GreenPoint for Garden Centers
GreenPoint, our Retail Garden Center solution is built around NCR’s powerful inventory engine and Counterpoint point-of-sale software.
There’s a reason 10 of the top 20 independent garden centers in the United States use NCR Counterpoint – it works!
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GreenPoint is more than your standard garden center POS system...
It’s a full retail management system.
Complete transactions, track your extensive inventory, manage vendors, automate purchasing, and more.
The core functionality is powerful, and you can add modules designed for garden centers, nurseries, and landscapers.
Garden Center Module
- Get up-to-the-second inventory availability reports.
- Print bench and stake signs easily from any computer using standard sizes and data stored in the database.
- Manage delivery and handling options to satisfy customers’ specific delivery requirements.
- Easily receive items as sets and sell them individually.
- Manage transplants and product growth.
- Enhance your time clock functionality to allow time entry by job and department.
- Overlay weather data on sales and inventory numbers.
- Print dynamic disclaimers for different types of items purchased on invoices.
Benefits of GreenPoint Garden Center POS Module
The GreenPoint POS Core Module includes everything you need to perform all your retail operations quickly and easily. With a configurable interface, you can make it easy to find the functions you use most. Handle sales, returns, orders, and layaways all on one ticket.
In addition to this robust retail functionality, you will enjoy functions that enhance your entire operation with this powerful garden center POS system.
The Retail Garden Center module contains additional industry-specific features that help with inventory tracking, monitoring sales activity at your store, managing customer records, and full integration with your eCommerce site.
Easily Control Pricing Options
- Assign up to six prices per item, including different prices based on size, color, and location
- Program special pricing scenarios, including volume pricing, mix-and-match, BOGO, and customer specific.
Intuitive Inventory Management
- Track individual products at each location
- Identify shrinkage, availability, and direct the movement of inventory between locations
- Integrate inventory management with prices: set your pricing to automatically discount the last items for quick sale or mark up quick sellers in short supply.
Promote Customer Satisfaction and Leverage Loyalty
- Track customers’ previous purchases
- Target customers via text or email with customized promotions
- Set up a loyalty rewards program
Enhanced Inventory Capabilities
- Up-to-the-second knowledge of your inventory. As soon as orders enter the system, your inventory will decrease.
- Manage transplants, easily transferring plants commonly used in filling planters and hanging baskets.
- Track tree growth and move individual trees to different price categories.
- Define items that come in as sets but sell individually
- Set up detailed handling and delivery options for merchandise.
Improve Customer Communication
- Easier communication with customers
- Print bench and stake signs
- Add dynamic disclaimers to your invoice, ticket receipt, delivery receipt, or order form.
Time Clock Improvements
- Make it easier for employees to log hours by jobs and departments
- Customize the menu codes for individual users
- Run detailed reports focusing on employee, job, department, or other details.
Garden Center Module Detailed Feature List
Product Availability Reports
- Create availability reports by plant for resale or stocking orders
- As orders are entered in the system, inventory quantities are decreased instantly on the available reports and screens
- Prepare availability lists for your web site
Print Bench/Stake Signs
- Standard size stake and bench signs are integrated with GreenPoint
- Any information relating to items including multiple descriptions, items, pictures, images, and additional information is kept in the GreenPoint database
- Sign making can be accessed from any computer on the network
Manage Deliveries and Handling
- The Delivery/Handling feature allows for multiple delivery and handling options for items on a sales transaction
- Entry can be an order, ticket or combination of an order and ticket
- Handling options include “hold for later customer pickup”, “deliver and plant”, and “delivery only”
- Additional fields are available to add notes regarding the delivery or planting
Receive as Sets/Sell Individually
- Some items, like pottery, are often purchased in sets of mixed sizes However, the sets will be separated and sold as individual items. This feature allows the ‘parent’ item of a set to be identified along with all ‘child’ items related to the parent
- Includes costing and inventory control of the parents and children product(s)
Time Clock Enhancement to Manage Job Costs
- Bi-lingual screen labels and fields allow time entry by jobs/departments
- Menu codes can be modified to reflect the specific screens based on individual users
- Reports are run by employee or by job detail
Manage Transplants and Product Movement
- Easily transfer plants used for filling garden planters, container gardens and hanging baskets
- Can be used for moving trees from one size to another with seasonal price changes
Weather Tracking
- Year-to-year comparison of daily sales including weather data
- Utilizes your local weather station to import temperature, wind and other weather-related metrics
Dynamic Disclaimers
- Flexible printing of different return policies based on the type of items purchased
- Disclaimers can be printed on the various customer invoicing forms
Payment Processing
- Integrated payment processing
- EMV chip card compliance
- Multiple payment options
- Tokenization and encryption
- Centralized transaction reporting
Greenpoint is Powered by Our Core Counterpoint Module
- Point of Sale
- Inventory
- Manage Accounts Receivable
- Purchasing
- Reporting
- Secure Access
- Mariner Payment Solutions
Payment Processing
Mariner Business Solutions GreenPoint Can Stimulate the Growth of Your Garden Center
Mariner Business Solutions provides the customized garden center POS system that can help your business grow season after season. In addition to our unique and powerful software, we have developed our exclusive Personal Advantage Plus™ Approach to match your POS solution to your business’ needs. With this approach, you will appreciate extensive attention from our team to determine the perfect POS solution for your business. We will:
- Collaborate with your team to understand your unique goals
- Recommend solutions tailored to your specific business
- Configure your software and hardware to enhance your workflow, not change it
- Provide human support to help you get the most out of your new system
- Arrive on-site when you need support in person
- Provide reliable systems with very high uptime
- Deliver detailed and personalized reporting
- Offer ongoing competitive innovations to help your system evolve with your growing business
Request a demo today to find out how our solutions can help your business thrive.
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