Cellular POS (point-of-sale) software is used by cellular service providers (agents, POS, dealers, distributors, etc) to manage their business. Cellular pos software helps these businesses manage their customer base, and perform necessary cellular business tasks such as activation. This business requires high speed, real time activities in order to keep pace with this quickly moving industry.
Features commonly available in cell phone point of sale package include:
- Tracking features for ESN/SIM/IMEI
- Carrier activation service
- Multi-store capabilities
- CRM tool
- Commission tracking
- Data security with encryption
- Accounting software or Interfaces into common financial software packages such as Quickbooks
Some software providers provide interfaces into standard business software packages such as MS products and Quickbooks, but others try to be a complete provider of all business software requirements with a complete business solution. Other software providers offer add on modules specifically designed to meet the needs of the cellular industry in order to fulfill business software requirements.
Major providers of software for the cellular pos provider include:
- Cellular Manager POS
- ManageMore
- Data Guard Systems
- Cellular-pos
- Dataguard systems
- RetailQ
- Teletracker
Some of the factors to be considered when making your cellular business software selection include:
- Distribution of sales agents (mobile or across multiple sites)
- Skill levels of agents
- Ease of use and training
- Support level for the product
- System resources: Not usually an issue, but sometimes small business environments are on over-taxed hardware already.