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POS software connected Christmas ornaments website

August 25, 2019

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www.myornaments.com.au is another e-commerce website connected to out POS software. Int offers an excellent range of Hallmark Keepsake ornaments.

This direct POS software connected site is another from our team bringing online sales from around Australia to a local suburban business. reaching a pool of shoppers in the millions compared to the tens of thousands in the suburb surrounding the business.

A hero product is the musical (with light and sound) ornament from Hallmark celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Lion King. This very special ornament has been a hero since the website launched the 2019 range just over a week ago.

Promoted through an integrated social media, email and SEO campaign, the My ornaments Christmas ornaments website is popular with search engines and shoppers, delivering access to hard to find, limited edition keepsake ornaments from Hallmark and others.

Here is what makes The Lion King ornament so special:

Press the button on this fun Christmas tree ornament to play a clip of ”Hakuna Matata” and see the scene light up as Timon Pumbaa and Simba strut their carefree attitude across a moss-covered log.

Fans of ”The Lion King” will treasure this commemorative decoration for the 25th anniversary of the Disney animated classic. Light and sound features are battery-operated. | Magic Light and Sound Christmas tree ornament.

Press the button on the ornament to see the scene illuminate and hear music from ”Hakuna Matata.” Battery operated. Requires three (3) LR44 batteries included. | This artist crafted Christmas tree ornament comes pre-packaged in a box for easy gift giving preservation and storage. Dated 2019 in copyright.

With data flowing automatically from the Tower POS software as well as images, management of e-commerce sites for small business retailers using the Tower Systems POS software is easy thanks to integrations direct with Shopify, Magento and WooCommerce. The time saved for retailers is appreciated and valued.

Through a growing portfolio of best in breed websites, Tower Systems is helping more and more small business retailers find and serve new shoppers online from their regional and rural shops. This is bringing revenue often from the city to country towns. It’s good for the local business and the communities relying on the businesses.

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POS software connected website e-commerce development helps small business retailers compete

July 11, 2019

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POS software company Tower Systems offers POS software connected websites to its customers. The e-commerce development is available with Shopify, Magento and WooCommerce.

Yes, we are a POS software company that also developed websites. Our experience is considerable, as our portfolio of websites shows.

We have web development experience with Magento, Shopify and Woo Commerce (WordPress). Tower also operates multiple consumer facing websites itself that are Shopify and Magento based and connected back it its own retail business POS software.

Our recommended solution for independent and small business retailers is Shopify. It offers the best solution, the easiest to engage with, the fastest to engage with and the most flexible at a local store level. We say this based on our own experiences in establishing and running sites.

That said, we are equally happy with Magento. It really does depend on the objectives of the business and their budget.

Online is about a race to the cash. By this we mean that an online shopper is more likely to be ready to purchase. The first business to take their cash wins. This is where POS integrated websites can win. We can show you how.

The latest release of our POS software introduced a new style web dashboard to help in-store online sales fulfillment. This, coupled with inventory integration, accurate stock on hand data, professional image handling and smart SEO work helps you create and run an efficient, integrated physical and online business.

Whether you run a single store or operate as part of a marketing or banner group, Tower Systems has a track record of success you can leverage for your success. Let us show you how.

What we bring to the website / POS software solution integration is experience as retailers. beyond 0ur awesome technology and our experience with Shopify and others, it really is our retail experience in-store and online that makes a difference for Tower Systems customers. We can help with the glue that makes having a cool website work for a business. This is an important factor, especially to small business retailers.

Tower Systems understates all web development, locally, in its Hawthorn Victoria office. We do not offshore this work.

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A small business retailer POS software connected website can be a hungry beast

May 20, 2019

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A constant piece of advice we provide to our small business retail POS software customers who whom we have developed POS software connected websites is that websites are a hungry beast.

While the technical process of connecting your Retailer software to a Shopify, magento or Woo Commerce website, developed by us or someone else, is straightforward and the data flow of inventory details and images easy to establish, maintaining the site requires work.

Here are some tips from us designed to help you manage your website(s) for success. These tips are based on our own experience of developing sites for our businesses:

Ensure your website stands for something. It could be that your online presence is through a different name or brand to your retail shop, to help you reach more people. The best websites stand for something clear, easily understood.
Ensure your product photos are good.
Don’t load all your shop stock on the website. Too much stock makes a website challenging to navigate.
Get your shipping right. Like it or not, people want low or no cost shipping from online.
Know your pricing model. You need to decide if you want online to be break even or loss making.
Keep your content up to date, fresh.
Offer multiple forms of payment.
Fulfill orders quickly.
Answer questions quickly, and completely.
Work ion your website regularly … i.e. several times a week.
Promote the website.

If you’d like a quote from us about having a website developed for you, consider completing ourweb questionnaire form.

Tower Systems undertakes web development in Australia, out of our head office based in Hawthorn, Victoria. This local and easy access serves our customers well in that we can answer questions and bring to the table our own local retail business management and operation experience.

