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A POS system gives you a full picture of your business automatically. It will enable you to plan, be it next week or next year. The POS system includes your cash flow data and financial status. How much has been sold, which products and how many of them. This gives you a current and up to date inventory. The system can work out profit margins and calculate the tax. In turn you can then forecast your financial situation.
This helps your business produce a sales strategy – what is selling for you and what is not. Where are you making your greatest profit, and what is making the least. What departments are performing best. Additionally, you can determine your customers purchasing behaviours and patterns. This is all achieved automatically and saves man hours – Automatic Market Research.
In addition to the previous POS functions, they can offer movement of your products in house, it can keep information of your outgoing deliveries too. Your business will have a continuous up to date log of all merchandise. From all this product movement information the POS system can then order what is needed to replenish stock giving you complete control. Never running out of the products your customer needs.
Having to reprice a product throughout the whole system by hand can be difficult, timely and not without mistakes. The POS system automatically updates the prices across the whole business avoiding mistakes and customer dissatisfaction.
Knowing your clients and giving them better services, will make them want to shop with you. The POS system can show you their shopping habits and what they are most likely to spend on. How do you think the large supermarkets issue out particular vouchers for individual customers, they are not just random, they are because of the information gained on that customer via their POS systems!
You can motivate your employees and they can motivate themselves. The POS can record their sales, what they have sold and how much. In turn you can see what they are good at selling or what training they might need to sell other products. You can reward them when they reach their targets. They can see what they have achieved and where their next reward will be.
A POS system will enhance your business, improving your knowledge of your sales and revenue, enhancing your relationships and insight with your customers and your employees. Improving sales from start to finish. Allowing you to look to the future, where you can increase and expand even further. Making your business even more successful.
Date: July 26, 2021
Author: Morris