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Smart POS software helps small retailers plan for Christmas 2015

February 26, 2015
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xmasSmall and independent retailers are using technology to plan now for a terrific Christmas 2015.

Retailers using the Tower Systems POS software have been busy planning for Christmas 2015, using their software to order for Christmas which is nine months away using data from Christmas which was not even three months ago.

At trade shows, supplier showrooms and conferences, smart reporting tools and computer tablet based real time access helps newsagents to use accurate data for business planning. This results in more accurate purchasing which, in turn, delivers more valuable financial benefits to the businesses.

Tower Systems backs the tools in its software with free training and advice which helps retailers have easy access to the performance data they need. The result is a better outcome for those engaged businesses.

This is another Tower AdvantageTM.

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Sunday retail business management tip: small steps matter

February 15, 2015
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We often see small business retailers focus on grand plans, big moves they intend to make to lift their business. Our experience is that many small steps deliver a better result to a retail business and for a lower cost.

Using our retail management software, retailers are able to uncover and nurture small steps to growth in their business.

Every retail business has small steps they can take to drive traffic, achieve a better margin from products, get shoppers purchasing more, reducing wastage, reducing theft and more. Each of these alone done in a step step strategic way will compound on the other and deliver a greater than the sum of the parts benefit to the business.

Beyond its terrific POS software, Tower Systems helps retailers to see what they may be missing, to understand the opportunities for growth through a small steps strategy.

Leveraging our own retail experience and our intimate knowledge of what our software cal do, we can help retailers to lift their businesses through co-operative partnership.

Not all POS software companies are the sale. We’re here to help.

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Welcoming more Plants Plus retailers to our POS software company

February 12, 2015
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Tower Systems is thrilled to welcome more Plants Plus retailers to our garden centre software user community.

Using our specialist software, Plants Plus retailers can expect to increase sales, drive shopper engagement and know more about their businesses. We continue to evolve the software to serve Plants Plus retailers with more facilities and assistance.

Plants Plus serve a valuable role in the community:

With over 30 years of experience, here at Plants Plus, we know all you need to know about your garden and can offer the advice, inspiration, products and service to satisfy every gardeners needs. Whether you are looking for the latest in green life, want to create your own tranquil or modern outdoor room, need to give your garden an environmentally friendly makeover or just simply need some advice, no matter how easy or complicated the question, our staff have all the knowledge and expertise to make your garden flourish! We have over 70 stores across NSW, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC &WA. Click here to find your nearest store.

We appreciate our growing community of Plants Plus stores.

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POS software company supports your local garden centre

February 11, 2015
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Local garden centres matter.

While the mass merchants like Bunnings, Masters, K-Mart and others have a bigger budget, local garden centres have a bigger, deeper and more valuable connection with the local community.

When it really matters, the local specialist services of a good local garden centre beat big business every time.

Your local garden centre employs local people. Those people have local knowledge. You can build a relationship with them. You can trust their advice. You’re a friend, not another shopping basket through the door.

Buying from a local garden expert, someone whom you can trust, is better for the customer, better for the community and better for your garden. This is why local garden shops matter.

There is an authenticity you get from shopping in your local garden centre. The friendly service is because they are friendly and not because a manager somewhere is watching and rating them.

Buy from a big business and you are just a number with profits likely to land a long way from the local community.

Local garden centres employ people who love plants and the outdoors. They can enhance the experience with advice and other services. They share your passion. Your purchase is part of their passion.

Big businesses probably don’t know who you are. Your local garden centre staff will know you and your area. They can tell you where they source plants and other products from.

At your local garden centre you are greeted with a smile and a handshake. Personal service means a lot, especially if your purchase is important to you.

Here at Tower Systems we are proud to support local garden centres with local Australian software designed for them to help them provide a more valuable shopper experience. We encourage you to shop local when buying your for your garden.

The Tower Systems garden centre software is the most widely used garden centre specific software in Australia.

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Sunday retail business management tip: roster staff for commercial success

January 25, 2015
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Rostering is a vitally important business activity in indecent retail businesses. Get it right and you save money. Get it wrong and your bottom-line suffers.

Retailers using the Point of Sale software from Tower Systems can roster employees based on their contribution to the business. Using the tools in the software can result in better rosters, rosters which deliver a more valuable contribution to the business.

This is just one way POS software which offers roster facilities can genuinely benefit a business – save time and help driver better earnings. It is another way good POS software pays for itself.

