WinBPS Feature List for Comparative Analysis
Prospecting
- Bride & Groom information are stored together (for wedding prospects)
- Customized mass mailings
- Customized Email blasts with integrated email software
- Favorite management
- To-Do list management
- Ability to measure inventory activity (not just sales) for item
- Easy & fast data entry
Customer Management
- Only one entry required for prospect to customer information, do not have to retype
- Same Customer can be a part of multiple events and have multiple single orders,concurrently
- Easy & fast data entry
- Can have multiple rental & sale transactions on same sales ticket
- Can maintain customer measurements & contact info
- Customized mass mailings
- Customized Email blasts with integrated email software
- Rental & Purchase History is easy accessible and may remain with customer indefinitely
Event Control
- View complete status, i.e. special orders, ticket balances, measurements, rental order status, of all customers in an Event from within a single area, no jumping around to other parts of program
- Fast registration of members in large events, many entry shortcuts available
- Single up to date sales ledger for a customer for an Event showing all rentals and/or purchases
- Ability to register gowns sold to prom, debutantes, etc members to prevent selling same item in same event
- Easy & fast to learn
Point-of-Sale
- Easy & fast data entry
- Select item purchased directly via bar-code scan, key entry or explode inventory listing
- Select size/color/width from availability table display
- Automatically add extra charges to item
- Ability to specify whether item sold from stock (while maintaining accurate QOH) or need to be special order
- Ability to split sale between multiple sales associates
- Incorporate special/custom instructions for special orders during sale that will auto appear on Purchase Order
- Handle information only 1 time, modules are tightly integrated
- Online credit card authorization
- Exhaustive flexibility for correcting after the fact point-of-sale errors or customer changes
- Flexible sale tax support
- Transaction audit reports to review suspicious transactions
- Security protect sensitive transaction types from being performed from un-authorized personnel
- Tickets can contain only rental transactions or sale transactions or a combination of both
- Ability to have multiple sales & rental terms that print on receipts
- Ability to mark items for shipment
- Can see if items have been taken from store and/or returned
- Can reverse transactions
- Can maintain extensive notes & references
Purchase Order
- Easy & fast data entry
- System notification of all un-issued special order purchase orders with notification of critical items
- Consolidation of all like items on single purchase order for same Event
- Stock replacement based on required minimum stock level including sales forecasting
- Easy Open PO follow-up
- Save confirmation information with each PO
- Easy on-screen review of items to be ordered
- Fast data review by accessing event & customer information from un-issued PO form
- Use size & color matrixes to quickly create stock orders of multiple items of same style
Inventory
- Retail, Rental & Lay away/Pickup inventory are all supported
- Store assigned item identification up to 25 alphanumeric characters
- Assign size and color tables for easy & fast user review on inventory within size/color grid
- User defined store id up to 25 alphanumeric characters
- Ability to store multiple digitized pictures of an inventory item
- Automated retail pricing of item based on formula
- Item categorization and sub-categorization for use in reporting
- Easy & fast data entry
- Maintain multiple selling prices for item
- Sales statistics for item and further for item by size, color and store
- Inventory can be rental or retail or both
- Support for sophisticated physical inventory counting
- Rental Inventory can maintain bar-coded or RFID id numbers for tracked items
- Support promotional pricing schedule by date, amount, vendor and/or category special promotional pricing module is included to support ‘sales’
- Maintain vendor customization options with cost & retail price, like extra size & extra length plus many more and have the system auto charge a customer when the parameters are met.
Reporting
- Exhaustive reporting including sales, QOH and gross margin by date range, vendor and category
- Special order reporting by age, due date and overdue
- Reports for sales available in graphical format
- Easy & fast data entry
- Ability to create custom reports with system Query function and/or export to Excel
- Customer Balance reports, customer statement printing
- Lay-away reporting indicating, aging, customer balance, last transaction (payment) date ..etc
Miscellaneous
- Complete register functionality including paid in-out, register journal, revenue accounting report and tax reports
- Ability to select accounting techniques from multiple choices & reduce your accounting/bookkeeping costs
- Print tags (price, special order or accessory) from predefined format
- Easy & fast data entry
- Selective mass mail or Email capability utilizing mail-merge functionality & integrated word processor
- Ability to calculate alteration charges, automatically place charge on ticket and determine status of alteration
- Support appointment entry with scheduling of resource by associate or time slot
- Integrated tracking of employee hours worked along with Sales per hour reporting
- Ability to spread single payment across multiple customers for an Event in one transaction
- Quick sale entry when no customer particulars are required
- System security control to prevent and/or personnel to perform selective activity