Feed Store Point of Sale

Feed and farm supply stores sell products for agricultural and livestock related businesses. The best feed store POS systems keep tight track of inventory and purchasing and can manage special orders, customer-based pricing and the sale of items sold by weight or length.  Feed stores range greatly in size depending on the various types of farm products that the store chooses to carry in stock. Some feed stores have hardware departments that sell tools and parts while other farm supply stores sell livestock and farm animals. Detailed information may need to be stored on each item in the feed store’s point of sale software – such as care instructions, notes of interest, or detailed product descriptions.  

Feed Store POS specific features in MicroBiz Cloud include:

• Accounts receivable – Send printed or emailed statements to customers that pay on account.
• Sell by weight or length – You can set up items that can be sold by fractional quantities for items sold by weight, such as animal feed.
• Special orders/back orders – Allows you to track special order items not carried in inventory, from the customer order to receiving, to inventory to the POS transaction.
• Service department management – allows you to efficiently manage a service department – you can bill by hour or by job, as well as bill for merchandise and materials.
• Flexible product record fields – Use the category, style, vendor and brands fields to track manufacturer and other pet and feed specific item information.
• Markdown management – Manage group markdowns, quantity pricing, multi-buy items, promotional pricing and bulk discounting.
• Weatherproof barcode price labels – Use a supported thermal transfer printer to print weatherproof barcode labels that withstand the rain and dirt from outdoor storage.

Killer Feature #2: Customer Order Management

Manage sales of items not taken immediately from store.  You can attach a customer, change status, set a due date, define a handling type, print pick-up slips and add notes.  Customer orders can be transferred to the register so that payment can be made and ‘cash and carry’ items can be sold on the same receipt.

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

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 Create Private Wholesale Online Stores

Create private wholesale ecommerce stores for your wholesale customers.  The wholesale site can offer products at special whole pricing not available to public customers.  The items in the private store can be displayed in an easy-to-use grid, enabling wholesale customers to more easily find products and select size and color variants.  Access to the wholesale store is controlled by a username and password, preventing public customers from viewing wholesale pricing.

Or, you can create private microsites for specific customers that display only the items specifically curated for the customer.  Like a wholesale site, you can create special discounts or special item prices available only on the microsite.  You can completely hide your WooCommerce private stores from the public, with the microsite only being visible by using a private store username and password.  You can manage the registration of customers to determine which customers have access to which private store.

Your wholesale and private online stores are integrated with MicroBiz, so that online sales in your wholesale stores or microsites are captured in MicroBiz, and changes in inventory levels sync between your WooCommerce site and your MicroBiz Cloud POS system.

Useful Links and Resources:

American Feed Industry Association (AFIA)
National Grain and Feed Association
California Grain and Feed Association