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Prepare your POS System for the Holiday Season

November 10, 2022

Prepare your POS System for the Holiday Season

 

The holiday season is always exciting and very stressful for business owners. The prep work involves checking stock levels and hiring extra holiday workers. Still, your POS system cannot be in the second plan.
Prepare your Point of Sale (POS) system to make the holidays go smoothly.
Here are some tips to help you operate your business through the holidays and make you feel prepared for the most wonderful time of the year.

 

Keep reading!

 

 

Prepare your staff!

 

 
You should add your staff to your POS system and provide the proper training for each employee. All your team, including the seasonal staff, should be trained and ready to go.
You should add your staff to your POS system and provide the proper training for each employee. All your team, including the seasonal staff, should be trained and ready to go.

 

The information must be added to the system, so all the employees can clock in and out independently.

 
Also, set up the permissions for all the staff in the system and add or remove people as needed.
 
Make sure to add security measures for staff that can only access the areas of the system needed. These measures can protect your business from theft and other inconveniences like errors.
 
Be sure to answer all doubts before the start of the holiday shopping; all employees should be able to solve issues and be as faster as possible at the point of sale.
 
Also, remember to train your staff not on the POS but also on sales, how to greet customers etc.
 
A well-trained staff is synonymous with more sales.
 
 

Keep track of your inventory

 

 
It takes work to track everything your business sells, what you need to buy, and how to keep your stock organized.
 
The more people involved and the busier the period, the more complicated tracking inventory is. That’s where inventory management software comes in to help you to take control of your business.
With an easy-to-use and powerful inventory software system, you and your team can check your inventory from anywhere.
 
Also, getting the most out of your POS data is critical to building a successful holiday retail strategy.
 
Your data will provide information about what your mix of products should look like to meet your customers’ expectations.
 
Nowadays, POS technology can provide powerful reports and monitoring functions indispensable for making decisions based on accurate and updated data.
 
When predictive inventory analysis is tied to inventory and customer sales histories, you can assertively choose what products to buy.
Stock Up Inventory
Don’t forget that suppliers and retailers are in the same boat.
Avoid Delays in Purchasing Inventory; order procrastination ends up costing your business dearly in many ways. Inventory management automation is the most efficient way to get things done on the supply chain side of your business.

 

Shorten Long Queues

 

Long queues are the biggest reason shoppers will turn away from a store. Overcrowded and long queues in stores are a red flag for customers, and one of the biggest reasons shoppers will turn away from a store. Here are some tips on how to solve these problems:

  • EXPRESS CHECKOUTS – Specific for small transactions with few items.
  • PRIORITY CHECKOUTS – Offering priority checkouts for pregnant women, people with infants, and the elderly is also an excellent way to reduce queues.
  • SELF CHECKOUT – Self-checkout helps to ensure agility and speed queues in your business.
  • SCAN & GO – With Scan & Go, the customer scans the products as they pick them, pays with their mobile phone, and therefore doesn’t need to pass through checkout.
  • CLICK AND COLLECT – Offering this option helps to avoid queues, as purchases are made in an online store and picked up in-store.
  • INVEST IN TRAINING FOR CASHIERS – Regular cashier training will always help provide better customer service.
  • INCREASE CASHIERS NUMBERS AT PEAK TIMES – Having increased numbers of cashiers at peak times helps to shorten queuing times.
  • ADOPT A GOOD EPOS SYSTEM – The best-trained cashier will still struggle with an inefficient ePOS system. Choose an ePOS system that will help manage your business and positively impact your customers’ and employees’ lives.

 

Pick the Right POS Solution for Your Store, and following these tips will definitely help make the holiday season a little less stressful and more lucrative.

Start preparations early to meet them, and build strong, lasting relationships with your new and existing customers.

 

 

About our Company

 

Retail Solutions is a market-leading EPOS provider with over 25 years of business experience. Our leading sectors are convenience stores, supermarkets, forecourts, pharmacies and coffee shops.

We are dedicated to providing your store with the most up-to-date and reliable point-of-sale hardware and software management tools to help you manage your business effectively.

 

 

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About the author:

 

Juliane Camozzato is the Head of Marketing at  Retail Solutions. You can follow her on LinkedIn!

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