Appliance Store POS Inventory Software

Sell Through Allowance Tracking - Manufacturer Rebates

Sell Through Allowance Tracking can be a critical component to your store, as increasing sales is a key function of any promotion. Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software allows you to easily manage the reimbursement of Sell Through Allowances (manufacturer rebates). Sell Through Allowances are rebates that the manufacturer gives the retailer on specific products after they have been sold. Essentially they are subsidies or rebates from suppliers to dealers to compensate for retail discounts to help be maintain price competition. The sale of these products must be accounted for and reported to the manufacturer appropriately. Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software offers functionality to properly track, record and report on Sell Through item rebates through their Sell Through Allowance Tracking features.

Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS Software & Service Bench Integration

Your greatest asset (and sometimes liability!) is your inventory, so why not manage it with the care and attention you bring to the rest of your business? Track and analyze inventory properly to eliminate avoidable expenses like overstocking, over billing, and shrinkage, not to mention the less tangible cost of stock shortages, frustrated customers and lost sales.

• Create a customer record for your Service Bench supplier. Manage different service bench account numbers.
• Enter service bench dealer location numbers for convenience.
• Use invoice free form comments to control, track and monitor specific service bench aspects (e.g. authority #, service agreement #, date requested, date completed, defect code, etc.).

Commission & Sales Promotion Incentive Fund (SPIF)

Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software precisely calculates incentive payments (SPIF's) and manages other compensation plans for sales teams. When you create an invoice, the salesperson is attached to it for commission or history purposes. Normally, just one salesperson is attached to each invoice, but if required, a switch can be turned on in Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software to allow Split Commissions for multiple salespersons. In Industrial Sales, the sales person often "Owns" the customer and gets the commission regardless of which clerk processed the order. If this is the case for your business, then you can attach the salesperson to the customer instead. Both methods are supported in Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software.

SPIF Paid Report

Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software replaces spreadsheets and other internal systems and simplifies the often complex and arduous processes in your business, allowing you to become more timely, accurate and easily maintain the records as the reports are easy to read and accurate. Struggle no more with multiple excel spread sheets that take hours to complete and can be very error prone. Keep your team satisfied by offerring flexible compensation plans that allow for different commission rates per item, per customer, per salesperson and more.

Commission Tracking

• Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software provides great flexibility in the configuration of your Salespersons Commissions.
• Calculate commission as a percentage of the Selling Price, Percentage of Profit or a Percentage of (Selling Price - Base Price)
• Exclude the value of Labour items on Invoices when calculating the Profit Margin during the Commission Calculations.
• Allow salespersons to run commission reports for themselves only.
• Set up the commission rates to differentiate between categories and/or Salesperson.
• Only calculate commissions on items set as Commissionable.
• Calculate commission based on customer profile
• View the Commission Rates by the Salesperson Tab
• You can view the Commission Rate structure for all Salespersons for specifically selected Main and Sub Categories.
• Easy entry of SPIF items that can be customized to capture the information you need.
• Complete real-time visibility for all your internal users.

Commission Calculation

If your salespeople own the customers and get a commission on each sale regardless of which clerk rang the sale through the till, we can handle it. Monitor rep productivity to ensure customer satisfaction remains high. Instantly view all overdue cases by rep, priority level and status to ensure total customer satisfaction. Analyze customer service cases by product, category and more. Create customized reports to gain further visibility into your reps. Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software will even let you print a detailed salesperson's customer list that they can take with them on the road when making sales calls.

Sales Representatives

1. Conduct daily, weekly and monthly calendar planning.
2. Track leads and prospects through the sales cycle.
3. Quickly prepare custom or template letters, faxes, emails, sales proposals, contracts, etc.
4. Always know who is communicating with whom in your accounts.

Sales History

Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software also allows the sales rep to quickly access the Sales/Order History of a particular customer or prospect. This information can be viewed, sorted, and organized. The resulting data can then be used in marketing campaigns, cross selling, call lists, and promotional offers.

Financing with Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii floor plan financing softwaree

Free up Cash Flow, & become more Efficient & Profitable with our Floor Plan Software

With Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii floor plan financing software, it doesn't matter what the inventory item your business is financing, be it cars or trucks, spare parts or office equipment - there are dealers, manufacturers, distributors and suppliers alike that are looking to become more efficient in their inventory management processes. Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii provides the floor planning finance solution to allow that efficiency in your business. Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii floor plan financing software can be monumental in helping floorplan lenders manage their inventory more effectively and efficiently.

