BrighterShop Au is the easy to learn, easy to use, easy on the eyes, powerful and affordable retail point of sale (POS) solution custom-built for Australia.

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Take Control of Your Store

Running a retail business needn't be complicated. BrighterShop Au makes retail point of sale easy.

The clear and simple design gives your staff more time to assist customers and meet their requests and the depth of features gives you the control you need to run a successful retail business.

With BrighterShop Au we understand that image is important and that your POS system needs to look good. Attractive software design, combined with flexible hardware configuration means that you can design your checkout to match your store.

Simple Evaluation, Flexible Pricing Options
plus Automatic Upgrades

The free trial version of BrighterShop Au is fully functional so that you can get familiar with the software by adding your data and conducting realistic transactions. Once you are are ready to purchase, we will provide you with an installer that simply inserts your shop information into the software and then provides you with 12 months of upgrades to take advantage of new features at no extra charge.

Don't want to purchase a perpetual license? No problem. You can take advantage of the cost-effective annual license which also includes 12 months of upgrades. This lowers your initial software cost and obviates the need to depreciate the purchase.

A BrighterShop license entitles you to use BrighterShop at one store location on any number of computers. There is no extra charge for additional computer work stations.

Ideal BrighterShop Au Customers

If you sell it, BrighterShop can help you sell it! Any retail business that purchases and tracks stock and makes sales to customers at one or more checkouts can utilise BrighterShop.

Ideal retail store types include :-

... and many more.

BrighterShop Au Main Features

Inventory
Organise your stock into any number of categories and sub-categories. Track stock levels and sales and automatically generate purchase orders based on pre-defined re-order levels. Get quick visual warnings ("red flags") of stock running low. Get fast stock-take information for single items, categories, items for particular vendors or any combination. Print barcodes for selected items quickly and easily. You can even generate product catalogues with photos, pricing and descriptive information.

• Supports your own alpha-numeric stock number system
• Prints and scans barcodes from your stock numbers
• Allows flexible, searchable categories and sub-categories
• Allows for unlimited unit types (each, box, pack, 6-pack, kilogram, etc.)
• Provides record trail of adjustments to the count
• Easily discontinues and restores items
• Displays and prints item photos
• Automatic low-stock tracking, re-ordering and purchase order generation
• Stocktake using clear physical count tallies with optional auto-adjustments across single or multiple items

Consignment

• Supports consigned goods, with ready-to-print consignment contracts

Sales
Selling at the checkout is fast and flexible. Find items with scanner or quick searches. Verify by product photos. Handle discounts, credit notes, gift certificates, returns, wait approval sales, lay-bys and customer special orders. Customers can pay with multiple tender types for the same sale – cash, store credit, gift certificate redemption, credit card, EFTPOS and cheque. Sell packages or kits of items for special bundled prices.

• Scan UPC and custom barcodes at checkout
• "Sales" login with simplified user interface for fast checkout
• Easily searches for items by description, vendor or category
• Prints clear, attractive customer receipts with full colour logo, on any desktop printer or compatible receipt printer
• Automatically opens cash-drawer
• Supports Lay-by sales with payment scheduling and ready-to-print Lay-by contract
• Supports multiple salesperson logins and sale tracking
• Allows multiple tender, up to six forms per sale (cash, card, cheque, direct deposit, store credit, gift certificate)

Pricing
Comprehensive price testing lets you test changes in pricing across any range of items and see the results on profitability. Automatically round pricing to end in ".95" or other amount and increase/decrease pricing by percentage or percent mark-up from cost.

• Includes item price testing and modeling
• Automatically calculates cost-value of all items and shows profitability
• Supports non-taxed goods
• Group items to sell as a kit (bill-of-materials) or as individual items. Allows bill-of-materials pricing for a group of items while maintaining individual prices

Purchasing
Raising purchase orders for stock replenishment based on inventory sales or pre-determined stock levels is a breeze. Order from any country in any currency and track exchange rates. Automatic conversion to local currency and tracking of shipping and other costs of goods to calculate cost value.

