Retail Systems for Footwear Stores

One of the main challenges in the footwear industry is being able to manage your entire inventory according to style, brand, color, size, and width. There are many different types of specialized shoe stores – boot stores, women’s shoes, men’s shoes, custom shoes, kids shoes, work shoes, etc. In addition, most stores also offer a wider range of shoe accessories.

With Aralco Footwear Store POS you can easily manage this data for inventory, reporting, and stock replenishment.

Our system allows you to easily manage a large amount of inventory, track customer’s behavior, and offer pricing tools unique to the footwear industry. Understand what your customers want or need, and retain them as loyal customers through our customer loyalty options.

PRODUCT SET UP AND INVENTORY FEATURES
 

• Style related size, color, width grid matrix setup allows multiple details per product 
• Non-matrix items such as accessories, repairs, personal shopping services  
• Minimum and maximum stock level by store, distribution center, and company 
• Unlimited user-definable categories such as brand, season, collection, fabric, top, bottom, etc
• Multiple suppliers per product
• Product image and sound links to products for the multimedia catalog
• System generated barcode and, alternate barcode sets
• Supplier and product lead time

INVENTORY LOOKUP WITH REAL-TIME DATA

Comprehensive Inventory Lookup with real-time data on stock units at hand by style number with drill-down to colors and sizes available, movement by locations at any POS or Back Office System (BOS) workstations. Inventory Lookup is also available within the checkout process allowing the cashier to instantly engage the customer on the current stock availability.

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MODEL STOCK (MIN/MAX) SYSTEM FOR RE-ORDERING

To ensure the efficient use of inventory on SKUs, Aralco Retail Systems has the standard re-ordering system to prevent over-ordering thus reduces the needs for clearance markdowns:

• Pre-set ideal inventory levels by product and location are ideal for retailers who order repeat items
• Model stocks by store type allow multi-location operations to reduce data entry and monitoring
• Reports of shortages/overages in current on-hand-levels provides alerts for management
• The report also shows shortages/overages at different store locations to drive transfers of product from over-stocked stores to under-inventoried locations

AUTO STOCK REPLENISHMENT SOLUTIONS

This module is particularly a must-have tool for retailers with large inventory lines or large network of stores as it can help recommend stock order or transfer requirements. The data generated is quick and accurate based on actual sales history, sales trend, stock at hand and numbers of days stock is required for. 

The three options available are:

• Auto Purchase Orders  - for re-stocking goods
• Auto Stock Transfer - allocation for a new shipment of goods
• Auto Stock Transfer - stock balancing among stores to manage over/under stock and broken size/color

STOCK PROCESSING SOLUTIONS

Aralco Retail Systems comes complete with all the tools for your inventory needs in the Back Office Systems (BOS) application, available at any POS and BOS workstations. Most of the stock processing functions can be recorded using the standard keyboard, barcode scanners, portable data collectors or mobile devices (IOS and Android) :

• Purchase Order (foreign and local currencies)
• Goods Receiving
• Inter-branch Transfer 
• Stock Physical Count (full and cyclical)
• Returns to Vendor
• Quantity Adjustment
• Average Cost Adjustment

Depending on your company policy, any of the above stock processing functions can be centralized or de-centralized, and only authorized users are able to access each stock function.

PRODUCT LABELING SOLUTIONS

Aralco's Inventory software module comes with a versatile price labeling systems for printing barcoded price labels with a range of barcode thermal printers, and to any laser printer for A4-paper size labeling for the display shelves.

Each label format is user-definable while label rolls available on plain rolls and swing tag, and you can have as many label types or sizes needed for different product categories such as boots, sandal, shoes, accessories, etc.

Aralco's labeling supports the following data outputs:

• Alphanumeric product code or style numbers
• System barcode number or manufacturer barcode number
• The unlimited product description on multiple lines when required
• Product categories such as brand, collection, etc
• Product dimensions such as colors and sizes
• Regular or markdown Prices

Electronic Shelf Labeling (ESL) is also available with Aralco Retail Systems, please click here for more information.

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

Aralco's CRM is extremely comprehensive and interacts with all modules and POS systems in real time. With its customer-centric features, this tool can help boost profits in the long run by enhancing customer retention.

• Sales history with full receipts
• Sales order tracking with full receipts
• Accounting details ( perfect for corporate customers )
   
• User definable customer's demographic profile, recording size, color, preferences etc.
• User definable reporting on customer purchase history and demographics for email targeted marketing 

• Email Broadcasting with email merging capability
• Membership card system with user definable member group and privileges
• Membership and loyalty card systems are interactive with a webcam to capture a picture of the customer for in-store card printing

FEATURE-RICH FOOTWEAR POS SYSTEMS

Aralco Retail Point of Sale (POS) Software System runs in your retail stores with its own secured local database and functions independently of the central Back Office Server and fail-safe should there be Internet disruption.

