Today, Retail STAR Point of Sale Software is the only retail system that doesn’t just handle your sales and inventory, it automates the rest of your business as well. It is the only retail system that can automate all of your sales channels and provide you with a real-time Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss statement at the end of the day. As you evaluate software to automate your store, you’ll soon learn that Retail STAR Point of Sale software is “the standard by which all others are measured.”
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Retail STAR POS
“POS STAR” is designed for ease of use. The cashier interface allows clerks to use single keys or touch screen displays. The system is very flexible and supports the latest in barcode scanning and payment authorization (PCI compliant). POS STAR offers several discounting strategies, multiple sales clerks per sale, X for Y pricing schemes, layaways, voids, returns, exchanges, gift certificates, credit memos, hold tickets, multiple payment types, receipt notes, in-house charge accounts, flexible tender types, currency exchange, and more.
Complete Customer Management
Studies have shown that it costs five times more to attract a new customer compared to selling an existing customer. With this in mind, we implemented a full featured CRM (Customer Relationship Management) module right into Retail STAR. This module works seamlessly with various parts of the software and the varying sales channels you’ll use to sell your goods.
Retail STAR tracks all the vital information about your customers that is important to you. This information can be used to generate targeted marketing campaigns to keep your customers coming back for more.
Highlights
• Drive increased sales
• Display up-sells
• Email marketing
• Complete buying history
• Integrated accounts receivable
Purchasing & Receiving
Retail STAR makes maintaining a perpetual inventory easy. If you were to try and maintain an accurate inventory manually, you would have to duplicate your efforts for each inventory item every time you purchase, receive, price, transfer, sell, and record the results into your accounting books. Retail STAR eliminates all of this duplication by using the original inventory information you enter into your purchase orders and then propagating this information to all of the other areas of your business. Now, you can enter the information once and let Retail STAR do the rest of the work for you.
Highlights
• EDI (Electronic ordering)
• Import vendor catalogs
• Auto reorders based upon sales history
• Email orders to vendors
• Seamless buying process
• Manage purchasing budgets
• Detailed reporting
• Forecasting tools
• No duplication
Once you receive the physical goods you have ordered, you can use the Receiving module to quickly receive them into the system. Receiving can be done manually by typing in the received quantities or automatically by exception against the original purchase order. A third option is to use a hand-held PDT (Portable Data Terminal). Using this type of scanner allows you to simply open the box and scan the goods into the system.
Price tags with barcodes can be generated in any size, shape, or color, with any information desired. Store logos or other branding graphics may be easily included by scanning them into the system.
Highlights•Automatic on hand quantity updates
•Average costs are auto updated
•Receivers are posted to Accounts Payable
•Wireless receiving
•Price tickets with barcodes
Inventory Management
The attributes and descriptions supported for inventory items allows the system to excel in reporting and merchandising. The system offers merchants many ways to categorize their inventory; a Department, Class, and Subclass structure allows the user to see only those classes assigned to a specific department and those subclasses assigned to a specific class. Other sub-category fields available include Vendor, Category, Location, Fabric, Season, and Color. Each offers virtually unlimited choices.
The strength of Retail STAR lies in its integrated approach to inventory control. The system manages inventory for store sales, internet sales, and phone sales in the same software. This approach allows a retailer to utilize the same reporting and accounting for all aspects of the business.
Highlights
•User defined fields
•Single inventory for both web and in-store items
•Internet items can be defined in software
•Size/Color matrix
•Serialized items
ScoreCard
ScoreCARD is offered in the Retail STAR product and is truly a revolutionary achievement. You can see in an instant how any aspect of your business compares to any other part of your business. This ability to score different parts of your retail operations allows you to quickly identify problem areas and increase activity in those areas that are generating the most profit.
Never before has it been so easy to measure and compare various aspects of your retail operations. And since you can’t manage what you don’t measure, ScoreCARD will turn you into an extraordinary retail manager by allowing you to see and compare how various parts of your store are performing.
Highlights
•Graphical reporting
•Instant knowledge
•Period comparisons
•Consolidated reporting
•OLAP
Reporting with Report STAR
Retail STAR has dozens of very useful “canned reports” which can be printed or displayed in an easy to read Windows-style format. In addition, the system also offers a very powerful report generator called Report STAR. Report STAR is the first report generator built exclusively for retailers and is included as part of the Retail STAR software suite. You will no longer have to purchase third party tools to get the advanced reporting you require. Retail STAR’s on-board reporting tools are designed to give most retailers all the flexibility and power they will ever need.
Highlights
•Report STAR - Report writer built for retailers
•Point and click ease of use
•Standard & Advanced retail calculations built-in
•Schedule reports after hours
•Exportable to Excel
Integrated e-Commerce
The i.STAR e-Commerce module is the total e-Commerce software which provides a seamless Internet storefront solution to the Retail STAR Point of Sale software system for small to medium-size retailers. When combined with the back office software, i.STAR will give the retailer one “end-to-end” solution for traditional as well as on-line retailing.
Every i.STAR site is custom-tailored to the look and feel you are after. Our proven back-end architecture and fully integrated system allow us to provide features that simply aren’t available anywhere else
Store Transfers
Having multiple store locations has inherent advantages, but also introduces some unique challenges. If an item isn’t selling well in one location, you can move that item to a better location or offer it for sale on your Internet site. Identifying, moving, and tracking those transfers can quickly become an overwhelming task. Retail STAR offers several ways to automate the movement of goods and track their whereabouts.
This allows you to receive a purchase order centrally and then distribute its contents quickly to your various locations without rekeying information.
Highlights• Automatic transfer balancing suggestions
• Simplifies transfer of goods
• On-screen worksheet
• No rekeying of items
• Automatic distribution templates
Frequent Buyer, Gift Card & Gift Registry
Retail STAR allows you to create various frequent buyer programs. When you create a program, you simply assign point values to dollar purchase amounts by department. If you have particular departments that don’t generate as much gross profit as others, you can reduce the number of points a customer will receive when they make purchases in that department. Retail STAR will keep a running total of points by customer.
The frequent buyer module allows you to drive sales any time you need new business. With this built-in marketing machine, you can generate a special event for your most loyal customers easily.
Highlights
• Built-in customer loyalty system
• Reward customers
• Increase sales and profit
• Generates reward coupons
Frequent Buyer Brochure
Retail STAR contains a Gift Registry system that will act as an automated sales person on your store floor. The Retail STAR system allows any customer to quickly establish a registry within your store. You simply hand them a scanner and let them shop for anything they want by scanning those items. Registries aren’t limited to weddings any more, as our system allows a customer to create a wish list for anything imaginable such as baby showers, birthdays, graduations, etc. The customer can also set up their registry so Retail STAR automatically e-mails them when a pre-determined amount of their registry has been purchased. This allows them to add more items and for you to make more sales.
Retail STAR also has Gift Card processing built into the software. This helps you increase sales and build brand awareness for your store through the use of customized gift cards.
Highlights
• Increase revenue with gift card sales
• Customized gift cards build brand awareness
• Gift Registry available in store or on your e-Commerce site
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