Tower Systems makes POS software for local independent clothing shops and fashion retailers. This software is designed to help these businesses succeed by providing them with the tools they need to manage their inventory, track sales, and provide excellent customer service. It has wonderful tools for leveraging local.
Some of the features of Tower Systems POS software for local independent clothing shops and fashion retailers include:
Inventory management by color, size, and style
Management of alterations (if done in-house or outsourced)
Easy inclusion of clothing care instructions on receipts
Bundling options for shoppers who may purchase a whole outfit
Loyalty tools that can help businesses differentiate themselves from the competition
Reporting on sales by brand, in addition to tracking sales by wholesaler/supplier
Tower Systems POS software also integrates with a variety of other popular platforms, such as Shopify, Xero, Deputy, Tanda, and Slyp. This makes it easy for businesses to manage their online sales, accounting, staff schedules, shipping, and digital receipts.
There is no requirements to use a specific payments platform for EFTPOS. That choice is up to you and there is no extra cost for your choice.
The software is priced at $195 per month, and there are no extra fees for more terminals, advanced reporting, loyalty tools, or personal support. Businesses can cancel the rental at any time, so they’re not locked into a long-term contract.
To make it easy for new employees to learn how to use the software, Tower Systems provides a library of short, topic-specific videos. This ensures that everyone in the business is using the software effectively.
The monthly rental cost for Tower Systems POS software includes:
Software licenses for unlimited computers in the location
Help desk support (by phone or email) 6 days a week (including Saturday)
Access to a comprehensive support knowledge base
After-hours support call access for urgent system down queries
Access to Shopify, Xero, and other integrations
Access to supplier invoice import tools
Tower Systems POS software is a comprehensive and affordable solution for local clothing shops and fashion retailers of all sizes. It’s the perfect way to manage your inventory, track sales, and provide excellent customer service.
Here are some additional benefits of using Tower Systems POS software:
It can help you increase sales by providing you with insights into your customers’ buying habits.
It can help you improve your customer service by making it easier to track orders and provide refunds.
It can help you save time and money by automating tasks such as inventory management and reporting.
If you’re a local clothing shop or fashion retailer, consider the Tower Systems POS software. It could be the perfect solution for your business.
We are grateful here at Tower Systems to serve many hundreds of jewellers with our jeweller POS software. Plenty have been with us for more than 15 years and plenty have joined us just this year.
Thank you to all, we are grateful.
We’re not connected with any marketing group, we don’t pay a commission for referral. We also don’t lock you in to any particular EFTPOS platform.
Here is some of the benefits in our jeweller POS software that jewellers tell us they like:
Sell accurately by weight or measure – by whole numbers or fractions.
Load electronic invoices from suppliers.
Sell on the road.
Leverage you. If your knowledge is a differentiator, offer it through structured opportunities in the software.
Easier record keeping with serial number tracking of items sold.
Ensure compliance with structured age checking.
Easily handle special customer orders. Bring product in for a specific customer and have them notified automatically by email or text when the goods are in and ready.
Business differentiating loyalty. Stand out from the crowd. Have customers coming back to you for this.
Maximise the basket with easy to use one-time shopper loyalty tools.
Trade and club pricing profiles. Set pricing rules based on customer type.
Pre-orders – Easily pre-sell a delivery so that when the stock arrives you can manage distribution and billing efficiently.
Differentiate with informative receipts. These can include product care, use and safety information based on what customers buy.
Differentiate with bundles. Selling items bundled together makes price comparison hard.
Track who sold what.
Time saving invoicing and account management – manage accounts in a way tailored to your
Market to customers based on past purchases.
Save time by importing electronic invoices.
Sell more with a direct connect to buy now pay later services.
Cut mistakes with integrated EFTPOS.
Cut accounting and bookkeeping fees with integration to Xero and others.
Easily sell online with a direct to Shopify / Magento or WooCommerce link from your POS software.
This is Aussie made and supported POS software, locally made for local businesses. We are passionate about helping local businesses compete with big business chains when they want to and to stand out in their local community by running a best practice business.
The Tower Systems POS software for produce, farm supply and local feedstock businesses is Australian made for businesses in Australia and New Zealand.
We are focussed on local independent businesses. This is where we thrive.
Our software works in-store, on the road and for online sales. But whether it is right for you is up to you. We’d love to understand your needs and see if our software could serve you. Here are some of the benefits our customers using our POS software for produce, farm supply and local feedstock businesses tell us they love:
Time saving invoicing and account management – manage accounts in a way tailored to your You can easily account for freight, produce picking slips, manage accounts, feed data to Xero and MYOB and do more.
Delivery platform integration.
Sell accurately by measure – by whole numbers or fractions.
Special orders. Bring product in for a specific customer and have them notified automatically by email or text when the goods are in and ready.
Business differentiating loyalty. Stand out from the crowd. Have customers coming back to you for this.
Pre-orders – We make it easy for you to pre-sell a delivery so that when the stock arrives you can manage distribution and billing efficiently.