Floor plan financing can be viewed like a revolving line of credit that allows a borrower to obtain financing for inventory items. Typically the loan is made against the specific inventory item at hand, (i.e. equipment, vehicles, parts, etc.). Once the inventory item is sold by the dealer, the loan then needs to be repaid to the supplier accordingly.

Therefore, Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii floor plan financing software allows businesses to borrow against some of their inventory items. As mentioned, you must repay the financier as you sell the inventory. Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii floor plan financing software will allow you to make logical and data backed lending decisions, as you become more profitable, free up cash flow and consequently allow your business to more efficiently disseminate information to and from suppliers and financiers.

• View total payment values for all payments listed.
• Finance items from one company and make payables to a financier to then pay the company on your behalf.
• Set the dates for when to you want to make payments by choosing the bill due dates.
• View what items have been sold vs. what's paid or unpaid and left in stock.
• Sort payables by suppliers.
• Easily add new and existing floor planning stock items.
• Floor planning allows you to stock expensive items, thus increasing sellability vs. consumers viewing catalogues. Simplify your consumers experience.
• Financing can increase your working capital. It's a source of a new credit line without affecting existing credit lines.
• Competitive financing rates through financiers makes it affordable.
• Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii floor plan financing software provides tracking, monitoring, control and much more for all the benefits that can be captured by floor plan financing.

Serial Number Tracking

Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software can help you with your Serial Number Tracking

For some businesses, inventory control needs to be more detailed and thorough when reviewing stock levels. Some businesses require serialized inventory for tracking their own items, managing product warranties, tracking repairs (see part number tracking), reducing fraud and much more. If you develop your own products and need to tag and track them, or you're reselling a product that requires serialized management control, Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software can help you.

Using the Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software, you can track serial numbers on the receiving stock side and the selling side of your business. You can flag items in the system to use serial number tracking with. When you do this, you must enter the serial numbers of the items as you receive the stock, and also when you sell the items. The system will be able to tell you for each serialized item when you purchased it, who you got it from, the purchase order number it came in on, who you sold it to, the invoice number, the date of sale, how much you paid for it, and how much you sold it for. This kind of history is invaluable if you must return the item on warranty.

Also of note is that you can sell the item on the invoice without the serial number, and then go back and add the serial number later, once the item has been picked from the warehouse and delivered to the customer. No more crawling over boxes, trying to match a particular serial number to an invoice!

Serial Number Tracking

• Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software allows you to automatically generate serial numbers for inventory when receiving stock, as well as barcodes.
• Enter a prefix if desired for all serial numbers created. This eight digit prefix can be modified at any time and serial numbers created from that time forward have the new prefix.
• Select the number of digits you wish to left-pad the serial number assignments with.
• Use numeric or alpha-numerica numbers.
• Show Serial numbers on invoice.
• Assign Serial Numbers when selling and add serial numbers on the fly.
• Auto select the first serial number in inventory.
• One main option is the ability to enter the number of items to be sold on the invoice before you have selected the serial numbers. Some businesses prefer to have the system force the quantity sold to match the number of serial numbers added to the Invoice line. This ensures that the serial numbers are always entered and reduces the opportunity for human error.
• The serial numbers retain all the history, including which purchase order they were received on and which invoice they were sold on. You can then link to the Accounts Payable bill to get the bill number, supplier and date. From the invoice, you can get the invoice number, date, customer name, selling price.
• Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software allows you to attach a barcode to each serial numbered inventory item.
• Selling Serialized Inventory in Standalone LAN mode is possible.

Easy to Use TouchScreen

A Powerful and Easy to Use TouchScreen empowers your cashiers to quickly help customers.

Integrated Credit, Debit & Gift Card Processing

Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software supports the authorization and processing of credit cards, debit cards and gift cards.

Credit Cards, Debit Cards and Gift Cards are scanned at the POS Terminal.

The authorization information prints on the customer receipt, as does the signature line.

An optional Customer Signature Pad eliminates the need to store signatures.

Instant Access to Customer Information

Customer name and address information can readily be accepted and entered at POS or in the back office. Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software maintains a customer buying history which can be viewed at POS with details of every transaction and a dollar total of purchases to date. When a customer returns to a store, verifying customer satisfaction on former purchases or intelligently suggesting new purchases has great impact. A detailed purchase history is also invaluable for controlling merchandise returns or monitoring discounts.

Instant Access to Customer Information

When creating an invoice for a new customer, you can click on the new customer button to create the customer right then and there. This is great for warranty purposes or just to increase your mailing list.

