Retail Garden Center Operations
   
The point of sale (POS) is the most visible and important contact you have with
your customers. On-line processing gets your customer through checkout quickly and
accurately. POS includes:
- Register sales entry
- Cash drawers
- Sale receipts
- Bar code reading at registers
- Cash or accounts receivable billing
- Automatic multi-level pricing by customer type
- Customer credit limits
- Acceptance and processing of any major credit card you recognize as well as
personal checks and house charge accounts
- Automatic handling of specials and sales
- Sales Aid — helps customers select proper plants
- Automatic inventory update
- Plant tag printing
- Suggestive selling
- Printing of care instructions based on customer's purchase
- Integrates with accounts receivable, general ledger and sales analysis
Sales Analysis
With SLICE, you can
determine what items are selling and which items are profitable. Sales analysis includes
- Invoice profit analysis
- Customer sales and profit analysis by month and year-to-date
- Item sales and profit analysis by month and year-to-date
- Product group profit analysis
- Salesperson analysis by invoice and in total
- Detail sales by customer by item
- Sales inquiry by item (current and preceding years)
- Sales inquiry by customer (current and preceding years)
- Flexible reporting capabilities
- Sales by time of day by individual register
The SLICE system allows
complete and accurate tracking of all purchases and inventory movement by items, vendors
or months. Purchasing and inventory control includes:
- Purchase order entry
- Purchase order printing
- Receipt of materials
- Reconcile receipts with invoice
- History of purchases
- Inventory movement log
- Vendor profit analysis
- Maintain minimum and maximum stocking levels
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