Bagging up feed – Easily manage bagging up a bulk feed delivery into smaller, saleable lots, while keeping accurate stock on hand data.
Making your own feed mix. We help you track managing bulk quantity ingredients and mixing these into saleable packs of your own brand of seed mix. What an awesome point of difference for your business!
Pricing profiles. You can set pricing rules based on types of customers.
Sell by weight. in whole numbers or fractions. Accurate billing and stock levels, which customers love.
Differentiate with informative receipts. These can include care, use and safety information based on what customers buy.
Be accurate with all-weather product labels.
Differentiate with bundles. Selling items bundled together makes price comparison hard.
Market to customers based on past purchases.
Save time by importing electronic invoices.
Sell more with a direct connect to buy now pay later services.
Cut mistakes with integrated EFTPOS.
Cut accounting and bookkeeping fees with integration to Xero and others.
Easily sell online with a direct webstore link.
Tower Systems is not an average POS software company. We are a small business, indie business, focussed POS software company developing software in Australia and New Zealand for Australian and New Zealand based specialty retailers.
Don’t rush it. Take your time. Make decisions when you are ready.
Many POS software companies and sales people will want you to rush. Some will apply financial pressure. Others will say it’s easy, start today, be selling today … and they will often say this without understanding your business needs.
Take your time. Make decisions when you are ready.
The goal has to be to choose the POS software that best serves your needs. So, start there, with your needs. Think about them, what matters most to you, what’s not negotiable. Start there and cast aside any software company that is not interested in starting with your needs.
Some will offer a free trial, some will even push hard at this. That’s lazy selling. They want you to use their software to see if it is suitable, and knowing that some customers will stick because of concerns that it could be hard to switch software. We think free trials are a crock.
Some will offer you free software. There is no such thing. Software developers don’t work for free, nor dog help desk people, the accounts office in the software company, the sales team. Since they don’t work for free, the company has to make money so, no, there is no such thing as truly free software.
All the sales claims can make it challenging.
Take your time. Make decisions when you are ready. Start with your needs.
If this sound like hard work, it is. Good software can make you a lot of money, it can save businesses. Spending time getting this decision right could be worth a ton of money to your business. But the work has to come from you, not the sales person.
The best POS system for your retail business is the one that covers the most of your needs at a price you are prepared to pay.
No software company can claim theirs is the best, although plenty do. They can speak to customer numbers, of course, which is fine, but not a measure of best.
Here at Tower Systems. we start with you, and your needs. We want to understand them first. If we think our software is not right for you, we’ll say so.
How do I find the best POS system for my business? Don’t rush it. Take your time. Make decisions when you are ready.
This POS software made for game shops has facilities that go deep into the unique needs of game shops.
Game shops are unique and special businesses. Here are some of the ways our game store POS software helps local game shops leverage their uniqueness:
Rare visit loyalty. We are told that customers visit a game shop infrequently. Our software offers subtle loyalty tools that encourage more value from each visit.
Pre-orders. Easily manage selling products before you have them in-stock. Collectors love these facilities. It works really well for items that are hard to find.
Buy Now Pay Later and LayBy. Through our software you can have both.
Club / collector marketing and support. Leverage clubs and collectors with offers and pricing. Nurture the love of gaming and connecting to this community, and growing the size of the community.
Special orders. With some items ordered in for a customer request, managing these types of orders helps the business to manage opportunities and to capture revenue in advance.
Consignment selling. For customers who ask you to sell their items, you can track this inventory and any sales.
Sell online. It’s easy with our Shopify integration.
Our Australian made and supported game store POS software does much more than this.
We are grateful to the game shops already using our software for their advice and feedback is key to helping us to continue to evolve this game store POS software.
Here’s what’s included in the monthly rental cost: software licences for unlimited computers in the location, help desk support (by phone or email) 6 days a week (including Saturday), access to a comprehensive support knowledge base, after hours support call access for urgent system down queries, access to our Shopify, Xero and other integrations, access to our supplier invoice import tools.
Of course, the game shop POS software from Tower Systems offers much more than this.
Customisable thanks to many user-selectable options, this software helps game shops differentiate from big box retailers. It helps retailers highlight their difference, leverage their specialty knowledge and compete in unique and proven valuable ways.
This POS software is not average POS software that you’d see widely used. It really has been made for local specialty retail, like game shops, to help them leverage being specialty.
The Tower Systems gift shop POS software is made for local indie gift shops. It is 100% small business focussed, local business focussed.
This is important.
Every customer matters to us. Every customer is equal.
In a big software company that serves big retailers with many stores, the local gift shop can be forgotten, lost.
We have learnt so much over the years from local gift retailers, so many business insights that we have been able to encode in our software, to help other local indie gift retailers.
Our 3,000+ local retail business user community is terrific like that.
In our gift shop software you will find facilities designed to help you with all the usual POS software stuff like transact accurately, and to help you with insights designed to help you run a more enjoyable and successful retail business, help you reduce mistakes and help you thrive.
