User guide

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Contents
System Requirements 5
Information for existing users of Retail Point of
Sale 7
Changes to Retail POS 2011/12 8
Enhanced Cash Out function 8
Enhanced Table Manager (Retail POS
Professional only) 8
Appointment Manager (Retail POS Professional
only) 8
Preset Memo 9
Reset Transaction Number enhancement 9
Recent versions of Windows and User Access
Control 9
Upgrading from a previous version 10
Planning your upgrade 10
Before the upgrade 11
Upgrading from QuickPOS 5.0 to 5.1 13
Removing QuickPOS, QuickBooks Point of Sale
or a previous version of Retail Point of Sale 15
Installing Retail Point of Sale 2011/12 15
Installing Retail POS on a network 18
Information for new users of Retail Point of Sale
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Installing Retail Point of Sale 2011/12 21
Add an exception to the Windows Firewall on all
Retail Point of Sale machines 23
Running Retail Point of Sale 2011/12 for the
 rst time 25
Performing essential setup tasks 26
Locating your data  les 26
Running Administrator for the  rst time 27
Running Terminal for the  rst time 28
Registering Retail Point of Sale Terminal 30
Register each installed copy of Retail Point of Sale