What to look for in a system?

[POSforBiz]

We are opening a homemade wine, hops, and brew shop. Basically we will be selling ingredients for beer making and winemaking. All cash and carry with some items being sold by the pound. The hardest thing for me to wrap my head around is special orders. So if someone wants something not normally stocked, how do I order that, track it and fulfill the order? Are their any POS systems that fit that bill? Thanks!

[anirow]

As you had already indicated you ought to have a system which has a solid inventory management and a sophisticated order tracking.
i know about one such system,which completely fulfills all your requirements,it is called counterpoint pos. I am quoting the relevant feature you would be interested in from it's website:

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Order Management fulfills the needs of retailers who process orders from a website, mail order, or customer special orders. CounterPoint's Business Software capabilities include order entry, recording shipping information for shipping manifest integration, and order fulfillment of individual orders and batch order processing.

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for more details visit the website, http://www.counterpointpos.com