The Tower Systems gift shop software is made for this and much more. Here’s a list of the benefits gift shop owners and staff love using in this gift shop software:
Get one-time-only shoppers spending more thanks to an easy to pitch loyalty system embedded in the software.
Leverage you. If you believe your knowledge is a differentiator, offer it through structured opportunities in the software.
Encourage customer happiness by serving product care info. on receipts.
Easily handle special customer orders. Bring product in for a specific customer and have them notified automatically by email or text when the goods are in and ready.
Easily sell online with a direct to Shopify / Magento or WooCommerce link from your POS software – including image flow.
Ensure compliance when required with structured age checking.
Save time with electronic invoices from suppliers.
Use tags to get a fresh perspective, side-view, on stock performance.
Bundle items together to make price comparisons harder and thereby increase sales.
Business differentiating loyalty. Stand out from the crowd. Have customers coming back to you for this.
Trade and club pricing profiles. Set pricing rules based on customer type.
Make money from pre-orders – Easily pre-sell a delivery so that when the stock arrives you can manage distribution and billing efficiently.
Differentiate with informative receipts. These can include product care, use and safety information based on what customers buy.
Differentiate with bundles. Selling items bundled together makes price comparison hard.
Track who sold what.
Say goodbye to LayBy – with integrated buy now pay later options.
Market to customers based on past purchases.
Save time by importing electronic invoices.
Sell more with a direct connect to buy now pay later services.
Cut mistakes with integrated EFTPOS.
Cut accounting and bookkeeping fees with integration to Xero and others.
But the heart of it is that this software is made for local indie gift shops. Every customer is equal at Tower Systems.
We’re sharing these to show we can laugh at ourselves (we’s a software development company):
How many software programmers does it take to change a light bulb? None. It’s a hardware problem.
Give a person a new software program, and frustrate them for a day. Teach a person to program, frustrate them for a lifetime.
It’s not a bug, It’s a feature!
Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it’s released. Beta is Latin for ‘still doesn’t work.’
Why did the programmer quit their job? because they didn’t get arrays.
What did 0 say to 1? You’re a bit too much.
What’s the difference between a vegan and a computer programmer? One is disgusted by rack of lamb and the other is disgusted by lack of RAM.
What do you call a group of programmers? An argument.
Why do programmers get Halloween and Christmas mixed up? Because Oct31 = Dec25
A programmer is asked to go to the shop and pick up a loaf of bread, and if they have eggs, get a dozen. They returned home with 12 loaves of bread. When asked, they said “they had eggs”
Humour, like any art form, is subjective. We hope you had a laugh, or a chuckle at least.
The locally made and supported bookshop POS software from Tower Systems helps local bookshops in a bunch of ways, from the sales counter to the back office to a POS software connected website that drives online sales. But there are two ways in particular where our software provides practical and beneficial help to local bookshops:
Returns management. Returning unsold books can be a time-consuming task. But with our bookshop software, booksellers can easily identify titles that can be returned based on when they arrived in store, how many have been sold, and how many are currently in stock. We also provide a structured approach to handling returns in a way that is friendly to publishers. Our approach has been tested with booksellers, so we know it’s genuinely useful and meets the requirements of suppliers.
Titlepage integration. Our software has been integrated with Titlepage for many years. Our latest integration is even better and more useful for book retailers. And as Titlepage software continues to evolve, so will our integration.
We are grateful to local bookshop customers who have helped us evolve our bookshop POS software over the years, to help it lead into new areas of relevance and value for these vital local shops.
We provide local booksellers with POS software that is designed to help them serve their local communities. Our software helps them position their businesses as locally focused in unique ways, from reader loyalty programs to special interest focus to local club support to bundle offers. We help local bookshops better serve local readers and those who buy for them.
Beyond the shop, our seamless Shopify integration makes it easy for local booksellers to sell online professionally. This enables them to reach shoppers far beyond their local catchment area. We are proud to have delivered bookshop software connected websites that are doing this.
Our locally made bookshop software also includes other tools that booksellers tell us they like, such as:
Easy searching of book inventory by title or part of a title.
Easy searching by book inventory by author name or part of author name.
Pacstream integration.
Structured handling of special orders of books.
Book retailing is a challenging industry, with big businesses pushing hard in this space. Our goal with our locally made bookshop software is to help small local retailers compete more successfully every day.
The bookshop POS software we offer today is different to what we will offer tomorrow. We are constantly evolving our software to meet the changing needs of our customers and the bookselling industry.
If you are a local book retailer, we’d love to find out if we could serve your needs.
Retailers in local small business shops can feel alone sometimes when working on their business. They can sometimes get lost in a cave of thoughts without seeing a way out.
We thought about this and considered the thousands of different retailers in our POS software user community, and we developed the Insights Dashboard in our POS software, to deliver easy access to local small business retail insights that any retailer could leverage, regardless of size, location, specialty area or setting.