Normally, you'll be searching for an existing customer. To do this, just start typing the customer name and it should appear. If you have several customers starting with the same letters, you can click on the find customer button to search for a customer using the customer search screen as used in all other areas of the program.

In addition, you can edit the existing customer if you need to update the address or phone number, etc., or be able to view their purchase history to help with the current sale. For example, if they want to buy a vacuum cleaner bag and you need to know which model they purchased, you can easily access this history.

Layaways and Special Orders

Why should a store lose customers and sales because clerks can't find an item or price? Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software allows an instant view of whether an item is in stock at this store or any other location. It allows immediate lookup of the correct price of an item which may have lost its tag. The system can be used to identify and find items similar to what the customer is looking for, whether by vendor, price range, color, etc.

Estimates

Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software allows you to enter estimates using the customer and inventory items on file. Estimates will have no effect on the inventory on-hand, customer balances or the profit and loss statement. However, when the customer decides to make the purchase, you can convert the estimate into an invoice or work order without having to re-enter all the data.

Point of Sale Summary Reports (X/Z Out)

The daily X/Z Out Report provides a summary of all the day's activity at a POS station, or for a particular clerk, or for the whole store. It totals up sales, returns, tax, shipping, and sums paid in and paid out for each tender and each credit card. It lists and totals all sums in or out for special transactions, such as Gift Certificates. It totals all line item discounts by the reasons they were given. This report reconciles the drawer easily and swiftly, and its exact breakdowns can help isolate procedural errors for correction.

Start Saving Money

Our System will quickly pay for itself through reduced Inventory Shrinkage, cash flow optimization, and improved customer satisfaction by minimizing lost sales from running out of stock.

Take Control of Your Inventory

Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii's Inventory Control Software makes it easy for you to track, print out reports and always be aware of your stock levels.

Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii's Inventory Control software lets you see what you sold, what you need to order and what should be left in stock.

Quickly Find Inventory

Find inventory By part number, description, supplier, main and sub category lookup and numerous other search options

Easily Check Inventory Levels

Easily see quantities in stock, committed-to work orders, layaways and quantities available to sell

Accurate Costing Methods

First in, First Out Costing or Average Costingwith inventory reports showing a weighted average of the remaining stock.

Payments

When payments are received, you can specify how much was paid against each invoice. This allows for better control of the system and easier reconciliation with your customers. Of course, Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii offers several shortcut keys to simply pay all the invoices in one fell swoop or to pay invoices up to a given amount.

Work in any month or year

You can enter invoices into any month in the current year or previous year, and reprint most reports for any given period. This allows you to continue invoicing first thing in the morning of a new month, even if the back office is not finished charging interest, adjusting accounts and printing statements. Many other systems require that you completely finish a month before being able to start a new month or year.

Customer Credit Control

On the customer account, you can specify the credit limit for the customer, in addition to the price schedule to use, charge type, and comments. If you try to create an invoice that will put the customer over their credit limit, the system will warn you. If you do not have the security clearance to override, the invoice can not be completed until the account is paid.

Collections

Collections on outstanding debts are never fun, but Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii can make them easier. You can print an aged A/R report, complete with customer name, phone number and a list of all the outstanding invoices. Optionally, this report can be configured to only include customers with balances older than a certain number of days, such as over 60 days or 90 days so that you don't have to manually skip over the current customers.

As you call each customer, you can enter your comments into the appointment scheduler and set a date to review their file and ensure they have paid, and if not, to call them back. By keeping track of all you customer contacts, it's easier to control when to call and remind them of their past promises.

Writing Checks

If you are entering information from a previously handwritten check, you can do that without having to print them. Incredibly, many other systems force you to print the checks, regardless. After creating a check, you can choose to post-and-pay it, or simply batch for later payment. This lets you spend some time setting up the checks. Once you are ready, you can load the checks into the printer and then print and post the batch at one time.

Time Payments

In some cases, you may get a large shipment of goods from a supplier and be allowed to pay in thirds, one month at a time. Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software will allow you to enter·a time payment plan, with distributed payments. This information is used with the cash requirement report to determine which bills have to be paid.

Buying Group Support

If you deal with buying groups, then you'll buy the inventory and goods from a supplier but pay the buying group. This is because to get great discounts, the buying groups often pay the bills very quickly or at least guarantee payment. When you use buying groups, you'll be able to report on all the purchases from a given supplier, even if you don't owe them any money, and be able to look at the buying group from a financial point of view to see what you owe. You can even use this technology if you purchase goods with your credit card. There, you buy from a supplier but pay Visa, Mastercard or American Express.