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Below are seven key benefits for gift and hobby retailers from
Microsoft Retail Management System.
1. Improve profitability with efficient inventory
tracking
2. Enhance your customers' shopping experience
3. Get better control over employee
productivity
4. Use customizable management tools
5. Make better buying decisions
6. Get benefits of centralized information
7. Grows with your business
Want an affordable software/hardware solution bundle for gift
and hobby shop retailers?
1. Improve profitability with efficient inventory tracking
With Microsoft Retail Management System, gift and hobby shop owners
can manage their entire inventory-apparel, jewelry, art, magnets,
key chains, books, collectibles, toys and more-with accuracy.
You'll be equipped to make better buying decisions, too.
- Easily track and manage hard
goods, soft goods, and convenience items.
- Support buying, pricing, selling,
promotion, and analysis by style.
- Simplify inventory tracking with
serialized items and multiple serial numbers.
- Support multiple suppliers for
each item.
- Easily produce assembly
kits.
- Track inventory with specifics
such as weighed, measured, and by bin.
- Manage unlimited inventory items
and transactions.
- Put items on backorder for
future deliveries from the POS.
- Replenish inventory based on
reorder point/restock level or quantity sold.
- Create purchase orders that
reflect the matrices you set up.
Setting up Departments and Categories
allows reporting on different levels of detail.
2. Enhance your customers' shopping experience
- Capture, show, or hide customer
contact and demographics on the POS screen.
- Instantly access a complete
history of purchases, payments, and account information at the
POS. Suggest relevant up-sells, sale items, and volume discounts.
Increase repeat business by keeping track of customer birthdays,
anniversaries and other important dates.
- Accommodate partial payments
and account payments. Grant automatic discounts and differential
pricing to special customers.
- Target your mailings directly
to customers' special interests.
- Accept multiple tenders,
credit cards, coupons, gift vouchers, and foreign currencies.
Reprint electronic receipts to resolve disputes, speed rebates, and
verify purchase dates and amounts. Serve others while keeping a
stalled transaction "on hold." And sell even when your network is
down.
- Easily track work orders,
backorders, layaways, and quotes.
3. Get better control over employee productivity
Jump-start productivity with a solution that's easy to learn and
use, yet lets you maintain tight control over information and
inventory to protect data and reduce theft.
- Install and set up Microsoft
Retail Management easily, and teach employees basic POS
functions in minutes.
- Protect your system with
security-enhanced user logons. Lock out-or empower-any
employee's access to sensitive data.
- Reduce shrinkage when you
automate inventory management.
- View and print daily sales
reports and journals at the POS terminal.
- Know which associates sell
best. Predict what days and hours to staff up or cut back. And
keep track of employee and volunteer profiles, too.
4. Use customizable management tools
Manage your store with ease and control. You can set pricing levels
and promotions. You can effectively negotiate efficient,
cost-effective ordering with suppliers with customizable Microsoft
Retail Management System. Also, you can:
- Configure POS screens to
display exactly the information your clerks need.
- Easily set up pricing and
sales for various items.
- Customize receipts and price
labels with logos and promotional messages. Use flexible
pricing for markups and discounts. And set up new sales and
promotions-fast.
- Streamline buying because now
you'll know with accuracy your ordering levels, best-price
suppliers, and automatic POs.
- Make the solution's wizards do
your work. It takes just minutes to input new items, manage
inventory, and perform everyday chores.
- Set security levels for
individual sales clerks and cashiers. Data fields can be hidden,
view-only, or changeable.
5. Make better buying decisions
Microsoft Retail Management System has more than 100 reports with
extensive formatting options so you get the information to make
better business decisions for your gift or hobby store.
With accurate and timely information at your fingertips about
sales, profitability, inventory, and customers, you'll know exactly
what sold best in every department, category, and season. You'll be
able to decide what to buy or mark down; and track return on
investment (ROI) for marketing initiatives.
- Generate sales and inventory
reports to help you decide what to buy or mark
down.
- Track return on investment (ROI)
from ads, mailings, promotions, sales, and
discounts.
- Preview, print, or export data
in multiple formats.
- Filter, hide, sort, and group
data as you like it.
- Add logos and graphics for
formal reports.
6. Get benefits of centralized information
Want to send financials to your accounting program? Or sell through
an e-commerce storefront? Microsoft Retail Management System can
help deliver.
Built on the latest Microsoft technologies, this integrated
solution keeps information moving smoothly across your entire
business and connects easily with other applications, platforms,
and peripherals, such as Microsoft Office. The solution:
- Works with the Microsoft Office
System, making it easy to create and deliver communications
that connect you with your best customers.
- Can be integrated with legacy
systems, accounting or financial software, Electronic Draft
Capture (EDC), credit card services, and e-commerce
storefronts-with the help of a Microsoft partner and third-party
solutions. It also can be integrated with all your business
channels-in-store, catalog, phone and e-commerce-to provide a
superior customer experience. You can ship and track orders
online.
- Manages accounts receivable
and it trades summary POS data with popular accounting software to
eliminate double entry.
- Uses EDC to integrate with leading
credit card services to reduce fraud and keyboard
errors.
- Smoothly integrates Web sales from
multiple sites with the help of a Microsoft partner and a
third-party application.
- Uses the POS as a data
collector for back-end Electronic Retail Planning (ERP)/Customer
Relationship Management (CRM) applications. You can also work with
a Microsoft partner to set up your system to enable PDA and
mobile/wireless stations.
7. Grows with your business
Ready to open a new store? You can help protect your investment and
keep the same software and systems as your business grows into
multiple stores and retail channels with Microsoft Retail
Management System. Here's a few things to keep in mind:
- You can add new lanes or
stores to your system with minimal disruptions to retail
service.
- A common point-of-sale
platform that spans single or multi-store locations is offered
through Microsoft Retail Management System.
- Add customers and products to your
system, and flexible Microsoft SQL Server technologies let you
store and manage virtually unlimited amounts of
information.
- Invest in your business, not in IT
support. Microsoft Retail Management System does not require an
expensive IT staff to set up and maintain, and it adapts to meet
specific retail needs. As your business changes and grows, your
Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner can provide support
and assistance with customizing, integrating, and scaling your
solution.
- Count on Microsoft. Start a
long-lasting relationship backed by one of the world's leading
technology providers. Microsoft Business Solutions is a family of
connected applications and services for small and mid-sized
businesses, with years of experience delivering business
applications and services known worldwide for top
quality.
Keep track of what's selling fastest and making the most profit
for your business.