We’re going to cover the 5 Features that will help to grow your vape shop and to expand if you’re using QuickBooks Point of Sale.
- Number 1 “Fast and Simple Checkout”
The most important above all else is going to be making your transactions fast and simple for your customer so they can get in, get their stuff and get out. So you can easily move your line forward if you have people waiting since nobody likes to stand in a line at a store. Nobody wants a point of sale that is complicated, so you want to make your transactions fast and easy. QuickBooks Point of Sale does an excellent job of that whether it’s bringing things up with your barcode scanner or making specific buttons on the screen quick pick buttons. So that you can quickly choose quick items for your customer and get them done. Because the more throughput you have, the more your store is going to make and the heavier your customer is going to be as well. - Number 2 “Stay in your Customer’s Mind”
We want to make your customers to stay interested in your shop. QuickBooks Point of Sale has an integration with Constant Contact. Constant Contact is an email service where you can email either newsletters, new products you got in if you have a sale coming, a certain vendor that has a sale and a special coupon if your store has one going. All these things can be wrapped up in regular emails that go out to your entire customers list. All you have to do is to be a little invasive and ask your customer for their name and email. Most customers are used to this, they understand that companies want to continue to talk to them and keep them in the loop. But if you have a customer base where they are hesitant for that, one way is you can tell them that you have regular drawings or giveaways in order to obtain their name and email. To keep it short, QuickBooks Point of Sale automatically uploads your customers to Constant Contact. - Number 3 “Keep your Customers Loyal”
QuickBooks Point of Sale has a rewards program built right into it. You can keep track of your customers in what they buy and how much they spend at your store. So you can set a threshold in rewards program where in if they reach a certain spending threshold, they can receive rewards on their next purchase depending on your margin. This can be in a form of discount or freebie to be given to your customers. It will definitely encourage your customers to engage in your store in order for you to keep your customers loyal to your store. - Number 4 “Multiple of Unit Measures”
Multiple of Unit Measures is a special feature of QuickBooks Point of Sale. If you order from your vendor by the case and it has 24 bottles in it, Multiple of Unit Measures can populate in your Point of Sale 24 quantities of that product for every case that you order. It also avoids confusion between what you are ordering to your vendor and what you are selling to your customer. So basically, QuickBooks Point of Sale’s Multiple of Unite measures lets you purchase items in one unit and then sell in multiple quantities. - Number 5 “Multi-Store Empire”
QuickBooks Point of Sale has a Multi User Mode setup, where in there is a server and a client workstation. The server is ideally the fastest workstation (computer) on your network with Point of Sale installed. It holds the company file and allows multi user access for up to 19 client workstations. The client workstation is any computer on your network with a Point of Sale installed that is not a server. It is usually the cash register that records daily transactions.
The server can only do the following:
- Create and hold your Point of Sale company file.
- Back up, restore, and rename the company file.
- Exchange information with QuickBooks Desktop.
- Import data through the Data Import Tool.
- Set item and customer ranking preferences.
- (Multi Store) Exchange information with other stores.
So those are 5 quick and easy vape shop features in QuickBooks Point of Sale for a reason why you might want to use QuickBooks Point of Sale for your vape shop.