How Do I Increase Revenue while Reducing Cost
No two retail businesses are exactly alike. When considering a retail software solution for your business, you have high expectations. You need a solution that will help increase revenue while reducing costs. You want software that matches your business, not the other way around. One big step is to make sure your employees will adopt and actually use the software. At Retail Pro we’ve invested millions of dollars to develop an intuitive, easy to learn user interface (UI). The UI is designed with flexible implementation options to ultimately ensure harmony between your technology and your business processes. As a result, you can maximize each user’s productivity efficiency while increasing employee satisfaction at the same time.
We also know that you may have specialized needs and rely on your existing accounting or ERP system, so you expect a retail solution that can be seamlessly integrated. That is why we’ve engineered the Retail Pro solution to be interfaced with common (and not-so-common) accounting software packages around the world. From Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Intuit Quickbooks for mid-sized customers, to Oracle and SAP for our largest global clients, we extend your retail capabilities while helping preserve the investments you have already made in other systems.
So you’re thinking, “Great, Retail Pro is easy to use and integrates with my accounting or ERP system. What about reporting?”. All these years in the retail business and we’ve seen and met just about every conceivable reporting challenge. This has led to world class reporting that keeps you and your operation in the know and ahead of the curve.
At Retail Pro we also provide real time data across key areas of your business and have already announced and demonstrated the first phase of our newest product generation called Project Aruba. This exciting initiative will provide Retail Pro customers a solution that can be deployed either on-premise, or ultimately in the cloud through Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Our advancements will bring continual improvements in ease-of-use, reduced acquisition and maintenance costs, faster deployment and centralized real-time data. In short, our customers continue to enjoy current benefits plus have a continuous and bright future with Retail Pro.
As you can see our solution does everything you’d expect for retailers and then some. That is why we consistently strive to exceed our customer’s expectations. Retail Pro is one of the most advanced and comprehensive retail management software solutions available anywhere in the world. For more than 25 years Retail Pro has been growing right along with the retailers who thrive on our products in 73 different countries. From savvy, growth oriented businesses to prestigious multinational enterprises, Retail Pro is the solution-of-choice for some very good reasons.
Our POS and Merchandising solutions drive business growth like no other – Retail Pro is incredibly easy to use and configure. It’s as simple as you want, or as sophisticated as you need. It’s scalable without any limits, impressing the world’s most demanding retail brands. It operates in 18 different languages and currencies in over 35,000 locations. And – it’s surprisingly affordable. More and more retailers every day are choosing not to settle for limited, ordinary POS solutions when they can easily have Retail Pro. It’s serious software for serious retailers.
CHOOSING A RETAIL SYSTEM
The true goal of any retailer is to make the right merchandising decisions consistently by using accurate and timely data and thereby increasing overall sales revenue volume and maximizing profit margins.
Day-to-day profitability relies on results facilitated by your retail system:
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Accurate buying - Less inventory expense
- Loyal customers
- Repeat traffic
- Enhanced security
- Smooth POS and customer service
- Reduced paperwork
- And many others
The retail system you choose should be widely proven and easy to learn and use. It should fit your merchandise mix and business approach. It should be well supported by local professionals. It should be fairly priced and generate an excellent return on the investment. It should be robust and flexible enough to grow with you indefinitely. Your retail system of choice should be Retail Pro!
SOLID RETAIL INFRASTRUCTURE
Retail Pro is designed and built using a superior architecture that delivers exceptional flexibility,
maximum performance and unlimited scalability. The Retail Pro architecture features:
- The Oracle® relational database that can virtually scale without limit as your retail business change and grows.
- A multi-tiered infrastructure that provides the ability of distributing components across multiple machines and operating systems (Windows®, Linux, etc.).
- A truly open design for easy integration with legacy systems to maximize existi ng resources.
- An architecture that allows data to be continuously and consistently in-sync with inventory and its history
- A statistics-rich wealth of information available through Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
- Low administration/maintenance and easy installation to take the burden off your in-house IT staff.
- Superior ability to adapt to changing technology and stand the test of time.
Retail Pro fully integrates with accounting systems, merchandising systems, customer relationship management systems, ERP systems, business analytic and intelligence systems, and virtually any other
enterprise business application that you may be deploying.
ESTABLISHED “BEST PRACTICES” RETAIL BUSINESS RULE
Retail Pro is built on an infrastructure with an established and solid retail business logic services foundation. These are the fundamental business rules of transactional retail logic that remain constant. Separating the logic from the interfaces and the database allows the user to independently make changes and provides unmatched freedom from programming and customization. These objects are used to create the transaction details related to sales, customers, etc. The presentation services layer that is fully customized and tailored to the retailer’s needs sits on top of these business objects. The user interfaces can be tailored whereas the business logic services remain the same.
FLEXIBLE AND EXTENSIBLE PLUG-INS
In the retail world, change is always evident. A POS retail solution needs to be flexible to cater to these ever-changing requirements whether related to new hardware or new software functionality. Retail Pro has flexible and extensible plug-ins to cater to these requirement changes locally or globally. Retail Pro
provides the retailer with a wide array of auxiliary and user-defined fields to cater for new data definitions.
POWERFUL AND EXTENSIVE TAILORING TOOLS
Retail Pro provides you with powerful presentation services tools to manage screens, pages within screens, field data definitions without the additional burden of programming or customization. The Presentation Services provides the retailer the ability to create compelling customer-facing screens to attract and retain consumers regarding on-going promotional sale events happening in the store. These same tools can provide for “Hot-key” capabilities at the POS application with the ability of switching between front-end and back-office functionalities and vice-versa. Depending upon the types of hardware implementations at the store, the same look and feel of the menu screens for the POS can be emulated onto other devices such as tablets and handheld terminals. Thus, the store can minimize on training associates to move from one terminal device to another to serve their customers.
REPORTS AND DOCUMENT MANAGERS
Retail Pro is equipped with reports and document managers to customize receipts, reports and documents available in the system. A report viewer is available to access more than 100 pre-defined reports. An unlimited number of filtering views to include parameters, charts and graphs for reports and documents is available to the user without any need of additional programming or customization involved. Reports can be viewed and saved on disk and sent to another location via email or scheduled for automatic generation. The industry standard Crystal Reports® Viewer and Reports Manager is embedded and comes standard with Retail Pro.
