Mobile barcode scanner gun system with mobile tablet device having a mobile POS and enterprise resource planning application for customer checkout/order fulfillment and real time in store inventory management for retail establishment

A mobile scanner gun system for processing a retail store point of sale (POS) sales transaction or performing real-time daily store level inventory management functions, comprising:

• a) a main body portion extending toward a handle portion;
• b) said main body portion having a top wall, side walls, a front wall and a back wall constructed to form an interior cavity, wherein said front wall includes an aperture with a lens recessed therein;
• c) a Universal Serial Bus (USB) mobile scanner input device with scanner engine housed within said interior cavity of said main body, said scanner engine located behind said lens recessed within said aperture of said front wall of said main body;
• d) a USB mobile magnetic stripe reader (MSR) input device mounted along a short edge of the mobile tablet device upper receiver for easy access by the user regardless of which base housing is selected for use;
• e) said handle portion having a trigger member in communication with said mobile scanner engine for initiating a scan of a barcode;
• f) said top wall of said main body portion having an attachment means thereon, wherein said attachment means is adapted to receive a mobile tablet device housing having an MSR slot and being adapted to receive and house therein a mobile tablet device having an application software providing wireless secure communicative capability with a POS store systems server in a retail store, which is connected to a corporate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system;
• g) a specialized universal series bus wiring harness adapted to be attached to said mobile tablet device;
• h) said main printed circuit board (Main PCB) having a previously programmed electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) controlling all actions of said scanner input device and a gun trigger for activating a scan operation of an item of interest to a customer by an employee of a retail establishment;
• i) said scan operation is adapted to cause said EEPROM of the Main PCB to communicate with said mobile tablet device, launching said application software to ready said mobile tablet device for receiving a scanned barcode;
• j) said application communicating with said corporate ERP system server to obtain detailed information for daily inventory management purposes for such tasks as physical inventory, cycle counting, inventory receiving, store to store transfers, return to vendor and product re-ticketing;
• k) said application software communicating with said POS store systems server to obtain detailed information of the product scanned, its inventory, selling price, electronic and physical coupons, customer loyalty data and promotions available, and displaying product data on a display screen of said mobile tablet device;
• l) said POS store systems server contacting a bank card authorization processor approving said purchase and communicating to the mobile tablet device that the customer payment card has been approved for scanned merchandise purchased;
• m) said corporate ERP system adjusting the allocation of said product inventory visible chain-wide, sending a receipt to the e-mail address of the customer if requested, and/or printing a hard copy of the transaction on a central printer;
• n) said mobile tablet device being operative, in the event that said authorization is denied, to inform the employee of this credit denial on the mobile tablet device display and alternate payment requested, so that said customer is informed;
• whereby the customer purchases a product from any retail store employee having said mobile scanner gun system receiving full product details, price, electronic and physical coupons, promotions, customer loyalty data and rewards and charges the purchase in a friendly, efficient, informative atmosphere without having the need to bring the product to a central checkout station and waiting in queue to check out.