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There are many ways to promote your local shop in the local community. Some strategies you may want to consider include:

1. Use social media: Use social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, to share information about your shop, including new products, special offers, and events. This can help to attract new customers and keep current customers informed about what’s happening at your shop.
2. Participate in local events: Participate in local events, such as festivals, fairs, and community gatherings, to showcase your shop and its products. This can help to raise awareness of your shop and build connections with members of the local community.
3. Partner with other local businesses: Partner with other local businesses, such as restaurants and cafes, to cross-promote each other’s businesses. For example, you could offer a discount to customers who show a receipt from one of the other businesses.
4. Offer special deals and promotions: Offer special deals and promotions, such as discounts or free gifts, to attract new customers and encourage them to visit your shop.
5. Reach out to local media: Contact local media outlets, such as newspapers and radio stations, to let them know about your shop and its products. They may be interested in featuring your business in a story or mentioning it in a news segment.
6. Use your Point of Sale software to auto-serve customers with promotions.
7. Offer dual-benefit transactions where you give a portion of each sale to a local community group. Your Tower Systems POS software can track and manage this for you.
8. Provide use and care advice automatically for products purchased and through this encourage word of mouth thanks to you going above and beyond what is traditional.
9. Be locally aware in your interaction with shoppers in the business: know about local events and support them.
10. Offer a community noticeboard in your shop.
11. Support the local community and it will support you.

By implementing these strategies, you can help to promote your local shop and increase its visibility in the local community.

Tower Systems is grateful to serve thousands of local retail businesses. In our POS software we offer ways you can better connect with and support the local community and this is key to gaining their support in your business.

There are several steps you can take to help reduce employee theft in your shop. Some strategies you may want to consider include:

1. Establish clear policies and procedures: Create clear policies and procedures that outline expectations for employee behavior, including rules around handling money, merchandise, and customer information. Make sure all employees understand and agree to these policies and know what to do if they witness or suspect theft.
2. Implement a system for tracking inventory and sales: Use a system that allows you to track inventory and sales accurately and regularly. This will make it easier to identify any discrepancies or unusual patterns that may indicate theft.
3. Conduct regular audits: Regularly conduct audits of your inventory, sales, and financial records to identify any potential issues or irregularities. This can help you to identify any potential issues early and take action to address them.
4. Use security cameras and other security measures: Install security cameras and other security measures, such as alarms or locked storage areas, to help prevent theft and make it easier to identify any potential thieves.
5. Provide training and support: Provide employees with training and support to help them understand the importance of honesty and integrity in the workplace. This can help to create a positive work environment and reduce the likelihood of employee theft.

By implementing these strategies, you can help to reduce employee theft in your shop and create a more honest and trustworthy workplace.

Tower Systems helps retailers through its local small business retail POS software. This software offers structure for transacting business. It facilitates efficiency and accuracy. It also adds value to the business and to those who work in the business.

Behind the scenes, the tower Systems POS software tracks key data points that can indicate employee theft. this tracking has been used successfully in detecting theft, leaving to charges being laid, leading to expert witness evidence in court.

Employee theft can be debilitating financially and emotionally in any retail business. This is especially true in local small business retail.

We are grateful here at Tower Systems to have the skill and focus to stand with local retailers, to help them reduce the impact of employee theft through smart use of our POS software.

We are grateful to share new of our work in the area of auto inventory fulfilment between product suppliers and local small business retailers.

Thanks to our small business retail POS software, the data it collects and the connectivity between it and supplier IT infrastructure, suppliers are able to auto fulfil based on live sales data. they are able to do this according ton agreed trigger points with retailers.

There is evidence that auto inventory fulfilment increases retail sales, benefiting the connected local retailer and the partner supplier. This truly is a win win.

It all starts with POS software that is tuned to provide the necessary data flow to sit at the bottom of the auto inventory fulfilment relationship.

What is auto inventory fulfilment?

It’s simple really, sales data flows from the local retail business to the partner supplier and once inventory in the story hits a trigger point, the supplier targets fulfilment based on agreed rules and processes.

This works well when a supplier supplies a range of products – allowing for the order needs for items to be grouped together for a more efficient delivery.

The retailer can see the sales data in their POS software as can the supplier in their IT systems. Nothing is shared about products related to any other supplier.

Auto inventory fulfilment can leverage just in time opportunities, reduce inventory investment by the local small business retailer, save space and save time.

It can help the supplier with supply management and manufacturing if they make what they sell.

The keys here are efficiency of space, capital and labour. And, of course, POS software is at the heart of it. Everyone involved benefits -t the local small business retailer using smartphones POS software and their IT connected suppliers.

Auto inventory fulfilment facilitated through POS software is another innovation available to local small business retailers, it is something big retailers have had access to for many years.

Tower Systems is grateful to offer specialised retail POS software for garden centres, sewing shops, music shops, pool maintenance and supply businesses, produce businesses, fishing bait and tackle businesses, firearms dealers, newsagents, pet shops, adult shops, bookshops, jewellers, toy shops and more.

Our customers are local family run businesses across Australia and New Zealand.

As more small business retailers switch POS software from MYOB retail Manager to the POS software form Tower Systems, the knowledge within the team at Tower expands, thereby better serving those retailers who make the switch.

What started years ago as a trickle is now a well-established and proven process.

Retailers who find their POS software needs served by the Tower Systems POS software have, in the onboarding processes at Tower Systems, a structured and certain approach to moving from MYOB Retail Manager to Tower Systems.

From data conversion, to customer training, to specialty retail functionality the Tower Systems POS software sales team can help you check out our MYOB Retail Manager alternative, so that you can determine for yourself whether what Tower Systems offers is right for your business.

It is vital that you choose software that serves your needs. It may be that Tower Systems is not the right fit. A comprehensive demonstration driven by you and your busies needs could help you discover this, it could also prove that the Tower Systems POS software is a good fit.

In talking with MYOB Retail Manager users we are mindful of loyalty to MYOB, their experiences with the product and questions they may have about making a move. Our approach is gentle, structured and focussed solely on the needs of their business.

As a specialty POS software company, our software is fine-tuned to the needs of a range of niche retail channel businesses. This is where we break free from the MYOB Retail Manager experience, where we demonstrate the vertical nature of our software.

From pre sales enquiry to software to training to support, the Tower Systems approach is personal. You know each person you speak with, that they understand retail, our software and the needs of retailers in our small business retail community.

We have been told that Retail Manager by MYOB is approaching end of life – that is, no future development enhancement is planned by MYOB for the Retail Manager planned. If this is the case, the Tower POS software solution is an alternative that we would submit for consideration in any of the specialty retail channels in which we are well established.

For an accounting solution, the Tower software is integrated with Xero. Through anther party we offer a connection to MYOB.

Switching software can be daunting. Our advice is to approach it when you are ready, and move to software you like, that you actively choose. If you choose Tower Systems we will help you as much as we are able.

Find out more at www.towersystems.com.au. or, call 1300 662 957. Or email sales@towersystems.com.au.

We own four retail shops and a number of consumer-facing websites as well as our POS software company,. We engage in retail for the experience, so we can walk in the shoes of our customers, so we can test in a live environment how our software can be of better service.

Along the way, we are able to use data curated buy our POS software to achieve retail wins. Here’s a short video we made last week in which we discuss one specific, and big win, achieved as a result of data in our POS software.

There aren’t many POS software companies that can speak with such practical retail experience.

We’ve not used Epos Now. If you are considering them, please do your own research.