Features Available With

InfoTouch Garden Center™

Now Featuring Complete Integration and

Support for Mobile Registers:

 
InfoTouch Garden Center™ features easy integration with mobile registers using tablet PC’s, wireless receipt printers and scanners, with attached MSR’s (credit card readers). During busy seasons, the entire transaction can be made by a sales clerk anywhere on a large multi-acre garden center, nursery or tree farm with a customer or contractor.  This can be a valuable tool for personalized private consultations’ as well as providing useful flexibility to check out customers anywhere thus reducing checkout lines and wait times. 

Print on Standard out-of-the-box Bar Code Printers 

All InfoTouch Garden Center™ platforms come with the unique customer friendly feature allowing the merchant to print growing instructions on both the standard bar code label printers and/or on the Point-of-Sale (POS) receipt for the customer. This feature can save the merchant hundreds of hours a year that would be spent explaining, printing off separate sheets and sharing the growing tips as they are all provided with every sale.

Print with Specialized Bar Code Printers 

All InfoTouch Garden Center™ platforms come with the option to support specialized printers that print directly on plastic bar code labels. These labels are commonly used to tag, wrap around the trunks, and identify trees, shrubs and other specialty products. The durable plastic labels are often used in these markets to help withstand the weathering effects that the inventory is exposed to.   

Manage, Adjust or Delete Inventory w/Audit Reports

Our software has an Inventory Quantity Adjustment feature to remove items from stock.  You can pre-define up to 20 reasons why the items are being removed or enter a free form reason. All adjustment to inventory quantities is tracked and can be reported on using the Inventory Quantity Audit Trail report.  Options include a selectable range of items to report on as well as a selectable date/time range.  The report shows all adjusted items including the reason, quantity, and value at average cost at the time adjusted. 

Full Accounts Receivable System

InfoTouch Garden Center™ features a full accounts receivable system standard with every platform. This system gives you the ability to: set credit limits per customer with security options available for charging at or above the credit limit, view or print out statements to customers, resellers or contractors at any time, take payments immediately at the POS and apply these payments directly to an invoice or the account, link multiple accounts to a master account for contractors that use sub-contractors, age balances with flexible balance periods and apply any service charges supported for past due accounts.

 
Inventory

The InfoTouch Garden Center™ software allows you to control, track and manage your inventory electronically in real-time. More theft happens in retail stores internally from employees than from customers. Take away the opportunity by tracking your inventory with our state of the art system. This module is the core of the POS application. The system updates quantities on hand for each inventory record in real-time. Additionally, each item can have a retail price plus 9 additional price levels and be sourced from up to 10 different vendors. You can maintain a wide array of sophisticated pricing rules — such as Quantity unit pricing, Fractional Quantities, Buy 1 Get 1 Free, Lot Pricing, 50% Off after 10 Items, etc. Additional functionality includes Vegetable, Shrub, Flower or Tree Explosion sales (by department) and tracking, a printable Notes field, Substitution and Suggestive Selling, Alternate Keys, and Open to Buy for departmental budget tracking and reporting. Bar code label printing functionality is available to print UPC Price Labels, Shelf Tags, and Received Item Price labels as well as the ability to print growing instructions directly on the bar code label and/or at directly on the customer receipt. Our POS software also supports the sale of items by weight and multiple units of measure if needed and can optionally be configured to also print on plastic bar code labels for tracking and identifying trees and shrubs.

Layaway Function is Standard at the POS

Our software supports Layaway purchases, including specifying a minimum deposit amount and payment schedule. The payment schedule is stored with the layaway so changes do not effect outstanding layaway transactions. Layaway statements are included with every platform as a standard feature.

Touch Screen Register

It's proven that your employees will be trained faster and have fewer mistakes with a touch screen register. InfoTouch Garden Center™ graphical user interface is fast and helps cashiers ring up items quickly and more accurately than keyboard-based systems. You can sell service items by touching buttons and products by scanning or looking them up by description. Full customer sales history is available to every employee to help with suggestions for additional sales and gift buyers. Have even the newest employee get to know your clientele faster with the sales history and personal notes left by other employees. Many other services are available at the POS register and can be accessed right in the middle of a sale! PCI compliant payment processing, including credit/debit/gift cards is a standard feature. Additional features include incredibly easy cash draw reconciliation, an integrated loyalty program, real time inventory tracking, the ability to special order for customers with unique tasks.

Purchase Orders

Save money and time by tracking and managing your purchasing. Integrated with the Inventory module, purchase orders can be created automatically using the Min/Max/Reorder quantity scheme, up to a 14 month Sales History can be pulled up on the terminal at the same time you are generating a Purchase Order, or by using criteria such as a preferred or specific vendor, lowest cost or fastest delivery time. You can also use hand-held devices for Receiving and Receiving by Exception.

Reports

Know what you made and what sold at the end of every day. Know your daily margins on sales, services, specials, what merchandise in your store is making you money. How many times does your inventory turn, who are your most profitable employees, what products are giving you the best return on your investment? Run your reports get real insight into your store trends and profit centers. You have access to an enormous amount of detailed information with the 100+ reports that are standard with the system. Most reports have multiple search and sort criteria giving you maximum flexibility in analyzing your operations. All reports come with the option of viewing to screen, printing, or saving as a electronic file for export to other applications. In addition, the Store Keeper POS application comes with extensive documentation and integrated online help.

Customers

Give your customers more of what they want and maximize your sales and your profits! The InfoTouch Garden Center™ gives you vital information for every customer or client and their: sales history, integrated loyalty program, Accounts Receivable tracking, frequent shopper pricing, purchasing trends and patterns allowing you to book that additional sale or service appointment. All these valuable additional features are now included within this module. The Accounts Receivable section functionality can print detailed customer statements, and you can use the Reports section of this module to print customer and/or client mailing labels based on shopping activity or inactivity. Now you can also use customer and reseller’s shopping and ordering patterns to generate low cost email campaigns to your customers and clients help you sale price slower moving products for improved ROI and quickly do email blasts to promote new product arrivals and discounts.

Example: Use a unique email blast to promote special sales or to increase your sales on your slowest day of the week by offering an email special or a free additional promotional item with any purchase that day. Provide your contractors a discount to help you move overstock inventory for a limited time or with a email coupon to effectively market and manage your cash flow.

Employees

One of the largest costs for most retail locations is the employees. Time management and scheduling employee’s during the high traffic times and adjusting for trends is crucial in successfully containing costs and increasing cash flow. Time and attendance records of all employees and gross wage calculations are at the center of the Employee Module. All employees can clock in/clock out through any register in the system while managers can monitor and adjust these ‘punches’ accordingly. In addition to hourly and salaried wage rates, the system calculates individual or group commission plans, bonuses, contests, and spiffs by employee. Employee shift scheduling is also available.

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