Or POS software connected website solutions cover many different retail channels and offer myriad facilities and experiences on which prospective customers can draw in considering their plans.

We also provide practical advice and help to retailers who are keen to resolve questions on management of their website once they are up and running. This blog post provides some insight into the knowledge and services we provide in this area.

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Australian based POS software integrated Shopify websites for retailers

April 30, 2019

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In addition to developing and supporting awesome POS software for small business retailers, Tower Systems developed POS software integrated Shopify websites for retailers. We do this web development in Australia, using locally skilled and retail business savvy web developers.

Locally based web developers understand local retail business needs.
Locally based web developers are easier to speak with and even meet.
Locally based web developers can more easily connect with your local suppliers.
Locally based web developers speak your language and this makes communication easier and more certain.
Locally based web developers want your website to work so they can use it as a calling care for more local web development work.
Locally based web developers are more likely to get you and that matters in small business retail.

Tower Systems has a terrific track record working with Shopify and integrating this with our awesome specialty retail POS software. We can demonstrate plenty of live sites, taking your behind the scenes to help you understand what makes them work, what makes them awesome for the retail businesses the represent.

Our retail business website development work is fixed price, transparent, consultative, open, easily accessed and commercially focussed.

We can talk through needs, to ensure we fully understand what is required, long before any charges are incurred. We want to fully understand for our own professional needs. hence, we ask a lot of questions, which is good because you want the job done right, of course!

We want to ensure that we fully leverage the power of Shopify for your business, to deliver terrific business outcomes for your business and wonderful experiences for your customers. We do this through a comprehensive process and by only serving small business retailers. This small business focus ensures we are more focussed on you.

We urge any small business retailer in Australia to use a 100% Australian based web developer. This is an important to the local community as local shoppers are to local Aussie retailers.

For a wonderful POS software Shopify website integration solution, talk with Tower Systems and see if our services can help grow your online sales.

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More POS software connected websites launched

April 8, 2019

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We are grateful to be able to share the launch of more Tower Systems POS software connected websites. These are websites developed by our Melbourne Australia based web development team.

Facilitating the flow of product data to consumer-facing websites, the Tower website / POS software integration provides indie small business retailers tools they need and can use to find new shoppers for products and services they sell.

Our latest sites include one for a butcher, another for a niche gift shop and another for a collectibles business.

With development options including Shopify and Magento, our web team is able to serve broad needs from the simple to the complex, the easy to the comprehensive that serve not only selling but other services online as well, representing the business across their range.

In our suite of website connected POS software solutions we have jewellers, newsagents, gift shops, homewares shops, fishing / outdoors businesses, produce businesses, pet stores and more. The diversity in our specialty portfolio is terrific and beneficial to all of our customers.

Being the one-step shop for POS software and for retail business website development means we can streamline development, data flow and commercial outcome access. This is where we can deliver terrifically for our customers were think.

Developing locally matters in that we help the local economy and we leverage local business knowledge. We think this is even more important as when you look at it, all retail is local. People want local knowledge and local service. Local businesses can deliver – if their web front door is sensitive to local needs and practices.

Thanks to our partnerships with Shopify and Magento, we are able to leverage worldwide tech best practice with a local business practices overlay. We actively participate in training from Shopify and Magento at their international developer conferences and enhance what we have learned with our deep local business knowledge. This helps us bring home solutions that are commercially astute and valuable for our customers.

The Tower Systems POS software ecommerce solution portfolio is well established. It is delivering terrific benefits to our customers as they seek new customers in a competitive commercial environment.

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SHopify and Magento website development small business retailers can trust

March 18, 2019

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Tower Systems partners with Magento and Shopping to offer POS software connected SHopify e-commerce sites and POS software connected Magento e-commerce sites that are finely tuned for the success of independent small business retailers.

We bring to our web development work years of expertise in retail management and POS software development and leverage with with our awesome web team to create beautiful and functional websites, to win business for local retailers.

We are grateful to have two software development teams in our business, one continually enhancing our awesome small business POS software and the other developing beautiful and valuable websites for small business retailers.

All our retail business websites are developed from scratch by us in Australia, using tools well respected around the world, tools such as Magento and Shopify. This is important because too often we see web developers use half-assed tools that cannot be maintained by an0one else.

Our small business website development starts with a comprehensive consultation process, to ensure we understand all of the needs of a retail business and agree these with our customers. Too often with offshore web development this is not done and fixing a site from afar is problematic.

The Tower web team is also skilled at SEO and SEM services that help raise the website rankings in key search engines, ensuring the site is found ahead of others.

Best of all, Tower Systems provides professional advice and guidance to small business retailers keen to build their online presence. Our commitment is honest transparent advice on which any small business retailer can rely.

The Tower Systems web development team is Australian based, working out of the company’s head office in Hawthorn. This is important as many web development businesses are overseas. While you might have a locally based contact person development too often is done overseas, leading to challenges with delivery and usefulness.

