Gift Shop Point of Sale Solutions

Gift Shop POSCounterPoint is a complete retail management solution that gives you power and control over every aspect of your gift shop.

Whether you have one store or hundreds of stores, CounterPoint runs your business efficiently and profitably. Instant inventory updates let your clerks know what’s in stock, on order, and in transit. Track your customers, control your purchasing, retain detailed sales history, or open an online store—it’s all built into CounterPoint.

CounterPoint will meet your needs now and is flexible enough to grow with you into the future.

Features That Are Particularly Suited For Gift Shops

POINT OF SALE CHECKOUT
Fast, easy to use, and easy to learn—even for seasonal employees and volunteers. Includes optional touchscreen, admission tickets, fast (2-second!) credit card authorizations,
commission tracking, and offline checkout (great for sidewalk sales).

INVENTORY CONTROL
Your inventory picture is “up-to-theminute.” You’ll know what’s in-stock, on-order, and in-transit. Track serial numbers, kits, and gridded items.

CUSTOMER LOYALTY
Know who your customers are and what they’re buying. Print mailing labels for special promotions. Increase loyalty with frequent shopper programs, customerspecific pricing, gift certificates, gift cards, and store credits.

AUTOMATED PURCHASING
Calculate current stock levels and automatically create PO’s.

PRICING
Define multiple price levels, markdowns, contract prices, quantity discounts, package prices, and location-specific pricing. Automatically give Museum Members discounts on their purchases.

SALES HISTORY
Retain, view, and report complete detail of every sale you make, or look at summaries and cross-analyses.

ECOMMERCE
Upload inventory, customers, and prices to your CPOnline store and download orders into CounterPoint for fulfillment.

ACCOUNTING INTERFACE
Update financial statements and payables and exchange the data with accounting packages.

Features beneficial to Gift Retailers:

  • Kits at point of sale for bundling items
  • Built-in Gift Cards
  • Automatically calculate and create restocking orders
  • Expand your business to the web with minimum effort and expense
  • Graphical management dashboard
  • Special order capability
  • Review on-hand quantities, estimated costs, and total retail value for each item, as well as the percentage-to-total ratios for these value
  • Easily view quantities to reorder based on current inventory levels, commitments, backorders, in-transit merchandise, open PO’s, desired stocking levels, vendor multiples, and/or vendor minimum order requirements
  • Integrated merchant services provides 2-second card processing and check authorization