Expand your performance
What are the keys to increase my organisations profits?
To get this result you want to either reduce costs or increase sales. Ultimately you will do both.
What many retail stores do not understand is that having the appropriate POS System (point of sale) you can acheive both.
A good POS System simplifies and automates tasks.
Managing the sale order process including stock requirements and dispatch processes is again all made efficient in a good POS system. All these and more drive down the cost of operating a business increasing profits.
How to upsell
Another area that a point of sale system does is show related product items so that during the sales process it prompts the sales staff to ask if the customer would also like to purchase a related product. We have all heard countless times the prompt “Would you like fries with that?”. All retailers need a pos system that makes this cross sell simple and efficient to implement.
Another important tools due to the rapid growth in online sales is integration with a online store.This is vital to help increase sales while making the management of the store simple and easy.
Gift card are convenient and very popular because when you do not know what you buy someone you get them a gift voucher.
Another important aspect is stock control software and managing your inventory. A good POS must manage your stock and make life easy.
What about PC equipment?
This depends on your application. If you are a restaurant or cafe you should consider a touch screen. A touch screen makes the sale process more efficient and means that you do not have the issue of the mouse and keyboard getting dirty or sticky from staff fingers involved in the preparation process.
If you have a more complex sales process then you may be better off with a standard keyboards and mouse.
| Questions to ponder?How good is your current point of sale system?
How do you grade your system against some of the above criterea? Is it time for a change? |