• Can create purchase orders automatically when counts fall below threshold
• Purchase "mixed packages" of multiple items for single price and store in inventory as individual items for sale
• Tracks back-orders, split shipments, and disposal of unfit goods
• Automatically allocates freight costs when shipment contains varied goods
• Allows purchasing in any currency
• Automatically calculates cost value in home currency

Customers
It's all about the customers. Knowing what your customers are buying and what's not selling and tracking customer purchase history is easy in BrighterShop. By performing simple searches on your customer database, assigning keywords and sending emails automatically, BrighterShop helps you manage your relationship with your customers. You can also export customer data to external newsletter or mail list management applications for the creation of sophisticated customer promotions.

• Holds customers' name, address, phone and email
• Allows import of your existing customer data
• Automatically shows customer's purchase history
• Shows customer special orders, Gift Certificate purchases and redemptions, store credit and more
• Lets you assign keywords to customers and send email to groups
• Search on any customer data fields to select specific groups of customers such as all customers that purchased a particular product
• Supports no-mail preference with automatic blocking of outgoing mail
• Print mailing labels for individual customers or groups of customers

Gift Certificates
Your customers love your store and with BrighterShop they can bring friends, family and others to your store too by purchasing Gift Certificates for them. Each attractively printed Gift Certificate can be for any amount and can carry a custom message from the giver.

• Prints scannable certificates in any amount, either with generic design or your custom artwork
• Also supports pre-printed gift certificates with pre-assigned numbers
• Allows partial certificate redemption, with automatic balance tracking
• Supports redemptions of Gift Certificates with any combination of other payment methods (cash, credit card, EFTPOS, etc.)

Reporting and To-Do Lists
At the end of the day, you need to understand and control your business. Get a clear understanding of how your business is performing with simple and flexible management reporting providing as little or as much detail as your require over any time period. Find out what products are selling hot and what products are not, which customers are buying and what is the level of profitability. Keep organised with built-in To-Do Lists which can be generated automatically when stock exceptions occur or goods for a sale needs to be shipped, or you can manually add To-Dos as they occur to you.

• Includes built-in to-do list
• Instant reports based on any date range (e.g. today, current quarter, year-to-date, or arbitrary)
• Reports focusing on sales, stock, profit, tax, vendor purchases, customers, sales staff and more
• Reports GST using accrual or cash method
• Automatically saves monthly summaries for long-term performance tracking
• Allows easy drill-down from summary to details
• Single click drill-down into more detailed reports
• Allows comprehensive analysis using FileMaker's finding and sorting abilities

Access and Security
Not all staff need access to all functions. Passwords and multilevel accounts control who has access to what data and functionality. Sales staff can login to see simplified user interface providing just the functionality required for checkout.

• Allows unlimited login names and passwords
• Provides multiple levels of login privileges
• "Lock" function lets you lock the software if you need to leave the checkout unattended for a short while
• Supports use of multiple workstations through network or over the internet
• Lets you add workstations at your convenience with no extra license fee per station
• Workstations can be Mac, Windows XP, Vista or a combination
• Lets you perform all tasks from anywhere with network and internet connection

Administration
You want your shop data to be secure, but not locked up in some proprietary software format that can't be easily accessed. BrighterShop backup facility provide a simple way to back up your data and because the BrighterShop Au application and data is a single FileMaker file, it is easy to track and copy. FileMaker is a market-leading database application, with millions of users and thousands of developers world-wide. Investing in BrighterShop and FileMaker gives you the tools to expand your use of FileMaker to manage all aspects of your business.

• Makes backups easy because all data is in one file and can be performed automatically
• Export data as spreadsheets, delimitered text files, etc. for easy import into other financial, database or other applications
• Flexibly import price lists, inventory, customer or other data from other applications
• Expand functionality using FileMaker Pro related table to easily address additional business requirements
• Support for FileMaker Pro Server as number of workstations expands to support virtually unlimited number of simultaneous users

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