Werck BV today announced the international release of Checkout 2.0, the total point of sale solution for small to medium sized Mac-based stores. Werck is the joint venture between development studio Sofa and small business-focused MYOB US.
Checkout 2.0 lets retailers process credit cards real-time, create and manage purchase orders, have multi-user access to their store over a network, and integrate their Checkout data with MYOB AccountEdge or Intuit’s QuickBooks Pro for Mac. Checkout 2.0 runs on Mac OS X 10.4.10 or later.
“Checkout 2.0 is a powerful Point of Sale system with tons of new customer-requested features, but what’s most gratifying is that we were able to improve ease-of-use even further,” says Dirk Stoop, Partner, Werck BV, in the press release. “It’s a more mature product, and we stand by our mantra that you can get a Mac, start a store, and be up and running in 15 minutes.”
• Credit Card Processing: Checkout 2.0 users can now save time and money by processing credit card payments directly from Checkout. Credit card processing is currently available with an MYOB Merchant Account (available in the US only).
• Store Sharing: With Store Sharing, Checkout 2.0 users now have the option to share their store, using Checkout with multiple cash registers in the store front, managing their store from their office, and dealing with inventory in the stock room, all at the same time.
• Stock Room: Checkout 2.0’s Stock Room lets the Checkout user create and manage purchase orders, reorder stock, and oversee all vendor-related business.
“We’re happy to introduce Stock Room in Checkout 2.0,” says Werck partner Hugo van Heuven, in the press release. “Having the ability to create purchase orders in Checkout was a big request from our customers.”
• Works with Mac Accounting Software: Integration with MYOB AccountEdge and QuickBooks Pro for Mac lets Checkout 2.0 users export journal entries directly into their accounting software.
• Free Upgrade: Checkout 2.0 is immediately available as a free upgrade for all Checkout v1.x customers as a download.
• Support: All Checkout customers will now have access to English-language phone support for their customer service and technical support needs. Information on Checkout support plans can be found at their website.
In the United States and Canada, Checkout 2.0 is sold as MYOB Checkout and will be sold by MYOB US. MYOB Checkout 2.0 is available through Apple resellers, on the Web, and mail order catalogs. Internationally, Checkout 2.0 is available from Werck Sales BV.
Checkout 2.0 is priced at $399 / €329 for new users.
More info here.
Will this work for corner crack sales?
“All Checkout customers will now have access to English-language phone support for their customer service and technical support needs. “
Does this mean good ol’ USA? Hope so.
Very tired of India support.
News like this just chips away at Windoze dominance in the business world.
Slowly but surely….
That’s POS. Not POS. Understand?
English language support does NOT mean American support operators.
I heard reported this morning that some company was bringing something like 6000 phone support jobs back to the U.S. from India, but were having trouble finding qualified Americans to do the job. Finding Americans that “want” to do the job I will buy; finding “qualified” Americans to do the job??? Please… anyone who has dealt with big company support knows that a monkey could provide equal service and results.
@iDon’t,
<looks outside>
Nope. Looks like these guys are having problems getting it up and running. Yep. Looks like one of them is on the phone with the free tech support. Well, it’s back to “handshakes” for these guys.
What a decrepit Wreck.
It needs a touch screen freely interface. Very few point of sales system work with a mouse interface, because your hands need to free to work other things.
The website for the product looks like ass on Safari. You’d think they would have checked that before the press release.
I get it Enki. LOL
Spark
Ironically, it was AT&T;
Looks fine with Camino.
Just to clarify, the support for the Checkout product will be provided by our reps in lovely Rockaway, NJ…
And we’ll take a look at our site on Safari ; )
Scott, MYOB US
Seriously, people have some high standards or some poor vision. Use some cleaner on your monitor, relaunch Safari and look again.
iD10t
Actually, their site looks great on Safari. I’m not sure what you’re looking at.
We’ve been using Checkout 1.0 in our store for a some months. It worked great on the sales part. But to our great disapointment the software didn’t work right when it came to its accounting output. The moment we started asking questions about it the support desk wasn’t there anymore. As far as I can see they didn’t fix the accounting problem in this new version. It only integrates with MYOB accounting software. So try before you buy. In the end we got our money back without a problem and had to find another solution.
Once again, someone who is making incorrect assumptions. Checkout 2.0 integrates with both MYOB AccountEdge and QuickBooks Pro for Mac. As for the support desk, in Checkout1.0 – there WAS no support desk. The only help available was via email.
I do agree with the try before you buy option. There is a 30-day trial offered on the site so you can see for yourself what works, what is available and what isn’t.
iD10t
To ID10t
Were talking about The Netherlands, the country were Checkout is developed. The software does not integrate with Dutch accounting software and it stil doesn’t. Made by Sofa did not react by email nor did they react on our phone calls. In the end the told us the reason they didn’t react was because they had an English speaking person answering the mail, who did not understand our email/phone messages. Imagen that. And why didn’t they try to fix our problem, or come with a solution? The demoversion we’ve been trying became the definitive version so it was not possible to try out all the details, without spending weeks filling the database and faking a shop and checking everything in our accounting software. We assumed (and we made a mistake there) that, because they say “make your accountant happy, easy bookkeeping” that the things we wanted (which aren’t very complicated) were possible.
We were very happy with most of the program so we still think: Check it out very carefully!
I opine that to receive the home loans from banks you ought to present a great reason. But, one time I’ve got a small business loan, because I wanted to buy a building.