Penny

A retail business requires a great deal of paperwork and manual labor to be successful, including cash registers, bar codes for every product, as well as various receipts and bills.

Keeping track of all this information without a computer is no longer feasible, especially if you have to handle a large assortment of products.

Penny is a point-of-sale application that enables you to automate almost every process that takes place in your company. Various types of accounts can be created to keep track of payments and vendors, including bank accounts, investments, loans and profits. Beside the name and the other usual information, like name and address, you can also add credit and bill limits to every account.

The application delivers a sales register system as well, where you can log and punch in every sold item, along with its price, name and barcode details. The total amount of sold products and their value is displayed for every account and you can search through the records for specific items.

Penny enables you to create and view a wide array of reports about the overall company activity, including balance sheets, payment reports, stock summaries and sale estimates. Each one can be manually edited to include the preferred time periods and they can be printed on paper for further review.

Barcodes have to be included on every one of your products, to help you organize and verify them at the register before completing the sale. These barcodes can be printed using Penny's built-in function, which can greatly speed up the labeling process of your inventory.

Although the application occasionally crashes every now and again due to some compatibility errors, Penny is still a handy application to have around if you are in charge of a retail business and you need to properly organize your stock items and keep track of payments.