Industrial and Janitorial Supplies Point of Sale

Industrial supply retailers and wholesalers can sell of a wide variety of products used for for repair, maintenance, operations, manufacturing and production. The best industrial supply POS systems support all these types of products. These type of businesses are also known as ‘MRO Supply’ or ‘Maintenance, Repair and Operations’. Examples include janitorial and cleaning supplies, tools and equipment, electrical products, motors, hardware and fasteners and safety equipment. The top supply company point of sale software supports the ability to sell at different price levels to different customers, take phone orders, ring up in-person sales, extend credit and sell products not currently in stock through special orders.

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Industrial Supplies POS specific features in MicroBiz Cloud include:

Special orders/back orders – allows you to tracking special order items not carried in inventory, from the customer order to receiving, to inventory to the POS transaction.
Accounts receivable – to manage large customers that pay on account, including customer statements.
Quotes and invoices – with the invoice in progress functionality, you can quote a customer, print the quote, then when the customer comes in to purchase, simply recall the on hold invoice and process the sale.
Layaways – collect deposits while holding the item out of inventory.
Weatherproof barcode price labels – Use a supported thermal transfer printer to print weatherproof barcode labels that withstand rain and dirt.
Restrictions on discounts and returns – management settings allow restrictions to be placed on discounts and returns of products.
Markdown management – manage group markdowns, quantity pricing, multi-buy items, promotional pricing and bulk discounting.
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.
Minimum deposit requirements – Enforce management rules such as minimum deposits on orders at the store level.

Customer-based pricing or discounts – Pricing tiers or levels based on customer type or group.
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.
Sell by fractional quantity – ability to sell products and services at partial units or fractional quantities.
Multiple shipping addresses – ship to any of the multiple shipping addresses maintained for each customer, or ship the same selection to multiple recipients.
Assign salesperson to transaction – assign an employee to a transaction to help with calculating commissions.
Advanced search screen – search by item name, ID and other attributes, view product tiles, filter by categories, brands, vendors, size, color, etc.
Phone order support – ability to manage phone orders for pick-up, shipment or delivery through the Orders in Progress module.
Stock-level look-up – look up stock levels across all store locations from front register.
Customer sales history look-up – look-up customer purchases by item or transactions from the front register.

Killer POS Feature for Industrial Supply Companies: Customer-based Pricing

You have the ability to set-up different prices for different customers. You can assign customers to a pricing group (such as wholesalers or loyalty accounts), making the customer eligible for special customer-based pricing and discounts. Customer-based pricing can be based on $ or % discount from retail price, $ or % mark-up over cost, targeted margin or new price. Prices are adjusted automatically at the register when a customer record with a special pricing group is attached.

In addition to the industrial supply POS specific capabilities listed above, MicroBiz Cloud includes the below standard features and functionality needed to manage jantorial and other industrial supply retail businesses:

Register

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

Integrations

WooCommerce Integration
QuickBooks Online Integration

Customers

Multiple Shipping/Billing Addresses
Customer Tax Classes/Tax Exempt
Credit Accounts/Charge to Account
Accounts Receivable Statements
Import Customers via CSV File Import

Catalog Management

Customer-based Pricing/Pricing Tiers
Product images
Categories and Sub-Categories
Product Tax Classes (multiple)
Quantity-based Tiered Pricing
Time-based promo pricing
Alternate Product IDs
Fractional Sale Quantities (weight/time)
Print Barcode Price Labels

Orders

Phone Orders/Layaways
Special Orders (out of stock items)
Pick-up, Shipping, Delivery Dashboard
Service Deptartment Management
Quotes/Estimates/Invoices
Deposit Collection and Refunds
Tax Calculation based on Ship Address
Back Order Creation and Filling

Multi-store Inventory Management

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

Store Management

Enforceable Business Rules on Discounts & Returns
Employee Roles and Permissions
Minimum Deposit Requirements
Store Transfers
Support of Contactless Payments
PCI/PA-DS Compliant
Flexible and Filterable Reports

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

Create Private Wholesale Online Stores for your Preferred Customers

Create customized private wholesale ecommerce stores for your top customers using WooCommerce as integrated with MicroBiz. You can use these private websites to offer the ability to set wholesale pricing for your top customers in a secure password protected private ecommerce site. You can also create a private site for a specific customer or create a site offering wholesale pricing to a variety of preferred customers. You can completely hide your private WooCommerce wholesale stores from the public, with only invited customers being able to access a microsite with a username and password.

The products for sale in the private store can be displayed in an easy-to-use table format, enabling a wholesale buyer to more easily find items and select configurations. You can manage user registration of the employees of your customers – and assign discounts and special prices for items in each private microsite.

Sales in your private online stores are integrated with MicroBiz Cloud, so that online sales are captured and managed in MicroBiz, and changes in inventory levels sync between WooCommerce site and your store MicroBiz POS system.