These are the differences between Intro and Deluxe, Diamond and Virtual
- Intro's introductory price of $159 purchases the use of the software for one year with the option of renewing annually (for 3 years) or converting to a higher software edition (with full credit for amounts paid for Intro). Payments for BCSS Deluxe, Diamond or Virtual are one-time payments for lifetime ownership and usage.
- Inventory is entered in Intro only at the time it is sold, so there are no records of unsold inventory, no automatic discounting of aged inventory and no reports about unsold inventory.
- Intro only supports the use of a laser or dot-matrix printer. Deluxe or higher is needed to use a cash drawer, receipt printer or bar-code scanner. Diamond and Virtual support thermal label printing and networking.
- Price labels may be printed by entering items in a table in Intro, but the entries are not saved. Reprinting any label requires reentering item information. Price and address labels, consignment agreements, reports and checks can be printed using any standard laser-style or dot matrix printer.
- Intro doesn't support the use of bar codes or a listing of unsold items so at POS each item must be entered manually (as opposed to selecting an item from an item list, entering an Item ID or scanning a bar code).
- These features are not included in Intro: buyer fee, buyer records, consignor online access to inventory and balance data, data import/export, employee management, QuickBooks data export, disbursement records and reports, house accounts, inventory pictures, layaways, networking computers, rental sales, sale on hold, sales promotions, split POS payments, thermal price labels, wish lists.
- Diamond and Virtual support networking (connecting 2 or more computers to share the same database simultaneously), thermal label printing, records and management of employees, records (with demographics) of buyers (who make purchases) and wish lists.
- BCSS Virtual allows consignors to view their inventory and account balances online.
- The 'Training Panel' in Intro is replaced in Deluxe, Diamond or Virtual with handy Quick Links (which bring common functions and important information to the surface in the software's User Interface).
- Credit card transactions are processed completely outside of BCSS so there are no limitations in regard to credit-card processing with Intro. Just select the type of card that was used as the payment method at POS.
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