Point-of-sale solutions The ActiveRetail suite of products, developed by UCS Software, has twice won the Microsoft Retail Application Development Award for most innovative retail solution in 1999, and for best in-store merchandising system in 2002. Catering for small, medium and large retailers, ActiveRetail has been designed for the Internet, automated workflow and electronic commerce. Incorporating UltiSales - configured for smaller, single-branch or fully decentralised multi-branch retailers in the Speciality Store segment.  ActiveRetail™ 4 Solomon® is targeted at mid-size retail organizations using the Microsoft-based Solomon Accounting application The entire ActiveRetail™ suite has been designed and developed to be component-based. As a result the ActiveRetail™ architecture lends itself ideally towards third-party development.