Retail Pro International is pleased to announce the general availability release for Retail Pro Prism POS – 1.3.4. This release includes several enhancements to the Retail Pro Prism capabilities, including Physical Inventory functionality. Some of the more significant additions are noted below. Contact your Retail Pro Business Partner today for more details and to see if your business is ready for Retail Pro Prism®.

Keep track of all your inventory
Retail Pro Prism now includes a new Physical Inventory (PI) area so you can take regular, physical counts of your merchandise on a macro level in the store or warehouse, or on a smaller scale within a single bin or shelf.

Prism PI Capabilities:

• Start a physical inventory files for any location
• Record physical counts information to a physical inventory file already in process by scanning barcodes or manually typing item identifiers
• Import counts with a file (fixed-length or delimited)
• Read current on-hand values from inventory and write those values to the physical inventory file as the start quantities
• For easier review, a separate discrepancy display lists all items whose physical counts do not equal the starting values
• Print physical inventory information
• Send PI sheets to Retail Pro 9 for updating

Increase efficiency at the POS
This release includes a new Options button that increases efficiency through easier access to most common POS tasks, including:

• Transaction Lookup
• Pending Transactions
• Customer Lookup
• Gift Card Balance check (if use of EFT or central gift cards is enabled)

Look up customer details – securely
Customer area continues to be the focus as consumer-centric initiatives drive store processes. In this release customer functional area includes:

• New “Apply Customer Tax Areas” preference that gives retailers greater flexibility when it comes to assignment of customer tax areas
• Easy access to check and print customer’s central gift card balance (optional)
• New workflow with enhanced security functionality for checking a customer’s store credit balance
• New workflow for ‘forced tender’ transaction

Retail your way with ease

• Automatic Proxy recognition of hardware configuration changes in the Admin Console
• A new version of the Prism Launcher (1.6) for use with iOS 9 devices
• Additional designs for Document Designer
• Enhanced RP Prism Communications via PrismMQ