We wanted to ensure that what we delivered would be useful regardless of level of business management literacy and financial management literacy. We wanted to deliver the insights without the retailer having to seek them out. We wanted to genuinely add value to what a local small business retailer could gain from using our POS software.
So, via the Insights Dashboard in our POS software, we provide insights in business critical areas – with the insights delivered visually.
WHERE ARE WE TODAY
Gives you a snapshot of the overall sales & liabilities as it stands today. This is a quick view of how you are doing right now.
WHAT’S NOT SELLING
This gives you a visual understanding of what is not performing in your business. Deadstock in any business is lost cash. This report gives you the ability to make decisions on this underperforming stock whether it be discounting or other stock reductions strategies to unlock this lost cash.
WHAT AM I MISSING OUT ON
This give you a list of items that have sold out and potential missed opportunity. The visual sales history will assist in ensuring the right items are restocked to ensure future revenue is not missed out on.
WHAT SELLS WITH WHAT
This gives you an insight to consumer basket analysis. Through this you will see exactly what stock items sell with other stock items and from this you will be able to leverage upsell opportunities, co-location and promotion opportunities. This also shows the sold alone percentage so you can see item upsell efficiency.
IS THEFT AN ISSUE
This provides a in-depth visual overview of all the retailer audit log records by reason, number of occurrences by time day. This will assist in identifying staff theft/training issues that may need to be addressed within the business.
WHEN ARE WE BUSIEST & QUIETEST
This is a visual overview used to detect any quiet or peak times in your business by displaying over the week as well as detailed by hour.
The Insights Dashboard in the Tower Systems software is proving to be a winner for local small business retailers. The feedback has been wonderful, especially when people tell us their surprise at being guided to know more about their business than they could have known previously. This is a goal of our Insights Dashboard – showing retailers what they did not know.
The Tower Systems specialty retailer POS software integration with the Deputy employee roster management app helps local retailers more easily manage staff rosters and employees to manage their engagement with the businesses for which they work.
Managing staff rosters can be a daunting task for small business retailers and shop managers. It can be difficult to keep track of employee availability, hours worked, and breaks taken. This can lead to scheduling errors, overspending on labour, and employee dissatisfaction.
The integration of our Tower Systems POS software with the Deputy employee roster management app can help you to more easily manage staff rosters:
Create and manage staff rosters.
Send rosters to employees via SMS or email.
Track employee hours worked and breaks taken.
Generate reports on staff productivity and performance.
The Deputy employee roster management app also provides employees with a way to manage their own engagement with the businesses for which they work. Employees can use the app to:
View their schedules.
Request time off.
Swap shifts with other employees.
Track their hours worked.
The integration of Tower Systems POS software with Deputy employee roster management app can help retailers improve staff management practices and nurture employee satisfaction. This can lead to improved customer service, increased sales, and reduced labor costs.
Here are some specific examples of how we have seen the Deputy POS software integration help local retailers:
To create a roster that ensures that there are always enough employees on hand to meet customer demand.
To track employee hours worked and breaks taken, which can help to ensure that employees are not being overworked or underpaid.
To generate reports on staff productivity and performance, which can help to identify areas where training or improvement is needed.
Employees can:
View their schedules and request time off, which can help to reduce the number of scheduling conflicts.
Swap shifts with other employees, which can help to accommodate last-minute changes in availability.
Track hours worked, which can help them to ensure that they are being paid correctly.
This integration of Tower Systems POS software with Deputy employee roster management app can be a valuable tool for local retailers. It can help retailers to improve their staff management practices, increase employee satisfaction, and improve their bottom line.
The integration of our Tower Systems POS software with the Slyp digital receipt platform is helping local small business retailers demonstrate their engagement with leading tech ology to enhance the shopper experience.
In today’s digital age, shoppers like seeing good tech used to enhance their shopping experience. Shoppers want a seamless, convenient, and tech-savvy shopping experience.
That’s where Tower Systems and Slyp come in. Our two companies have partnered to create a solution that helps local small business retailers deliver on these expectations.
Tower Systems makes, sells and supports POS software for local specialty retail businesses. Our software is used by thousands of businesses to manage their sales, inventory, and customer data and plenty more.
Slyp is a digital receipt platform that allows businesses to send receipts to customers’ mobile devices. Slyp receipts are more than just a digital version of a paper receipt.
The integration of Tower Systems POS software with the Slyp digital receipt platform is a game-changer for local small business retailers in our community. It allows businesses to:
Deliver a more convenient shopping experience for their customers. Customers can now access their receipts instantly on their mobile devices, without having to dig through their pockets or bags.
Enhance the customer experience with interactive receipts. Slyp receipts can be used to track spending and more. This gives customers more control over their shopping experience and makes them feel more valued.
Demonstrate their engagement with leading technology. By using Slyp, businesses can show their customers that they are committed to providing a cutting-edge shopping experience.
