Rather than spend time and effort manually controlling and documented each individual hire process, here at e-trackit we offer a complete POS solution. Using our unique software, you can manage hire stock as well as control all processes within the hire cycle – allowing you to spare valuable man hours on different aspects of your business.

Our EPOS hire software is designed specifically for use within the hire business sector and comes with a range of features to ensure each part of the hire cycle is managed and controlled – this includes reservations, customer accounts, deposit rentals and returns.

The unique software is also ideal for hire businesses operating in the formal wear sector as the total touch screen features make for easy event planning when hiring out wedding dresses and tuxedos to wedding parties. The software also allows you to assign outfits to the wearer and record each individual wearer’s size closer to the event.

In addition to hire features, e-trackit software also allows you to ensure that your stock levels remain consistent across both your online channels and in your bricks and mortar store. The e-trackit software offers a complete integration through the sophisticated touch-screen drive PC based tills, allowing you to have access to refunds and discounts while also being able to process credit notes and gift vouchers. The software also gives you the opportunity to assess “real time” sales and stock availability figures.

If you want to find out more about how EPOS software from e-trackit can benefit your hire wear business, please feel free to get in touch with the team at e-trackit for further information.

While any successful hire company generally relies on word of mouth and positive reviews from previous customers, an online store for your hire business will allow customers to access your store easily and even view photos of your products. An online store gives customers the convenience of hiring clothes online while also providing them with information on your company’s contact details should they want to hire your products in-store instead.

A strong online presence means even more reach to potential customers however, before you implement an online hire business in addition to your bricks and mortar hire business, you should ensure that correct stock management software is put in place. EPOS software management software offers seamless integration between all of your shopping channels – allowing you to ensure that customers can only hire what items are currently available. EPOS also offers other innovative features for hire businesses including management of reservations and customer accounts.

Whether you are a hire company offering menswear, formalwear or footwear, expanding your business to an online channel will provide you with further selling opportunities. To find out how you can expand your business through utilising EPOS software management please feel free to get in touch with e-trackit for further information.

One of the main reasons behind having correct stock levels is to ensure that you only sell what you have in stock. If an item appears as in stock on your online shop but you actually do not have any stock available then a customer could purchase this item only to be refunded later – much to the customer’s annoyance!

Another reason why your stock levels should remain accurate is that it is important for ordering purposes. If you can tell that your stock levels are running low then you know when you need to raise orders with your suppliers for new stock – meaning you can easily replenish your stock to avoid items becoming unavailable for your customers to purchase.

From a time management perspective, correct stock levels are also important for ensuring that you don’t waste hours of time and effort checking your stock levels. Without effective stock management, you could waste plenty of man hours counting stock levels and making sure quantities are correct, however with specialist stock management software the hard job is done for you. Stock management software can help you download stock and quantity reports to give you instant access to your stock levels, without any hassle or fuss.

To hear more about how stock management software can help your online store or retail business, please feel free to get in touch with e-trackit today.

Stock management is highly important to multi-channel fashion retailers as inaccurate stock management could mean that an item may be sold on an online channel despite the fact that it is actually out of stock – causing refunds as well as bad feedback from the customer.

Effective stock management allows for seamless integration between all shopping channels for a fashion retailer – so if an item is sold on one particular channel, be it in an actual bricks and mortar store or online, all channels will update automatically to ensure that you only sell what is in stock.

An EPOS System can track all of your stock levels to ensure you can easily keep up to date with all of your stock information, saving you time and effort to focus on other areas of your fashion retail business.

EPOS is also a highly useful tool in implementing other valuable features to a fashion retail business such as reward and loyalty schemes. With the rising competition of retailers on the market today, offering your customers something different through way of a loyalty scheme which rewards them when they shop could potentially give your business that necessary edge over your competitors.

If you are interested in hearing about how effective stock management and EPOS can benefit your fashion retail business, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the team at e-trackit today for further information.

ekmPowerShop power one in every five online shops in the UK, and the recent union with e-trackit is the UK’s largest eCommerce to EPOS partnership.

Without EPOS integration, retail business owners may find themselves spending a huge amount of time managing customer orders through various channels – the partnership with e-trackit provides the perfect solution as the EPOS system does all of the hard work without hassle, allowing retail owners to focus on other more pressing tasks.

This latest integration means that a till can work alongside an online shop – giving any physical shop owner the opportunity to take advantage of customers shopping online too.  All it takes is a simple magic button which takes care of everything from syncing orders to matching stock levels between an online store and a bricks and mortar store.

The EPOS integration from e-trackit adds to the already impressive selection of eCommerce features accessible on ekmPowerShop such as fulfilment, multi-channel and accountancy integrations.

It is no secret that the future of the high street is uncertain, with many larger retailers calling in administrators, the new partnership between e-trackit and ekmPowerShop provides retailers with the confidence of effortlessly integrating their business to online so that they can really make the most of the selling opportunities that the virtual high street offers.

For more information on the recent e-trackit integration to ekmPowerShop please feel free to get in touch with us today.

With the competition of supermarkets and farm shops, it is now more vital than ever to ensure that a pet shop maintains accurate till and stock control management. As many pet shop owners have expanded their businesses to online shopping channels such as eBay, having an incorrect stock control system may result in overselling which would cause unnecessary refunds – not to mention unhappy customers.