Tower Systems helps retailers drive better outcomes through rostering and other facilities delivered in its software for a range of specialist independent retail channels.

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Gift shop software users to benefit from Tower Systems attendance at AmericaSmart gift fair in Atlanta

January 24, 2015
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gsposGift shops using the Tower Systems gift shop software will benefit from the time experts from our software company spent at the Atlanta Gift Fair at the large AmericaSmart facility., This largest gift Fair in the US is an extraordinary experience for gift retailers. Our takeaways include new relationships with the parent businesses of several Australian gift shops suppliers. This will helps us better serve our gift shop software customers as we help them more effectively and valuably connect with their suppliers.

There is nothing like getting to the source of a relationship to understand it and leverage it for all stakeholders.

This gift fair in Atlanta also helped us spot trends that we can sever better through our software – before they hit Australian shores.

As the only Australian POS software company represented at Atlanta, Tower is positioned to help gift retailers in a more effective and exclusive way in 2015.

For commercial reasons we will not share any comprehensive outcomes here as these are best deployed to our customers for their and our commercial advantage.

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Sunday retail management advice: make Lay-Bys work for you & your customers

January 11, 2015
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Tower Systems has helped many retailers get into offering Lay-By services when installing our Point of Sale software. Over many years we have developed extensive experience in Lay-Bys and through this we have refined suggestions on how to make the most of the opportunity.

Here is a summary of more extensive Lay-By advice we provide to retailers, based on our years of experience.

  1. WHAT TO LAY-BY. Set a minimum item and or purchase value. We’d suggest $80.00 in a small retail business.
  2. DATA REQUIRED. Always ensure you are satisfied you know who your customer is. Require proof of ID from a driver’s licence or similar legal ID document.
  3. 20% of the total GST inclusive purchase price.
  4. Only Lay-by to people 18 and over.
  5. Lay-bys should run for between eight and twelve weeks. You could run for longer pre Christmas to get early sales.
  6. PAYMENT CYCLE. Require payments to be made weekly or fortnightly.
  7. PAYMENT METHOD. Accept any payment form you choose.
  8. Do not allow someone to take home a single item from a group of items on Lay-by together in one purchase. It’s all or nothing.
  9. Have a policy you are comfortable with. We suggest a 20% cancellation fee applies. Note that you could equally choose to have no cancellation given that Lay-by product may not be able to easily re-sold.
  10. Decide what you would consider a breach. This has to be something you stand by. We suggest two missed payments without reasonable excuse or rectification. On breach, cancel and charge the cancellation fee.
  11. We suggest a no-exchange policy.
  12. When a customer Lay-bys, print two dockets – one for them to take immediately and one to be placed with the goods. Have your customer sign both copies, accepting your terms and conditions.
  13. Set aside a clean and secure storage location for Lay-bys in your business where locations are coded for easy finding. Place Lay-by goods into a single clear plastic bag per transaction for clean and safekeeping. Staple to this a copy of the Lay-by docket. Let your customers see you do this so there is no doubt when it comes time to collect the products.
  14. Have one person responsible for Lay-bys to ensure product care, track payments and contact customers.
  15. TERMS AND CONDITIONS. Enter these into your software so they are included on every Lay-by docket. Points 2 through 11 above are a good example of what to include in your terms and conditions.
  16. COMPLETE PAPERWORK. To not over complicate things, rely on your software’s Lay-by docket as your complete paperwork / contract. Get that right and Lay-by management will be easier.

We are grateful to our retail partners who have worked with us on developing this experience and advice. Their help has enabled us to provide this help.

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Tower Systems the industry standard garden centre software

January 6, 2015
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Now serving close to 100 garden centres and nursery businesses nationally, Tower Systems is established as the industry standard garden centre software.

Garden centres use the software in a range of areas from inside the shop to outside where plant stock are managed.

Regularly enhanced in close consultation with garden centre business owners and managers, the Tower Systems garden centre software is used in many areas in a business including (but not limited to):

  • Track retail sales.
  • Manage and encourage employees.
  • Market to customers.
  • Manage stock.
  • Link to multiple loyalty systems / programs.
  • Reorder from suppliers.
  • Receive electronic invoices from suppliers.
  • Provide plant care information for customers.
  • Manage LayBys.
  • manage and track services provided.
  • Manage bundling of products for single package sale.

This is specialist software developed specifically for garden centres in Australia and New Zealand. In 2015 new releases will further extend the reach of the software, making it even more useful.

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