The benefit of CFC compared to NAM for a single site would be for offsite configuration updates. You don't have to be remoted into the machine to make changes to : items, menus, prices, routing, etc. When completing the external updates the store would have to make sure to close any open configuration centers, re-open and then preform a refresh to push the changes out. You can have the CFC installed on as many servers as you wish ie: laptop, home desktop etc as long as you have the cfc install code and installer which you can easily obtain. Things you can't do externally through cfc would be things like run reports, change employee punches etc as the desktop version isn't connected to the physical SQL database installed on the stores server. Inside the store the CFC client would be the instore client where as every other instance would be desktop clients. Like Ross said it is mainly used for multi site management but I have seen people use it so that their databases are managed by their reseller. It just depends on what kind of contracts or agreements your reseller would agree to at that point. Expanding to multi locations is the main benefit as you can manage 3 stores items, menus etc with only 1 change and a little coordination between stores knowing when to refresh. If you fully intend not to open another location New Aloha Manager is recommended but it all just depends on how you want to manage everything. There are people I see that should be on CFC and aren't and people I see on CFC that don't really have to be. It is all about what you want. I believe there is an initial setup cost as NCR hosts the database and I am sure there is a monthly cost to maintain the database. I wish I had a round about price to give you but your reseller would know for sure.
