BUSINESS SOLUTION - BETTER MARKETING
The idea is to turn over the best selling lines as often as possible, but do you even know what your are ?
Promotions have numbered schemes and therefore all sales that relate to them can be collected and accumulated against them. This is good because they can be involving more than one product. Promotional vouchers can be taken as product price or tender reductions and counted accordingly.Products can be set to record say post code details for later analysis too. All promotions are recorded in against groups and readings. ARE MY DISCOUNTS GIVEN WORKING OR JUST SELLING FOR NO BENEFIT Discounts are given at line or tender level and as such get recorded on the sale line. When a discount is given on total sale it will be apportioned across the lines sold proportional to the sales value. All discounts are recorded in total in groups reports and readings Promotions are the mechanism for clearing these slow movers and it is better to recover the funds at low margin or even cost and buy faster movers. The promotional offers allow all sorts of marketing possibilities that would be hard to administer on a conventional till, and again their effectiveness can be monitored, did they sell more or did they clear stock, or was I just giving away more money. Regular customers can have their discount rules set up against their account, guaranteeing that the correct amounts get taken off, and showing the profitability of the customer. The use of these tools to improve sales can be confirmed by checking the amount of promotion and discount markdown it takes to get them. As the application of the rules is loaded into and performed by the epos till, these calculations being too complex for an operator to apply using mental arithmetic and so are not usually offered on cash register tills.