Serve your customers better by handling special orders with ease.
The single biggest reason for losing a sale in store is simply not having the item in stock.
The downsides are massive:
not only do you lose the sale
but you also lose the customer - probably for life.
Even if you wanted to it is not possible to stock everything yet suppliers often boast that their lead time is only a matter of days - so why not add special orders to your channels to market.
Montana Retail has a module dedicated to making special orders an integrated part of your operation and its totally integrated into point of sale and centralised stock
With rising rents, falling sales in the high street, cheaper technology - what could be better than developing an ability to handle special orders to strengthen and grow your business?
How does Montana Retail help?
Easy to use simple integrated interface at point of sale – all of your staff can take special orders
Customer database
Supplier price lists and catalogues can be stored within the system as well as stock items
Auto creation of stock items for special order products
Tailored items (standard stock feature) allow special orders to be customised for customers exact requirements (eg “high gloss finish or buff finish”)
Request to purchase at point of sale
Back to back orders or
Consolidation of special orders with main orders for best pricing
Direct delivery (drop ship) supported
Goods reservation at point of sale
Segregated reserved stock per site
Inter branch transfers to satisfy special orders
Auto notification to customers by SMS or E-mail
Benefits
Increase sales by not letting customers leave unsatisfied
Increase customer service
Improve company image
Build your customer database
Relationships with known customers allow you undertake specific directed marketing
Take advantage of your knowledge of your customer needs
Incorporate special order requirements into routine buying profiles
Don’t lose the real value of your staff’s specialist knowledge
Enhance the real value of your business
Complete IT and business support for your business
FCL can bring you a system that uses a single stock management solution, integrates point of sale and/or mail order and that can give you total control over special orders - and all at tremendous value for money.
When you work with FCL we can bring you a whole raft of expertise that you can use to build your business.
“Before we implemented Montana our special orders admin was in chaos - our staff never had time to phone all the customers to advise that their goods had been received - now we have a solution that handles all our special orders and our growing network of branches”…