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News from Tower Systems about locally made POS software for specialty local retailers.
With only a couple of days to go, the Tower Systems team is all hands helping newsagents ensure a smooth transition from to major magazine distributors to one. The data shift is considerable as is the reconfiguring of back end processes. Tower Systems has made this easy for customers, to provide small business newsagents with certainty.
Our communication has been consistent in the lead up to the change and the next couple of days it comes to a head. We are excited for the results.
Firearms retailers can rely on our Firearms retail software to continually improve to better serve their businesses.
Thanks to advice from several firearms retailers and state based regulators we have created firearm permit to acquire (PTA) tracking facility.
Firearms retailers and their staff have directly guided this software development project.
Coupled with our advanced serial number tracking tools, you will be able to track a specific firearm back to a permit.
Where regulators permit, our software will create a file you can upload to meet regulatory reporting requirements.
We are ensuring that through this software we help you meet all published regulatory standards in anywhere in Australia.
here are the facilities firearms shop owners and staff like are in our software:
Using the Tower Systems Firearms Shop software would help a firearms retailer to:
Yes, retail can be tough.
What are you doing about it?
Here is a letter we sent to retailers recently who have said it is tough. It is part of a confronting education campaign based on a truth that even in the toughest of circumstances, retailers can grow their businesses – yes, even small business retailers who are facing tough competition from big businesses.
We have used this letter to try and jog people to see their businesses differently…
I’d love a dollar for every retailer who has told me how tough it is in the last few years. Heck I’d retire with the money I’d have.
The thing is, retail is tough, especially small business retail like a gift shop. It’s always been tough for the little guy. I know because I own a small retail business myself.
We really do think we need to stop saying retail is tough and start challenging ourselves. Hence the question: What are you doing about it? Put another way…
These are the four most important things for a retailer to act on. They sit at the core of every retail business failure and success.
Taking small steps in each of these areas can help you weather tough times. These same small steps can help you find success with less effort.
Tower Systems is a software company for small business retailers like you. We’re retailers too. We combine retail experience with tech smarts and a passion for small business to help our colleagues to grow their businesses. We’d like to help you.
Using our Point of Sale software for gift shops like yours we can help you
Big claims yes … we have existing customers who will tell you that we do this.
Our system can cost as little as $7 day. Besides great software, hardware you can trust, friendly training and software support, you have access to our business skills, acumen and passion. We have your back, helping where we can with advice and ideas to help you grow your retail business.
We’re not your average software company. Tower Systems is a full-service passionate and engaged software company that wants you to succeed. We firmly believe…
In business, through our own actions we make our own success.
Using the latest Toy Shop software from Tower Systems, small and independent toy retailers are able to grow online and offline sales – grow sales in store and grow sales through a smart magento webstore interface.
The Magento interface available to Toy retailers, and other retailers, is elegant, direct and fast. With users already it is working a treat, offering independent toy retailers an easy path to online retail.
This is smart, very smart. better than a webstore link, better than what many software companies offer – as it is direct, using Magento itself for a direct to the POS software link.
Toy retailers can easily have a common stock file for their store and their webstore, they can sell in the shop or online and not have to worry about syncing files or keeping both up today.
This is just one of the ways the Tower Systems toy shop software is helping small business retailers like toy shop owners to drive better business outcomes for their independent businesses.
Competing with big retailers can be tough. But it can be done. This is where Tower Systems helps – by enabling small business retailers to be smart, to make fact-based decisions for the better of their businesses.
With more toy shops switching to the Tower software we are able to bring opportunities to the table such as supplier links, benchmarking, electronic ordering and other benefits.
Using the Tower you shop software is about much more than the software itself, thanks to the whole of business support approach delivered by Tower through what it does in its work not only with toy retailers but with other specialty retailers the company serves.
Being the only software company exhibiting at the Sydney Gift Fair has been terrific for tower Systems and we have two days to go. Already the company many new prospective customers looking at the software and even better connections with many existing customers.
The experience over the first three days is a reminder of the value of being at trade shows such as this to help small business retailers learn more abut the software and improve the returns they achieve from their IT investment.
While we are happy to have the show to ourselves, any POS software company serious about newsagents, gift shops, garden centres, pet shops or jewellers ought to be at this show given the mix of retailers we have already seen. It is good customer service to do so.
POS software company Tower Systems is proud to announce the release last week of a new software platform for small business retailers.
This new platform is a completely new product from the Tower development team. It leveraged data cultivated by the Tower Point of Sale software and makes it available anywhere, in a stimulating visual form and in a way than encourages the discovery of business performance insights.
Introducing The Visual Deck.
Retail business performance, seen differently.
The Visual Deck is a platform through which you can see the performance of your business, visually. Graphs replace reports, making trends obvious and a path ahead clearer to follow. Graphs that change with time and through which you can dive deeper into what is happening in your business.