Professional web development takes time. Time has a per hour cost. IT professionals are paid well. Going for the cheapest price for website development could mean that you have gone with a business that cuts corners or has most of the work done offshore.

Since your website is your business calling card to the world it is not something to cut corners with, it is not something to take offshore for a saving today. A good source of business for us is replacing offshore developed sites.

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Magento POS software connection helps indie retailers sell in-store and online

March 12, 2019

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Tower Systems has partnered with Magento e-commerce for years, delivering seamless connectivity between Magento and the Tower Systems Point of Sale software for independent specialty retailers.

Our Magento skills are broad and mature, having started with the product back in the days of Magento 1. Today, we with with the latest release, developing stand alone websites for retailers as well as Point of Sale connected websites for retailers, primarily small business retailers.

We have websites that connect to a single shop as well as sites that connect to many shops, representing online as a single face for these multi location businesses. The solutions are varied, strong and commercially focussed, delivering strong solutions in the e-commerce area, helping small business retailers attract and serve shoppers who otherwise may never set foot inside these businesses.

Connecting small business POS software to magento delivers to the businesses useful and robust solutions, solutions that serve them well, enabling business worth and focus as the find new customers and explore new online approaches to retail.

The Tower Systems Magento development is done 100% within Australia. This matters as it ensures that a more locally focussed and appropriate solution is provided to local retailers.

We think local Australian development of POS connected Magento websites matters to local Australian small business retailers.

Tower Systems is committed to local development for local businesses. Our developers understand retail in Australia and New Zealand. We leverage that to deliver practical and valuable business outcomes.

From simple websites to complex multi business solutions, the Tower Systems web development team for retailers is skilled and capable of delivering valuable solutions.

To find our more about our web development services, speak with a local Tower Systems sales person. They can point you to successful sites from us that are live and transacting today.

Here are some of the store linked websites we have developed:

This is a small selection of websites created by Tower Systems. Our web development skills are diverse. Our SEO and SEM skills are fine-tuned, to help you get the notice for your website.

To find out more about our POS software connected websites, please reach out to us.

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POS software connected Shopify e-commerce for small business retail

March 12, 2019

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Tower Systems offers Shopify e-commerce solutions for small business retailers, connected to its specialty retail Point of Sale software.

Developed in-house using Shopify developer experts, Tower Systems is able to deliver a seamless Shopify POS software integration, serving the needs of the physical retail shop as well as serving the online shopper opportunity.

Our Shopify website solutions for retailers include those pitching services, selling online, answering shopper queries, making appointments and more.

Developed 100% in Australia, our website solutions are fit for purpose for Aussie retailers. There is no translation issue. No wait for overnight offshore development. No language barrier. No design aesthetic challenge. Being Australian designed and developed matters for small business retailers who want to connect with Australian retail shoppers through Australian retail businesses.

In terms of online shopping, local really does matter.

This is the Tower Systems difference: locally developed POS software and locally developed Shopify websites, to help local retailers, leveraging our own retail business management experience along with our comprehensive tech skills including web development skills.

Our POS software integrated websites serve a single inventory database between physical store and online store.

The Tower Systems web development team is skilled in WooCommerce, Magento and Shopify. The company has plenty of sites it can show in a live portfolio of successful e-commerce sites, serving shoppers in Australia and internationally.

Small business retailers can benefit from the retail management experience at Tower Systems experience that helps deliver a more retail focussed solution.

The Tower web team is also skilled at SEO and SEM services that help raise the website rankings in key search engines, ensuring the site is found ahead of others.

But best of all, Tower Systems provides professional advice and guidance to small business retailers keen to build their online presence. Our commitment is honest transparent advice on which any small business retailer can rely.

The Tower Systems web development team is Australian based, working out of the company’s head office in Hawthorn. This is important as many web development businesses are overseas. While you might have a locally based contact person development too often is done overseas, leading to challenges with delivery and usefulness.

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POS software connected website advice from Tower Systems

March 7, 2019

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We have many users of our POS software who have connected these to magento, Shopify, WooCommerce and other e-commerce platforms. We have sound experience with all and use some ourselves with online retail businesses that we run.

In our customer accessible Knowledge Base, we have articles on connecting your Tower Retailer software to Shopify, Magento and WooCommerce. A quick search will soon find these.

We urge our customers to read the article for the type of e-commerce platform they plan to connect with. Give the article to the people developing your site. Most questions we get from external web developers are answered in the articles.

We’d love to develop a website for any small business retailer. We have a separate web team in our business who do this work. They are based out of our Melbourne Australia office. They have developed plenty of Retailerconnected websites already.

