| Consulting with business owners over the last twenty | | | | to other areas of the business such as employees, |
| years, I've found many viable solutions that truly help | | | | marketing, etc life suddenly has a little less tension. |
| cut costs, increase revenues and help in productivity. | | | | What the typical POS system can do is amazing. |
| The days of pen and paper, and graph paper | | | | From Inventory control which will keep track of how |
| spreadsheets is long gone. Today's computer systems | | | | many bottles of a particular brand of wine you have in |
| and programs are by far the easiest way to run and | | | | stock or to how many pairs of a shoe size for a |
| operate any business head to toe. Even if you're not | | | | particular brand of sneaker is on the shelf. Every time |
| so computer savvy, many of today's programs are | | | | you conduct a sale and scan the item bar code, the |
| written in very easy format that anyone can learn | | | | system will automatically deduct the item and even tell |
| very quickly. Not to mention the easy to follow video | | | | you when your low or need to re-order. Keep track of |
| tutorials and web-conference abilities. | | | | employees (when then clock in and when they clock |
| I've found this to be the case with the Point of Sale | | | | out). You can also have each employee swipe a card |
| system that one sees in many restaurants, retail | | | | per transaction so you know who handled what. The |
| stores and even grocery stores. Such systems | | | | system will also keep track of all your merchant |
| dramatically improve the bottom line. Even the ones | | | | processing charges and allow you to integrate the |
| that cost you money up front. The feature I like best in | | | | collected data into an accounting software such as |
| most of today's programs is what is referred to as | | | | Quick Books. If you own a restaurant, you'll have |
| WYSIWYG (or What You See Is What You Get). | | | | complete control of your menu. You can also print and |
| This makes life so much easier and simpler. I | | | | do all kinds of marketing campaigns which really saves |
| remember the days of the Commodore 64 computer. | | | | a lot of time. These are just a few of the many things |
| It was the first home computer system that entered | | | | a typical system will accomplish. |
| the market and was my first computer when I was | | | | If productivity is on your priority list, then giving your |
| around 7 or 8 years old. Things have certainly | | | | business what it demands is critical. If increasing your |
| advanced the last 30+ years since that system was | | | | bottom line and keeping business in order matters, then |
| released. | | | | the choice is clear. My company specializes in delivery |
| There's a lot of questions I'm often asked when it | | | | of a Free Point of Sale system and we have literally |
| comes to the POS or Point of Sale System. First is | | | | thousands of systems in the marketplace with lots of |
| productivity and management. The variety of systems | | | | satisfied clients. We offer touch screen systems with |
| on the market all function pretty much the same, | | | | cash registers and all the bells and whistles you can |
| though some are built for very specific industries. For | | | | imagine. For any business owner, this is a capital |
| restaurants and general retail, the primary function is to | | | | expenditure that can be expensive. However, we |
| manage your operations so as an owner you can | | | | offer solutions to help keep your costs down and your |
| dedicate more time to other things. When you're able | | | | profits up. |
| to free up precious amounts of time and direct them | | | | |