Why did we call it the Visual deck? It is visual because, well, your business data is presented in a visual way. It is a deck because it is a platform off of which you can see far and wide. It is a perfect place to see what you cannot see when you are on the ground.
Retailers can access the Visual deck from anywhere, anytime, and through this access their business data in a way not previously accessible ninth small business retail world. You can compare periods, graph using a broad selection of formats, dive deep into the data as well as focus on data points that matter including transactions, revenue, grow profit and more.
Better still, the visual insights can easily be shared with colleagues.
The Retail Visual Deck is a fresh approach to sharing business intelligence and business performance insights with small business retailers. It is mass retailer computing in a small business retailer’s hands. This is the tool join which you can rely to grow your business.
This is 100% Tower Systems innovation.
Having been tested with data from a range of businesses and trialled for months on many different platforms, the Visual deck is ready for small business retailers to engage, to use it to better manage and grow their businesses.
Footnote: If things go as usual, at least on competitor will claim they had this before us and that we copied them. Such a claim is not true. Prior to our launched last week we checked all our competitors in each specialty marketplace in which we live and not one has a product like this.
Beyond ensuring the shop is well stocked, clean and pitching appropriate offers to customers, here are tasks you must act at least weekly on to offer a fresh and relevant pitch to customers:
It is important to finish a week more ahead than where you started. This is only achieved if you make it so, if you do it.
Tower Systems helps small business retailers with smart POS software. We back this with friendly live support based on your needs. We are an engaged software company, not working from overseas call centres, not focussed only on winning the next customer. We have customers for the long term, customers who love what we do and the relationships we share. This is what being an engaged POS software company is all about.
Contracting colours in a window display can make a good impact.
Tower Systems is thrilled to add more dates and capacity to the national POS software user meeting tour that is ti kick off in the next few weeks. With strong demand for these free training sessions, the event management team at Tower has found rooms with more capacity.
Offering a free breakfast to make the early start more enjoyable, the Tower sessions are set to be satisfying in ways more than software knowledge. Providing training, support, business insights and more, these free sessions are POS software customer service at its best. It is another feature of the Tower AdvantageTM that thousands of small business retailers love.
Tower Systems is exhibiting its gift shop software at the Reed Gift Fair starting tomorrow morning. What is especially exciting is the launch of new software, never seen before, developed from scratch by Tower for the service of small and independent retailers like gift shops, newsagents, garden centres, toy shops and jewellers.
This new software is unlike anything in the Australian marketplace.
To see the new software, come visit the Tower Stand at the gift on stand: SS61. There, you will also be able to see our latest gift shop software. If you are a newsagent we will have our latest newsagency software.
We are very excited for the opportunities we will discover at the Gift Fair.
The newsagents using the Tower Systems newsagency software are receiving best-practice help to navigate the business changes following from the closure of magazine distributor Network Services at the end of this month.
Being briefed last year on the coming changes, the Tower Systems leadership team has been able to guide decisions made by Network and others involved in these significant and structural changes.
Confidentiality was maintained until the public announcement some weeks ago. The early heads-up helped Tower Systems make full and proper preparations to help all of its newsagency customers and to do so in a structured and fully tested way.
The company has been advising newsagents on appropriate steps to undertake so they actual move at the end of the month is stress free.
This is another way Tower Systems helps small business newsagents to confidently navigate structural change.
Early in 2016 Tower Systems added two new developers to its software development team. This has enhanced our capacity and our skill base and this is being reflected in what we are delivering for our customers.
This weekend at the Reed Gift Fair in Sydney we will be showing off new software, outside of the traditional POS software space, software that dramatically enhances the value small business retailers can harvest from their businesses.
This new software is a game changer. If you are attending the Reed Gift Fair, ask to see the new software we are launching.
Plants Plus withdrew from the marketplace starting late in 2015. Tower Systems partnered with the group and members of the group to help migrate from the Plants Plus loyalty program to the Tower Systems POS software loyalty program. Here is one of the resources we created to help Plants Plus members. We share it today to offer another example of the extent to which we go using our in-house video and other resources to help small business retailers confront technology changes and challenges. This video from last year is our actions speaking louder than our words.
There is no mystery to choosing goos POS software for your retail business. It is simple and straight forward. Here is a video from us explaining how:
Tower Systems is proud to have its Garden Centre Software on show at the NGIA national conference in Adelaide this week – showing off breast practice software and processes to garden centre and nursery experts.
While POS software co Tower Systems has offered web store access through its smart POS software, the new direct Magento link takes the web store facilities to a new level.
The Tower link with Magento is direct, through a partnership link between the Tower software and Magento.
Prior to releasing the POS software / magento link on the market, Tower Systems created several-commerce sites using the Magento link and these have been running for more than six months. Today the company and has supports live direct link e-commerce sites in a range of retail channels covering a range of products and services. These sites are live commerce sites the company can take prospective clients to, to show the link live in action, so people can see this smart software working for themselves.