Connecting our Retailer POS software to a website is technically easy. However, you are creating a hungry beast that needs to be fed. Here are some of our tips for getting started and managing the website efficiently:

Get your inventory data right with product names, departments, categories, pricing and images. Retailer is in control of the data, always.
Start with a small range of stock in the website first. Get that right and your prices right before you go further.
Make decisions yourself on website look and feel and design. Expecting someone else to do all this usually leads to disappointment. Attention invested now will result in a website you like and that reflects you.
Use real photos. Stock photos stand out. They look awful.
Know that any website you launch today will need investment to refresh it within eighteen months. Web is a rapidly evolving environment. Not investing to keep up will see you fall behind.
Whoever develops your website – make sure they are local. Offshore development is cheaper today but more expensive in the long run.
Choose a platform that is appropriate. We are yet to see a retail business not satisfied with a Shopify or Magento site. Shopify is ideal for simpler needs and Magento works a treat for more complex and multi-store requirements.

We have more advice available for Tower Systems customers.

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Aussie developed POS software connected websites help small businesses win online sales

February 8, 2019

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2018 was a terrific year for online sales for plenty of the Tower Systems developed websites connected to our POS software. We are grateful to the many customers we developed websites with and launched them live for.

From single category sites to whole of business sites, we have helped plenty of small business retailers explained their businesses, find new customers and improve the value of their businesses.

Our websites are 100% Australian designed and built. They all connect with our POS software. They are available in Shopify, Magento and WooCommerce.

We are proud of the commercial success we are helping our retail customers achieve. This is good small business growth being achieved for our retail partners, a good small business story.

the websites we develop range from selling products valued at $5 apiece through to offering comprehensive niche solutions for our customers in high end retail where a transaction c an be worth $50,000 or more. The breadth of experience we have is considerable. We leverage this for all of our customers, to provide them with the value of the expertise we have built over the years working in this area.

Our web development team is separate to our POS software team, working on different platforms, with different tools, but integrated. The two teams work closely together, ensuring a seamless, two-way, flow of data to benefit online and in-store and back office, delivering valuable benefits for the whole of the business while at the same time offering customers a seamless and safe solution for online purchasing.

From simple websites to complex multi business solutions, the Tower Systems web development team for retailers is skilled and capable of delivering valuable solutions.

To find our more about our web development services, speak with a local Tower Systems sales person. They can point you to successful sites from us that are live and transacting today.

Here are some of the store linked websites we have developed:

This is a selection of sites created by Tower Systems. Our web development skills are diverse. Our SEO and SEM skills are fine-tuned, to help you get the notice for your website.

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Advice on small business websites: don’t bloat

November 30, 2018

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While what you put on your website for sale is your business, our advice is don’t bloat … don’t load the website with everything thinking that the more you have online the more you will sell. That is not true. Loading everything on is, in our view, a mistake.

Oh, and while we are talking about websites, the best practice approach, our approach, is that our Retailer POS software controls the inventory and feeds this to the site. You can’t and should not try to do it the other way. We say this based on years of service in this area.

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How Tower Systems helps small business retailers with omni channel retail.

November 2, 2018

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Omni channel retail has been all the rage in business for a few years. Consultants like to talk about it, to boost their fees. Tech companies like to talk about it too, to bedazzle you with excitement.

Omni channel is nothing new. It is about selling from your business through multiple facings, multiple routes to the shopper.

Today, Omni channel, if you want to call it that, is about selling online and in-store and blending both so customers can act as they want. For example, they can buy online and pick up in store. They can buy in-store and return online. They can buy online for delivery to another location. They can pre-order online for pickup when a product is released.

Thanks to our POS software connecting beautifully to Magento, Shopify and WordPress (WooCommerce), we a4re able to deliver wonderful and useful omni channel solutions to small business retailers, making it easier, faster and more valuable for shoppers and for small business retailers serving those shoppers.

Tower Systems offers small business retailers several omni channel solutions based on our POS software and the web platforms to which we connect. We can show these live in plenty of retail businesses in different retail channels. Small business retailers can see live what we are talking about, they can see the results of our tech software development and web integration.

We have bene delivering omni channel solutions to retail businesses for years now and while we mock and do not like the buzz word, we are in the space, serving the need, delivering online and in-store connected solutions for businesses, helping them capture revenue where shoppers are.

In developing solutions for retail business customers in this area we find out about the needs, fully understanding them before we start off as it is vital we do fully understand. We have been in situations where a customer uses a buzzword with an understanding o9f a meaning that is not the same as ours. Hence, we ask questions, lots of questions. It is like measure three times and cut once for carpenters. We like to get it right. So, we talk, deter mine needs and then proceed to create a solution for our customers.

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How webstore connected POS software helps retailers in a group and independent retailers win more sales

October 19, 2018

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As well as offering POS software designed for your specific type of business, Tower Systems provides websites seamlessly connected to the shop floor, giving you a single management view.

We develop websites for our customers, in Magento, Shopify or WooCommerce.

Our websites are live POS software connected, offering 24/7 selling with payments through PayPal, Oxipay (interest free buy now pay later) and credit cards.

Our websites leverage online purchases as well as click and collect. They also drive basket depth with up-sell options and handling coupons for special deals.

If you are in a banner group or a marketing group, we can provide a single website to represent all stores in the group. We do this today for one group, through five websites we created – each easily found through Google thanks to our SEO work.