Luckily, thanks to our unique modular software, you don’t have to be a retail systems expert to understand the e-trackit till and stock control system. It can be easily implemented and is straightforward to ensure effortless management of all of your shopping channels including EPOS.

Another benefit to choosing e-trackit for a pet shop business is that the system also allows you to easily implement other features including multibuy options which can be used to create price offers such as two for one deals. e-trackit also gives you the opportunity to maintain an edge over your competitors through our SMS from till functionality where you can text your customers in regards to their orders or even highlight current special offers available in store.

Having trouble ordering from your suppliers is also a thing of the past as with e-trackit you can raise purchase orders to ensure you maintain regular stock replenishment.

Our strong experience working with pet shops means that we really understand the changing needs of those working within the pet shop industry. If you would like to hear more about how e-trackit can benefit your retail business, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us today.

Retail giants eBay also reported that their sales for 2012 increased and that this was mainly due to the boosted number of sales from mobile and tablet devices. With 4 million new consumers using the eBay mobile payments app, mobile sales for eBay have more than doubled to £8.2 billion in volume sales worldwide.

This announcement undoubtedly highlights the sales potential that mobile commerce has, with many people now regarding shopping from mobile and tablet devices as the “new normal”. However the announcement also indicates to retailers the prospective opportunities that using eBay can have to a multi-channel strategy.

The fact that eBay’s mobile sales are on the rise demonstrates how accessible shopping on eBay is for consumers. With a dedicated mobile site which comes equipped with easy browsing and viewing, the eBay mobile site provides the perfect opportunity for retailers to reach out to mobile commerce, without having to invest in a new mobile site themselves.

Additionally, integrating eBay into a multi-channel approach allows retailers to access not just those shopping on a mobile or tablet device but the majority of eBay’s consumers who would be shopping from a desktop or laptop computer.

At e-trackit we can integrate your retail business to eBay. Using our software, we can integrate your back office system to eBay servers enabling your stock levels, products and sales to be synced across all of your channels. If you would like to hear more about the benefits of multi-channel or opening up your own eBay shopping channel, please feel free to get in touch today for more information.

Retailers that have been winning when it comes to Multichannel include department store John Lewis who saw a 44% increase in sales over Christmas – proving that multichannel retailing can not only be successful for retailers but can also help to increase profits too.

A multichannel approach is all about creating a seamless shopping experience for customers. Extending the shopping experience from a bricks and mortar store to an online store and to other online shopping channels such as Amazon and eBay, multichannel retail gives the customer an extensive number of ways to shop just one retailer.

As multichannel provides so many different channels for consumers to buy and interact with a brand, there are a number of ways that a retailer can engage with consumers and, as a result, really take advantage of reaching a larger customer base – resulting in higher profits.

Consumers who are given the opportunity to shop when and where they like at their convenience will reward retailers in sales. In addition to increased profits, multichannel can also aid customer perception as the choice of where to shop really is in the customer’s hands.

If you would like to learn more about how a multichannel approach can benefit your retail business through increased profits, please feel free to get in touch with e-trackit today.

According to research they have released, British online shoppers spent 14m hours online on and made 113m visits to e-shops on the 26th of December. That’s a respectable  increase of 17% from 2011.

And more people bought more. Online sales volumes on that day increased by 44.95% compared to 2011. And it wasn’t just Boxing Day that was a success for online traders. Christmas Eve saw a huge increase in ecommerce visits (84m visits, which is an 86% increase compared to 2011) and Christmas Day followed the trends too (107m visits, 71% more compared with the 25th of December 2011).

Lengow say: “2012 was a great year for ecommerce in United Kingdom and ended on a high note with a record-breaking Boxing Day! This period – Boxing Day in particular – is representative of the drive of this market in 2012. The last past year showed that ecommerce was more than ever a key economic market that remains a growing sector thanks to a constant and stronger increase of its revenues.”

Cyber Monday, which this year fell on November 26th, is one of the busiest shopping days of the year, named as such to demonstrate the rise in website sales as consumers carry out their Christmas shopping with plenty of time to spare for deliveries and potential returns and exchanges prior to Christmas day itself. This year’s Cyber Monday saw a 32% increase since last year, according to Drapers, and has been the busiest online shopping day of 2012.

As consumers continue to choose online shopping for a website’s easy usability and efficient delivery times, the huge amount of visits on Cyber Monday demonstrates that retailers who do not adopt a multi-channel approach will lose out against those that do.

The popularity of Cyber Monday comes from the fact that consumers can carry out their entire Christmas shopping, if they like, all from the comfort of sitting in front of a laptop in their own home, and consumers can even shop on the go by using a mobile or tablet device. While having a bricks and mortar store is a valuable asset for retailers, utilising a multi-channel approach and embracing an eCommerce channel allows these retailers to reach an even larger base of consumers.

If you are considering following a multi-channel approach with your business, at e-Trackit we offer innovative modular software which allows for integration with additional channels such as an eCommerce store as well as popular shopping channels including Amazon and eBay. For further information please feel free to get in touch today.