A better way to manage your inventory...

Visual Retail Plus is proud to announce a new way to fine tune your inventory. Taking advantage of the recent developments in technology that have made touch tablets affordable, VRP has developed a standalone module for Microsoft Windows tablets. Unencumbered by database size limitations that have hobbled other units, this hardware can handle ALL of your inventory. It's key uses are: physical inventory, return to vendor, gift registries, price updates, or general price queries. The unit offeres database to database communication, and if your network is wireless enabled, you can even communicate wirelessly. Contact a VRP Sales Rep today for more info!

VRP + Posiflex = National Retail Federation 2011 Show

VIsual Retail Plus is proud to announce it will be showcasing the latest version of VRP in the booth of it's longtime partner company, Posiflex at the 2011 NRF show!

Dependant on availability, you may find either the VRP President, or the Head of Development and Programming onsite at booth #3009.

If you are not a customer and want to see what VRP has to offer, or a longtime customer interested in upgrading, please stop by and say "HI!"

Automated reporting to your mobile devices.

Did you know that VRP has the capability to send the output of customized reports to your email or sms enabled cell phone?

It's just one of hundreds of fully customizable features Visual Retail Plus is capable of .
With RpScheduler, you can enjoy the freedom to leave the office while maintaining the information stream based on whatever data you need, whenever you need it. Working in conjunction with rpQuery, you can decide what data is most helpful to you, and when you want it sent.

For example: You have several stores and you are in dire need of a vacation, but you still need to track your sales on a daily basis. Instead of interrupting your relaxation and having multiple managers check in, you can automate VRP to send you the Daily MultiZ Report at 8pm nightly to your cell phone. Every store's daily totals available to be checked at your leasure.

Point of Sales Systems Maximize Business

Our point of sales systems can handle larger amounts of customers and sales. This is essential during times like the holiday season. As the number of shoppers increase, a point of sales system is the best system to rely on to maximize the productivity of your business. A POS software system will allow your company to process all of the increased sales, regardless of the method of payments. Customers hate to wait in long lines, with a POS software system on your side; your business can move people in and out of line quickly and efficiently.

Point of sales systems are essential for any store, which sees an increase in business during the holiday season. A POS software system will help pinpoint your company’s inventory needs. There are few easier ways to lose a customer, than by not having the necessary inventory to meet their demands. Utilizing point of sales systems ensures that you know exactly what to order and how large of an order you need to make. In the same vain, a POS software system can make sure that your business is not left with an abundance of a product, which was overstocked, because of a faulty inventory system.

Often, during the holiday season stores are forced to hire extra help. We all like to look for the best in people, but having point of sales systems will maximize your security, and reduce employee fraud. When you aren’t completely sure of the background of the extra help you hire, having a POS software system, which will keep your business safe could prove to be invaluable.

Other than security purposes, a POS software system can handle multiple stores and can handle keeping information, for multiple stores. Also, a POS software system, can handle all sorts of sales from shoes, to hardware, apparel, to computers. Whatever, your business sells and whatever, the quantity of your sales will be, our POS software system will get the job done better, than any other system.

Keep your Customers by Utilizing Loyalty Incentives

Have your marketing attempts been less than helpful when trying to increase your customer count? Before you attempt to gain new customers, focus on pleasing and maintaining your current customers. You can do this by implementing a customer loyalty incentive program through your POS system.

Customer loyalty incentive programs are designed to maintain and build a business’s customer base. Most incentive programs offer customers special discounts and offers the more frequently they shop. By implementing an incentive program your customers will have more reason to visit your business and will be more willing to give you their personal information such as their home and e-mail addresses.

If a customer is more than satisfied with your business and programs then they will most likely rave about your business to their friends. That is the best and most effective form of advertising, word-of-mouth. Now your new incentive program has not only helped you maintain your current customer, but also helped you gain a few more.

Your POS system will handle all of your customer information, which includes any personal information, purchase history etc. This will ultimately increase customer satisfaction and efficiency. You will be able to handle all your customer accounts by a click of a button. With an easy to use system and new marketing angle, your customer count has the potential to go through the roof!

Five Reasons to Implement a Touch Screen Cash Register

The season of shopping is upon us! If you don’t have a touch screen cash register, you may want to ask for one as a gift this holiday season. A touch screen cash register is a component of a point-of-sale system. The POS system is computer software and hardware that records sales as they happen and offers a variety of record keeping options and functions. Read five reasons why this should be on your holiday list.

Sales are great ways to get ongoing and new customers into your store. Often, retailers mark down special items to facilitate interest and the success of the sale. It can be chaotic to remember items which have been marked down and recording sales prices against regular prices. Your touch screen cash register can automate the process of markdowns in an accurate fashion.

In discussing sales and promotions, how will you know such events were a success? You have to go back and see how much money was made on discounted items as well as the entire store as a whole. A touch screen cash register and its POS components pinpoint the impact of specifically-marked items and help you project successes of similar, future events.

Many business owners feel an emerging sense of anxiety due to the mere mention of being absent from the store during operation. A touch screen cash register offers a variety of options, so owners can still monitor vital sales statistics despite being physically absent from the store.

How well do you manage your employees’ time while on the job? Do you often find yourself asking employees to address menial tasks such as price checking and reconciling the cash register? A touch screen cash register and associated software can handle such clerical tasks; employee time is now free to address other tasks such as helping customers and inspiring sales.

One of the best things about purchasing a touch screen cash register and associated POS software is the extras. A small business owner may slowly but surely spend a lot of money on separate-but-necessary software. A POS system offers a lot in a single package such as add-ons for employee payroll and time tracking as well as customer preference databases.

Retail Software Makes Holiday Shopping Easier

With Christmas right around the corner, almost all retail stores are having special deals and sales to reel customers in. Because every store does this same thing every year, it is important that your store stands out from the rest. Having a good point of sale system is a fantastic way to go about this, and will almost guarantee that customers will flock to your store. When people are shopping, especially during the holiday season, stress can pile high. You want to be able to walk into a store, find what you want and get out of there without any complications. However, this can sometimes be a lot to ask for.

Having a good point of sale software system will take away the hassle of checking out, as well as locating where everything is in the store. This computer software organizes everything that is offered to customers and helps you find what they are looking for. Because people are constantly on the go anymore, this helps out drastically in their process. Going into stores that are not organized and don’t have up to date systems or software, may turn out to be a bit more aggravating than stores that do. It pays to have outlets like this so that the chance of customers coming back into your store is greater.

Don’t let the holiday shopping season stress you out. The easier you can make this overwhelming time, the better and if the stores can help out in anyway then you’ve hit the jackpot. Look into getting this new and improved software for your company and see how your customer traffic flow changes for the better!