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Retail POS systems

Information is crucial to running a profitable retail hardware business. Point of sale systems gather, store, and distribute information about your company’s sales, products, and customers. This includes everything from simple sales journals and profitability reports to advanced ordering systems and space analysis. Properly used, point of sale systems take inefficient procedures and operations and make them profitable. 

Systems:

House-Hasson Hardware is an international independent hardware distributor. We work with many vendors, including:

• Activant Systems

• BMS (Business Management Systems)

• Counter Point

• DBMS

• ECI (Advantage/ Rock solid)

• The General Store

• IBS Software

• J3 Systems

• Microsoft Dynamics

• PacSoft

• Quick Books

• RA (Retail Automation)

• Transact POS

These vendors vary in sophistication, service offerings, and investment. We recommend evaluating each company when considering a system for your store. They will help to analyze your needs and will demonstrate their systems. 

Point of sale consultation

House-Hasson has an in-house point of sale consultant to aid in your computer system selection or implementation.  He can identify computer system features that will have the biggest bottom-line impact – and he’ll show you what to avoid.  If you have a computer system you like, House-Hasson’s consultant can help you with best practices to control retail prices, save time, and manage inventory.

Free load files:

To smooth your transition, House-Hasson will provide - free of charge - catalog load files; purchase history load files; UPC files; best sellers load files; and customized conversion cross-reference files. These data files enable you to get your computer data set up quickly.

Free communication services:

House-Hasson’s status as the nation’s largest independent retail hardware distributor means we can offer free communication services to keep your point of sale system’s information current and transmit regular purchase orders and contract purchase orders.

- Transmit custom prices and download changes in cost and retail

- Download complete catalog changes

- Download an electronic invoice

- Download new items

- Download product images.

- Download market specials for contract ordering.

Store conversion:

House-Hasson computer conversion services have your needs in mind. We coordinate the entire process to convert to your computer system in conjunction with all store conversion activities: bin tagging; product buy backs; drop shipment; setting up computer-to-computer communications; and staff training.

Inventory services:

Many dealers have problems getting their computer's automatic ordering systems working properly. Systems must track everything going in and out of the store and maintain a precise inventory count to give the dealer an accurate suggested order. House-Hasson has four services to help you:

• Inventory consultation: Our point of sale specialist can help you create a plan for computer-based inventory control and ordering. This plan includes assessing your current situation and making best practices recommendations. These include an implementation plan for training personnel; setting policies to keep accurate inventory; conducting a physical inventory; and cycle counts. Our point of sale specialist will help implement your plan, coordinating with your point of sale company, your staff, and WIS International, our inventory counting vendor.
• Order point history tapes: House-Hasson can use your purchase history data to give you average monthly usage. This will help you jump-start order point generation.
• Electronic invoice: Using our electronic invoice you can automatically update your quantity-on-hand based on your orders, giving you a continuously accurate count.
• Inventory counting service: We can provide you with scanners and personal data terminals to rapidly count your inventory and upload the information into your computer. We also have a relationship with WIS International, which can scan your store’s inventory and capture the information. It is then sent to your point of sale computer vendor to update your quantity-on-hand values in your computer system.  

To talk with our point of sale consultant, contact Martin West at 1-800-333-0520 ext. 204 or mwest@househasson.com