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BrighterShop Retail Point of Sale Software Available in Australia

Offers New Levels of Ease of Use and Extensive Feature Set to Local Retailers

Sydney, September 1 2008 – Australian company, Ambrite Pty Ltd, has announced the immediate availability of BrighterShop Au, the Australian version of the popular Mac and PC retail point-of-sale software BrighterShop.

 
 

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BrighterShop Au is the result of a two-year development collaboration between US-based developer Rob Costin of BrighterData and Mark Richards of Ambrite Pty Ltd to customise BrighterShop for Australian retail regulatory and market conditions.

“While researching available software for an Australian retail establishment I found no software that offered an attractive and intuitive user interface and complete feature set,” stated Mark Richards. “BrighterShop was ideal, but designed for the US market. The results of our customisation mean that we have an ideal product for this market niche.”

“The Australian market provided some significant development challenges, including effectively handling GST, lay-bys and multiple currencies,” explained Rob Costin. “But BrighterShop Au now has arguably the most robust feature set for the market without compromising the original elegance of interface design.”

Field-Proven in Sydney
Sydney-based specialty gift store Lost My Way has been using BrighterShop to run the business for over eighteen months. In this time the establishment has used the software for all aspects of the retail business including point-of-sale, purchasing, inventory control and management reporting. Lost My Way also uses the software to maintain the shop’s on-line store.

“Lost My Way has suppliers all over the world working in different currencies. BrighterShop has proven to be fast, effective and professional when handling purchasing, selling at the checkout, inventory control and customer tracking”, said Sarah Palmer, Lost My Way owner. “The ease and completeness of reporting means that, as a business owner I always know how we are tracking. I also love the ability to directly access the system from any remote office, so I don’t have to be in the shop to see how sales are going.”

Operate on Virtually Any Computer
BrighterShop Au is built on FileMaker Pro 9, which provides significant advantages including

  • the ability to run a shop from Mac or PC computer, even a laptop
  • simple and well understood FileMaker operation features
  • simple data import and export
  • ease of installation and upgrade
  • support for multiple systems/checkouts over a network or the internet
  • the ability for the BrighterShop customer to use FileMaker for other business database functions, capitalising on their software investment

Customers can download a full-featured trial of the software at no charge from www.brightershop.com.

Key features
BrighterShop Au is a complete retail point of sale (POS) solution, purpose-built for Australia and NZ, that runs on any Mac or PC with FileMaker 9.

 With a powerful feature set, BrighterShop is easy to learn, easy to use, easy on the eyes, and affordable.
Key operational features include:

  • Ability to handle multiple exchange rates
  • Purchase Order and inventory control
  • Bar code and scanner support
  • Ability to handle lay-by sales
  • Ability to handle Consignment Contracts and Consignment Stock
  • Ability to handle Items incorporating multiple components (bill of materials) and to handle ordering of mixed package Items from suppliers
  • Item price testing and modelling
  • Store credit and Gift Certificates
  • Complete customer sales tracking and customer marketing communications
  • Support for to-dos
  • Cost-value accounting
  • Clear, concise and attractive reports
  • Licensing per store location (not per work station) allowing the use of additional computers without additional license fees

Dealers Invited
Ambrite is actively seeking dealers to provide turnkey BrighterShop Au systems to customers. Interested organisations should contact Ambrite for details on dealer pricing and requirements.

Pricing and Availability
A full-featured trial version can be downloaded at no charge from www.brightershop.com. Once comfortable with the trial, customers can purchase a license for $2695 inc GST. A single license can be run on unlimited computers* for the same retail location and includes one year’s software upgrades. The optional Annual Upgrade Subscription is $340 inc GST after the first year. On-site services are available for installation and training.

Complete turnkey systems including computer system, printer, scanner and cash draw are available from authorised dealers. Contact Ambrite for dealer information.

• Note: FileMaker software limits the number of simultaneous log-ins. See FileMaker.com for details.

High-resolution images can be downloaded as follows: -

Image: http://www.ambrite.com.au/press/Simone-at-LMW.jpg
Caption: Lost My Way salesperson, Simone Macarounas, working with the BrighterShop system

Image: http://www.ambrite.com.au/press/System-at-LMW.jpg
Caption: BrighterShop system installed at Sydney retail store Lost My Way

Images: http://www.ambrite.com.au/press/BrighterShop_Screenshots.zip
Description: Collection of BrighterShop screen shots

  
           

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