POS Toolkit - A Guide to Choosing the best POS for YOUR Retail Business

Retailers have enough on their plate with customers, staff, general day to day store duties, dealing with suppliers, purchasing and receiving...the list goes on and on. It would be great if you could simplify some of these tasks so that you can spend more time on what is important - growing your business!

Do you know your number one performing vendor, or your top 50 selling items? Who are your most reliable suppliers? What are your top 5-10 selling classes by GMROI (Gross Margin Return On Investment)? What about your most popular selling sizes by vendor, and best margin items?

Have you ever thought about starting a customer database and keeping track of your BEST customers? What about implementing a loyalty program to have greater shopping frequency and higher sales tickets? Have you been intending to start a custom tailored direct mailing campaign to your clients?

If only there was a simple way to get at this type of information!

A basic POS program can make answering these questions (and many others) easy. But a GREAT POS program should also:

• provide you with the reports you need to plan for your growing business
• eliminate the time you spend sorting through the racks trying to figure out what is selling
• show you know what needs to be reordered and how items are performing.
• automate your physical inventory process allowing you to spend more time working on your business rather than in your business
• generate reports at the touch of a button instead of having to leaf through your filing cabinet, take manual stock counts or worse yet…guess?!

These are all things that a GREAT point of sale system can bring to your business! After all, POS should stand for POINT OF SALE, NOT something else.

The challenge now is this – there are HUNDREDS of point-of-sale programs available out there! So...how do you choose and choose smart based on what YOUR business needs?

This guide will give you a starting point by highlighting some of the major concerns that retailers should have when deciding on their point of sale program and tips to help you avoid problems!