9 years ago, Fototico
Great little app but lacks key features
This is almost the little app that could. Unfortunately it can't compete with the big boys... yet. I say yet because I see a lot of potential. The app is very basic but it works. It has some bugs but at the same time it lacks some features. A huge plus is that you don't have to pay a lousy monthly subscriptions. It seems to keep inventory very well and it's easy to use. I love the ability to scan barcodes with the camera. Unfortunately, there are some features that are missing and some bugs to be fixed. Such as the ability to print inventory reports and not just order reports. Having the ability to print reports that show all the items (not money figures) sold in a day, week, month, or a rage of days would be great. It would also be nice to be able to enter vendors' information and print out purchase orders for inventory by vendor. That way reordering sold items would be easier. The vender would be entered when you create a new item. An inventory and sale history report for individual items would be nice, that way you could look up a particular item and see how many you have sold and how much money that particular money has generated. The app gives you the sales figures ($) for the day, month, and hear. Unfortunately it lacks a week report or the ability to enter a day range. A lot of booking books record figures on a weekly basis. It lacks the ability to take more than one type of payment. For example, you make a sale for 2,000 dollars but the customer wants to pay 1500 cash and the rest with a credit card. The app won't let you do that. I also found a bug. I simulated a sale for about 2500 dollars. I pressed on "pay cash" and entered 2000 dollars, obviously less than the amount due. The app saved the sale and cleared everything. Even though I was 500 dollars short. That should not have happened. Perhaps it should warm you that the amounts entered is less than the amount due and ask you if you want to submit the rest by other means, such as check, credit card, and so on. If a credit card is used, it should ask you if you want to pay the remaining balance with cash or check and so on. The "other" payment has Discovery, MasterCard, AM, and Debit, but it lacks Visa. I It would also be nice to add gift certificates. I suppose the "prepaid" are gift certificates. I also don't see a way to ad a tip to a sales after it has been completed. Also, what is the "server" button for? I looked in "help" to see if it would tell me about what is it and how to use it, but there is nothing about it in help. Even though the inventory buttons are nice and big, I would prefer for them to be half their size to make it easier to fit another row. Perhaps that could be a personal choice that could be changed in the settings. Also, I haven't been able to figure out how to do a refund. Seriously, how do you do a refund? Prowls you can go to reports and delete an order entered, but there should be a record of refunds. If you delete the order, then any record of it cease to exist. Not good! It would be nice to have the ability to back up the Dropbox, Box, iCloud, or any of the other cloud services. Synchronization among decides, including a computer, would be a huge plus. This last would allow a computer program to be developed with the capacity to generate better reports and other features, as well as data back up thorough WiFi. Not that the app should reply on a computer to generate basic reports. The description of the this and the pro version lack an explanation about the difference between the two. And I see no difference in the screen shots. So why pay more? As much as I like this little app and I see so much potential for it. With so many basic features missing, I have to look for another app. I hope that the developer fixes some of these issues and that one day he doesn't start charging a monthly fee as well. Not everyone needs all the features offered by paid services. A large business with large sales volumes yes, but a small business doesn't need so many types of reports and options. Just a basic stand alone apps that gives you the ability to use it as a cash register and to keep track of inventory (with reports as well) is all we need.
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