Industrial and Janitorial Supplies Point of Sale

Top Industrial Supply POS System

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.  

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.  

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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

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        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.

         

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