Imagine this: You have a small family business of a few stores selling high end apparel, shoes, and possibly accessories. Your goal is to have good products, at margin that you can live with, and loyal customers that like your stores because of the selection and the service.

Mrs. Smith comes to visit, sees the dress that is perfect for her next event, and wants to know if you have it in her size (as an expert, you know the size, and need quickly to check if it is available). With a managed inventory of the cloths that you sell, the answer is immediate, accurate and satisfying. The apparel point of sale connects to your server that is constantly updated by the other stores, and you tell Mrs. Smith that the dress is available, or is available at another location and can be sent to her home to try it on.

A good apparel point of sale, combined with a good salesperson, will also provide information to Mrs. Smith about the matching accessories, matching shoes (and their available sizes) and similar colors that may not be displayed on the sales floor.

Same rules apply for any type of merchandise, including shoes, hats, belts, jewelry and any item that comes in different variations of size, color, width, inseam, length etc.

In addition to the ability to tell the customer what is available, a good point of sale system will recommend the retailer regarding inter-store transfers. Considering the volume of sales and percentage of items sold, the system can come with recommendations for merchandise transfer, making sure that a complete size scale is available wherever possible, consider buying habits by style and color when the stores are located in concentrations of different ethnic groups etc.

The saving of time, better service provided, knowing exactly what to transfer between locations, knowing what your customer habits are, each one and all combined, can be analyzed and come up with a smart ordering system.

The apparel point of sale is a tool that reports to the main data depository at headquarters, where purchase orders are created. The biggest dilemma of a retailer is what to order or re-order. Having a chain of stores makes it impossible to order by the hunch correctly. In this competitive time, a piece of inventory that was not sold in time may never be sold for profit, and the path to minimizing the painful excess inventory starts with smart ordering. The only way to scientifically order the right quantities from the right sizes, colors, and departments, is to have intelligent, modern apparel and shoes point of sale system (POS).

On top of all that, if a retailer uses eCommerce and sells to the big markets like Amazon, knowing the availability of merchandise is critical.

When an item sold can't be delivered, the retailer's rating dives sharply, and may be banned from the greatest markets, a controlled inventory system, where updates are driven and funneled from the apparel and shoes point of sale computerized system to the main server and from there uploaded to the markets, keeps everybody happy; the retailer, the customer and the markets.

Mrs. Smith tried the dress on at home, liked it, was very happy, came to the store to pay and added a beautiful pearl necklace with matching earrings, and a pair of knee-high winter boots. Everybody is happy.

Visual Retail Plus Inc.
23 Banta Pl.
Hackensack, NJ 07601
Office: 201.678.9888
Website: http://visualretailplus.com/page.asp?title=generalDes .