Point of Sale Retail Software Solution

Simply posting daily sales provides most of the accounting needed in a typical retail store.

• Process small ticket sales in seconds using the Quick Sale feature.
• Suspend and recall sales.
• Charge to balance invoicing or house charges.
• Apply discounts automatically by specifying sales per date range and inventory category.
• Access inventory detail easily across all locations for availability and pricing information.
• Search for customers in a number of ways, scan loyalty cards to pull up customer accounts or create new customers on the fly.
• Include taxable and tax exempt line items on the same invoice.
• Complete multiple transactions at POS for one customer, collecting payment just once.  Includes: sales, layaways, demos, special orders, payments, rental contracts and repair tickets.
• Run sales reports with a variety of selection options. Show gross margin percentages for commission purposes.
• Track split sales for commission purposes. Allows for different percentages to be applied to each sales person.
• Enter a proposal with the ability to turn the proposal into a sale at a later date.
• Track layaways, trade-ins, consignments and buy outright items.
• Establish package deals for special sales pricing and ease of processing.
• Create a table of suggestive add-on sales.
• Monitor sales dollars against preset purchase orders and their limits.
• Track inventory sent out as a demo with an established return date. Turn the demo into a sale at a later date.
• Create a table of standard messages to print on an invoice or add invoice messages on the fly.
• Enter special order items at POS and track order progress. (Purchase Order module required)
• Print gift receipts.
• Offer customers unlimited payment tenders per sales transaction with integrated credit/debit card processing. (Credit card processor required)

Have instant access to your available inventory.

• Track all inventory types: serialized, accessories, print inventory, parts and supplies, package deals and kits. 
• Display entire history of an inventory item in one program, including sales, rental (long & short term), transfer, repair and approval history.
• Track inventory returned to the vendor for repair or replacement.
• Track inventory that is on a floor plan. Reports show floored items in stock and sold.
• Set up unit of measure for purchasing and selling.
• Establish minimum selling prices by model or individual SKU number. Sales discounts are automatically taken at POS during specified dates and times.
• Establish up to six prices on inventory items.  Specify by workstation or customer what pricing level to use at POS.
• Run reports by type of inventory: sales, cost of goods sold, gross profit ($ or %), average inventory, inventory turns, sales as  % of total sales, inventory as % of total inventory and gross margin return on inventory.
• Count physical inventory quickly and easily with hand-held store floor data collectors.
• Optimize your inventory using the color/size matrix.
• Establish min/max quantities for items using the automatic inventory optimization procedures.

Print barcode labels for all inventory items, or just those items that are not pre-barcoded.  Barcode labels can be printed as new inventory is received, or at a later date by date range, by inventory type, by invoice, and more. The label format can be customized by type of inventory.

View at any time for any customer purchases, payments, total money spent in any given date range, and more.

• Maintain a complete customer history to be accessed at any time. 
• Add customer notes, specifying those that should pop-up each time the customer is selected.
• Record drivers license information when needed.
• Add an unlimited number of shipping addresses.
• Specify an automatic bill to account.
• Establish automatic discounts or price level by customer.
• Associate a sales person with a customer account.
• Allows for reverse phone number lookup
• Establish customer loyalty programs.
• Ability to view or print a complete customer history.
• Allows for invoicing and house charges.
• List top customers by dollars spent.
• Review a sales analysis by customer.
• Features a customer mail merge for printing letters and labels.

Review staff performance, inventory control and much more within the catalog containing over 200 reports.

• Take advantage of the extensive library of AIMsi and Active-e reports. 
• Use the report wizard to create your own custom reports.
• View, print and export report output to a variety of format types.
• Create customer lists for targeted marketing, filtering on demographics such as customer type, zip code ranges and sales information.

Track reservations and bookings of events, activities and resources.

• Completely customizable.
• Schedule reservations, check in customers, and take payments, all from the T-Scheduler screen.
• Move, delete and change reservations easily.
• Set a minimum and maximum number of people for each time slot and resource (course, court, room).
• Issue rain checks.
• Touchscreen compatible.

Sample uses of T-Scheduler include:

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• Scheduling tee time reservations on golf courses.
• Scheduling tennis court reservations.
• Scheduling dance or fitness classes in a studio.
• Scheduling tanning salon beds/rooms.
• Scheduling spa/masseuse services.

AIMsi has powerful security features, enabling management to control what employees can see and do in AIMsi. Security groups can be established in order to block groups of employees out of areas containing confidential information.  Employees can also be blocked from performing certain functions (i.e. selling an item below the minimum selling price).  Management override is always an option for exceptions.

The Employee Time Clock in AIMsi records the hours worked by your employees, vacation time, sick days and personal leaves of absence.  Notes may be added for a specific employee or all employees to read when clocking in or out.  

AIMsi provides management with the following capabilities: analyze sales by time for employee scheduling, analyze sales person performance, audit reports, and much more.

Tri-Tech can provide custom electronic gift cards, renewable money cards and loyalty cards with your logo and branding on the card.  

Electronic gift cards and renewable money cards provide secured tracking of gift certificates and prepaid money cards.  Merchandise return credit and other store credits can be easily tracked on the cards.