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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.

Looking ahead:

Though our plans are not set in stone here is what we plan to work on next:

Boxed Items

There are a few things that could work better with items that are boxes. For example it should be easier to create single items from boxes and vice versa. When single items that are normally ordered in boxes are added to a purchase order they should automatically convert into boxes. We should be able to make these improvements in the next few weeks.

Assemblies

As with boxed items, items that are assemblies of other items could use some streamlining.

Rental Module Improvement

Our rentals module needs some general improvements to make it more effective and easier to use.

Workorder Templates

These would allow you to create standard work orders that you could use as a base when creating new work orders.

Employee/Shop Alerts and Messages

This feature would allow you to send messages to employees. You could post messages to all employees or one employee in particular. MerchantOS could also use this feature to let you know about updates and other support related issues.

E-commerce

A number of customers have stepped up the plate and paid ahead of time for E-commerce. Thank You!! It is our hope to have E-commerce operational in the Fall of ‘07. We’ll update you on a time line for this project once we have ironed out the details.

Register / Point of Sale Speed Boost

We would like to make the register faster to use and we think we know how to do it.

Email Integration

Many people have requested the ability to email customers more easily. A big goal for us is to work on communication between you and your customers. Websites and E-commerce is part of this equation and so is email and other forms of correspondence.

Touch Screen Point of Sale

I think many shops could speed up their sales by using a touch screen at the point of sale. We will be working towards making a version of the register that requires no key board or mouse. Once we have tackled the register we’ll work on making some of the other parts of the system optimized for touch screen. Work orders and rentals come to mind for starters.

There are hundreds of other features and improvements on our list, but these are a few things that many people have requested and we think are important. Let us know what is most important to you. We prioritize our development based on your needs, so make them heard.