Outdoor Recreation Sports and Hunting Retailer Point of Sale

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Hunting and outdoor recreation sports stores specialize in the sale of hunting, fishing, camping, shooting and outdoor gear and related gear and accessories. The best outdoor recreation sports retailer POS systems closely track inventory, manage the sale of a variety of clothing, shoes, gear and equipment. Outdoor sports stores can range in size from very small niche shops focusing only on certain sport (such as fishing and tackle, camping, or shooting sports). These smaller niche store often process a large number of special orders, or the sale of items not usually carried in stock. Larger outdoor sports outlets sell a wide range of related merchandise under one roof, such as firearms, hunting gear, clothing and shoes and hardware. Stores in this category may also include gun shops, gun ranges and shooting sports retailers. Many outdoor recreation stores also offer repairs and rental services and need point of sale software that includes work order and services management.

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Outdoor Sports Store POS specific features in MicroBiz Cloud include:

Special orders/back orders – allows you to track special order items from the customer order to receiving, to inventory to the POS transaction.
Customer deposits – accept and track customer deposits.
Layaways – collect deposits while holding the item out of inventory.
Phone order support – ability to manage phone orders for pick-up, shipment or delivery through the Orders in Progress module.
Minimum deposit requirements – Enforce management rules such as minimum deposits on orders at the store level.
Multi-dimensional inventory grid – to easily manage multi-attribute items such fishing tackle, hunting apparel and footwear with color, size, style and/or width or other attributes.
Product images – so clerks can see a picture of the product being rung-up at the register.
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 – or items with serial numbers.

Service department management – allows you to efficiently manage a service department – you can bill by hour or by job, as well as bill for services.
Service item history – Track and view service history of customer-owned items checked in for service work, such as boats and sports equipment.
Customer-based group pricing or discounts – set different pricing tiers or discounts based on customer level or group.
Add multiple customer-owned item to work orders – manage repairs of multiple items within a single work order record – so you can add and track multiple items being repaired by an individual or family a single service record.
Markdown management – easily manage group markdowns, quantity pricing, multi-buy items, promotional pricing and bulk discounting.
Customer sales history look-up – look-up customer purchases by item or transactions from the front register (great for looking up reorders of ammunition).
Email marketing – deliver targeted campaigns by querying and downloading customer data for use with popular email marketing applications.

Killer POS Feature for Hunting and Outdoor Sports Stores: Work Orders

MicroBiz supports matrix or configurable products that come in different size, color and other variants – such as hunting apparel and gear and fishing lures. 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. Matrix show open stock, committed stock, price, cost and reorder levels of matrix SKUs all in a single table view.

In addition to the hunting and outdoor sports POS specific capabilities listed above, MicroBiz Cloud includes the following standard features and functionality needed to manage an outdoor sport, bait and tackle, hunting, shooting sports, camping or other specialty outdoor recreational store:

Catalog Management

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

Multi-store Inventory Management

Minimum Inventory Reorder Points
Special Order Tracking (ties vendor shipment to customer order)
CSV File Import of Products & Inventory
Inventory Adjustment Audit Records
Purchase Orders/Vendor Shipments

Register

Customer Sales History Look-up
Register Close/End of Day Reports
Integrated Credit Card Processing
Advanced Filterable Product Search
Editable Item Descriptions on Receipt
Register Quick Pick Keys
Store Credits
Gift Cards
Customizable Receipts
Custom Tenders
Print or Email Receipts
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)

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

Store Management

Store Transfers (multi-store)
Support of Contactless Payments
PCI/PA-DS Compliant Payment Processing
Flexible and Filterable Reports
Enforceable Business Rules on Discounts, Returns
Employee Roles and Permissions
Minimum Deposit Requirements

Orders

Deposit Collection and Refunds
Tax Calculation based on Ship Address
Backorder Creation and Filling
Quotes/Estimates/Invoices
Check-in of Customer Items for Repair
Phone Orders/Layaways
Special Orders (out of stock items)
Pick-up, Shipping, Delivery Dashboard
Repairs/Service Dept Management

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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