Reasons for Using Windward System Five in Your Business!

Increase Sales

• Monitor and control inventory levels to offer a better selection of merchandise and reduce out of stock situations.

• Produce mailing lists based upon customer purchase history to better target your merchandising efforts.

• Use promotional sales to increase traffic flow and offer SPIFFs to your employees to eliminate slow moving items.

• Offer Layaways and Special Order and use deposits to ensure that the customer is committed to the sale.

Improve Customer Service

• Speed throughput and eliminate errors at the checkout counter with UPC bar code scanning and on-line price lookup.

• Avoid a crisis by monitoring promised delivery dates for Special Order merchandise.

• Use the on-line inquiry to check if an out of stock item is available at one of your other locations.

• Capture specific customer information such as size and colour, in order to offer a more personalized service

Reduce Costs - Save Time

• Set minimum and maximum stock levels to keep inventory at optimum levels.

• Balance inventory levels by transferring merchandise from locations which are overstocked.

• Reduce salesperson training time with an easy to use, yet highly functional POS cash register software.

• The program's use of tight integration eliminates errors caused by re-entering information already captured by the POS cash register software.

Integrated System

An integrated system cuts down your workload by ensuring that you only have to enter your information once and it is placed everywhere it needs to be. Staff can create an invoice without knowing anything about accounting or inventory control, yet the invoice they enter automatically updates those sections of the entire system.

Profitability Can Be Managed

Real-time accumulation of sales, material, labor and overhead costs. Purchasing performance can be measured between standard and current costs. Inventory Control, Purchasing and Accounts Payable Systems will help you become more profitable by allowing you to "buy smarter, control theft, take advantage of Vendor payment discounts and lower your overall carrying costs".

Use employee sales information to increase sales performance by concentrating on areas that need improvement.

POS Software Designed for the Independent Retailer

Whether you have one store or many, you still need the same information to run your business.  Today's Independent retailer needs to be better tooled to compete with the larger mega stores, with out the large price tag associated with those systems.  System Five is designed to be a sophisticated enterprise retailer solution giving you the information you need-when you need it.

Analyze profitability by items and vendor to ensure that gross margins are being maintained.

Easy To Learn

If you‘re using Windows and a mouse to browse the web, you will have no problem navigating around Windward System Five. Our business software solutions are easy to learn and easy to use.

Easy To Use

Windward System Five is extremely easy to use. It’s Windows based, so if you know how to use a browser to surf the internet, you have most of the skills to find your way around our software.

Training And Support

We back up our business software by offering high quality one-on-one training, either over the phone or in person. Once you are up and running with Windward System Five, any problems are handled by our professionally trained support staff.

Integration with receipt printers, barcode scanners, cash drawers, and pole displays will greatly enhance your checkout speed, professionalism, and customer service.

Demo It. Be Confident in your Choice

Sure we say it's simple. But we prefer to let our software speak for itself. Check out a fully functional demo either on CD Rom or on-line via the web.  One of our retail professionals will guide you through an on-line seminar.  In order to schedule this interactive test run please fill our the contact form.

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