I began looking for a Point of Sale program for my Apple Solutions
Reseller retail business in early 2005. I tried a number of demo packages
from both the USA and Australasia and found them both cumbersome and
expensive. I finally settled on one based on Filemaker, which I spent
a lot of money on and tried to make effective for more than six months.
It appeared to have been designed on OS9, which though running on OSX,
had few of the benefits of OSX. A mistake!! I was ready to call the
whole POS exercise a waste of time and quit before I threw my iMac out
the window in frustration when I heard about LightSpeed on a discussion
website and tried it. It was so good and so fast I purchased it at Christmas
2006 and became the West Australian reseller as soon as I could. A very
short learning curve and extremely effective, it was in retail use within
7 days of purchase. Check the links to Xsilva below and/or download a price
list and the "Getting
Started" sheet. Charles Taylor