The link is powerful yet easy to setup and maintain. The Tower development team has ensured this as the focus user is the typical small business retailer with little resource or appetite to become an IT expert.
Retailers including garden centres, jewellers, bike shops, newsagents, gift shops, homewares shops, book shops, toy shops and produce stores can use this link to help their businesses transact accurately and professionally online. Tower Systems helps with terrific software for the brick and mortar retail business as well as the link to the website. The company can facilitate the whole of business service, as far as the retail customer may want.
It is our contact with Magento in the US well over a year ago that set the path for what we offer small business retailers in Australia and New Zealand today. By going our and undertaking research into best practice overseas, Tower Systems made itself aware of what retailers liked and what they wanted from website links from their POS software, the company then set about developing, testing and delivering this into the marketplace.
With plenty of reference sites now for the Magento link and even more for our mature web store facilities, Tower Systems is well positioned to help small business retailers establish professional and commercially valuable links with one or more inline presences.
Magento is owned by eBay, it is a worldwide popular webstore platform.
Tower Systems is a personal software company that partners with its retail customers. Our success is thanks to open lines of communication and close relationships with our clients. You too can benefit from personal POS software.
This is the best card for a geek to give. We love it.
Okay so we have shared advice on cutting employee theft before, many times in fact. The things is – employee theft continues in small business retail, too often. It can be reduced in any retail business if you follow this simple advice:
Colour blocking makes for more impactful displays.
As an independent retailer you can choose from several software providers, each of which claim to help you grow your business. But why buy overseas POS software only masquerading as local when you can benefit from real Australian specialist POS software?
For years, retailers using the Tower Systems POS software have had access to multi-store POS software – the ability to run POS software across multiple locations of the same business.
This cloud based POS software solution allows retailers to open and close businesses faster and with greater flexibility. It also enabled group wide performance reporting and data tracking.
Based in the cloud, on a central server, the software is accessible from stores connected via the internet. Multi-store operation facilitates:
Good multi store POS software is important for groups and this is what Tower Systems delivers. Used by a variety of groups in different specialty retail niches, the Tower Systems software has a strong customer base in this multi store environment.
We have a group of 14 stores in Queensland using the software in shopping centre situations. Nationally, we have a group of 16 stores using the software for products and services – leveraging consistency across the full needs of the group.
In a variation to the multi store software option, we have a group of seventy stores linked with a common stock file, common pricing, common shopper terms. Again, cloud based, delivering an excellent flexible solution for small independent stores with a common banner or commercial objective.
Through the Tower Systems multi store POS software, retailers are able to evolve their businesses without the need to duplicate IT setup work. The time and capital savings and improved consistency help these retailers to achieve better business outcomes.
This really is an approach to retail IT infrastructure made for our times of pop up shops and other emerging and evolving retail situations we are seeing on the high street and in shopping malls. Tower Systems is well positioned to continue to evolve its multi store POS software solution to serve emerging needs in retail.
Covering all capital cities, this national POS software user meeting tour will offer personal insights, customer service and help to the Tower Systems user community of more than 3,500 small business retailers.
There is no cost for retailers to participate.
The cap city tour will be followed up with regional events – offering retailers around the country the opportunity to learn more about their chosen POS software.
This is another Tower AdvantageTM.
As a further example of practical help for small business retailers, Tower Systems last week published the following suggestions / tips. This content demonstrates how the company leverages its retail experience and knowledge way beyond what it traditional for a POS software company.
FIVE FUN AND LEFT-FIELD WAYS ANY RETAILER CAN EMBRCE VALENTINES DAY
While Valentine’s Day is an unashamed commercial season, how you embrace it in your business beyond selling Valentine’s Day products can speak to your unique style of business.
Here are ways you can embrace th season without being purely overtly commercial.
Each one of these ideas is designed, of themselves, to increase your sales or foot traffic. They will, however, speak to who you are and what your business stands for in the local community.
While bigger businesses will run overt Valentine’s Day promotions screaming shop here, your focus will be on touching people’s hearts in a meaningful way, rejoicing in this day for heartfelt reasons beyond the cash register.
Small business POS software company helps small and independent retailers leverage the opportunity of the Tyro broadband EFTPOS solutions. We do this through a direct integration with our smart POS software as well as through the friendly small business focussed help desk service.
Serving retailers across a range of retail niches, we have experience from many channels and situations from which to draw when helping retailers save time, cut mistakes and benefit from a best-practice EFTPOS integration. This is an integration supported by tower for many years.
While the Tower Systems POS software works with a range of platforms, Tyro is featured by the company thanks to the relationship with the folks at Tyro, a relationship that benefits the Tower Systems small business retailer user community.
We use Tyro ourselves in our own retail businesses. This enables us to support from a basis of personal experience. It sets us apart.
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