You won't need to spend pots of money on consultants to configure StoreTrader, even though it has tons of features. Our Configuration Wizard leads you through defining users, how you want your receipts to look, how you want the preset keys on your touchscreen to work, and much more. And you can re-run the Wizard any time you want to change anything.

Cash Management

You can get a firm handle on your cashflow , even with many stores across the country, because you can do a cash pickup at any time and cashing up at end of day is online. The Cash Drawer report tells you precisely what cash and other payments are in each till at any time.

Promotions & discounts

You can set up new promotions when you want. 'Buy 1, get 50% off the second'; '10% off if you spend £50 or more' - even linked promotions like meal deals ('buy one of these sandwiches, and one of these snacks and get one of these drinks all for £2'). You can set them up with from and to dates to make sure they don't go on forever! Customer and staff discounts are easily handled, linked to a preset key on the touchscreen if you like.

Products & stock

You can create purchase orders, book in stock (really easily with our handheld stock check and delivery check-in system), transfer stock between branches and have the system generate suggested purchase orders for you. Or if you want to handle stock through your accounting system that's fine too - StoreTrader will pass across all the stock movements automatically.

Easily change prices

You can import price changes autoamtically from another system (such as from C+D in a pharmacy) or set them up to be applied automatically at the till from some defined date. Our barcode label print utility will print product and shelf edge labels on a label printer on on A4.
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Import from other systems

If you want to do merchandising or range planning in Excel or another specialist system, or if your suppliers send you lists of new products and pricing, or you want to manage your product and supplier information outside of StoreTrader - that's fine. Product Link automatically tracks product price and description changes and automatically changes them in StoreTrader, so when you scan the barocde at the till the item is immediately recognised and the price is right.
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Account customers

You can set up a new account customer at the till if you want (and you have the authority), or you can automatically import these from your accounting or CRM system. You can see an online statement of all the sales to that customer and the current account balance at any time.
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Gift & Loyalty cards

It's really not expensive to get your own gift cards designed and printed. They can be agreat way to have someone buy a gift for a friend from your shop, but still leave the choice of gift open. In StoreTrader it's really easy to set up gift cards and then track them as they're used.

You can also set up a loyalty scheme and allocate points for each £1 your customers purchase, and then reward them with discounts or special promotions.
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Chip & PIN

With StoreTrader you can manage card payments automatically. StoreTrader will send the transaction amount to the card termnal (pinpad) so you don't have to re-key it, and the customer will get just one receipt. StoreTrader will send all the days transactions to the bank automatically overnight and give you settlement reports so you can see exactly what has been credited to your account.
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Easy to extend

Even with such a wide-ranging set of capabilities StoreTrader can't do everything that you and all its other users want. So we made it easy to extend, by you and by programmers. One example is through transaction rules. For example, if you sell alcohol and you want to remind the sales assistant to ask the customer for proof of age, you can set up a rule which sends this prompt to the till every time a bottle of wine or beer is purchased, and requires the assistant to confirm Yes or No (and key some identity too, if you wish). You can look back through the Audit Log at any time to confirm who sold what, and when.

Our StoreTrader Widgets are a cool new way for programmers familiar with scripting and HTML to provide information from other systems (such as a CRM or accounting system, or any other system anywhere on the internet) direct to the till. There's more about StoreTrader Widgets here.
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StoreTrader Live & hosted

StoreTrader Live lets you manage one or any number of stores from anywhere on the Web. With StoreTrader Live all the tills in your shops are linked over the internet to a central Store Server which manages everything. All the sales, stock and cash data is sent constantly over to the Store Server, and in turn new products, price changes, customer balances and other changed data is sent back out to all the tills. Using any web browser you can see the sales and stock situation for any till or any store, wherever you’re connected. So you get a complete picture of your trading operations. Instantly – and if you want, graphically.

But with one huge extra feature. Unlike other, browser-based, PoS systems, StoreTrader doesn't rely on the internet connection. If the network connection is lost, your shop assistants won't even notice because every StoreTrader PoS terminal has its own local database so it runs completely independently. And when the network reconnects, StoreTrader just resynchronises the local tills with the Store Server and carries on as if nothing had happened.

And we use StoreTrader Live to distribute software changes so you don't need to send out a technician to update the tills.

Accessible from anywhere

Just because the PoS terminals have to be in your stores doesn’t mean you have to. You can connect to your store sever from any web browser- on a PC in another building, a laptop at home and even an iPhone or mobile phone on the move – to see all the system reports and graphs.

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Works with your favourite (accounting) system

Getting data out of (and into) StoreTrader is easy, in XML, .csv files or through the ODBC link into MS Excel or another utility. Or you can access the SQL database directly with any reporting tool you prefer to design your own reports and queries.

StoreTrader’s Accounting Link generates postings for all sales, stock and nominal accounts, and will post these directly at end of day or whenever (and as often as) you wish. There are complete links defined to support this automatic posting to a variety of accounting packages, including Sage Line 50 and 500, and the popular Mamut integrated system for small and medium businesses.

The Product and Customer Link facility helps you automatically update product and customer information in StoreTrader from the accounting or any other system, such as supplier catalogues, so your StoreTrader database is always up to date.
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