Altogether, there are numerous advantages to implementing a POS for gift shops within your retail operation. The latest POS software integrations enable scalability improvements and offer revenue-generating solutions to be put in place. Gift shops utilize inventory management capabilities of their POS software, and benefit by encompassing an inventory management automation process to ensure proper spending on favorable and non-favorable items. These enhancements to both sales and inventory data will improve overall operational efficiency, and offer a much faster data management process.
In sum, the following are the best improvements a POS for gift shops has to offer:
Gift Shop Payroll Deductions
Evidently, using employee payroll deductions is becoming the standard across retail locations, especially hospital gift shops. Allowing employees to make purchases with their ID badges offers a favorable method of completing both in-store and online purchases. Payroll deductions have become the best way to sell back to employees and are currently in use within healthcare and corporate facilities, or any facility that sells items/services back to their employees. With fund deductions from the employees’ weekly paychecks, locations will achieve more process automation of receiving and monitoring employee payments.
Furthermore, our payroll deductions software, ArbaRapidPay, allows ID badge payments in addition to offering full integration with your POS sales. Locations rely on payroll deduction integration to negate the need for on-hand tracking of employee payroll deduction purchases. Automating this process saves time for your employee purchases, and allows data to compile in a single location. Insights will begin formulating from your payroll deduction purchases to make enhancements to items available. Receipts are available to show employees their new and previous payroll deductions balances for that pay period. Employees without an ID badge can make use of our account lookup feature. Employees not on the same payroll system, such as contractors or physicians, are also able to make purchases with their badges at these locations and tracking is available through demand statement generations by the system.
Online Ordering for Gift Shops
Moreover, incorporating online ordering software will obtain the most favorable method of placing orders for your gift shop. Customers can take their time ordering items when they’re able to use an online store. Pick-up and delivery options have become a staple with online ordering software and should be available fulfillment types with online sales.
Comparatively, our online ordering solutions allow customers and employees to make use of a public or private URL to select and pay for gift shop items. With sales integration with your POS register, managers will receive sales reporting, allowing for an easier data management process. Our online ordering for hospital gift shops integrates your locations’ inventory, disabling the need for on-hand tracking of your online orders. Automating your sales and inventory data will allow managers to spend time on other tasks, and greatly improve marketing and sales operations. Payroll deductions are an available tender type for employees and integrate with your POS register sales and other payroll deduction purchases. Pick-up and delivery options are available, and users may place orders at different locations and schedule items for delivery to people from other locations.
Gift Shop Physical Inventory Tablets
Additionally, physical inventory tablets expedite your on-hand inventory counting process and allow managers to complete physical inventory faster than before. Allowing for a faster physical inventory process will make room for other tasks and duties to be completed, and allow locations to return to their regular selling operations. Our physical inventory and receiving tablet are mobile solutions used to store and manage inventory worksheets on the move. Our tablets allow managers to create inventory worksheets, and use a built-in barcode scanner to scan inventory items to update quantities directly from the tablet.
Moreover, you can even use the tablet as a mobile register. Our physical inventory tablets also come equipped with a built-in chip reader to allow credit card payments. Employees may make use of their payroll deduction accounts to make purchases from a tablet as well. This allows for additional usage from a single piece of hardware that offers multiple solutions that will save time throughout your operation.
Furthermore, POS for gift shops must remain up-to-date with the latest in inventory management and point-of-sale solutions. Incorporating products such as employee payroll deductions, online ordering software, and physical inventory tablets have been shown to increase operational efficiency in the past and put locations in a much better position for competition.
By: Max Jovanovic