Each store in a banner or marketing group gets their own page, which they can easily promote. For a single business, the POS connected website promotes their business.

We know from experience that:

In some businesses, around 75% of key in-store purchases have an online search component. POS connected websites are important for winning online sales and even more important for driving in-store purchases.

45% of purchases in many categories are when retail shops are closed.

10% of purchases are click and collect in higher-end product categories.

14% of purchases are done with buy now pay later financing.

Shoppers like certainty that a store will have in stock they want to purchase – stock on hand by item can be viewable for each store.

We network stores from a banner or marketing group into a single website. Thereby leveraging the power of the group of independently owned small businesses to be stronger and more useful than a big business competitor. This is how small businesses can win online.

Let us show you how together we can do this, how we can bring single stores online as well as whole groups online … through webstore connected POS software.

Not only do we create the website and the POS software, we ensure they can be found. This is key as a website that cannot be easily found through Google is a waste of money.

We would love to show individuals privately or members of your group, if you are in a group, the POS software connected websites we have created. We would take you behind the curtain, showing not only the tech. but explaining the business approach, outlining what we have done to create successful online businesses.

Fulfilment can be a challenge.We can help here too thanks to our integration work with Australia Post, Sendle and others. We can help you reduce friction with fulfilment and see you benefit from incremental online business.

Online is about a race to the cash. By this we mean that an online shopper is more likely to be ready to purchase. The first business to take their cash wins. This is where POS integrated websites can win. We can show you how.

The latest release of our POS software introduces a web dashboard to help in-store online sales fulfilment. This, coupled with inventory integration, accurate stock on hand data, professional image handling and smart SEO work helps you create and run an efficient, integrated physical and online business.

Whether you run a single store or operate as part of a marketing or banner group, Tower Systems has a track record of success you can leverage for your success. Let us show you how.

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Bulk image import to POS software helps retailers setup e-commerce websites

September 20, 2018

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The bulk image import facilities in the Tower Systems POS software make it easy for small business retailers to update their e-commerce websites with accurate image data.

We won’t go into much detail here about the bulk image import as it is clever, fast and accurate. It is part of our intellectual property that we leverage for our small business POS software customer base.

The bulk image import tools make it easy for customers to bring in images accurately and with little time investment. It makes it easy for small business retailers to offer image ric h website experiences to customers. This is a massive difference, something that we leverage exclusively for Tower Systems customers.

We work with retailers as well as their suppliers to manger this connection work to the advantage of our customers. We have experience already with many websites where we have done this work.

Looking around at others and what they offer in this area, we are grateful to have a point of difference in our facilities that give Tower Systems customers a commercial advantage on the bulk import of images to websites through our POS software.

We reached this point because we needed it ourselves for websites we created for our own retail businesses. We knew first hand the importance of the fact and accurate bulk image import. However, we found suppliers challenged ing to deal with. Then, we developed a process. We tested this and refined it and got it to a point where it is working a treat.

We can help our customers and their suppliers work together to bring in images to the POS in bulk that are then loaded to websites according to rules established by the retail business, working with us, leveraging our experience and expertise in this field.

We make it easier for small business retailers to get images loaded onto their websites. This helps them move online and leverage the online sales opportunities.

This is another example of the whole of business solutions offered by Tower Systems from the POS to e-commerce and back again.

We are grateful to ur customers for their support and the continual improvement opportunities they present.

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How our Shopify connected POS software helps small business retailers sell online

August 31, 2018

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Tower Systems launched its POS software – Shopify interface more than two years ago. Back at the time a competitor mocked the move, which we thought was ignorant of them. We have the last laugh with them recently completing their Shopify interface

What we offered then and continue to offer today is direct integration between our small business POS software and Shopify.

It is beautiful, fast, easy to use, accurate and two-way. This is an integration that helps small business retailers compete online. We are proud of what we launched in 2016 and proud of what it has evolved to become and the businesses we help every day.

Here is information abut the Tower Systems POS software Shopify link:

What is Shopify?

Shopify is one of the easiest ways to setup and run an ecommerce store. We think it provides you with the ideal place to create you first website and gain experience in the world of ecommerce. You have complete control over the look and feel of your online store and can instant access fantastic look themes to reflect the personality of your business. For more information visit www.shopify.com.au.

What is the Retailer to Shopify Link?

The Tower Systems Retailer POS software to Shopify Link uses the Tower Advantage Link platform to allow Retailer to connect directly to your Shopify store. The Tower Advantage Link platform is a subscription-based service that acts as an intermediary between Retailer and the Shopify API.

How does the link work?

The link works by using the TALink platform platform to connect to the shopify API and synchronise your data.

Stock. Retailer is your master stock database. You flag what stock items you want to appear on your shopify store. Descriptions and extended descriptions are added as your titles and descriptions in Shopify. Newly flagged products are automatically added and if you edit items in Retailer you have field level control over how these are handled in Shopify.

