CRE Reviews
By: KC - 8/25/2014

<a href = "/point-of-sale-software_35/PC-America-Cash-Register-Express_1047/">Cash Register Express also known as CRE</a> is created by <a href = "http://pcamerica.com/">PC America in New York</a>.  It's been a long standing favorite of POSGuys for many years, due to it's extensive features, fair price point, and US based development team.

In it's early days CRE was designed to run on Windows 2000, it had the basic point of sale features and utilized barcode scanner input to ring up everything.  Since then CRE has been kept up to date works with all current versions of <a href = "http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home">Microsoft Windows</a> including Windows 8.1 (as of 9/1/14), and introduced a ton of new features and a focus on changes in the point of sale industry.

While at one point it only accepted key board input via a keyboard or a barcode scanner, it now has a touch screen interface for using a <a href = "/monitor_34/">touch screen monitor</a> or even can integrate with a website for handling web orders.  It also has a restaurant mode known as Restaurant Pro Express for businesses that have both food service and retail goods.

The customer display has been upgraded from being a two line lcd customer display like the <a href = "/pole-display_43/Logic-Controls-PD3000_202/">PD3000</a> to being able to utilize a second monitor to show advertisements as well as checkout information.

The inventory features have really exploded for automatic re-ordering, matrix items for clothing (sizes, colors, cuts, etc.), breaking down of cases into individual items, time based sales, custom pricing for different customer levels, and a whole host of other features applicable to inventory.

The reporting is in depth and accurate, in most reports you can specify different categories, cashiers, or time periods to really dial in what your looking for.

One of the best selling points is it's flexibility with payment processors.  While some software will only let you use their preferred payment processor CRE has a whole host or processors or can use PC Charge for even more options.

Overall it is a great piece of software that really has come a long ways.

CRE Reviews By: KC - 8/25/2014

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