POS Retail Solutions: Get on the Right Track with [Point of Sale]

Are you often frustrated at how your business success seems to take two steps forward and three steps back? Or, do you ever wish you could know before you stock an extra shipment of an item that the second order would sit on your shelves for months on end?

POS retail software offers a way out of frustration, and can be a pain-free way to take control of your business, rather than having it the other way around. You will never want to estimate anything (or do things inefficiently) at your business again!

Here's an overview of some of the benefits that the data collected by the POS software will offer to you, and why more retailers choose POS retail checkout systems than any other:

You have the ability to better serve customers

• Bar code scanners and personalized custom-printed labels make sure that the right price comes up every time - no more annoyed customers returning to your store after reading their receipts and finding out that they were charged too much!
• You can also collect customer data and send postcards on special days like their birthdays, offering promotions/discounts to show you value their support.
• You will find out what items people buy together most, giving you the chance to make helpful suggestions and possibly adding another item to the sale.
• POS retail systems cut out a lot of "busy work," allowing you to spend more time on relationship building with your customers and knowledge building with your sales team

Cut costs

• Tax time becomes easier with the data at your fingertips, and customizable reports. No need to have extra help compiling everything, many POS retail systems are also able to "communicate" with back office accounting programs
• Stop ordering those slow moving items (and find out which ones to replace them with instead)
• Always maintain appropriate staffing levels and store hours

Make more money

• POS retail software helps you to learn to display merchandise smarter by knowing what people tend to buy together and what they request or special order the most
• Order only fast sellers, as shown by sales and inventory reports
• Mark down less items
• Always have key items on hand with automatic order reminders
• Reduce employee error or fraud. Because you can run daily reports and items are much more closely monitored with this type of system, fraudulent behavior is not as prevalent

Take your business to the "next level"

• Your POS retail software will give you the ability to sell store gift cards as well as redeem them and check balances without incurring a third-party processing fee. This not only gives you another convenience to offer customers, but don't forget that customers with gift cards tend to spend 20-30% more than the amount of their card, and they more than likely use them on full-priced merchandise!
• Since customer data is easy to sort and store, you can also do postcard promotions, in-store credit accounts and customer loyalty programs with ease.

As for hardware, the systems can be used with either a touch screen POS option or traditional keyboard, and have many other components to provide custom service: signature capture PIN pads, bar code scanners, check readers, electronic scales, automatic change machines, custom display screens, and more - the combinations are numerous, and as unique as your business.

There's a lot more to tell, and we want to show you in more detail how these retail point of sale systems can make a difference for you. Please give us a call at (734) 453-9200 and we can show you how to maximize your business' potential and get on the right track.