AvantPOS - Product Benefits/Features

Benefits/Features that Make Sense for Your Business

1. POINT OF SALES: Intuitive screens, powerful, easy to use and flexible POS that will transform your retail business. Scan barcodes or search by products with automatic price lookups. Sell to walk-in or members easily.
   

2. MULTIPLE LOCATIONS & TERMINALS: With no limited on locations & terminals, you can grow unfettered; view stock elsewhere or choose to report on specific location, region or the organization as a whole.

3. SELL ANYWHERE THROUGH THE INTERNET: 100% O/S independent. Any computer, desktop, laptop, tablet PC or even a smart-phone can be used to generate sales. With just an internet connection, you can use this for exhibition, warehouse or van sales.

4. DATA INTEGRATION: Native integrations with A21 Financial Accounting systems to streamline your business. Choose integrated or standalone version and enjoy unprecedented convenience in your accounting.

5. FESTIVAL PRICINGS: Set unlimited number of festival prices for various customers with effective date range. 

6. COST EFFECTIVE SOLUTION: Whether you have one or ten locations, this is the most affordable complete web-based retail Point-of-Sale system to operate. When the locations and terminals increase, the unit cost goes down very substanitally.

7. REAL TIME DATABASE UPDATE: Using a single database updated centrally in real time, you can analyse your business regardless of the number of locations or terminals. Absolutely no need for data sync or polling for batch updates.

8. DEPOSIT MEMO CREATION: Allow to enter deposits made by customer for items on reservation. When ready for billing, can call up the respective deposit memo to be used for settlement.

9. CREDIT CARD PROCESSING: Hassle-free processing of credit cards within the system using PayFlow; with/without card swipe options. Use for your inline or online store.

10. ADVANCED BUNDLE PROMOTION PRICING: Bundling is a time tested way to increase customer spending by packaging related products with a discount. Set unlimited numbers of bundles; mix & match items and set bundle prices. System dynamically auto-computes as you scan bundles in any order.

11. MULTIPLE MODE OF PAYMENT: Mix any combination of payment method during tender mode. Auto computes balance after each method entered. Accepts credit memo, gift certificate and loyalty points redeemed as payment modes too.

12. PLATFORM INDEPENDENT: No difficult decision - for the die-hard Mac user or Windows, Linus or an iPad Tablet user - we support all of them. We are platform independent; any computer that gets on the web is ready to go.

13. QUICK KEY TOUCH SCREEN INTERFACE: Allows user to create product to appear as quick keys for fast touch screen actions. Improve the speed of checkout using this cool interface!

14. USER ACCESS CONTROLS: Decide which user sees what through our comprehensive set of security settings; that allows you to define which screens the user can access.

15. INDUSTRY STANDARD HARDWARE: No need be tied down to buy specific hardware. Match your POS and inventory control with industry standard receipt printers, barcode scanners, label printers, touch screens, light pole display and card readers.

16. OFFLINE TRANSACTIONS: Continue to sell and operate the POS system even without an Internet connection.

17. TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Need help? Our online support center is always at hand to help our subscribers - always free of charge!

18. SECURITY: All data movement between your browser and POS software is protected with 256-bit SSL encryption (optional). Your data is always secure in transit.

PURCHASE & INVENTORY FEATURES

1. PURCHASE ORDERS: For systematic and controlled ordering, easily create, print, email purchase orders for your store; allow goods to be received against it and track for pending shipments.

2. SUPPLIER INVOICES: Enter supplier invoices to capture cost of inventory coming into stock. Match the invoice with purchase order issued before accepting the invoice.

3. INVENTORY CONTROL: Don't allow profit to leak by obsolete stock problems! Let inventory control help you manage your stocks and re-order levels. Create items, track orders, warehouse transfers and count inventory.

4. STOCK REPLENISHMENT TOOL: Order items that are below minimum; or based on sales history. Scan through and auto created purchase orders for you. Take the guess work out of your retail business - now you can know accurately what needs to be replenished.

5. IMPORT YOUR PRODUCTS: Using standard CSV files to upload or download date. Can easily upload initial inventory list and make changes at any time.

6. STOCK TRANSFERS: Transfer items between store locations easily; allows you to print transfer notes. View balance quantities across all locations anytime on-screen.

7. LABEL/PRICE TAG PRINTING: Print labels and price tags for all of your products. Simply scan and ring up the products, enjoying error free data entries.
    

REPORTING FEATURES

1. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DASHBOARD: Real-time information about your business at your finger-tips. Know what items are selling, hourly sales and who your best customers are. Know your business better to achieve sustainable growth.

2. MOBILE SALES REPORTING: With web-based reports, your smart-phone can access sales reports from anywhere, giving you control of your business anywhere you are.

3. DOWNLOADABLE REPORTS: Most of the information in the POS is easily downloadable via CSV into applications like Microsoft Excel.

CRM FEATURES

1. CUSTOMER RELATIONS: Manage memberships, analyze your customer base for what they buy. Track details like contact information, and their buying trends and history for cross-selling opportunities. Now you can know your customers better.

2. MEMBERS PRICING: Set up member pricings and assign customers to them. System will automatically assign the tier pricing for qualifying products.

3. LOYALTY & REWARD PROGRAM: Create loyalty points that are pegged to sales; encourage point accumulation and redemption for repeat businesses.

4. EMAIL MARKETING: Create marketing campaigns and newsletters to your customers with no additional expenses using their emails. Allow mail blasting from the CRM sub-system too.

5. GIFT CERTIFICATES: Assign gift certificates and use them for redemption. Manage these within the POS system.

WEB STORE FEATURES

1. INTEGRATED WEB-STORE: Our concept of "multi-channel retailing to improve business" now gives you a fully integrated web sales capability with your POS system. Customize the "look and feel" of your optional web store and start selling online with inventory from your inline store.