Surf and Swim Store Point of Sale

Surf shop and swimwear retailers sell a variety of clothing and apparel for the beach, including surf boards, swim suits, swimwear and beach gear. The best POS systems for surf and swimwear stores help these retailers carry a wide range of merchandise for people who love waves, sun and the beach. Surf shops and swim stores compete against larger general retailers by offering specialized items, a deep selection, unique and hard to find merchandise and high levels of service and expertise. In particular, surf shops and swimwear stores often rent boards and gear and sell apparel that comes in different sizes and colors, so a point of sale software system that supports matrix items is often critical.

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Surf and Swimwear Store POS specific features in MicroBiz Cloud include:

Matrix products multi-dimensional inventory grid – to easily manage multi-attribute items such swimsuits with size, color and style attributes.
Special orders/back orders – allows you to track special orders (i.e. sales of items not in stock), from the customer order to receiving, to inventory to the POS transaction.
Markdown management – easily manage customer group markdowns, quantity pricing, promotional pricing and item specific discounting.
Store credit – issue credits on returns and redeem customer store credit.
Ecommerce Integration – Plugin for WooCommerce enables you to publish images and products to Woo, sync inventory levels and capture online sales of swim-related products in MicroBiz.
Editable product description on receipts – Ability to edit from the front register the short product description which appears on a receipt. Helpful when selling unique or customizable items.
Barcode labels – printing of price labels with barcodes on a variety of format using integration with supported Zebra tag printers.

Service department management – ability to manage warranties and repairs on products such as surfboards and sunglasses.
Layaways – collect deposits while holding the item out of inventory.
Sales commissions – can be calculated for each item based on the sales amount or the gross profit, track commissions by employee to measure productivity.
Product images – so clerks can see a picture of the beach and swimwear products being rung-up at the register.
Email marketing – deliver targeted campaigns by querying and downloading customer data for use with popular email marketing applications such as MailChimp.
Restrictions on discounts and returns – management settings allow restrictions to be placed on discounts and returns of products.
Phone order support – ability to manage phone orders for pick-up, shipment or delivery through the Orders in Progress module.

Killer POS Feature for Surf and Swimwear Stores: Matrix Products

MicroBiz supports Matrix Products that come in different size, color and other variants – which is helpful for managing the sale of swim suits and beachwear. Matrix’s can contain one, two or three attributes. You can set-up reusable size or color attribute lists to speed up the creation of matrix products. The three dimensional matrix cube allows you to see and edit open stock, committed stock, cost, price and reorder points for all matrix SKUs on one sheet.

In addition to the Surf and Swimwear Store POS specific capabilities listed above, MicroBiz Cloud includes the following standard features and functionality needed to manage Beach and Swimwear stores:

Orders

Phone Orders/Layaways
Special Orders (out of stock items)
Pick-up, Shipping, Delivery Dashboard
Repairs/Service Dept Management
Quotes/Estimates/Invoices
Deposit Collection and Refunds
Backorder Creation and Filling

Customers

Multiple Shipping/Billing Addresses
Customer Tax Classes/Tax Exempt
Import Customers via CSV File Import

Store Management

Store Transfers
Support of Contactless Payments
PCI/PA-DS Compliant Payment Processing
Flexible and Filterable Reports
Enforceable Business Rules on Discounts, Returns, Deposits
Employee Roles and Permissions

Catalog Management

Customer-based Pricing
Matrix Products with Size/Color/Other Variants
Product images
Categories and Sub-Categories
Product Tax Classes (multiple)
Quantity-based Tiered Pricing
Time-based promo pricing
Alternate Product IDs
Print Barcode Price Labels

Multi-store Inventory Management

CSV File Import of Products & Inventory
Inventory Adjustment Audit Records
Purchase Orders/Vendor Shipments
Minimum Inventory Reorder Points
Special Order Tracking

Register

Register Quick Pick Keys
Bar code label scanning
Transaction holds/recalls
Returns and Voids
Split Tenders
Assign Salesperson to Transaction
Item and Transaction Discount
Stock-level Look-up (multi-store)
Store Credits
Gift Cards
Customizable Receipts
Custom Tenders
Print or Email Receipts
Customer Sales History Look-up
Register Close/End of Day Reports
Integrated Credit Card Processing
Advanced Filterable Product Search
Editable Item Descriptions on Receipt

Integrations

WooCommerce Integration
QuickBooks Online Integration

Expand Functionality of MicroBiz via Integrations with Popular 3rd Party Apps

Publish register batch financials to QuickBooks Online with one-touch

Map POS financial activities to QuickBooks GL accounts
Publish register batch financials to QuickBooks with one touch
Sync revenue, COGS, inventory values, customer liabilities and payments with QuickBooks
Create QuickBooks invoice payable from received vendor shipments
Push POS sales taxes to QuickBooks Sales Tax Center for payment management

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Integrate your POS system with your Woo! ecommerce site

Link product records and sync changes in product fields from MicroBiz to Woo!
Automatically adjust stock levels in Woo! for store sales to avoid sales of items not in stock
Pull online orders into MicroBiz for order and inventory management
Capture customer records created online in MicroBiz

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Useful Links and Resources:

SwimShow – With four decades of expertise, SwimShow is recognized as the leading industry platform in swimwear worldwide. As the industry’s most celebrated and established exhibition, SwimShow is the premier global tradeshow where the very best gather to network, exhibit and purchase next year’s trends. Held every July, SwimShow attracts more than 7,500 buyers, manufacturers, designers, corporate personnel, press, bloggers, influencers, fashion consultants, stylists, VIP’s and other fashion industry leaders from over 60 countries across the globe to showcase brands and create business opportunities.
Swim Collective – The Swim Collective is an invite-only, premier marketplace where retail buyers join us from all over the world to escape the mundane and become genuinely immersed in the swim and active culture. Our events are less about collecting business cards, and more about creating lasting connections through what we call a three-dimensional sensory experience.
SurfExpo – Surf Expo is produced in January and September in Orlando, Florida and draws buyers from across the U.S., the Caribbean, Central and South America and around the world.
SIMA – SIMA is the surf industry’s non-profit, member-owned trade association representing surf apparel and accessories manufacturers, board builders, retailers, reps, suppliers, media, and professional service companies joined together as a unified force to grow the surf industry through fearless innovation, stoke, and sustainability.
Water Sports Industry Association – The WSIA is the towed water sports industry’s leading advocate, known for preserving the vitality of our activities long into the future. As a group, we develop best practices, maintain waterway access rights, educate participants, promote safety and facilitate sustainable industry growth.
Board Retailers Association – Board Retailers Association promotes surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, SUPing, wakeboarding, skimboarding, kiteboarding, or windsurfing activities and/or lifestyles all share a central theme as board specialty retailers. BRA organizes and expresses the views and concerns of independent board specialty retailers in an effort to help promote our industry and support the board sports specialty retailers.