Microsoft Takes Aim At POS Market

Microsoft Sales Management Systems

Financial terms of the agreement weren't disclosed.

SMS makes QuickSell, a line of Windows-based POS software. The products include QuickSell Commerce (QSC), a Web-enabled, scalable POS solution for in-store and online sales and marketing; QuickSell Commerce HeadQuarters, a management system for multistore retailers that pulls and integrates POS and back-office data from QSC implementations; and QuickSell 2000, a single-location retail management system. SMS competes with Intuit's QuickBooks Point-of-Sale Solutions For Retailers product, released last month.

Microsoft said it plans to offer small and midsize retailers a solution that integrates SMS' POS and retail management applications with its Great Plains Dynamics and Small Business financial software. The integrated solution is slated to be available in the third quarter in North America, with a global rollout expected next year.

The SMS/Great Plains solution stands to open new opportunities for VAR, developer and OEM partners, Microsoft said. VARs will get a unified solution that will allow them to target the retail vertical and expand their SMB customer base, while developers can use the Great Plains retail solution to create custom applications for specific retailers, the company said. OEMs also can extend their SMB reach by providing the solution as a feature-rich, scalable and low-cost upgrade from electronic cash registers.

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Pricing for the integrated SMS/Great Plains solution will start at $2,285, Microsoft said. SMS' QuickSell line remains available as stand-alone products, starting at $990 for QuickSell 2000 and $1,290 for a single-store/single-register implementation of QuickSell Commerce. Microsoft said the QuickSell products will leverage its .Net, SQL Server and XML Web services platforms.

Microsoft also plans to .Net-enable SMB financial and back-office applications from Navision, a Danish company the software giant acquired earlier this month. The $1.3 billion deal is slated to close in August.