Aralco offers comprehensive functionalities never available before in a single POS solution - easy to use and suitable for footwear retailers of any size.

• Friendly user interface - anyone can learn to use it in minutes
• Ease of use with touchscreen option 
• Multiple shifts per POS
• Float and cash count by note/coin denominations at start and end of the day (applicable only to standard cash drawers)
• Interface option to Closed Cash Management System   
• Order and delivery management, with web on-line option
   
• Comprehensive product search options
• Comprehensive customer search options
• Gift Receipt
   
• Hold and retrieve transactions
• User-definable POS Item Menu for setting up fast buttons for SKUs without bar code labels such as alterations, repairs, delivery fee  etc
• 20 payment types - support multiple and unlimited tenders per transaction
• Managerial access to stock transfer, stock receiving, stock adjustment, and stock count processing
• Managerial access to back office reporting on sales and stock performances

CUSTOMER LOYALTY POINTS PROGRAM

• Create multiple rewards plans to attract new customers and drive up repeat visits to your stores.
• Fully automated point calculation and redemption at each POS terminal - processed real-time seamlessly with data synchronized with the central Microsoft SQL database server and across stores via the Internet.
• In-store loyalty card printing with member's photo and bar coded ID or magnetic stripe encoding

GIFT PROGRAMS

• Gift Card program - in-store prepaid stored-value money card redeemable at any POS station at any store location and any unused balance encourages repeat visits. 

• Gift Certificate program with system generated ID number  (at the POS) with centralized redemption management at the back office, layered down to transaction date and receipt number

BUNDLES & MARKDOWNS

• Package sales such as buy a defined pair of boots and a leather belt get a bundle price
• "Special price" control by time, the day of the week
• Preset quantity discount by a group of items for upselling, example buy any defined 3 pairs of sandals for $150 and save $50
• Automatic discount of old seasons' products at a markdown price

CENTRALIZED PROMOTIONS AND MARKETING CAMPAIGNS

• User-definable promotion name with preset start/end date and discount values filterable by brands, product categories, seasons, suppliers or range of SKUs
• Gift voucher sales and redemption management
• Discount coupon management
• Email broadcasting for electronic direct mail to your targeted customer base such as regular newsletter, promotions, announcements, reward points statement
• Conditional Promotions example buy any three pair of shoes get 30% off regular price, etc.

POS SECURITY FEATURES

• Fingerprint scanning to identify staff for registering time attendance and log in at the point of sale 
• Fingerprint scanning for access rights to controlled areas of the program at the point of sale
• All back office and POS critical functions are password-protected by user group
• User definable access levels ensure only authorized entry to specific areas 
• Passwords and access levels can be changed from back office as and when required

USER-DEFINABLE REPORTING SYSTEMS

• Change or create your own user-defined reports 
• Create your own formulas in reports

• Stock aging and sell through analysis by season, collection, etc
• Best & worst selling items report by style, color, size and other matrix options 
• Inventory & sales report by matrix or non-matrix  
• Staff Performance and commission
• Profitability, cost of goods sold
• Year on year, month on month analysis

• Tabular, Matrix, Chart and Cube reporting format
• Report Scheduler
• Interactive with Microsoft Outlook
• Output report as HTML, CSV or to Microsoft Excel, Words and PDF 
• Report security access rights by individual and group of employees 

ACCOUNT RECEIVABLES 

• Manages deposits, credit limit, credit note, payment status of invoices and sales orders to generating Statement of Accounts.
• Accounting interface options to Accounts Payable and General Ledgers

MOBILE SYSTEMS

Aralco offers mobile solutions for simple and functional POS including stock processing features such as Purchase Order, Stock Transfers, Receiving and Stock Count - useful for pop-up stores, events, and store-in-departmental store format.

The mobile solution is highly flexible,  user-friendly and it can run on any IOS, Android smartphones or tablets and handheld computers. 

UNIFIED COMMERCE

Footwear retailers who have extended business channels such as wholesale distribution, as well as the online store, will find the best fit in Aralco Retail Systems. With the same central Microsoft SQL Database, Aralco is able to unify all your retail stores, distribution and E-commerce divisions on one single platform in real-time. 

With the single platform, retailers will benefit significantly from the seamless workflows, gain total visibility from the back office to every business divisions - resulting in rapid operational growth with the improved efficiency and productivity.

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