A brief description and a few of the major screens are shown below. Although these Add-ons are sold at an additional cost above and beyond the POS, you will find they are worth it. If you have any questions about these add-ons, please contact your dealer or DotDude.com, Inc.

You may download the manuals for each of the Add-ons shown below for more in-depth descriptions of the functionalities of each program. Screen shots below are not shown to scale but have been resized for display on this website.

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This Secondary monitor will scroll advertisements you have previously setup to include JPG and GIF files as well as animated files. By setting timers you can determine how long an ad appears and you can also tie a specific ad to certain inventory items. You have the ability to set different dates for different ads to show. Your receipt shows once it is started for the customer and when a specific item is scanned, the tied ad comes up to remind the customer to purchase other items associated with the original item purchased. This is great for UP-SELLING.

Colors, wording, backgrounds and much more are all definable within an easy setup screen by you, the store owner.

Screen Manual (pdf)

This program runs in the background and can be setup to start automatically when you turn on your computer.

You can set a timer on how often you want the routine to copy any changed data from your server to an outlying work station.

Paths are set by a Point-And-Click buttons.

Auto-Backup Manual (pdf)

The Hand Held software add-on allows you to use a PDA running MS-Mobile operating system to wirelessly tie into your POS data. From the PDA you can add, edit and delete inventory. You can adjust on hand quantities. You will be able to create invoices and then save them for processing at the counter. You will also be able to create Purchase Orders and receive from Purchase Orders as well as receive in inventory where no Purchase Order was made.

By using a PDA with a built in barcode scanner, this increases your productivity many times over.

Using the PDA along with Terminal Services built into Windows, your updates are live and instantly updates your POS data. No data downloading is needed.

Hand Held Manual (pdf)

Although a Time Clock is built into the POS at no extra charge, you may have employees you don't want to have access to the POS.

Our Remote Time Clock allows employees to sign-in, take breaks, take lunch, and sign-out without ever having access to the POS.

Full reporting is built into the POS for tracking all employees as well as an exporting function for importing into a time management software.

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Time Clock Manual (pdf)

Check Cashing is a very popular service supplied by many retail business today. By using our Check Cashing routine, you can cash checks for your customers, check their past check cashing history and verify it is a legal check.

You set the fee amount you want to charge a customer for cashing their check.

Check cashing is all done from the POS invoicing screen and you do not have to exit the program or switch to another program to cash a check. An invoice is generated for the customer automatically reflecting the charge for cashing their check.

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Manual found within standard manual

The Shopping Cart Interface (SCI) allows orders from your shopping cart to flow into the Rocket POS without any human interaction. The SCI runs in the background on your computer waiting for orders to hit your shopping cart and then automatically pushes these orders into the invoice screen of the POS. Any new customer is also added to your customer database through this routine.

You will have to work with your website designer to get the data from the shopping cart so it is passed into the SCI.

We also have a SCI for the Yahoo shopping cart.

Shopping Cart Manual (pdf)

The Synchronizer allows you to take a copy of your main POS data along with you on a laptop computer. This data can them be used as normal on the laptop, such as adding new inventory, sales, purchase orders, as if it is in your store, etc.

Once you are done at your remote location, you can then take the laptop data and synchronize it back into your main data files. This is great for doing trade shows, traveling salesmen and many other remote functions that you may think of.

Synchronizer Manual (pdf)

The SQL Multi-Store software allows all of your stores to communicate back to a Home Office for centralized management of your stores data.

Communication is automatic from the stores and no clerk intervention is needed.

You can add, edit and delete inventory, initiate purchase orders, receive purchase orders, reporting, mass changes of pricing and many other functions. All changes or updates that you do from the Home Office can be directed to one store or to all of your stores.

Customer information can also be shared between stores.

One store can check another's store inventory levels from the inventory screen or the invoicing screen. Inter-store transfers can also be done from one store to another as well as from the Home Office to different stores.

The SQL Multi-Store should be setup by your dealer or an experienced MS-SQL networking technician. An experienced technician is someone who understands IP addressing, firewalls, router ports and Sequel Query Languages. If you're not familiar with these terms and their uses, do not attempt to setup the SQL Multi-Store on your own. We here at DotDude.com will of course help your dealer or technician with the installation. Once setup, using the SQL Multi-Store is very easy.

SQL-Multi-Store Manual (pdf)