Christa,
You may want to check out Quickbooks POS.  It is made by the same people, so
integration is not a problem.  We just switched over in our store and it
works great.  It has made inventory tracking, ordering, sales, etc much
easier (after the learning curve of course).  Our contact was Richard
Hunter.  His information is: 
QuickBooks Retail Solutions Group 
2800 E. Commerce Place 
Tucson, AZ., 85706 

(800) 498 7401   ext. 29105 
(520) 901 3000   ext. 29105 

I just recommend that you do the switch over to the POS during one of your
slow periods so that you can work out the kinks.
Hope this helps, good luck.

Rick Olsen


Director of Operations & Curator
 
Indiana Railway Museum
P.O. Box 150 
French Lick, IN 47432
[log in to unmask]
www.indianarailwaymuseum.org
1-800-74-TRAIN
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Christa McCay
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 11:56 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Museum Shop POS

We have a system called Counterpoint. It works with Quickbooks and is  
a touchscreen computer which is nice since some of our volunteers are  
older and rarely use computers.  It uses barcodes and a handheld  
scanner.  We have been using this system for about 2 yrs and our books  
are much more accurate now.

If you have any questions please feel free to email me off the listserv.


Christa McCay
Registrar
Marietta Museum of History
www.mariettahistory.org

Quoting Betsey Mayhew <[log in to unmask]>:

> I am investigating POS systems for our small museum shop to replace our
> current cash box and handwritten sales slips. The system should integrate
> with Quickbooks, be in PC format and easily understood (at least the sales
> transaction activities) by volunteers. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Betsey Mayhew
> Martha's Vineyard Museum
>
> =========================================================
> Important Subscriber Information:
>
> The Museum-L FAQ file is located at   
> http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed   
> information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail  
>  message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message   
> should read "help" (without the quotes).
>
> If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail   
> message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message   
> should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).
>

=========================================================
Important Subscriber Information:

The Museum-L FAQ file is located at
http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed
information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message
to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help"
(without the quotes).

If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to
[log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff
Museum-L" (without the quotes).

=========================================================
Important Subscriber Information:

The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes).

If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).