Counterpoint

Counterpoint is a full retail management system that includes robust inventory management, touchscreen point of sale, built-in customer loyalty, automated purchasing, and configurable reporting capabilities. 

KEY FEATURES

POINT OF SALE:

• Configurable POS touchscreen
• Drill down button menu at POS
• Offline ticket entry capabilities
• Advanced pricing capabilities
• Easily handle sales, returns, orders, and layaways – even on a single ticket
• Integrated customer tracking and reporting capabilities
• Integrated email marketing and texting for automated, targeted promotions
• Built in inventory control & purchasing
• Mobile sales and inventory functionality
• Single SQL database can serve multiple locations

BACK OFFICE: 

• Purchasing & transfer advice reports
• Merchandise analysis reporting
• Text or email alerts for store operations, sales activity, fraudulent transactions
• Customize software access by employee or department
• System exception reporting helps catch fraud and shrinkage
• Accounting interfaces available to most major accounting packages
• Accounts receivable functionality

PURCHASING:

• Manage vendor items, costs, and lead times
• Automatically create purchase orders for preferred vendors or the vendors with the lowest costs
• Receive merchandise and automatically transfer correct quantities to other retail locations
• Set prices as you receive items, based on target margins you define

INVENTORY:

• Check prices and quantities across locations and transfer products between stores
• Serial # tracking
• Data-driven price rules let you quickly set up promotions or contract pricing
• Forecasting tools help you maintain ideal stocking levels and control your inventory costs

REPORTING:

• View, print, export, and e-mail any report
• Create quick reports on the fly from search results

SECURE ACCESS:

• Multiple levels of security and PCI DSS 2.0 compliance
• Protect your system using Windows or SQL authentication
• Make your password policy PCI-compliant with a single click
• Support for fingerprint readers and user ID cards
• User-specific security settings let you control who is allowed to access sensitive functions and data

COMPLETE RECORDS:

• Perform physical counts, adjustments and receive inventory with or without a purchase order
• Instant inventory visibility lets you check prices, availability, and quantities across all of your stores
• Count your inventory with your iOS devices and export counts to Counterpoint

PRICING MANAGEMENT: 

• Assign up to six prices per inventory item
• Price by store or by color/size with location-specific and SKU-specific pricing
• Custom price rules let you set up complex promotional, contract, and special price scenarios, as well as mix-and-match pricing, BOGO, and quantity at a price deals
• Margin-driven pricing lets you control your prices dynamically to meet your profit goals

BUNDLING: 

• Group, sell, and track related items in bundles with kit functionality
• Track items in a specific bundle, in loose combinations, or as finished goods
• Create tag-along kits, which allow you to assign “tag-along” items, like delivery or service fees, to any inventory item
• Use bills of material to define, assemble, and sell manufactured goods from their component parts

TRANSFER MERCHANDISE:

• Transfer inventory easily between stocking locations
• Receive inventory at a central location, and then transfer the right quantities to your other locations
• Transfer Advice report suggests items and quantities to transfer based on maximum stocking levels or replenishment calculations

PHYSICAL COUNT:

• Count your items and track variances
• Freeze specific items, categories, or locations and count part of your inventory while operations continue in other areas
• Enter counts manually or import them from handheld scanners, including iOS devices running NCR Counterpoint Mobile
• Automatically adjust items for which the count varies from the frozen quantity