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to a “We’ve already seen that, now go back and rent something else.” You will have saved the day and earned a customer for life.
Now when your customer wants to extend the rental period of a title, you don’t have to go through the hassles of returning and re-renting the product.
The re-rental feature will easily extend the rental
period.
Reducing Costs
You can save considerable money by staffing the right number of people each day. Discovering the right number of people, in the past, has been time consuming and pretty much guesswork. With this product, getting the vital stats on business volume is simple. You will be able to schedule your employees based on volume and save time doing it. Save even more time by utilizing the employee scheduler tool built right into the system.
How would you like to know if your marketing is actually working? By tracking coupons through the system, you will know which marketing piece is working for you and which are costing you money.
You can even barcode your coupons and have the system automatically apply the coupon to the customer’s invoice.
Credit card processing can take a bite out of your profits and now you can lower your discount percent to as low as 1.89% for Visa and MasterCard purchases. You will save the hassle and expense of a credit card processing machine by utilizing the processing system built into Phoenix.
Better Inventory Control
Hate inventory just sitting on the shelf wasting capital or how about inventory that you just can’t seem to keep in stock? Now you can control your inventory by easily identifying what is moving and what is wasting space through the inventory turnover reports. To help ensure the highest profitability, these reports help you set your reorder points and stocking levels for each inventory item. Never again be out of stock on a hot item or waste space with products that collect dust.
At last, you can save time ordering inventory for your store by automatically generating purchase orders for each vendor. Your accuracy in what to order will improve when you let the system identify items needed to be ordered and how many.
You can categorize your inventory by department to track and identify areas that are profitable to you. Should you expand your candy isle, increase your sell through product, expand your music section? These are all questions the departmental reporting will help you answer to achieve the highest return on investment.
Product super groups make creating complex package deals easy. When you have like items, say all 12oz Pepsi products, that can appear for a package deal, the super group name is used in package definition.
Better Rental Product Management
Maintaining your rental inventory can be a nightmare and can consume 7-12 hours a week of your time. We can cut that time down to mere minutes. You will enjoy extra time each week by utilizing a slow renting inventory report to identify what titles can be sold off to make room for new titles.
To make your life easier, the title performance reports are an easy way to track the performance of all your titles. It is flexible to your needs by letting you view the figures by day, week, month, year, or any given period.
You will discover that the purchase targeting information will be a valuable tool for your future rental product purchasing. This feature lets you set a target percentage of return for a specific number of weeks out from street date. By indicating how close you came to your target, you can adjust like-title purchases in the future to meet your target.
You need to know how each genre performs in your store and this knowledge can impact the titles you purchase. You will enjoy knowing exactly how each genre is performing in your store by day, week, month, year and season. You will relax knowing you have a simple tool to identify rental trends during the year.
You’ll find the overdue product interactive system to be a savior when it comes to contacting your customers about outstanding rentals. This interactive system is more than a report; it lets you take notes on your call so the next clerk that calls knows what’s going on with this customer. If your clerks call each day on late items, they will never again hear “I told the person yesterday that I would return those in two days.”
You won’t believe how easy it is to switch your older new release stock to catalog stock with the new
Rental Product Re-Pricing
Wizard. Simply line up the product and scan.
Have your clerks ever sold off new release titles before the date you set? The
minimum sell date feature will prevent clerks from selling off titles early.
Additional Opportunities To Increase Revenue
Selling off excess titles can be as easy as asking your customer to purchase them. Your clerks can be prompted whenever a copy is for sale (during a rental). You will be able to tell the customer instantly how much more to purchase the product and the total cost of the purchase. Now collecting late fees (additional days rented) has gotten easier; a pop-up window alerts your clerks when a customer, with late fees, is
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