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ProphetLine POS has been our lifeline for seven years in our four retail stores. The software is robust and offers many more functions and ...
Read MoreAs a small retailer, you wear many hats and can’t spend all of your time trying to be an analytical genius. We have built a retailing process that is easy to use and gives you the information needed to improve your retail performance and still have time left over to lead a normal life outside of your business. Most Point of Sale (POS) software gives you a variety of lists which mean very little because they don’t tie several important factors together. ProphetLine has taken all the information gathered at the inception of the sale and put it into an easy to understand roadmap for success. We do all the heavy lifting by crunching hundreds of variables and you review and make informed decisions. The biggest task the retailer undertakes is defining the department/class structure, and everything else is done by ProphetLine POS Software behind the scenes.
If your first question is “how much”, instead of what can your POS Software do for my business, you are setting yourself up for failure. Many software companies can give you a bunch of lists, but how do you sort those lists to give you business valuable information? Apple Computer did not invent the mobile music player or touch screen wireless phone, they took existing products and refined them until they were the category leader. ProphetLine did the same thing in refining inventory reporting with the “Easy Retail” plan.
ProphetLine was developed as an integrated POS, inventory and small business financial solution for retail stores. We noticed that when retailers purchased some systems, they usually expected higher profit margins, lower inventory investments, lower shrinkage and better control on procedures. After a few years, however, they often find that little has changed on their financial statements. While most systems only focus on shrinkage and procedures, we designed ProphetLine to help you obtain the more important benefits relating to margins and investment. We call this the “Retail Easy” way of merchandising. We do a multitude of formulas and algorithms behind the scenes and come up with an easy to understand way to run your business and control your inventory, which is the life blood of retailers.
ProphetLine automatically produces a department/class comparative that gives you the percentage of inventory in each department and the contribution of that department to the overall revenues of the business. If twenty percent of your inventory is in department “A”, but it only contributes ten percent to the overall revenue, you have a problem which can easily be corrected. The “Retail Easy” report is sorted by the best department, best class and best vendors in order of their contribution to your retail business. Normally this is a lot of work and time consuming, but the ProphetLine “Retail Easy” method does everything for you and promotes what you do best, sell your products.
When you see competitors advertising their POS Software prices at extremely low prices, don’t you wonder how they can do this and still deliver good service and good quality. They try to win your business solely on price and hope you never need a flaw fixed or a helpful person to talk to. We constantly replace the number one selling cheap POS software on the market because they only offer basic functionality and bad service. We are seen as a serious software company selling to retailers that have most of their net worth tied up in their business and want answers when they have questions.
POS software is not a recent invention but rather a discovery to better use the information gathered at the time of the transaction. Cash registers gave you cash counts and an end of day Z tape with dollars and cents, but where is the data that allowed a small business person to grow. If you don’t care who your customers are, I always use the analogy of selling T-Shirts at Times Square when you have a quarter million new potential customers come by every day. You don’t care who they are or what they really want as long as you have a shirt with “I Love NY” on it. Replenishment is as easy as seeing the stack has gone down a foot, so I order another foot of shirts. Good Retailing is not something that comes to you accidentally, but when you discover innovative ways to use the information gathered at the inception of the transaction. Select the POS software that you know will give you an advantage on your competitors that use the Times Square method of retailing.
I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern ship building has gone beyond that.
– Captain Edward J. Smith, HMS Titanic
Some POS Software vendors are promoting a lite version of their software which will do remote sales. ProphetLine POS Software has been able to do this for years. Our POS software is a full functioning version that can be used anywhere to enable sales from trade shows to line busting. When a laptop PC is used in your company network, you can tell the laptop that you are going off-line and it syncs with the server and is its own self contained system. When off-line usage is finished, the laptop is reconnected to the network and it syncs up to the server again and all data is then shared. This is just another usage for retailers that need to squeeze every available dollar out of their potential clientele. Why buy two systems when one can do it all.
If a potential customer’s first question is “How Much”, it’s usually useless to go any further with them. Inexpensive is different from cheap and the way you evaluate that is by the potential return on investment of the POS software. When you are trying to figure out good ways to increase your business in these trying times and go for the cheapest product, you will probably end up with a glorified cash register. The first question you ask is which software can I buy that will transform my business and increase my profitability within the current framework of my retail establishment? POS software can help you become an efficient retailer by knowing which departments, classes and venders give you good margins, turn rates and sell through percentages. Capturing information at the point of sale is essential to determine these merchandising points and mine more business from your existing customer base. Your customers will gladly give you some personal information if they know that preferential treatment or special pricing is the end result. Notifying them of new product arrivals, private showings or a pending sale are a few of the ways to build your customer loyalty and keep them shopping with you and not your competitors.
Controlling your inventory through reliable reporting within your POS software will allow you to stock less inventory, turn faster and keep better margins. These are the least expensive and risky ways to keep your business going in tough times. With ProphetLine POS Software, all of these objectives can be met with a low cash outlay. When the client asks “What can your POS software do for my business”, that is the potential customer we are looking for.
Small retailers can purchase POS Software with features comparable to those used by their larger competitors at a fraction of the cost. Most large retailers use two to three percent of gross sales as the dollar amount that they will invest in technology each year. A small retailer can do much better than that if they find POS software that is so easy to use, intuitive and does not require an IT staff. Find a POS software company that will be your IT staff and answer questions about procedural issues as well as ongoing support issues.
