POS system with bar code scanner

Hi - I was wondering if anyone uses a bar code scanner to scan the items in that will be sold or purchased?  If so I am wondering how well it works - which scanner do you use?   

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

     Hi bigj67

    You can find a list of third party products that interface with Sage Simply Accounting at our Third Party Solutions page.  There should be a barcode scanner program somewhere on the list of third party programs.

    Hope this helps!

  • I have been waiting twenty years for Peachtree/Sage to add barcode scanning for the Item ID number.  None of the third party fully integrate. The european version of Sage has Q-tron. But will not sell it in the usa. I will keep hoping, but holding my breath.   

  • in reply to Mark Cordrey

    I personally know virtually nothing about Peachtree (this is the Sage 50 Canadian Forum) but I have used scanners with Simply Accounting DOS, Simply Accounting Windows and Sage 50 years ago.  Back in 2003 or 2004 when Alan Cohen and I were teaching the Simply Accounting Beyond The Basics course across Canada, I introduced him to the Metrologic keyboard wedge scanner and what I had been doing with some small stores (now they are connected by USB).  We kept it in the course until we stopped teaching.

    We did a test in one seminar where I had it hooked up and hidden while presenting.  In the afternoon, we discussed inventory issues and the program, then discussed retail.  Someone wanted to scan (in subsequent seminars, someone always wanted to scan).  So I asked them for their pop can, set up the SKU in Simply with the pop can bar code SKU as the item code and then pulled out the scanner and scanned it into a purchase and sales invoice.  Then I showed them it would scan into Excel, Word, a DOS window, etc.  After that we added it to the course at every seminar.

    When putting it into a housewares store and a convenience store, the scanner was programmed to enter the item code, then tab to the Quantity column and add a 1, then tab enough times to the next Item code field on the next line ready for the next scan.

    I'd be surprised if you can't use one with Sage 50 US.

  • in reply to Richard S. Ridings

    Sorry did not realize the forum I was in. You are correct that will work. But only if Item id number is what is being scanned. Barcode translator is need it to convert UPC to item Id numbers. And many UPC are connected to one item ID number. thanks