Our POS software Slyp integration has been live for some time, under the radar, under beta release. This followed comprehensive live acceptance testing. Through the beta release we enhanced the integration, to reach a point of delivering something we are truly proud of. The POS software Slyp integration is terrific, useful and differentiating for our local small business retailer community.
If you are a local small business retailer, you should consider using Tower Systems POS software with the Slyp digital receipt platform. It is a great way to enhance the shopper experience and stay ahead of the competition.
A daily commute of an hour each way is a grind when you think about it. that’s 2 hours a day spend getting to and from work. While you can use the time to read, listen to music or daydream, if you’re not driving, it’s a grind dealing with people, traffic and, well, the commute itself.
But, so many of us did the commute day in day out, for many years.
Then Covid came along, and things changed. It was a moment for sure to try something different. We had to.
Now, kind of the other side of Covid, even though we are not really on the other side are we, work from home is still a thing, which plenty of people are grateful for.
Here at Tower Systems we decided early in the pandemic that we would not force people back to the office when Covid was over. And, we have not.
We are grateful to be in a industry where working from home can work for pretty much everyone on our team, and that’s what we have in place. Almost all Tower employees work from home.
The small crew in the office each day are the same folks who did that through the pandemic, because it’s what they wanted, what they preferred. And, those who work from home today did so through the pandemic.
We have work colleagues who spent two and more hours a day commuting. They were happy to do that. But now they have experienced life without the commute they are even happier. We are grateful we can provide a workplace with that flexibility.
Technology has played a key role in helping us to maintain good and personal customer experiences throughout. We have tech that facilitates collaboration, and this is critical in our business where we help local small business retailers thrive. And, it’s more than. one tech solution, it’s a whole kit from the well-known to the more advanced, specialist.
At the office we have used the space to create hot desk opportunities for those colleagues who want to come in for a day or more for a face to face reconnect, and plenty do, which we love.
There is no pressure to come in. We’ve not seen some of our colleagues for three and half years, and we’re okay with that.
Looking back, one factor that has enabled us to so fully embrace the work from home opportunity is each of our team members. They are good tech professionals, adults, people who understand our mission, respect each other and appreciate our customers. Having good people certainly makes for a better work from home experience for everyone.
Here at Tower Systems we think work from home is here to stay, and we are grateful for the opportunity to figure out how this works for our colleagues, and for our POS software customers.
Take 2 minutes and read this advice for local small business retailers. It’s about employee theft. Most retailers do not consider or engage with employee theft as a topic until they have seen or felt the cost of employee theft, until after the event.
We know that employee theft in retail usually costs more than customer theft and that it is less likely to be detected
If the cash draw is open from the previous sale, the staff member can scan the items for the next sale, let the customer know the amount, receive payment (and give change if needed) and cancel the sale. They then keep a note of how much of their money is in the register.
Now while growth EFTPOS means less cash passes through a business. For someone wanting lunch money on the business each day they can achieve that. 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year and it could be close to $5,000 a year.
We have seen this often in retail businesses we have helped.
In our POS software there is a secret audit log that only the owner can access. This tracks a bunch of stuff, like cancelled sales. Spotting a questionable pattern is easy. This could be the thread that leads to discovery of theft.
Already in 2023 we have helped retailers detect theft. We have provided evidence to police to assist in prosecution. We have provided retailers irrefutable evidence so they can deal with recovery and / or an insurance claim. It’s the POs software, the business data and our retail data analysis skills that combine to help local small business retailers confront employee theft.
We have helped police and prosecutors deal with employee theft and ensured our software can help small business retailers in this area.
It’s not glamorous and not the key reason to consider Tower Systems. But it is a valuable reason. What you might save in a year could easily pay for the right POS software.
Find out more:
www.towersystems.com.au
1300 662 957
sales@towersystems.com.au
Too often small business retailers will not want to know about employee theft. Data don’t lie.
Tower Systems will work with you confidentially, quietly, providing the evidence., The steps you take are 100% up to you. It all starts with knowing.
New in the Aussie made and supported Tower Systems POS software:
Roster integration solutions direct connected to our POS software: Tanda, Deputy and Planday (by Xero).
Digital receipt platform Slyp – for businesses and customers who prefer a digital record over paper receipts.
Shopper self-checkout using indie-retail focussed hardware and a new release of our software.
Plus, Tower Systems customers have free access to our FREE online marketplace: www.findit.com.au, a place designed to drive in-store shopper traffic. Simply tick a box and your products are listed at FindIt, helping you be found by more people.
FindIt is a marketplace where you will find a broad range of products from local small business retailers. If you prefer to shop local and shop small, FindIt is a platform sure to interest you. Retailers connect to FindIt through their Tower Systems POS software.
Local shopping is good for the local community since local businesses tend to hire locally, spend locally, source inventory locally and engage locally.
Those who care about the local community will; tend to support local businesses for these reasons.
Local shopping is a win for everyone given the circular nature of the local economy.
The more we shop where we live the more those businesses can support local community groups and hire locally.
