Point of Sale for Restaurants and RetailHow to Open a Liquor Store with Inventory Management and Control
April 20th 2009 23:09
How to Open a Liquor Store with Inventory Management and Control
One of the hardest things in any retail business is to ensure oversight of inventory control and management. This article focuses on what a liquor store owner needs to know about liquor point of sale software systems. POS will help keep them in control of their costs and their business. Our replacement to cash registers and other POS software packages have improved hundreds of customers operations.
For those starting a liquor store, learning to run a POS system should be been an easy process and a level learning curve. We at CCS have pre-scheduled training programs to get you on a track to successfully installing and operating your pos system. And for follow up support we have our experienced service technicians and video training how to’s for point of sale features and operations.
A Liquor Store Pro Package would Look Like This:
We have used the image of one of our vendors. But, an all in one system with printer, scanner and cash drawer provide the easiest maintainable solution for most stores.
Find it at our point of sale package for liquor stores.
Or Call us at 866-973-8099 or Email at support@cafecartel.com
Inventory Items: Your system should track whole item inventory and track Kits. We have case and broken case pricing. We have VIP customer pricing, gift cards and loyalty programs. We also have a Drink Database for your customers who ask how to make drinks.
Vendor Setup: Included in the software is an import tool. Not only does it import, but it can synchronize your contacts. This allows you to use Outlook to update your contact list. You can also import Vendors, or Clients of any kind.
Liquor Store Point of Sale Setup
All our customers ask “How do I setup my point of sale” or “How do I program my point of sale.” Many of our Liquor Store customers have massive product lists. We’ve made it quite straightforward and user friendly. We can start by importing from excel spreadsheets. Keep in mind, our Microsoft Windows based system is familiar to almost everyone, we stick with industry standards on design and work flow; this makes an easy to understand and intuitive software.
Input Employees & Setup Security: Not only do you just input employees, but in a few minutes time we can have your security privileges setup, tracking for voids and price changes and all of the nuances of security that are required for the point of sale system as an application and as it applies to your staff. If you already have labor schedules, then you are one step ahead.
Inventory: Inventory Control, and =inventory&s[]=cycle]Inventory Management
These are the key tools for oversight are the most important benefits of POS. Setting up CCS POS for managing the Inventory Cycle of purchasing, sales and reconciliation is easy since most features are automated.
1. Use Excel Spreadsheets to import hundred or thousands of new items.
2. Sell Items
3. Purchase Items
4. Reconcile Inventory
5. Make Adjustments and Review Shrinkage
Our inventory solution is one of the best inventory systems. Additional features include item kits for more complex inventory. We support item transfers and inventory transfers from site to site. Multiple costs based on vendors. Also supported are multiple prices based on number of items.
Vendor Setup: Included in the software is an import tool. Not only does it import, but it can synchronize your contacts. This allows you to use Outlook to update your contact list. You can also import Vendors, or Clients of any kind.
Looking for Complete Business Control?
Expanding operations? We operate at an enterprise level, we can track your multiple site’s for any business running our system from restaurants to stores. If you are franchise manager you can review sales by all franchise sites. Our sales tools and sales reporting will lower your bottom line and help increase sales growth. With tools from cost control, labor scheduling and inventory management, you’ll always know where your business is with our business reporting. You can expand your reporting systems with SQL Server Reporting Services.
Oversight and Management
As an owner you can have piece of mind that your servers, cashiers, bartenders and hosts are being watched and tracked by the POS Systems. We can integrate video surveillance for pole displays, so you can see the transactions as they occur.
Accounting and Integration with QuickBooks and Accounting Software
Most every business manager wants point of sale integration with their accounting software. CCS works with QuickBooks; using the IFF Transaction creator. Managers, bookkeepers and accountants can easily import transactions into Quickbooks using transactional imports. We also have Microsoft Excel export features to get your data into Microsoft Excel.
Windows Compatibility and POS Hardware Devices
Windows Versions: Replacing your software with CCS? We can work in Windows XP Home, Windows XP Pro, Windows Vista – from Home Basic and up. Our trained and experienced staff can work with setting up Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server and Windows 2008 Server. CCS Point of Sale only requires a simple Peer to Peer network. If you have an in house staff, it’s as simple as downloading and installing the POS Software.
Which version should you buy? We recommend XP Pro. This version has proven to be stable, manageable and almost all technical support persons are well versed in this operating system.
Printer Support:
CCS works with Epson Thermal and Dot Matrix Printers. Printers using Epson emulation such as pos-x thermal printers and their dot matrix printers. It’s also compatible with Citizen CTS300 a great low cost thermal solution. The POS-X XR Series and the Epson TMT 88 Series are the most popular and fastest brands we work with.
