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1) Data available in real-time:
Back offices are available in two different types. The first one is fixed and is installed locally on a PC or server in a back office of the business property. The second is the cloud based system in which all the information is stored remotely on a server. In a cloud based back office system data can be accessed from anywhere and anytime with the help of internet.
Many back offices use the real time data collection. Customer, employee and sales information can be tracked and collected all the time. If in emergency an employee contact you last minute to call off or change his/her schedule, you have everything you need at your finger tips and solve the problem easily and quickly.
It’s easy to manage your business with your back office POS management system:- • Quickly view your payroll
- • Create more efficient schedules
- • Adjust your schedules quickly when needed
- • Track ove
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1. Operational/customer service improvements and time savings:
Back-office POS solution enhances operational efficiencies and saves time and freeing up the front-of-house POS terminal. Customer transactions can be processed by store employees or restaurant servers and in the case of foodservice operations, input orders for transmission to the kitchen without any interruption. You and/or your managers can perform a variety of functions. Functions performed by -office POS solution is seemingly endless. It includes tracking critical information pertaining to sales, performance, and inventory; generating reports and reviewing your audit log. You can access even a piece of information your front-office POS through your back-office POS technology.
A back-office POS can handle non-POS-related matters to handle from a separate terminal and prevents even one POS terminal from being preempted. Customers need not wait in longer queues which leads to increase better customer -
Business owners concerned as employee misdeeds can be of many forms:- • Larceny (outright theft)
- • Skimming (diverting business funds)
- • Fraudulent disbursements (billing schemes, inflated expense reports, check tampering)
- • Embezzlement of raw materials or inventory
- • Stealing business opportunities (misappropriation of customer lists or other trade secrets).
Companies ensuring small businesses against fraud and alarmed to encourage owners become even more vigilant.
Employees before starting to steal typically have worked at a business for several years and continue for an average of three years before they get caught. That’s a lot of time to generate losses for the business.
Some of the things that you can do:
1. Know your employees:
Be alert to key indicators of potential theft- • Sudden, apparent devotion to work and working late. <
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According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the consumer price index (CPI) fell to 2.4% last month down from 2.5% in March.
April’s CPI is also the lowest recorded since March 2017 but economists expected inflation to stay steady at 2.5%.
According to the ONS, soft drink prices up by 2.8% month-on-month and 6.2% year-on-year after government’s sugar tax came into effect on April 6.
However, many retailers have not passed on the cost of the tax to consumers yet while some of the retailers increased prices in advance.
Due to the early timing of Easter, air fares had downwards pressure on inflation in April with fares dropping 7.9% year-on-year and by 0.2% between March and April.
Clothing prices climbed 1.7% year-on-year, and overall food prices rose 2.3% year-on-year.
“Inflation continued to slow in April, with air fares making the biggest downward contribution, due to the timing of Easter. This was partially offset by th -
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