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AUSTIN, Texas–Austin-based SalesVu just released its latest mobile payment and point-of-sale application, SalesVu 2.2 for iPhones and iPads. This new update is intended to replace costly server-based POS solutions with a more affordable and reliable option.

Traditional Windows touch screen POS solutions found at many retail stores and restaurants today usually cost tens of thousands per terminal. Pascal Nicolas, founder and CEO of SalesVu, notes the high cost is partly due to the more expensive hardware required to run the POS, which includes not just the terminals and separate monitors but also on-site servers. The SalesVu iPad POS application is free, and iPad tablets are considerably more affordable than the costly traditional infrastructure required to run POS applications,” he says. “SalesVu does not charge monthly subscription or technical support fees, which means paying for a traditional full-functioning POS is no longer a requirement for small or enterprise businesses.”

SalesVu is leading a new generation of mobile POS systems that are transforming the restaurant, retail and service industries. By severing the cord to hardware-intensive technology and moving the infrastructure to the cloud, SalesVu 2.2 has brought much of the traditional POS functionality to the iPhone and iPad market as a free application easily downloaded and up in running in less than an hour. As a business grows, new terminals or locations can be added easily by downloading SalesVu from the App Store – all the products and inventory will automatically appear on the device from the business’ cloud account – removing the traditional time consuming setup process. A demo of SalesVu 2.2 can be seen here: www.salesvu.com/blog/salesvu-2-2-demo

The latest 2.2 release includes a revolutionary feature enabling cross-device-sync functionality which allows multiple iPads, iPhones or iPod Touch devices to communicate with one another within a single store location. Until now, this functionality has only been available in expensive networked solutions. “A fully featured server-based bar POS solution with eight terminals would have cost us over $100K plus annual maintenance fees, but we got the same benefits from SalesVu for less than $5K,” says Joan Castillo, owner of The Stardust Club in Austin, TX.

Another bar operator, Mike Halker, founder of the Due South Brewing bar in Boynton Beach, Florida, says, “We love the fact that we can open a tab from one iPad, edit it on another, and collect payment on a third. We also save on printer costs because all the iPads can print to the same receipt, kitchen, or bar printers – and intelligently know what to print to each one. There are other iPad applications such as Square, but they operate more as a simple cash register rather than a true point-of-sale solution. SalesVu allows us to manage and close multiple shifts per day, adjust tips at the end of each shift, have different employees and bartenders ring-up tickets under separate logins, and even split checks for large parties. The fact that SalesVu does all the work of a traditional POS and is available for free is a god-send for a business owner.”

SalesVu 2.2 also adds several features such as the ability to enter decimal / fractional product quantities. This allows businesses that sell by the pound to have a cost effective iPad system. Jun Alejo, owner Zweet Station in Los Angeles, CA, sells candy by the pound and has to say, “We love the fact that SalesVu now allows us to sell by the pound by entering a decimal quantity amount! We looked at various other free iPad POS solutions on the market and it is the only one that allows us to do that, while also providing all the features of the more expensive solutions.”

Another advantage provided by the SalesVu 2.2 release caters to large scale, multi-location businesses, allowing them to manage multiple stores and remote employees in real time from the cloud. “We love the fact that we can sit in our office in Dallas and see what products are selling at each store in real time,” says Henry Tjham, IT Director of a Dallas-based franchisor of quick-serve restaurants. “With SalesVu, our franchisees get a complete POS for just the price of an iPad and none of the technical issues that we had with other POS systems. The best part is that the corporate office is able to see all the sales analytics in real time from SalesVu.com. We can even change prices right from our office, add new products, and view inventory levels. We also looked a Square and other solutions but there is simply no comparison in overall functionality and ability to control our operations.”

SalesVu has partnered with Mercury Payment Systems to offer a free credit card reader to businesses who chose to accept credit cards in addition to cash. SalesVu has negotiated a low, flat rate of 2.7% for its customers for both swiped and manually entered credit card transactions in the US, which is lower than the rate charged by other competitors.

Hi my name is Jarod. In this video, I’m going to walk you through the new features of SalesVu 2.2. The biggest feature that we’ve added in this release is something we’re calling ‘Cross-device-sync’. Now what this allows is for you to open an order on one device, add products to it/from another and close it on any other devices that you might have. As you can see on my iPad POS right here, we touch the orders screen, you’ll see all the orders that are opened on this device. Now if we go to the online portal and enable the cross device sync, to do this you’ll go to settings, click on ‘cross-device-sync’, click enable cross-device-sync. You’ll have a list of all your active payment devices and in our case we just have 2 so we’ll just sync the 2. In your case you can choose 3 out of 5 or all of them depending on your needs. So once this has been saved, you’ll want to sync your device, and you’ll want to go back and now when we touch the ‘orders’, it’s going to show all the open orders from my payment device iPad 1 and it shows all the orders on iPad 2 as well. And we can open these up, we can remove products, we can add a baseball cap and then go back to our last open order. This is a pretty awesome feature, especially for bars, restaurant. We’re really excited to see how some other businesses use it.

Next thing we’ve added is the search by product or SKU name. So in this case, let’s say we want to bring up any of our pinot products, type in pinot and it brings all those up. If you have something more specific, obviously you can put it in as specific as you want to get. On the SKU side of things, I’ll show you how that works in case you haven’t seen it. So you’ll go to products and in this case we’ll edit a product. Let’s say we go to the chardonnay 08 bottle and we add the SKU code 08CHAR7. Click save and we’ll come back to our payment device and we go 08CHAR and that’s what’s going to come up. It’s also a really great feature for anyone that uses SKU codes, especially retailers.

So the next feature that we’ve added is the ability for you to remove tax on a single order. So if you have customers that are tax exempt. Let’s say they buy a bunch of cases for wholesaling. You can come in here and expand the order by touching the plus button and touch remove and then click yes. As you can see right here, you can remove the tax just for that one order. The tax will be reinstated for every order after that as you can see we’ll pay for this one and we’ll add another bottle and as you can see, the tax is back on there. If you want to close that back up, you’ll just have to push that button again.

The next feature that we’ve added is the ability to have decimalized quantities. So for example, if you’re selling items by the pounds or by the gallon and you want to sell it in partial amounts. In this case we’re selling coffee by the pound, come to the quantity and now let’s say somebody comes in and buys 2 ½ pounds. At 9.99 a pound and it calculates the difference for you. It’s a great way to sell in anything you’re selling in bulk, or by weight or some sort of measurements.

The last thing we’ve added that I can’t really show but we’ve added support for the Star Micronics TSP143LAN printer. Lot of you have asked for that so by popular demand it’s been added.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at 888-900-5819, email us at [email protected] or post in the support portal. We’ll be happy to hear your questions, comments or anything that you might have to say.