Many electronic cash registers give you the ability to transfer your business's sales data from the cash register into a desktop accounting software package such as QuickBooks or Peachtree Accounting.

Cash registers vary from self-contained, standalone units to large, multi-terminal server-based systems. The software that drives these machines also varies in depth and complexity, ranging from ...

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