Amigo Point Of Sale 2008 is a highly intuitive point of sale application intended for hospitality and light retail environments where extensive employee training is not always possible or desirable. With the end user in mind, Amigo Point Of Sale designers have made every aspect of the user interface accessible from any terminal on the network so that managers are not restricted to an office machine for quick menu changes and updates.

Amigo Point Of Sale is all inclusive. All modules are included in the price. There is never a charge for new features for users that own the current version of Amigo Point Of Sale. When same version updates are released, they are made available for download at a secure URL.

Purchasing Amigo Point Of Sale is easy and fast. There are no monthly fees or other gimmicks that are common with other point of sale software providers. One license is required for each terminal that is used to enter customer orders. A license is not required for back office machines or remote video displays. Since a flat pricing method is used, you can start with one terminal and add additional terminals as required.

Each license ships with a single USB software activation device that must remain connected to any free USB port on the terminal. No complicated drivers or other setup required. Just plug it in. This device cannot be shared between terminals. If a hardware failure occurs and Amigo Point Of Sale is installed on a different machine, simply insert the USB dongle in the new machine for instant activation.

Amigo Point Of Sale includes a comprehensive restaurant menu with the ability to create:

• unlimited menu definitions
• unlimited menu categories per menu definition
• unlimited menu items per menu category
• unlimited optional groups
• unlimited optionals per optional group
• up to five price levels per modifier

Menu categories are displayed on the left side of the order entry screen. Up to 10 menu category buttons can be displayed at once. If more than 10 active categories are defined, an arrow button is displayed allowing the user to scroll to the next group of categories. The image below shows menu categories in double-height mode, in which case a maximum of 6 category buttons are displayed at one time. Each menu category button can contain custom text, a bitmap image and a custom color.

Menu item buttons are also highly customizable with user defined button color, image and text. Up to 24 buttons are shown per screen, with right and left arrows allowing the server to navigate forward and back. The image above shows quad-sized buttons, where up to 6 buttons are displayed simultaneously. The button size is defined on a per-category basis, so that some categories can use large buttons and others can use small.

Menu item optional buttons are used to enter prep instructions for the selected menu item. Some optionals may be MANDATORY, requiring the server to select at least one optional before continuing, other optionals may be EXCLUSIVE, where the server can only select one optional from the group, and other optional groups may be both MANDATORY & EXCLUSIVE, where the server must select one, and only one, optional item from the optional group.

An example of a mandatory & exclusive optional group is meat preparation, where the server must specify either Rare, Medium or Well Done. Another example is shown on the image above. In the image below, an alert is displayed reminding the server to select a required optional before continuing the order.

Menu item optionals can also have up to 5 levels, eliminating the need for repetitive entry of optional items. Each level may cause a price adjustment to the initial optional price, eliminating guesswork and uncharge items. For example. a deluxe hamburger may be server with mushrooms. The customer may request light mushrooms, no mushrooms, mushrooms on the side, extra mushrooms. The first 3 optional levels do not affect the price, but the EXTRA optional price level may add a fixed amount to the ticket.

Menu items are created and edited in back office. A menu item's properties may be edited on the item revision screen, which presents all of the properties in a user-friendly graphical screen that also displays the button as it would appear on the order entry screen.

For maximum speed, menu items may also be modified directly on the menu items grid. In the iimage below, the menu items datagrid is shown in DETAIL VIEW mode, where the fields are listed verically. The datagrid can be set to LIST VIEW mode, where the fields are shown horizontally.

Similarly, menu item optionals can also be edited directly on the datagrid, either in detail view or list view mode. Optionals are grouped alphabetically by Optional Group and are highly customizable to suit your business type.