We are excited to announce that we have been selected to be one of two Point of Sale trainers at Joe Woodard’s conference May 24-26th 2010  This conference is for Intuit Advisors looking to take their practice to the next level.  We will be teaching POS certification track.  Please see Joe’s site www.scalingnewheights.com for more information and to register.

POS V9 is out and there are some great new features.  Intuit is trying to create new features that will drive repeat business and there are a couple of tools in the new version to help with that.  V9 has the ability to create coupons.  These coupons can be emailed or added to the receipts.  Also in V9 is customer center.  Customer Center provides details about your customers purchases and allows you to create targeted mailing lists based on past purchases.  Anyone on version 6.0 and older, it is time to upgrade.  with V7 and V8, it can make sense to upgrade to get these new features.  To help you decide, we are offering an additional 10% off our already 20%  off discounted software on all POS software purchases from our web site through December 31,2009.  Use coupon code b196a715f8 at checkout

For some unknown reason, POS will lose its database connection. You know this has happened when you try to log in and POS goes into the connection wizard.  There are a couple of things to try.  You can go to control panel in windows and click on Administrative tools.  Double click on services and find the qbpos database manager.  Try stopping and starting it to see if that helps.  Another way I have fixed this problem is to just create a new company file.  After the connection wizard fails a couple of times, you get a change to create a new file.  Name it something very different that your file name.  (Bogus file, bad data, etc)  Then when it creates the connection to POS, you can go to file, company data and open.  It will list your company file.  Choose that and it should open.  In very limited cases, this doesn’t work.  If so, you may have a data corruption issue.