hundreds of stores the world's leading desktop Database System is available to you.
CRM compliant
Imagine a customer comes into your store and asks to know his or her discount structure for a range of products. Normally, you'd refer the customer to the back office of head office for such enquiries. Not so with Biztracker Infinity.
Simply punch in the customer code and with the click of a mouse button Biztracker Infinity will take you to your customer relationship managed website. When you're done, click the 'Done' button and you're back to the sale.
Totally Object Oriented
With Biztracker Infinity we deliver faster solutions, modifications and enhancements to suit your needs. And being written using Microsoft development tools from the ground up in a true object orientated fashion, Biztracker Infinity has a consistent look and feel throughout all of its modules.
Scalable
Whether you are a small store or a large corporation the same off the shelf software will work tirelessly for one lane or one thousand. This is made possible using Microsoft SQL Server as the backbone of our data store. If you grow, Biztracker Infinity grows with you.
Network Autonomy
What happens if your network crashes? Biztracker Infinity will simply carry on selling. When your network is restored, the Biztracker Infinity Linker(tm) will post the stored sales transactions back to Head Office.
Biztracker Infinity Shell
When Biztracker Infinity is run in this mode, your POS is entirely hidden from the Windows operating system. A password-protected shell prevents anyone from 'flicking' back into Windows mode.
Hardware Abstraction Table
Whatever your hardware is, Biztracker Infinity is compatible thanks to Biztracker Infinity's Hardware Abstraction Table. Biztracker Infinity can communicate with scanners, scales, card readers, slip printers, laser & inkjet printers, from almost any manufacturer and NCR Dynakey Systems. And don't forget, once you've configured Biztracker Infinity at Head Office that's it - you've done it everywhere.
Why you should ignore the others!
Most point of sale programs store data in ISAM (Indexed Sequential Access Method) databases such as DBase, FoxPro (Biztracker Retailer used FoxPro), Paradox and others.
Those databases do not provide guaranteed data integrity and true transaction control.
Some packages attempt to replicate valuable POS information between ISAM data sources and SQL back end database.
The end product is invariably a POS system that functions well if fully detached from a server (in the event of a network failure) but that cannot offer full transactional integrity. In other words, these products cannot guarantee transactions that have been processed at the front end in the event of a network failure will not be lost upon reconnection to the network.
POS Redundancy
Why You Should Demand It!
Nearly all competing systems on the market today depend on a network server for keeping the POS terminals up and running. The simplest interruption in communications - a network cable coming loose or a power supply failure, will cause a domino effect and bring the entire POS system to a stop. This can mean big trouble for you when the network goes down for any of a thousand reasons. Without access to necessary data, you can't checkout customers. You lose profits and they lose patience. Many competing systems provide solutions to this problem, such as scheduled item file preparations. However, users have found these techniques to be disruptive, time consuming, and better in theory than actual practice. But most POS Systems don't have any Redundancy at all. Worst yet many systems will lose data or corrupt your database and lock up your software preventing it from being used. Most repairs to data corruption are just to remove the affected data - which means you could lose customers, inventory items, history file, accounts receivable amount - many really bad thing can happen here.
Biztracker Infinity is the one software solution you can trust to keep your store checking out customers quickly and efficiently hour after hour, day after day. After many years of design and development, Biztracker has perfected true POS data redundancy. LinkerTM was designed with you, the merchant, in mind. If the local network stops working, each Biztracker Infinity POS terminal continues to operate independently without relying on the network to process transactions. Unlike competing system, LinkerTM assures that all of your POS functionality continues to operate as normal, even when your network has stopped functioning. Price promotions will start and end as scheduled. Item lookups, customer lookups, house charges, house payments and even credit, debit, and EBT can continue to function with little or no restrictions. Once the network and POS terminals are restored the system automatically updates the Biztracker Infinity Server. LinkerTM is fully automatic, requiring no scheduled item file preparation. You clerks won't even know the network in not functioning. Our competition just can't match this type of automated reliability. We call this redundant security "LinkerTm" - You'll call it "Sweet" - Insist on full Redundancy in you POS System - keep you business running and selling at all times!!