We all benefit from this.
The other benefit of local shopping is that it tends to be at local small businesses. These businesses tend to h
Our goal is to help local independent retailers run healthier, happier and more valuable businesses. We nurture this through our POS software, our engaged customer service and through free enhancement opportunities, like FindIt.
We have demos publicly available for each specialty retail channel at www.towersystems.com.au. You don’t have to register, give your email or your phone number to watch.
Our www.findit.com.au free marketplace for retailers using our POS software is gaining traction with Google and Bing.
We have more than 100,000 items not currently showing because of lack of images of images. Google wants images. What you can see live is products with good images and good descriptions.
We are grateful to retailers who have used Lightspeed POS and vend POS software who are considering our Tower Systems POS software on the back of being told that they would face additional charges if they do not use the Lightspeed Payments platform for customer payments.
Here’s a short video about our alternative to Vend and Lightspeed for retailers frustrated by their decision to charge extra if you choose to not use their payments platform …
We don’t run a payments platform, we’re a POS software company. We leave all that to the banks.
We link to the big 4 banks via Linkly as well and direct to Tyro and to SmartPay if you like their fee-free EFTPOS solution.
If you’re looking for an alternative POS software solution to Lightspeed and / or Vend, we’d love to learn more about your needs, to see if our software could be a good solution. Our promise is – we will tell you if we think we’re not right for you. This is important as it’s critical you do your research into what is right for your business.
We have successfully tested our Vend POS data conversion software that brings across Vend inventory data, including variants.
Here’s what’s included: software licences for unlimited computers in the location, help desk support (phone or email) 6 days a week (incl Saturday), access to a knowledge base, after hours support call access for urgent support, Shopify, Xero and other integrations, access to our supplier invoice import tools.
NZ and Aussie based customer service by us. No call centre.
Humans answer our phones.
Email us and a retail knowledgable human responds.
Our office is open Monday through Saturday.
Month to month rental – no lock in contract.
No lock-in EFTPOS contract. You choose the EFTPOS that suits you.
Self serve training videos and knowledge base.
Low cost training for those who want it.
The listed prices are genuinely monthly – not annual paid up front.
We have a crew of awesome software developers, caring customer service people and a business support crew skilled in serving local indie retailers.
If you type tower systems into Google and click search, this ad comes up:
The thing is, if you click on the ad, there is no comparison to or with Tower Systems.
The headline of the ad reads to us as misleading.
They have not looked at our software, investigated our software, compared our software.
Yet, here is the compare POS quotes website, which is run by Comparison Advantage Pty Ltd, an Australian company with the ACN 626 309 073. The comparison website they run is an ad platform. Products are listed by them for companies that pay to have their products listed.
It needs to be called out for what it is and their headlines, that we claim in our opinion are misleading and deceptive need to be see for this.
It frustrates us that they pay Google to come up as an ad when people are searching for our company.
We can’t figure out why software companies pay to be listed with Comparison Advantage and their compare POS quotes website. Imagine paying to get a lead when someone is actively looking for a competitor product.
We know we should ignore it. But then we see the deliberate and in our opinion misleading ad today and it frustrates us. We have done good work to build our reputation and here they are trying to trade off of that for customers of theirs, for businesses willing to pay to get in front of retailers looking for our POS software. Talk about desperation.
We think the folks at Comparison Advantage know what they are doing and that they have deliberately calibrated ads for their compare pos quotes website to pitch businesses looking for us and for other businesses they name in their ad keyword campaign with Google.
Our advice to anyone using comparison websites is – be aware that companies listed on these websites are there because they have paid to be there. There has been no assessment, no consideration, no effort at all to be considered appropriate. Comparison suggests assessment,. You won’t find that here.
Compare POS quotes by Comparison Advantage is an ad website and in our opinion it’s not worthy of consideration.
Newsagents using the industry-standard Tower Systems software for newsagents are leveraging the software to help transform their businesses to drive relevance in a changing marketplace.
But first, let’s talk about the industry standard. there are around 2,800 retail newsagency shops in Australia. Tower Systems serves in excess of 1,700 of these with its newsagency software. The choice of the majority of newsagents to choose Tower Systems makes it the industry standard, for which we are sincerely grateful.
The local Aussie newsagency has been evolving for years. This picked up pace ten years ago. We have newsagents using our software to serve other retail categories in what were once traditional newsagencies. Here are some examples of how newsagents are relying on our software to evolve, here are some of the new categories we’ve helped with:
Coffee shop.
Baby shop.
Gift shop.
Camping and outdoors shop.
Repair shop.
Bookshop.
Toy shop.
Cafe with table service.
Tourism product rental.
Local artist consignment.
Yes, these are all categories we have seen different local newsagents embrace as they evolve their businesses to ensure relevance to new shoppers. They have been able to do this with our software as it is flexible in terms of facilities and services. And, the software curates a valuable dataset that can provide guidance as to business evolution opportunities.