Why Thermal Printers? A lot of vendors offer a dot matrix. This is off absolutely no benefit to the owner of the POS. They require replacing ink cartridges and are slow. But they mask the overall price of the system by being 100 dollars, on average, less than a thermal. Don’t be fooled into buying a dot matrix. Quickbooks Retail POS offers Dot Matrix. This is one of their offerings drawbacks.
Monitors & Touch Screens:
Touch Screen and Standard monitors are supported.
Why a Standard Screen? If you are running a retail operation or a terminal for a receptionist, you might just want a standard screen. This cuts down on cost by about 15% of the POS Terminal. We have low cost all in one solutions for retail stores. These computers offer the benefits and ease of use that touch screens have.
Barcode Scanners: Supported barcode scanners are both serial scanners and usb/keyboard scanners. We encourage the use of high quality scanners over the cheaper version. Generally high quality scanners are $50-$100 more than the cheaper quality scanners.
Why choose better scanners? The high quality scanners will san using a grid of scanning beams rather than one single scanning beam. This makes scanning far easier for your cashier, since they can just wave the item past the scanner.
Service and Training of Point of Sale and Business Operations
Additionally our network and computer installers can provide computer training, computer support for the Point of Sale Systems. We can setup your system for PCI Compliance. They can connect multiple sites’ using VPN’s. All the while we’ll keep your cost’s down and your operations in control of you and your management.
Protecting Your Investment
By using SQL Server we can assure your data integrity. If need be you will have a redundant system with a back up server. You can run one of your POS Terminals as a backup server, to reduce your worry and down time possibilities. Avoid point of sale using Microsoft Access as database storage! Our system will never slow down, it will hold all of your data and will assure you peace of mind.
Backup Services include off-site, on site and remote backup. We offer multiple choices to meet our customers needs and budgets.
Comprehensive Inventory Management
Each industry has it’s own inventory requirements. CCS has the modules, the staff and the experience, to deal with many forms of inventory management. From portion control, and kit building, to inventory reconciliation and mutli-site inventory oversight and control we can handle many forms of inventory management. We have lot management, inventory reconciliation based on location or departments, recipe management for restaurants and food service, kit building for complex quotes and service businesses.
Go to our Liquor Store Point of Sale System Section to find out more.
Have a nice Day!
Liquor Store Inventory is daunting without the right system.
One of the hardest things in any retail business is to ensure oversight of inventory control and management. This article focuses on what a liquor store owner needs to know about liquor point of sale software systems. POS will help keep them in control of their costs and their business. Our replacement to cash registers and other POS software packages have improved hundreds of customers operations.
For those starting a liquor store, learning to run a POS system should be been an easy process and a level learning curve. We at CCS have pre-scheduled training programs to get you on a track to successfully installing and operating your pos system. And for follow up support we have our experienced service technicians and video training how to’s for point of sale features and operations.
A Liquor Store Pro Package would Look Like This:
We have used the image of one of our vendors. But, an all in one system with printer, scanner and cash drawer provide the easiest maintainable solution for most stores.
Liquor Store Computer Hardware
Find it at our point of sale package for liquor stores.
Or Call us at 866-973-8099 or Email at support@cafecartel.com
Inventory Items: Your system should track whole item inventory and track Kits. We have case and broken case pricing. We have VIP customer pricing, gift cards and loyalty programs. We also have a Drink Database for your customers who ask how to make drinks.
Vendor Setup: Included in the software is an import tool. Not only does it import, but it can synchronize your contacts. This allows you to use Outlook to update your contact list. You can also import Vendors, or Clients of any kind.
Liquor Store Point of Sale Setup
All our customers ask “How do I setup my point of sale” or “How do I program my point of sale.” Many of our Liquor Store customers have massive product lists. We’ve made it quite straightforward and user friendly. We can start by importing from excel spreadsheets. Keep in mind, our Microsoft Windows based system is familiar to almost everyone, we stick with industry standards on design and work flow; this makes an easy to understand and intuitive software.
Input Employees & Setup Security: Not only do you just input employees, but in a few minutes time we can have your security privileges setup, tracking for voids and price changes and all of the nuances of security that are required for the point of sale system as an application and as it applies to your staff. If you already have labor schedules, then you are one step ahead.
Inventory: Inventory Control, and =inventory&s[]=cycle]Inventory Management
These are the key tools for oversight are the most important benefits of POS. Setting up CCS POS for managing the Inventory Cycle of purchasing, sales and reconciliation is easy since most features are automated.
