What are some things GratisPOS can do for your business?
Accuracy
With a point of sale system, you can assist customers faster with less hassle because there is little to no room for human error. The is no misinterpretation of handwriting, slip-ups on the calculator and in most cases less double entry is required. Just few clicks to checkout is much easier then handwriting receipts.
Training
When you hire a new employee a quality point of sale system can help facilitate store procedures allowing the new employee to become more efficient in a shorter period of time. Back-end reporting can help management ensure the new employee is performing specific day to day operations correctly.
Prevent-loss
Reconciliation is a good idea for any business. Maintaining accurate inventory counts, cash drawers, stock orders, time cards and the like are all concerns for any business seeking a better bottom line. However, sometimes managers, employees and owners wear many hats and certain tasks are often neglected. Fortunately, if your using a great point of sale software or retail management solution (GratisPOS) many of these tasks can be streamlined allowing you to to focus on other area’s of the business that need your direct attention. A quality point of sale software will allow you trust your employees and customers while verifying cash and Inventory is handled correctly.
Control pricing
When selling products or services in your store your sales staff may decide to give discounts to your customers. Although this can effect the customer experience in a positive way it can also effect your bottom line. Using a point of sale software like GratisPOS you can set maximum discounts when pricing your inventory to ensure your sales staff doesn’t sell products under cost causing a loss for your business. Controlled pricing via software can benefit your business in multiple ways. If you decide to drop the price on a particular item for a week then have the price default back to MSRP, it’s much easier to define these parameters in your software then sending a memo by email or telling your employees multiple times throughout the week.
Payroll
Unfortunately every business owner can be taken advantage of by employees coming to work late or having coworkers buddy punch a time card in their absence. Using software to manage your staff’s time cards a shifts can ensure all employees show up on time and can even simplify the payroll process. When using GratisPOS you can instantly see who showed up for work today from any Internet connect device. You can even go as far as seeing what’s in each employees till at any time throughout the work day.
Multiple Payment types
Collecting multiple forms of payment can be a task if you’re not using point of sale software. Collecting Cash, Credit, Debit, Checks, Gift Card, etc. with GratisPOS couldn’t be easier.
Marketing
As customers frequent your store, collect some information about them without hassle. Entering new customer information into GratisPOS allows you to call that customer on their birthday and offer them discounts at your store, send txt messages and emails to customers about discounts at your location and even email coupons to your customers via direct mail. Why not use multiple channels to market to your cusotmers? GratisPOS makes it so easy!
Build on existing revenue
A well designed point of sale software will allow you to control and maintain your current revenue base while maximizing core efforts to increase sales and obtain new customers.
Out of the office
It’s common for store managers or owners to work well over a normal 40hr work week. Why not make technology work harder so you don’t have to? The free point of sale software Gratis allows you to be out of the office while keeping an eye on your business including which employees showed up for work, daily sales, stock levels and much more from any Internet connected device. Try it out today at GratisPOS.com!