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The Downtown Sacramento Partnership sponsored a 2nd annual Business First event on Friday, June 14th at the Sacramento Convention Center.  Nearly 400 new business owners and hopefuls were in attendance to hear key speakers provide helpful information for new businesses.  Also on hand were approximately 75 vendors in the convention lobby center sharing their business information and services with those in attendance.

There was much mingling and exchanging of information.  Big Hairy Dog was there to discuss retail technology to new retail businesses coming to the downtown area.  The half-day event was a big success.

Big Hairy Dog has donated a QBPOS system and hardware bundle, training and tech support in a package total worth of $8,500.  Big Hairy Dog is the City of Sacramento’s ‘Preferred POS Sponsor’. 

Get more information on this great event.

Last month, May 20th and 21st, BHD hosted a User Conference for their VIP customers, who flew in from around the country.  On the evening of the 20th, we enjoyed a box suite at the River Cats game and had a great time getting to meet each other and put faces with names.

On Tuesday, May 21st, the Citizens Hotel was the setting for the all-day conference where information was shared on the future of Retail Pro Inc, the newest product offerings and customizations.  Vendors also were on hand to share and demonstrate some awesome new hardware and integrations with the Retail Pro software. 

Lunch was catered by Mama Kim's Restaurant just a short walk to the Caesar Chaves Park.  It was a valuable and truly successful conference.  Below are some photos taken at the event.

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Effective Date: March 1, 2013

License Exchanges - RPI will no longer offer license exchanges on any Retail Pro licenses. We may approve, on a case-by-case basis, a no charge license exchange (except pro-rated SA) within 60 days of purchase. To get an exchange approved, please send your Retail Pro sales leader the details on the license exchange along with a copy of the original order for approval. Customers will not receive a refund or credit if the value of the licenses exchanged is greater than the value of new licenses received. Customers must be current on SA to exchange licenses.  

License Transfers - Customers that want to transfer Retail Pro licenses from one UID to another must be current on SA and the SA expiration dates must be the same for both UIDs. As of 03/01/2013, there will be a new $500 license transfer fee (per transfer order) for these types of license transfers. There is no BP margin on this fee.  

 Retiring Licenses - Customers that currently have retired Retail Pro licenses will have until 3/1/14 to unretire these licenses and renew their SA on these licenses or permanently retire them. Customers that retire licenses after 3/1/13 will have one year from the date the licenses were retired to unretire these licenses and renew their SA on these licenses or permanently retire them. Licenses that are permanently retired will retain no value and must be reordered if needed in the future.

Memo Inventory (Site) Licenses - Customers that currently have V8 Memo Inventory (Site) licenses will have until 3/1/14 to start an upgrade to V9 (place V9 Upgrade order) or start paying SA on their Memo licenses as of their next SA renewal. Customers that request new V8 Memo licenses after 3/1/13 will have one year from the date they were ordered to start an upgrade to V9 (place V9 Upgrade order) or start paying SA on their Memo licenses as of their next SA renewal,

Received From Retail Pro, Inc.:  Sacramento, CA :  March 25, 2013

Retail Pro International, LLC (RPI) considers the ability to use Retail Pro® efficiently and effectively as one of the most important mainstays within the Retail Pro community. As such, it is important that RPI maintains the ability to provide support to its customers as constructively as possible.  To facilitate this, we have a support structure that is capable of providing standard and emergency support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to our customer base via our Business Partner network. 

A customer's Software Assurance is paramount to maintaining this level of support. Therefore, a customer must be current on Software Assurance with RPI to take advantage of these support facilities.  

Provided a customer does have a valid Software Assurance contract with RPI they can receive Retail Pro support via their Business Partner. For customers not active on Software Assurance with RPI, support will not be provided under any circumstances, including situations where a customer is not able to use their Retail Pro® software because it is "down".  

In situations where active Software Assurance is not present, and a customer is in need of support from Retail Pro, a renewal for Software Assurance for that customer must be processed by RPI prior to receiving support. 

Retail Pro International, LLC

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The support provided by Big Hairy Dog Information Systems (BHD) may be affected by the above policy.  We will not be able to escalate a technical  issue to Retail Pro, Inc. on behalf of a BHD customer who is not current on Software Assurance.  If you have any questions regarding this, please contact our tech department at 916-368-1070. 

The Retail Pro International (RPI) Technical Support team has recently been made aware of a potential issue caused by the Tax Rate by Zip Code plugin for Retail Pro 9 users who have the plugin loaded but are not actively licensed for its use.  The report has identified issues where the tax rate at POS can be zeroed out unintentionally for those users not licensed for use of the Retail Pro 9 Tax Rate by Zip Code plugin. Users who are licensed for the Tax Rate by Zip Code plugin will not see an issue. 

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If you are not licensed for and configured to use the Tax Rate by Zip Code plugin, please call Big Hairy Dog for assistance in removing specific files from the plugins directory.  This very brief call will resolve the issue, or eliminate it from becoming an issue in the future.

If you have any questions or would like further clarification, please contact BHD's Technical Support Department at 916-368-1070. 

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The techboard has been extremely busy!!

Terry's (Marketing) daughter, Paige,  dropped by the BHD office and took Dugan outside for some playtime. 
Paige is the captain of her high school cheerleading team and can handle herself quite well.  But watch out, Paige, Dugan has bowled over people bigger than you! 

Family and visitors are always welcome and encouraged to stop by the BHD office. 

• Snow Industry Association (SIA) show in Denver, CO                KEN JONES from SKI MART
• Seattle Gift Show in Seattle WA                                           ONCE UPON A TIME  (BHD Customer)
• Outdoor Retailer Show in Salt Lake City, UT                            THE BUSY BIDDY
• San Francisco Gift show in San Francisco, CA                          MISTO LINO  (BHD Customer)
• MAGIC in Las Vegas, NV                                                       EVE & LULU DS
• Women's Wear in Nevada (WWIN), Las Vegas, NV                     THE RIGHT FIT LINGERIE

To the left is our lovable Tyler who comes to work most days with his Mom (Sarah).  Tyler picked each lucky winner of a Kindle Fire (and did it with his eyes closed.)

We still have several tradeshows coming up, but we wanted to congratulate our winners from the past shows.  Congratulations and enjoy your Kindle Fire HDs.  Big Hairy Dog is always here to answer any questions you may have regarding our products, tech assistance or the retail industry.