Monthly Archives: April 2021

Why Integrate Your Ecommerce and POS Systems?
Integrating your POS system with Ecommerce can be daunting because of costs or risk of business disruption. It is worth when you consider the impact it has on your operations and customer experience.

• 1) Data transfer between your POS to Ecommerce
• 2) Sales orders transfer from Ecommerce to POS
• 3) Decimating inventory levels once a product has been sold
• 4) Shipping information and tracking status from POS to Ecommerce channels

When these processes aren’t automated, mistakes happen like wrong entry of shipping addresses, overselling due to not updating of inventory, incomplete or incorrect product information or may be missing.
Manual processes take time. It can take time of whole teams hours to make sure all the data is transferred and accurate. This may take away time from something more important – your customers.
If you are not

Step back and view your store in order how you can run the operation even better which is essential in increasing sales in apparel store.
Make sure your customer navigate everything easily by reviewing the design of your store. People must be able to find what they need when they shop for clothes. Label each and every section of your store clearly.
Make people to focus on mannequins in the store and dress them in clothes. In order to push a new designer top, place a mannequin in the section that features the top, and dresses it in the top. While placing the top make sure that it is free of wrinkles and fits well.
By offering sales on certain clothes it not only drives sales to your store but also convert lookers into buyers. Anything that appears like a deal to customers will work and you don’t have to follow the traditional 10% off type of sales.
Try to implement policies that focus on the customer service. Make your customer to feel them number o

Reduce Checkout Wait Times
One of the simplest ways to boost customer satisfaction is to reduce the checkout wait times. Shoppers may think twice to return back if they are forced to wait for more than 15 minutes to pay for an item. While long checkout times occur especially during the holidays. Store managers and owners can hire additional staff and train those employees to work fast and run the checkout smoothly.
Offer Self Checkout
You may have already seen self checkout lanes at various retail stores. They require some initial upfront investment, adding self-checkout lanes to your retail store will have a positive impact on customer satisfaction. It helps shoppers to checkout and pay for their items without having to wait in long queues. Offering shoppers a self-checkout option will almost certainly have a positive impact on their satisfaction.
Greet Shoppers
When a shopper enters your store,

What is stock take? What is the importance and how do you do?
What is a stock take and why is it important?
The stock take is the fundamental part of any business dealing with goods. It’s a way to keep a track of your inventory, ordering process and reduce over stocking.
In order to achieve these goals a firm process is needed to carry out the stock take itself.
How to do stock taking
1. Choose a good time
It is crucially important to conduct your stock check at the right time. It can be a time-consuming process and you need to pick a day when you’ll have all the resources you need. It may require setting staff hours aside during a less busy period or, in some circumstances, might even require you to shut up shop for the day while you get your house in order.
2. Print your stock sheets
You need to have printable stock sheets built in you

Customers are fallible, forgetful and distracted by lifes mundanities and sometimes an appointment we made weeks ago might just slip our mind.
Many SMEs manage their clients with online bookings app whatever business you`re a beauty salon, gym, golf club, optician, swimming pool, barber or hairdresser. If your customers looking to make bookings you need to have a fully integratable solution. You need to afford more leverage and control over your customers how they are interacting with your business.
1) Reminders
Automated confirmations and reminders won’t miss your customer’s appointments. If the customers are unable to make it the reminder will prompt them to cancel their appointment, allowing you to resell their space. Businesses who have bookings system experience a 50% reduction in no-shows, saving hours of wasted time and minimising lost revenue.
2) Convenience
Customer should be able to access you

The BDO High Street Sales Tracker shows year-on-year high street sales dropped by 3.8% last month.
The worst performed sectors were lifestyle, fashion and homeware in April, dropping 3.7%, 3.3% and 8.8% respectively with the latter seeing its worst performance in a decade.
Despite for the seventh consecutive month sales failed to grow by more than 1%, not all sectors performed poorly.
Compared to last year online fashion sales grew by 25.4% thanks to the month’s mini-heatwave, growing well above the average online of 16.4%.
Following more uninspiring results, retailers will be looking ahead to May’s bank holidays and the royal wedding to boost sales and consumer confidence.
“After another set of poor results, it’s perhaps time for retailers to seek out emerging positive trends on which to reignite consumer spending,” BDO head of retail Sophie Michael said.
Some real earnings around the corner coupled with a royal wedding and two b

According to insolvency specialist Begbies Traynor research, the number of firms experiencing “significant” financial distress at the end of March rose by 21% year-on-year, representing 10,000 more businesses.
General retailers were the hardest hit of these with those reporting distress rising 25% to 30,668 as discretionary spending hit its lowest level since 2012.
Food and drug retailers are less dependent on consumer spending in general and weather conditions for sales, also saw numbers reporting distress up 11% to 12,290 over the last 12 months.
“Almost weekly we hear news of another major retailer that is struggling – from the recent administrations of Maplin and Toy ’R’ Us, to Carpetright’s closure of a quarter of its stores and the recent CVAs of New Look and Select – indicating that even the most established brands are failing to entice customers through their doors,” Begbies Traynor partner Julie Palmer said.
With competition on the high stree

Still the feature is in its beta stage, retailers like Nike have already signed on as early partners.
The footwear brand launched a new pair of limited edition shoes to coincide with its new Messenger AR advert through which customers are allowed to view a virtual render of the shoe when chatting with Nike’s chartboat and make a purchase.
“When a person interacts with your business in Messenger, you can prompt them to open the camera, which will be pre-populated with filters and AR effects that are specific to your brand,” Facebook said.
“This feature leverages the nature of messaging to help people get valuable, instant feedback about purchases, customizations, and more, without ever needing to set foot in a store.”
1.3 billion People have understood the usage of the Messenger app and the social media behemoth has said that as part of the long-term revenue growth strategy ads within the app will be important.
Facebook said it also plan

According to the RICS UK Commercial Property Market survey, 43% of respondents saw a drop in demand throughout the first quarter. It is the lowest level of demand marked since the height of the financial crisis in 2009.
Furthermore the number of respondents noting an increase in availability in the retail sector which has rose by 43% in the same period.
On a yearly basis, expectations of respondents over prime retail rents to rise jumped 24%, rising even further for secondary retail rents across all parts of the UK.
“It has been hard to escape the grim news from the high street in recent months with a whole host of well-known names either closing down or looking to scale back their footprint,” RICS chief economist Simon Rubinsohn said.
The latest survey results of chartered surveyors suggest that this challenging environment is unlikely to let up anytime soon. Indeed, the feedback regarding secondary retail locations points to further falls in ren

As temperatures leaped into the high 20’s, with Thursday making the hottest April day for nearly 70 years. According to report from Waitrose a 400% rise in sun cream sales, a 270% jump in barbeque food and a 54% rise in rose wine.
It is also expected a 300% rise in ice-cube and a 150% boost in beer sales.
“Our forecasting team closely monitors the weather as a rise in temperature of even just a few degrees will see huge shifts in buying patterns,” a Waitrose spokesperson said.
In mean time Sainsbury’s was anticipating a 150% boost in ice-cream sales and a huge jump of 365% sales in the amount of barbeque coal purchased.
On the other side its biggest rival Tesco expected to sell 3 million ice-lollies, 2 million boxes of strawberries and 8 million sausages.
Argos also saw a 150% jump in sales of garden seating while selling twice as many barbeques as usual.
A sharp increase in sales also enjoyed by Fashion retailers as high street