While bookshop owners and staff choose bookshop software for difference reasons, some reasons stand out as the most important in our experience service bookshops with software. Here are the top four reasons we hear about from bookshop owners and staff:
- Fit for purpose. Curated with facilities tuned for the needs of bookshops, this software helps where it counts: arriving electronic invoices, product returns, finding titles by author and linking to key bookshop tools.
- Local customer service. Being able to call a local number and speak to a local customer service person who understand local retail businesses is a big difference.
- Easy online selling. The direct to Shopify, direct to Big Commerce and direct to Woo Commerce links make selling online easy, helping bookshops reach more customers.
- Evolving software. Regular enhancements ensure the software evolve with the evolving needs of book retailing and users of the software having their voice heard is another appreciated point of difference.
- Independent small business focus. Tower Systems only serves local small business retailers, usually independent retailers. No one big group or big customer dominates Tower – all customer voices are equal.
Our Tower Systems POS software for bookshops serves these four areas and plenty more. It is software made for local independent bookshops. You can rely on this software for:
- Book Club support – rewarding members, fundraising for the club and more. yes, the software can make this easier for you.
- Structured handling of special orders for customers. Place the order and have it tracked when it comes into the store with the customer easily notified of arrival.
- Easy searching by book inventory by author name or part of author name.
- International barcode direct connect forfor easy lookup.
- ChatGPT integration for smart product descriptions designed to help with customer searching.
- Returns management. Returning unsold books can be time consuming. Using our bookshop software, booksellers can identify titles that can be returned based on arrival in-store, sales and current quantity on hand. We provide the insight and the structured approach for handling the return, in a publisher friendly way. The approach in our software has been tested with booksellers, to ensure it is genuinely useful and in line with what is required from suppliers.
- PacStream connectivity. From within our bookshop software you have access to Pacstream integration. Ask us to demonstrate this to you, so you can see how it works live and in person. The Pacstream platform is robust and commercially beneficial to retailers. Indeed, Pacstream access is critical for book retailers.
- Easy searching of book inventory by title or part of a title.
Retailers using the bookshop software have access to a human based customer service help desk, an awesome knowledge base, wonderful training videos and more.
If you run a local bookshop, this software is worth considering. Take a look. call 1300 662 957 (or 0800 444 367 in NZ) or email sales@towersystems.com.au
Compare the Tower Systems bookshop software with the needs of your business.
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