Keep Control While on Travel
Many store owners or managers want to control their store even when they don't show up for work. It is easy to do and the cost is minor. This can be a real godsend for those that have to be gone for health problems, family matters, long overdue vacations or whatever. You only need a fixed address for your internet connection, any of the widely available inexpensive software packages designed for this application, a laptop computer and an internet connection where you are staying while away from work. The biggest expense is the laptop and there are many new ones that are under $400. If you want to print reports, you will have to bring along a printer and you can get good new laser printers for under $130. Be sure to save the boxes so that you can ship them to your destination with minimal hassle. Most hotels and motels, many restaurants and even airports have wireless internet connections available. Sitting in your home, hotel room or vacation home you can use your Store POS System to do almost everything that you could if you were sitting in your office working on the computer. The one important thing that you can't do is to remove your backup media and put it in a safe place. Hopefully, an employee will do this for you. Oh yes, the users that I know of that manage from remote locations have not had any problems with computer viruses. However, one would do well to resist the temptation to surf the web on either your server computer at the office or your laptop for remote computing.Labels: backups, computer viruses, Manage while you are gone, Store POS System
posted by MIB @ 1:44 PM