1. Use Excel Spreadsheets to import hundred or thousands of new items.
2. Sell Items
3. Purchase Items
4. Reconcile Inventory
5. Make Adjustments and Review Shrinkage
Our inventory solution is one of the best inventory systems. Additional features include item kits for more complex inventory. We support item transfers and inventory transfers from site to site. Multiple costs based on vendors. Also supported are multiple prices based on number of items.
Vendor Setup: Included in the software is an import tool. Not only does it import, but it can synchronize your contacts. This allows you to use Outlook to update your contact list. You can also import Vendors, or Clients of any kind.
Looking for Complete Business Control?
Expanding operations? We operate at an enterprise level, we can track your multiple site’s for any business running our system from restaurants to stores. If you are franchise manager you can review sales by all franchise sites. Our sales tools and sales reporting will lower your bottom line and help increase sales growth. With tools from cost control, labor scheduling and inventory management, you’ll always know where your business is with our business reporting. You can expand your reporting systems with SQL Server Reporting Services.
Oversight and Management
As an owner you can have piece of mind that your servers, cashiers, bartenders and hosts are being watched and tracked by the POS Systems. We can integrate video surveillance for pole displays, so you can see the transactions as they occur.
Accounting and Integration with QuickBooks and Accounting Software
Most every business manager wants point of sale integration with their accounting software. CCS works with QuickBooks; using the IFF Transaction creator. Managers, bookkeepers and accountants can easily import transactions into Quickbooks using transactional imports. We also have Microsoft Excel export features to get your data into Microsoft Excel.
Windows Compatibility and POS Hardware Devices
Windows Versions: Replacing your software with CCS? We can work in Windows XP Home, Windows XP Pro, Windows Vista – from Home Basic and up. Our trained and experienced staff can work with setting up Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server and Windows 2008 Server. CCS Point of Sale only requires a simple Peer to Peer network. If you have an in house staff, it’s as simple as downloading and installing the POS Software.
Which version should you buy? We recommend XP Pro. This version has proven to be stable, manageable and almost all technical support persons are well versed in this operating system.
Printer Support:
CCS works with Epson Thermal and Dot Matrix Printers. Printers using Epson emulation such as pos-x thermal printers and their dot matrix printers. It’s also compatible with Citizen CTS300 a great low cost thermal solution. The POS-X XR Series and the Epson TMT 88 Series are the most popular and fastest brands we work with.
Why Thermal Printers? A lot of vendors offer a dot matrix. This is off absolutely no benefit to the owner of the POS. They require replacing ink cartridges and are slow. But they mask the overall price of the system by being 100 dollars, on average, less than a thermal. Don’t be fooled into buying a dot matrix. Quickbooks Retail POS offers Dot Matrix. This is one of their offerings drawbacks.
Monitors & Touch Screens:
Touch Screen and Standard monitors are supported.
Why a Standard Screen? If you are running a retail operation or a terminal for a receptionist, you might just want a standard screen. This cuts down on cost by about 15% of the POS Terminal. We have low cost all in one solutions for retail stores. These computers offer the benefits and ease of use that touch screens have.
Barcode Scanners: Supported barcode scanners are both serial scanners and usb/keyboard scanners. We encourage the use of high quality scanners over the cheaper version. Generally high quality scanners are $50-$100 more than the cheaper quality scanners.
Why choose better scanners? The high quality scanners will san using a grid of scanning beams rather than one single scanning beam. This makes scanning far easier for your cashier, since they can just wave the item past the scanner.
Service and Training of Point of Sale and Business Operations
Additionally our network and computer installers can provide computer training, computer support for the Point of Sale Systems. We can setup your system for PCI Compliance. They can connect multiple sites’ using VPN’s. All the while we’ll keep your cost’s down and your operations in control of you and your management.
Protecting Your Investment
By using SQL Server we can assure your data integrity. If need be you will have a redundant system with a back up server. You can run one of your POS Terminals as a backup server, to reduce your worry and down time possibilities. Avoid point of sale using Microsoft Access as database storage! Our system will never slow down, it will hold all of your data and will assure you peace of mind.
Backup Services include off-site, on site and remote backup. We offer multiple choices to meet our customers needs and budgets.
Comprehensive Inventory Management
Each industry has it’s own inventory requirements. CCS has the modules, the staff and the experience, to deal with many forms of inventory management. From portion control, and kit building, to inventory reconciliation and mutli-site inventory oversight and control we can handle many forms of inventory management. We have lot management, inventory reconciliation based on location or departments, recipe management for restaurants and food service, kit building for complex quotes and service businesses.
Go to our Liquor Store Point of Sale System Section to find out more.
Have a nice Day!
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