Department and Categories. Your Retailer Departments and Categories become collections in Shopify. You can have a chose of either Department level collections or category level, but not both. If you choose to synchronise either a department or category, your existing structure will be mirrored and managed in Shopify automatically. If, however, you decide not link your Department and Categories in Shopify, you can allocate collections manually to products once they are added.

Classifications. Shopify does not have a mechanism to manage classifications.

Prices and Quantity On Hand. You have control over your webstore pricing from within the Retailer Stock Screen. Bulk updates of the webstore prices can be performed in Stock Manager. Once new prices are set, your web store is updated automatically.

Quantity on hand is also managed automatically, when your sell or arrive an item into stock these adjustments are sent directly to Shopify. If the quantity on hand of an items drops to 0, the item is marked as out of stock in Shopify.

Images. The images you set against stock items in Retailer are automatically uploaded to your website. If images change, then old one is removed and the new one is added. You can upload as many images as you like per stock item.

Customers. Customers that purchase off your webstore are added as customers in your Retailer database, allowing you to track what they buy and market to them if you desire. Existing customers with an email address will also be added to your web store to facilitate easy sales if you choose.

Sales. Sales are downloaded on a periodic basis and imported into Retailer. They are imported into our Customer Invoice Maintenance facility allowing you to place orders and print invoices if needed. Once sales are imported it reduces your quantity on hand so you maintain accurate stock control. Sales can be allocated to a specific location or merged to you main sales data, giving you excellent control over how you report on your webstore sales.

I don’t have a website but want one. Can Tower help?

Yes! We are expert in POS software and web store development and deployment.

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Our POS software co. also develops small business websites for best-practice e-commerce

August 23, 2018

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We are grateful to have two software development teams in our business, one continually enhancing our awesome small business POS software and the other developing beautiful and valuable websites for small business retailers.

We have just expanded our web development team to help us keep up with demand while we last month added to our POS software development team.

Our commitment is to providing small business local retailers in Australia and New Zealand solutions to their specialty retail needs in-store and online. we do this by offering off the shelf specialty POS software in selected marketplaces.

All our websites are developed from scratch using tools well respected around the world, tools such as Magento and Shopify. We ave experience enhancing these offerings to provide retailers with facilities that are unique, valuable and powerful beyond what you see out of the box.

Our small business website development starts with a comprehensive consultation process, to ensure we understand d the needs and agree these with our customers. Too often with offshore web development this is not done and fixing a site from afar is problematic.

The Tower web team is also skilled at SEO and SEM services that help raise the website rankings in key search engines, ensuring the site is found ahead of others.

But best of all, Tower Systems provides professional advice and guidance to small business retailers keen to build their online presence. Our commitment is honest transparent advice on which any small business retailer can rely.

The Tower Systems web development team is Australian based, working out of the company’s head office in Hawthorn. This is important as many web development businesses are overseas. While you might have a locally based contact person development too often is done overseas, leading to challenges with delivery and usefulness.

Professional web development takes time. Time has a per hour cost. IT professionals are paid well. Going for the cheapest price for website development could mean that you have gone with a business that cuts corners or has most of the work done offshore.

Since your website is your business calling card to the world it is not something to cut corners with, it is not something to take offshore for a saving today. A good source of business for us is replacing offshore developed sites.

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People loving Christmas ornaments website

August 17, 2018

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Our Christmas ornaments website is enjoying excellent sales success early in the Christmas season. Offering the wonderful and limited edition Hallmark Keepsakes range. The MyOrnaments website is a hit with Australian shoppers, pulling excellent sales and queries.

This is another of our POS software connected websites, bring online revenue to local high street retail businesses. Finding new traffic and leveraging commercially valuable results.

Tower Systems is proud to be offering web and in-store solutions to independent small business retailers in a beautiful win win.

Specialty Christmas ornaments are sought after, especially those dated to a year and available in limited quantities, as these are. We are grateful for the opportunity through this website to showcase ur web development and POS software integration tools and to do so in a visually appealing and easy to shop site.

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POS software connected Cuteness Overload website helps sell cute

August 17, 2018

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Our Cuteness Overload website is a hit with people who love all things cute from Pusheen to more. This site is one of plenty of sites we have developed for small business retailers, connected to our local store POS software.

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July 19, 2018

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More POS software companies link to Shopify

July 1, 2018

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We integrated our POS software with Shopify more than two years ago. We have many websites directly connected with terrific online sales success.

One of our competitors bagged Shopify publicly. It is hilarious that they have quietly announced a Shopify integration. It had to happen. They had no choice. They lost two years in the meantime.

Our POS software Shopify integration is beautiful, direct and beneficial for our small business retailer customers. We now have years of experience demonstrating what we can do, how it can benefit our customers. Plus, as retailers ourselves who use Shopify we can speak to experience in a way that is practical and under the hood. We walk in your shoes every day.

Shopify is an easy to use e-commerce platform. We think anyone can setup a Shopify site for themselves. Linking the site to our retailer software is also easy. Shopify is a great place for a business to start on their online journey. You can control pages, products, look and plenty more. Shopify is not as complex as Magento and other more comprehensive website platforms.

