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We are interested in our customers use of labor scheduling. Post a comment on how you schedule your employees. And if using our point of sale labor scheduling has been helpful for you.

This is an important update for all Point of sale users. This worm can severely impact your site’s operations. If you have any questions please email us or contact your reseller by phone as soon as you can.

So if you haven’t activated the Windows XP updates you should make sure they are running on all of your computers. Why? Because according to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7832652.stm an estimated 9.5 million computers have been infected.

The worm will not affect your terminals until it activates. This means your computer may be infected without your knowledge.

There’s a few more important concepts:

1. It can crack weak passwords in windows. This means, change your windows passwords to strong typed passwords.

2. It can be moved around with USB Drives. This means, if you are storing your backups on a USB Drive, make sure you also disinfect your USB Drives with a virus scanner.

3. It can infect and affect computers with the Windows Patch. Make sure you have a virus scanning software installed and running.

In this news letter we’ll point you to some helpful information for operations and security.

* New videos added for Coffee Shops.
* QuickBooks Integration Module
* 2 security issues you should know about your POS System
* Coming features for our system in the next 3 months.

New Coffee Shop Point of Sale Videos

Our goal is to make POS customer manageable and easy to setup and use. We have a new line of videos for the POS Terminal using our coffee demo menu. Check them out here.

QuickBooks Integration for POS, Get it Now and Save Time and Money:

Did you need a solution for importing your transactions and information into your QuickBooks File? We’ve now go it. It’s an add in module for $79.00 but you’ll make the money back in the first one or two times you use it.

* Easy wizard guides you through basic setup.
* Advanced options for handling different transaction layouts.
* Support for most transaction types including invoices, sales receipts, checks & deposits.
* Send up to thousands of transactions to QuickBooks at a time.
* Automatic sales tax calculation for sales transactions (optional.)
* Automatic amount calculation when selling items (optional.)
* Automatic name and account conflict resolution for easy import into QuickBooks.
* – Support for CSV, TXT, and other text files, opened in Excel.

PCI Compliance has Changed How it Affects you:

In this article we discuss the concerns of many amongst a new wave of credit card theft.

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Are you PCI Complaint? Call us to get an evaluation. If you are using a version of CCS older than CCS 2008 you may need to upgrade.
Coming Features:

Multi Site Real Time Tracking

* Track and Locate events going on across your enterprise, from the macro level to the cashier or POS terminal. Audit price changes, voids and keep an eye on your system as transactions are happening.
* Increased support for Lot Based Inventory.
* Simplification of Managing Recipes and Item Kits for Inventory.