Appliance Store Point of Sale

Appliance store POS systems need to manage a diverse range of inventory, including many large and high priced items. Given the high cost of inventory, it is important to manage tight inventory control as well as efficiently implement mark-downs and promotions. Appliance stores compete against larger general retailers by offering an extensive range of products, professional-grade items, unique and hard to find merchandise and high levels of service and expertise focused specifically on the needs of appliance buyers.

Appliance Store POS specific features in MicroBiz Cloud include:

Accounts receivable – to manage large customers that pay on account, including customer statements.
Customer deposits – accept and track customer deposits.
Layaways – collect deposits while holding the item out of inventory.
Markdown management – easily manage group markdowns, quantity pricing, multi-buy items, promotional pricing and bulk discounting.
Sales commissions – can be calculated for each item on the sales amount or the gross profit or track commissions by employee to measure productivity.
Special orders/Backorders – allows you to track special order items, from the customer order to receiving, to inventory to the POS transaction.
Separate customer shipping and billing addresses – Helpful when items shipped to different address.

Service department management – to manage warranties and repairs.
House Accounts – authorized employees can charge purchases to a credit account.
Multiple shipping addresses – ship to any of the multiple shipping addresses maintained for each customer, or ship the same selection to multiple recipients .
Group pricing or discounts – based on customer level or group.
Flexible tax and fee tracking – allows for virtually any taxing or special fee scenario such as disposal fees on televisions.
Email marketing – deliver targeted campaigns by querying and downloading customer data for use with popular email marketing applications.
Restrictions on discounts – place restrictions on discounting of items.
Minimum deposit requirements – Set minimum deposits on orders.
Print quotes, estimates and invoices – Print or email full page order documents.

In addition to the Appliance Store POS specific capabilities listed above, MicroBiz Cloud includes all the standard features and functionality needed to manage Appliance stores. To view these standard POS features available in Microiz Cloud, click on the button below.

MicroBiz Cloud Standard Features

Should I Use MicroBiz Cloud or MicroBiz for Windows?

We sell two POS software applications: MicroBiz Cloud and MicroBiz for Windows. The features listed above are for MicroBiz Cloud, cloud-based multi-location point of sale application offered through monthly or annual subsciptions.

MicroBiz for Windows is a single-store, multi-station retail software application that is installed on PCs and sold via a one-time software license. Some but not all of the MicroBiz Cloud features listed above are available in MicroBiz for Windows - and MicroBiz for Windows also has some features not available in MicroBiz Cloud.

To see a comparison of the features of MicroBiz Cloud and MicroBiz for Windows, click on the button below:

Comparison of MicroBiz Cloud vs. MicroBiz for Windows