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NCR Counterpoint
What Is NCR Counterpoint?
NCR Counterpoint is a comprehensive retail management system that helps businesses connect with customers and sell from anywhere. The system provides a wide range of features including mobile point of sale capabilities, email marketing, inventory management, and real-time alerts. NCR Counterpoint also offers fully integrated hardware and customization options to help specialty retailers grow their business.
Who Uses NCR Counterpoint?
NCR Counterpoint is designed for specialty retailers in apparel, lawn & garden, sporting goods, wine & liquor, and others.
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Reviews of NCR Counterpoint
A Review On NCR Counterpoint
Comments: We have been using NCR Counterpoint at our computer retail store for years now, and despite some of the flaws, it has been an invaluable tool for our daily operations. It's not too complicated to learn how to use this, if you devote some time to learn the different features & procedures necessary for functionality. It is mostly reliable and stable, barring a few instances where it can seem unstable or glitchy. Didn't have a chance to use customer service, so I can't really comment on that. Our internal IT takes care of all the issues, and they seem to be able to be resolved fine, so I can only give 3 stars.
Pros:
NCR Counterpoint is able to keep track of past retail sales tickets and invoices, as well as allowing to reprint past receipts/invoices through various search filters. NCR Counterpoint also allows us do a quick refund after return on the customer's same card swiped, as long as it is on the same day. NCR Counterpoint has a way to quickly view the available inventory stock for a particular item across all of our registered store locations.
Cons:
Sometimes NCR Counterpoint will crash when minimized or hidden, and you would immediately lose the ticket that you are working on, making it unable to be recovered at all. NCR Counterpoint also closes the Ticket Query/Entry window automatically after making and order or quote, it would be better if it stayed open so you can quickly jump to the next ticket without having to retype your password all the time.
Counter Point POS for the Small Business
Comments: This product has many functions but has limited functionality of the functions. NCR could have done a much better job researching the market and finding out what functionality should have been included. Features that have either limited ability or the ability was grossly under developed causes issues. The application runs slow, the back office operations are extremely limited, the receiving process is underdeveloped and quiet frankly the entire application is remedial. This product CAN become a top notch application if the features were added to the base system. For example QBE (query by example) has been common place in application for the last 16 years and is non-existent in this application. The base reports that come with the system does not even have a simple re-order report that would merely query the min and max and current balance. I have been in the IT industry as a developer for 27 years and have seen the best to worst applications. This one sits right in the middle!
Pros:
Has a good interface , easy to change the screen design of the touchscreen buttons. Has minimal maintenance to keep it running. Allows integration from an interface. Close out process is simple. Easy to setup . And the number one Pro is that it integrates seamlessly to NCR Retail Online application which I am building right now. And that product is a very competent solution. All orders process back down into the Counterpoint POS!
Cons:
Security application module control is lacking functionality, Integration interface has limited functionality for populating and correcting sub tables, querying is limited for end user setup, multi-pricing on a grid level does not come with the base system!!!!! REALLY, what do you think a clothing store needs are? Rules base sales transactions application is so full of holes it would sink if it were a boat! The contract management and vendor management is almost non-existent.
NCR Counterpoint is a robust, reliable and user friendly software
Comments: Good software for retails businesses as well as workplace cafeterias.
Pros:
1. Wide ranging functionality with reliability 2. Easy to upgrade 3. Error messages provide solutions 4. Easily queried database 5. In built Export and Import options
Cons:
1. Forms customization not inbuilt 2. Database size limitation with SQL Server Express 3. There are extensive setup options so implementation of several modules may be tedious.
Great Software For Point of Sale
Comments: Counterpoint made our inventory and POS terminals simpler and more efficient.
Pros:
Counterpoint has been great for our point of sale and inventory system. Simple ways to do most everything and extremely easy to get people up and trained on the system.
Cons:
Any regulation related tracking is very poorly put together. Routinely updates are pushed that force us to have violations with the ATF and it rarely gets fixed. They promise to build it compliant but have yet to deliver anything that doesn't cause more headache then its worth.
