The Retail Buzz

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If you've outgrown or are unhappy with your POS system and ready to make a change, we have a great incentive.

One Step Retail Solutions is offering new clients a FREE LAPTOP with their purchase of a complete POS solution to the first 5 customers of this promotion.

The POS solution in this promotion includes POS software, POS hardware, membership and professional services.

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Get the most from your retail technology systems in order to increase your survival potential. Use this retail checklist to gain a competitive advantage in 2010:

• Ensure your retail technology equipment is PCI Compliant

• Use reliable retail-hardened POS hardware to run your POS system

• Add more POS stations to help prevent long check-out lines.

• Upgrade your POS software to the latest version to better manage inventory, customers, and vendors

• Get any customized programming that tailors your system to meet unique or specialized needs

• Have an efficient reporting tool with your POS software to gain valuable insight into your business

• Optimize merchandise distribution to increase sell-through and prevent markdowns

• Ensure merchandising and finance are working together as an integrated system

• Have reliable, up-to-date security systems set up (loss prevention systems) for both your hardware and store

• Back up your files and POS system regularly (Retail Backup recommended)

• Integrate credit card processing and gift cards with your POS system

• Integrate your online store (e-Commerce) with your POS system using EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)

• Keep Technical Support contracts in place to get the help you need to run smoothly

• Review your Returns Policy to minimize returns fraud

Here are some tips for 2010:

• Gather customer information at point of sale to use for targeted promotions

• Track your customer purchases and review customer's history at POS to improve customer relations

• Have a customer loyalty program in place

• Hold periodic events at your store

• Have contests with either employees and/or customers

• Run reports regularly to gain insight that helps you manage your business better

• Train your sales employees on basic customer service and find ways to reward them for this

• Minimize return fraud using upgraded POS software and security systems

• Expand your channels of retailing (videos, blogs, social networking, etc)

• Do planned pricing to unload stock through scheduled markdowns

• Offer classes to individualize your store

• Use framed signage to show why your merchandise is unique

• Provide a shopping experience that includes respect, honesty, and trust

Visit our website for informative articles, whitepapers, and retail industry eBook - all complimentary of One Step Retail Solutions: http://www.onestepretail.com/

As the old saying goes, "more is better" and this is truly the case for retailers who need to make profit-enhancing decisions quickly and with ease. That's where Retail Pro Business Intelligence (BI) comes in.

The BI module is designed to bring Retail Pro 9 users a distinct advantage for managing their business whereby they can monitor and analyze vast amounts of data in a snapshot view, enabling them to respond quickly to changes in their business conditions.

Since retailers need to be alerted to potential problems and make better, more informed decisions, BI is a tool that will provide valuable insight and actionable information to allow fast response in business conditions.

With independent industry research indicating a ROI of up to 2,000%, a business intelligence application should be a key component of a retailer's architecture.

Read article "Does Business Intelligence Give a Retailer Insight Into The Future?

For more information, contact a Sales Representative at One Step Retail Solutions and see how Business Intelligence could help your business. Send email to sales@onestepretail.com or call (800) 266-1328.