Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 includes Retail Modern POS, a point-of-sale app for PCs, tablets, and phones. Sales staff can process sales transactions, customer orders, and perform daily operations and inventory management with mobile devices anywhere in the store, as well as at PC-based registers. The Retail Modern POS app can either connect to a database directly, or to Retail Server. The new Modern POS application is built from the ground up as a native Windows store application and can run on Windows computers, tablets and mobile phones. One of the most exciting features of the new windows modern POS application is that devices can connect wirelessly to the store server database either on premise or in the cloud on Microsoft Azure.
Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Point of Sale introduces a number of enhancements to create a modern shopping experience. The introduction of Modern POS (MPOS) is a significant enhancements for the AX 2012 Retail solution. Sales staff process sales transactions, customer orders, and perform daily operations and inventory management with mobile devices (PCs, Windows 8 tablets and phones) from anywhere in the store, as well as on a PC-based register (traditional pos).
CU8 brought these enhancements to MPOS functionality:
• Shared shifts in Microsoft Dynamics AX Retail and Modern POS
• Role-based screen layouts for Modern POS on Windows phones
• Filters forproduct searches on any Modern point-of-sale device
• Columns can be resized on the Modern POS transaction screen
• Product searches by product category or from within a retail product catalog can be made on any Modern point-of-sale device
• Side-by-side product details comparison and an enhanced product details view can be made on any Modern point-of-sale device