Our approach to Shopify / POS software integration is holistic and can include graphic design, content writing and site structure. Our customers choose the services they use of ours. We can offer the full one stock shop when it comes to web development. We have built these skills here in Australia based on years go work, years of successful website implementation for our customers.

Our POS software integrated websites serve a single inventory database between physical store and online store.

The Tower Systems web development team is skilled in WooCommerce, Magento and Shopify. The company has plenty of sites it can show in a live portfolio of successful e-commerce sites, serving shoppers in Australia and internationally.

Small business retailers can benefit from the retail management experience at Tower Systems experience that helps deliver a more retail focussed solution.

The Tower web team is also skilled at SEO and SEM services that help raise the website rankings in key search engines, ensuring the site is found ahead of others.

But best of all, Tower Systems provides professional advice and guidance to small business retailers keen to build their online presence. Our commitment is honest transparent advice on which any small business retailer can rely.

The Tower Systems web development team is Australian based, working out of the company’s head office in Hawthorn. This is important as many web development businesses are overseas. While you might have a locally based contact person development too often is done overseas, leading to challenges with delivery and usefulness.

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Looking for another web developer for our POS software co.

June 6, 2018

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Tower System,s is in the market for another web developer to join our awesome Melbourne based retail business web development team.

Web developer.

Tower Systems, a well-established niche POS software company based in Hawthorn Victoria is seeking a web developer with good PHP skills. We seek a web developer who goes beyond knowing PHP and other tech. Knowing is one thing. Context, understanding, is something else. We want someone who is either elite or aspires to be elite.

We would love you to have React skills as well as experience with Magento, Woo and more in the e-com space.

Working on several projects, this role offers variety serving the needs of our existing small business retail channels.

Here are the skills we are interested in, in order of importance:

PHP 5 and MySQL
React.
Magento, Shopify, WordPress/Woo or similar
MVC frameworks, like Zend or Laravel
API development experience will be highly regarded
CMS experience in Drupal, WordPress or similar.
Frontend skills in respected front-end frameworks
Familiar with Photoshop or Eclipse
Flawless written and oral communication skills.

Find out more about us at www.towersystems.com.au. Please research us.

All applications are sent by SEEK direct to our CEO.

This is a full time role. Permanent residents or Australian citizens only. No 457. No sponsorship. No part time students.

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The best Beanie Boo website in Australia for Beanie Boo collectors

May 30, 2018

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Beanie Boos are adorable cute plush toys from Ty in the USA. In Australia, the best website for buying Beanie Boos is www.beanieboosaustralia.com. This website connects close to 150 shops selling beanie Boos, making it easy for beanie Boo shoppers to buy from one website and get stock access from all these 150 or so shops.

This provides access to the best Beanie Boo range in Australia.

Plus is provides access to Ty baby, Attic Treasures, Peek-A-Boo tablet holders, Ty Classic, Ty beanies and Ty Beanie Babies. All these products are on the awesome Ty Beanie Boo website.

Tower Systems created this awesome website and it maintains a genuinely live connection to the retail shops in the newsXpress network, making Beanie Boos available to anyone anywhere in Australia. Shopping is easy and fast and safe. Shopping is awesome – safe, secure and professional with easy shipment tracking.

With live connection between the Beanie Boo website and the shops that stock beanie Boos we are able to provide the shoppers with certainty about what they want and when they want it. The website includes images and more – which all come from direct within the POS software developed by Tower Systems.

Thanks to the beanie Boos website we are able to help local collectors anywhere in Australia to engage in their passion and to do so in a cost effective and happy way. Plus we help make local communities happier places as collectors of Boos smile more thanks to their adorable cuties.

Here is special information from newsXpress and their beanie Boo engagement:

At newsXpress shops you will also find exclusive Beanie Boos, Boos that you can only get from newsXpress shops in Australia.

We are an authorised ty stockist. This means we get our products from them through their Australian distributor. We do not parallel import. We do not purchase secondhand. This means you can trust what you buy from us.

In our shops you can collect your Beanie Boo Collector Poster while stocks last. This is a wonderful gift, there is no charge.

We host special collector events when new characters arrive, special competitions at different seasonal times and giveaways to celebrate these adorable characters.

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The best Pop Vinyls shop in Australia is…

May 30, 2018

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Pop! Vinyls are vinyl figurines for collectors, licence lovers and more. They are a genuine reflection of the licenced characters they represent. Pop vinyl shoppers love having access to an awesome range.

The Pop Vinyls website created by Tower Systems for more than 100 newsXpress retailers brings together into one place all the stock from these retailers to make shopping easy and certain and to offer a fantastic range.

This is what shoppers love. They love that they can shop a whole range from many Pop Vinyl shops easily and from the one place. they also love the certainty that what they can see online is what they can see in the physical shop too. Yes, our awesome Pop! Vinyl website makes in-store shopping easier for collectors of all sorts of Pop! Vinyls from Golden Girls to Batman, to Game of Thrones to Care bears, to Marvel, to The Munsters to all things Pop! Vinyls.

