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I was able to resurrect these screen shots of our system from 2004. I think you’ll agree we’ve come along way since then! Note: We were called “BikeSoft” back then instead of MerchantOS. This original system was used in just one store by our intrepid beta tester (er first customer?).
The Login Screen

Screen 1 - Select [...]

We got our Mac upgraded to the latest version of OSX Leopard to test out MerchantOS. As expected everything works perfectly on Leopard. To our delight, Leopard makes hardware much easier than before to setup.
For many retailers Mac is a great option over PCs due to shop aesthetics and the user friendliness of the system. [...]

Over the past 7 days MerchantOS processed $1.2 million in sales. That’s a lot of gifts!
Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year!

We’ve achieved a long term goal for MerchantOS: We now have 100 retail locations using the system. And we’re continuing to grow at a very good rate! In related statistical news, you (our customers) are now processing sales through MerchantOS at a rate of over $50 Million a year (or $3/second). Keep up the good [...]

Last time it was $5 million in 5 months. This time it’s a whopping $10 million in 4 months. That’s sales processed using MerchantOS. Total sales within MerchantOS is now around $25.3 million and growing fast!
We’ve been listening to your feedback and we have some big improvements in the pipeline. They include streamlined layaways, special [...]

MerchantOS is built to help retailers overcome real world challenges. One of our customers recently wrote us this story about how MerchantOS helped them catch a dishonest employee.

“I don’t want to think of my employees as thieves! Well, my idealistic fantasy was demolished when the opening count came up way short last Monday and all the scrutiny we gave the situation made it abundantly clear that the money had been stolen.”

“Thanks for designing a system with reality in mind.”

Over the past 5 months MerchantOS customers have processed $5 million in sales. The total sales processed is over $15 million. Great job!
We are dedicated to making your business easier to run. Let us know what we can do to keep those sales ringing.

We know many of your are getting ready to count your inventory. We’ve just released a major over haul to our inventory counting feature. We hope that you are happy with the new process and that it saves you time. We’ll be adding a handy print out for those of you who don’t want to walk around with a laptop as soon as possible.

We’re excited to announce our debut at Outdoor Retailer. This will be an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in our service to meet our staff and get some guided hands on time with the software. The show is from January 27th to the 30th.
If any of our current customers will be attending the show, please [...]

MerchantOS support has just received a new Macintosh in order to provide support for Mac users. If you have a Mac and want to use MerchantOS, you can use all the same hardware as PC users. Best of all you can call support and get the help you need to get started smoothly and [...]