In addition to finding new opportunities and walking the path to implementing these, the newsagency software itself helps guide improved business efficiency by eliminating keystrokes and laying down workflows that anyone can follow, freeing up more skilled resources in the business for looking over the horizon.
Our Tower Systems newsagency software also directly integrates with Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce and Big Commerce. Plenty of newsagents use these integrations to sell online and online is where the local Aussie newsagency can be very different to what is usually seen on the high street. We develop the websites, connect them to the newsagency POS software and offer advice on how to drive traffic to them.
The local Aussie newsagency is changing, playing outside what has been traditional for newsagency businesses. We are grateful for the opportunity to be engaged with these transformations.
Like every day here, we are writing today for local small business retailers, independent retailers, specialty retailers.
As a local independent small business retailer in Australia, you know that you need to be on top of your game in order to compete with the big competitors. One way to do this is to invest in a POS (point of sale) system. A POS system can help you to streamline your operations, improve customer service, and boost your bottom line.
Here are some of the things that local independent small business retailers in Australia can do with POS software from us, from Tower Systems:
Streamline your operations. A POS system can help you to streamline your operations by automating many of the tasks that you currently do manually. For example, a POS system can easily track inventory from when it arrives to when it sells, provide guiding insights, and process payments. This can free up your time so that you can focus on other aspects of your business, such as customer service.
Improve customer service. A POS system can help you to improve the customer experience by providing a more efficient process for transactions at the counter. From keystrokes eliminated to processes streamlined, good POS software guides efficiency and this can boost sales.
Boost your bottom line. A POS system can help you to boost your bottom line by providing you with accurate data about your sales and inventory, and packaging these items in an insightful and decision-guiding way. This information can help you to make better pricing decisions, identify trends, and optimize your inventory levels. This can lead to increased sales and profits.
In addition to these benefits, POS software from Tower Systems offers other features that can be helpful for local independent small business retailers in Australia. These features include:
A user-friendly interface that is easy to learn and use, something retailers rely on.
Payment options, including cash, credit cards, and contactless payments.
Integration with popular e-commerce platforms, such as Shopify and WooCommerce.
A robust reporting system that can help you to track your sales, inventory, and customer data. Better still, an insights platform to guide decision making.
If you are a local independent small business retailer in Australia, consider the POS system from Tower Systems. Call 1300 662 957 or email sales@towersystems.com.au.
Take care:
Do your research. Choose the one that is right for your business.
Consider your needs. Know what matters to you.
Talk to other business owners. Talk to other local independent small business retailers who have used a POS system and get their recommendations.
Get a free demo. This should be tailored to your needs.
Here at Tower Systems we make and support what we sell. We’d love to find out more about your needs.
We are grateful to be featuring our Aussie made and supported POS software for gift shops at the Reed Gift Fair in Melbourne.
This awesome trade show started yesterday and already it’s been terrific for us with new customers signing up on the stand. It is terrific meeting these folks face to face and live demonstrating the software to them.
Our stand has been busy, which we love of course.
At the trade show we are showing our Gift Shop POS software as well as our cloud based and truly portable POS solution, Retailer Roam. This product can run anywhere, any time, with or without Net access. Version 2.0 of this product is packed with features retailers are loving
Our gift shop software features:
Easy and accurate selling.
Integrated EFTPOS and you choose the bank or EFTPOS partner that suits you.
Instant access to money making business performance insights.
Less time spend on setting up new stock thanks to supplier partnerships.
Less mistakes with reordering thanks to ordering based on past history.
A deeper average shopping basket thanks to marketing and other tools.
More frequent shopper visits thanks to loyalty solutions shoppers love and engage with.
We’re a POS software company. We make money renting our POS software to retailers. We’re not relying on you going with any particular payments platform or buying from any particular supplier. This matters because it keeps us focussed on making sure you gain value from our POS software.
Gift shop owners who want to make more money from their businesses can benefit from our business insights and labour saving tools. We know that the more our retail partners make more money using our software the more customers we will attract thanks to word of mouth. We really are all in this together with our gift shop oner customers.
Not all gift shop POS software his the same. Not all POS software companies are the same.
We are grateful for and proud of our differences. Our Tower Systems gift shop POS software is a stand out, a product on which you an rely to run a more successful and enjoyable business, a business that’s easier to run and delivering the benefits you want, and need.
From sales to special orders to pre-orders, from Xero integration to Shopify integration, from loyalty that works to easy shopper postcode tracking, from smart ways to pitch shop local to featuring locally made products … our gift shop software is made for gift retailers, made to help you thrive.
There is no lock-in contract, no requirement for you to pay up front for a year.
Get rid of manual books at the counter for LayBys, special orders, stock you need to order and more.
Guide shoppers to spend more with loyalty tools we think you will love.
Nurture community group member engagement with group pricing.
Pre-sell hot items – get paid before the stock arrives.
Leverage your knowledge on receipts and elsewhere. Sell you.
Reach beyond your four walls with a directly linked Shopify store.