The online pop website is an awesome place for people to buy Pop! Vinyls and all things pop culture. The shops connected to the website are all round Australia and all small family owned businesses serving their local communities. They are good for locals and good for the comm unity. This is a big point of difference compared to the big businesses.

On this website we bring it all together, representing the Pop! Vinyl products in each store connected to our website, available for you to purchase online through us and supplied from the local store level.

We have access to the full range of Funko Pop! Vinyls. We are happy to do special orders and pre-orders of new releases. We are here to serve every Pop! Vinyl collector – we want to help you have more pops to love.

We only sell authentic Pop! Vinyl product, product sourced directly from Funko. We do not sell clones, copies or cheap knock-offs. This is important as the fake space is alive and well. Fake products do not carry value. In fact, we sadly see fake products in shops in Australia and this disrespects the Funko brand and all their good work.

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The best online jigsaw shop in Australia

May 30, 2018

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Australians love jigsaws. We have helped serve that love by creating the best online jigsaw shop in Australia. Jigsaws Australia b rings to live products from more than 100 retailers all connected and shapable through the one online website. This makes sure the range is diverse and easily accessible by shoppers in locations right around our vast country.

Buying a jigsaw for yourself or add a gift for someone else has never been easier. Thanks to this awesome website that makes shopping easy and certain. This includes professional back office fulfilment ensuring jigsaws are shipped to their destination using professional packaging and shipping. Our website takes care of all of this including the opportunity to buy now and pay later thanks to Oxipay.

Featuring Ravensberger jigsaws, the Jigsaw Australia website is awesome for jigsaw fans and gift givers. It serves the collectors, shoppers and small businesses in a pet Aussie battler story, providing an opportunity for small businesses to win and serve their local communities with much loved jigsaw products.

Tower Systems developed the Jigsaws Australia website. We have connected it to more than 100 jigsaw retailers, enabling them to win online sales as well as in-store sales through shoppers who find their shops thanks to the awesome website. This its good for in-store purchases as well as online.

Being the POS software developer as well as the website developer we are able to provide small business retailers with a perfect solution. This is especially true for retailers in a single banner group, such as is the case for the Jigsaws Australia website that we have now deployed for more than 100 small business retailers.

Doing jigsaws is good for the health of your brain according to medical experts around the world. It exercises your brain in a number of ways, helping to make you healthier and happier.

The benefits include hand to eye co-ordination as you look for pieces to match into the picture you are creating for a completed jigsaw. The more you do of jigsaws the better you get. It is like any form of training.

Another benefit is the feeling of accomplishment. That can help in so many other parts of life.

While you are doing a jigsaw you mind can subconsciously wander off and contemplate other challenges. Doing a jigsaw can help you resolve complex issues that otherwise you might be challenged to address.

Doing a jigsaw at work while working through difficult issues can make the difficult issues seem less difficult as your mind is taken off them and focussed on completing the jigsaw.

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The best website for collectible teddy bears

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If you are a collector of teddy bears and love especially the handmade teddy bears in the UK from genuine limited edition runs then the Willow bears website www.willowbears.com.au could be the website best for you. These handmade collectible bears are true one of a kind, unlike any bears you will see elsewhere.

Through the Willow bears website you can see these gorgeous bears that are located in more than 100 newsXpress shops around Australia, where collectors can hug, love and buy the Willow Bears.

From the website you can shop with certainty and it is directly connected to each shop selling the Willow bears, each shop with accurate stock on hand data that makes buying fun, certain and fast.

Plus there is the opportunity to buy now, hug now and pay later thanks to the website integration with Oxipay.

Collectible bears are something to love and hug. These Willow bears are more special than most because:

They are not made in an asian factory with low labour rates.
They are not factory produced in large numbers.
They are not sold on TV.

No, these are genuine limited edition hand made by artist bears from the UK, 100% from the UK. This is a big and important point of difference for the collectors who love unique works of art, bears they can pass on through generations. Bears that are made ethically, for real collectors. Beautiful teddy bears are to be cherished.

Collecting bears is personal. It is different for everyone. There is no right or wrong way, only your way.

Collectors can be young or old and anything in between. They can be girls or guys. They can be couples. They can be whole families.

We have put together here advice for anyone new to bear collecting that we hope will help you start. We have included tips and advice based on personal experience with collecting, to help you avoid disappointment.

Buy what you love. While for some collecting is about the long-term investment, it is more fun and more personally certain if you buy what you love as a starting point. This gets you going. It connects you with the collection. It results in a collection you are happy to look at and share with others.

So, when starting out, buy what you love.

Take your time. There is no rush.

You could choose bears based on a style, a colour, a size, names or some other factor that has deep personal meaning to you. There are many different reasons for collecting, each is personal and each is equally valid. Be sure about your reason for starting out as this can guide you to buy bears that give you the most pleasure.

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