"We can take a physical in about three hours in one of our stores without a reader. The whole thing! I can do that and download
it and not have to count or anything. That is a great advantage;
Helping footwear retailers with technology happens to be one of the specialties of One Step Retail Solutions. Many of our original clients
are footwear retailers and some have been with us on the same product for over a decade!
There are certain technological requirements that a footwear retailer needs to keep in mind when selecting a software product for their
stores. Among these are the ability to track repeat or loyal customer size information, a three dimensional Matrix, and of course, easy
merchandise lookup.
A family owned business that started in 1959 expanded to six locations. For point of sale, they used regular cash registers and took counts
with sheets of inventory. It was basically a manual system.
The owner had Retail Pro installed and it increased their ability to watch the transfers between stores, the stock levels and their margins.
Overall, it gave them better control over the information they receive.
"If we want to look at just one item, we can look at how that item has done or I can look at a much larger picture of sales. In fact,
I just ran a report of the last three years of our best sellers and I'm using that as the basis for reorders."
"Up-to-date information is a big plus. Definitely helps us maximize our sales!"
"Employees can look up any shoe very quickly, which the customers really like. Instead of having to order from the factory and wait for
two weeks, they can get it in a couple of days from another store. The ability to enter information, to store it and manipulate it makes the
whole company more productive."
"With a rapidly expanding store based coupled with ever-changing technological developments, it is good to know that we have a solid point
of sale and inventory management system that will stay on top of retailing developments."
