Point of Sale (POS) System Features
Point of Sale (POS), systems are used to complete transactions at retail stores. But there is so much more POS systems can do. You can use a POS system to make your business run smoother and more efficiently. Features include sales, item consolidation, tax exempts, quantity discounts, and so much more. Continue reading to see all of the features that are included in Visual Retail Plus’s Point of Sale software.
Sales and Returns
With VRP you can ring up items, either by barcode scanning or manually and easily accept returns from customers. Scan barcodes from returned items, similar to completing a regular transaction. With our software, money can be returned to customers in cash, put back on their credit or debit card, or in the form of store credit under their customer account.
Discounts
Add discounts to individuals items or entire transactions. The discount amount can be applied as a dollar amount, a percentage, or even an item quantity including altering a price lower or higher if needed. Discounts can be set up and planned ahead with a start and end date and time.
Gift Cards, House Accounts and Loyalty
VRP made it simple to integrate gift cards into your business which can be used for both sales and store credit.
With VRP you can open a House Account for your customers which can be looked up from the POS screen right along with past sales.
Set up a loyalty system to give discounts to returning customers. These frequent shopper points can be customized and distributed in any way that makes sense to you and your business.
Useful For Many Types of Businesses
Our point of sale software has been implemented and loved by a variety of retail industries including verticals such as:
Receipt Printing and Customization
Printed or emailed receipts are easily customized in various fields including your business’s name, location, and logo to the top or bottom of the receipt. Include receipt numbers as you see fit along with the receipt printed with different preset policies based on your business and the transaction type including sale, layaway, and return.
Print gift receipts notes can be added onto the receipt through our POS software either during or after a sale.
Price Lookup
Easily look up the price of an item by SKU, vendor, group, product category, style, size, color — or any other criteria you can think of.
Cash Drawer Reconciliation
Our point of sale system can reconcile your cash drawer at the end of the night. This is useful for keeping copies of daily sales logs and counting the cash drawer at the end of the night.
Multi-Tender Types
Allow your customers to pay with different tender types including paying partially with cash and card. VRP also has the capability to pay in foreign currency.
Tax Exempt and Tax By Location
Our point of sale software has the capability for applying tax exemption to specific transactions. It is also possible to override pre-set tax percentages so that taxes can be specified by location.
Suspend and Resume Transactions
All transactions on our POS system can be suspended or held. Once they are ready, the transaction can be resumed and completed. There’s no limit to the number of transactions that can be suspended at one time
Reliable Offline POS Operation - Even Without Internet
No internet? No problem. Whether your Wi-Fi goes down, you lose connection, or the internet is completely out, our POS system keeps running - so you can continue processing sales without interruption. There’s no need to handwrite transactions or turn customers away. Once your connection is restored, all sales and data are automatically updated and reconciled, keeping your business running smoothly no matter what.
Employee Management
Manage your employees’ security rights and time and attendance via username and password or biometrics. Keep track of your employees’ sales records including commission and allowance, manage their shifts via our scheduler and have full control with our loss prevention reports. Employees can also clock in with their phone by simply scanning a QR code.
CRM
Access your customers via the POS screen by entering their first name, last name, or phone number. See customer notes, past purchases, VIP discounts, house accounts, and store credit. Export emails by specific parameters such as Birthdays and Anniversaries and send coupons/reminders.
More You Can Do With Our POS System Software:
- Gift Registry
- Mix-and-Match/BOGO
- Mix Items, Handling Cases
- Multiple Price Levels Based on Customer, Quantity and Item Attributes
- Pickup and Delivery
- Pay-in and Pay-out
- Inter-Store Transfers Directly from the Cashier's Screen
- Layaway
- Special Orders
- Sales Rep Commission By Cashier, Item, Group, Vendor, and More
- Bracketed Rep Commission/Split Commission
- Serialized Inventory Tracking and Transfers
- Electronic Journal
- Print Check Endorsements
- Print Quotations
- Sales Tax, VAT and Multiple Tax and Brackets Handling
- Display Item Images
- Sell From a Picture Based Point of Sale Screen (Touch Operation)
- Display COGS (Security Pending)
- Post and Pre-Sale Voids
- Multiple Printers Support, Selected on the Fly
- Allow to Sell Invalid Items
- Required Customer Information Recording Based on Tender or Transaction Type
- Item Consolidation
- Sales by Department
- Customer Display Support, Including Advertising Between Sales
- Assortment UPC’s
- Start a Transaction at One Register and Finish at the Other
- Maintain or Change Existing Layaways
- Partial Payments for Special Orders, Void and Convert to Store Credits
- Permanent Price Change by Date
- Support for Weighing Scale
- UPS Shipping Integration