Automotive POS Inventory Software

You can set up Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software quickly and tailor it to meet your specific needs. With access to expert support and assistance, you can have a complete retail management system up and running in no time.

Not only can the Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software track all the work done for a given customer, the actual vehicle can also be recorded on the invoice, allowing a complete repair or installation history for one vehicle within a fleet of vehicles. If the customer drives onto the lot, you can find the customer name by searching for the vehicle number or plate number. In addition to just tracking the vehicle, the system will allow you to enter: serial number - make - model - year - mileage - and more.

In several states and provinces, the government now levies additional flat taxes for tires and/or batteries. Instead of having to remember to "sell" a tax item, the items can be flagged as tire taxable, or battery taxable, and these environment taxes will appear on a separate line below the sub total on the invoice and be included in the grand total. Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software supports up to 8 different taxes:

Search for Tires by Size, Width and Aspect Ratio or use part numbers or description or all of the above.

Does your business have complex and routine data loads? Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii's Virtual Warehouse can assist you!

The Virtual Warehouse Part Maintenance feature is designed to help alleviate the complexities that you may run into in a data load. The process works on the premis that your inventory is attached to a supplier and you want to update your inventory with the electronic price file your supplier has given you.

Inventory Part Update

If the supplier is not attatched to the inventory you have in your POS software solution, this process will not work for you. It is important that you test this in training if you are going to be updating based on the supplier not being the primary supplier of that item. Whether the supplier is a primary, or alternate supplier effects how the update will run and which settings are necessary.

Virtual Warehouse Part Report

Your Virtual Warehouse can be loaded with inventory to allow quick price checking or quoting at Point of Sale.
The Virtual Warehouse Part Maintenance Allows you to:

• Load to the Virtual Warehouse parts database
• Update inventory cost, list, description, retail and sale prices for regular inventory with the same part number as Virtual Warehouse
• Edit and report on items in the Virtual Warehouse parts database and remove parts based on the supplier

For simplicity, estimates are entered in exactly the same way as regular invoices and work orders. This reduces the learning time for staff using the system. While an estimate looks very similar to an invoice or work order, it will not effect inventory on hand, customer balances, or any general ledger account. Sell a lot of tires? Quick Quotes for selling tires, all you do is simply select the tire and automatically add on the balancing, stems, tire taxes and so on.

When labour is added to an invoice, you can specify the mechanic that performed the work, the number of hours worked, and the number of hours (or mins) billed. Occasionally, the time spent and the time billed might be different, and by gathering this information, you will be able to produce mechanic productivity reports.

Akamai Point of Sale Hawaii POS software supports many different types of kits, also known as bill of materials, assemblies, or jobs. You could, for example, create a minor tune-up kit that when placed on the invoice will "explode" to show the tire, balancing, stems, and mechanics labor, complete with comments

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.