EliminateLayBy and get paid sooner with buy now pay later.
Cut dead stock and re-order based on data facts.
Cut theft by knowing what is being stolen.
Make price comparison harder with bundled packs.
Easily and consistently pitch locally sourced products.
Bring customers back with reminders on dates important to them.
Save money on bookkeeping by integrating with Xero.
As a software company, our focus is on locally owned small business retail. We’re not after big retailers with 20 or more shops. It’s in local indie retail where we thrive and where we help our retailer partners thrive.
If you’re at the Reed Gift Fair, drop by and say hi. If you’re not, call is on 1300 662 957 or email us at sales@towersystems.com.au. Or, check out our gift shop software: www.towersystems.com.au/gift.
Here are our answers to some common questions we are asked about our gift shop software:
Are you Australian based? Yes.
Do you make your software? Yes.
How do I contact your help desk? By phone or email. Our help desk is Australian based with one team member working from New Zealand.
When can I contact you for help? Weekdays: 7am through 6PM AEST, Saturdays 7:30am through 3PM AEST. After hours for urgent calls: 24/7.
What if I am unhappy with support? You can escalate to our Chief Operating Officer or our Managing Director – every customer is given their direct numbers and email addresses.
Can I run the software in the cloud? Yes.
Can I run the software on my desktop? Yes.
Can I backup to the cloud? Yes.
How long am I locked in with software rental? There is no lock-in. You can cancel rental at any time and billing stops immediately – once the current month is completed, there is no further charge.
Can I sell gift cards for my business? Yes.
I sometimes sell from a market stall. Can the software do this? Yes, our Retailer RoamTM option manages selling from anywhere.
Does the software handle club member pricing? Yes, this can be a great marketing tool, getting local community group members support the business and fundraising at the same time.
Does the software have a facility for encouraging infrequent shoppers to spend more? Yes, it’s proven to work well at achieving this.
Does the software let me buy in bulk and break up to retail packs? Yes.
Does the software produce WAS / NOW price labels? Yes.
Does the software manage time-based catalogue pricing? Yes.
Can I include product care instructions on the receipt? Yes.
Does the software track where I have stored a box for an item? Yes.
I have similar items from several suppliers. Can I compare suppliers? Yes.
Does the software handle LayBys? Yes.
Can the software manage special orders for customers? Yes.
Can I bundle items together, like into a hamper, and easily sell that? Yes.
My business is seasonal, can I report on last season when planning for the next? Yes.
Can you reach out to customers based on what they previously purchased? Yes.
Fabric shops help those who love sewing to make the most beautiful and functional clothing for family, friends, and customers. Local fabric shops help people express themselves.
From handling the sale of fabric by length, or weight, our POS software for fabric shops and for sewing shops helps these specialty retail businesses to leverage their specialisation, to feature what makes them different, and valuable.
Here are some of the ways our POS software for sewing shops helps fabric shops:
Sell easily, including by length.
Sell accurately.
Know what’s working, and what’s not.
Reduce time on paperwork.
Get accurate insights into business performance, easily.
Rare visit loyalty. We are told that customers visit a fabric shop infrequently compared to other retail settings. Our software offers subtle loyalty tools that encourage more value from each visit.
Sell online. Connect your fabric shop POS software to a beautiful Shopify website offering your fabric and other products to shoppers anywhere.
Pre-orders. Easily manage selling products before you have them in-stock. Someone planning a project can order through you and pay prior to the fabric arriving in-store.
Buy Now Pay Later and LayBy. Through our software you can have both.
Manage browser shopping. Fabric shoppers can wander, ask you to hold an item, wander some more, bring something else back to hold and this cycle can go for a while. Our Fabric shop POS software tracks these purchases.
Repairs management. If you do repairs type work, like dressmaking in house, track the project from the moment it starts.
Club / collector marketing and support. Leverage clubs and collectors with offers and pricing. Nurture the love of home sewing and connecting to this community, and growing the size of the community.
Special orders. With some items ordered in for a customer request, managing these types of orders helps the business to manage opportunities and to capture revenue in advance.
Serve fabric care details. You can code care details by product and include this on receipts.
Sell by length. This may seem basic. It’s not in some software. In the Tower software, you can sell by length, including fractions.
Our Australian made and supported fabric shop software does much more than this.
One of the biggest benefits of our fabric shop and sewing shop software is the inventory management facilities. With inventory, like fabric itself, being the biggest investment in the business, it takes time and effort to manage this well and effectively for the business to be successful.
In our fabric shop POS software we track all products that come in and go out. We can instantly report on the value of inventory, what’s working, what’s not working and show trends. All of this information can feed into better business decisions, and make the fabric shop more successful.
From managing inventory to tracking customer engagement to selling online to leveraging community groups and clubs, the fabric shop software from Tower Systems is fit for service and ready to help your business thrive.
We are grateful to serve local fabric and sewing shops and thank the owners and staff members for their advice and support.
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