Have A Smooth Holiday Season With mPower

Holidays Are Hard.

Let’s face it. Holidays come with lots of customers, lots of extra product and extra promotions. Managing inventory can get a little more hectic around the holidays and sometimes, it’s just hard to keep up with.

mPower Beverage is designed with you, the Liquor Store Owner/Manager/Employee, in mind. We know running a business is tough, and we have the solution that will help you get through the holidays, and year-round, more smoothly.

How can mPower help your busy days run smooth?

A Modern, Easy to use, POS Interface.

This is listed first because you need to be able to get customers in and out the door quickly. By utilizing an easy to use interface, your employees can help customers find product and check them out without any hassle. To see more screenshots of what our POS interface looks like and its features, click here.

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Total Inventory Control

As mentioned earlier, managing inventory is a huge part of owning a liquor store. mPower gives you total control of your inventory, as well as complete visibility. You can track various categories for your items such as country, region, appellation, and more. With purchase orders, you can create one order that automatically creates separate orders for each vendor. When receiving orders, you can do quick receive or edit the receiving quantities before accepting them into inventory. You can also run a multitude of reports such as daily sales summary and comparison reports. If you wish to see your reports in graph format, you can easily hit the analyze button and the system will transform the data into a graph. Learn more about analyzing reports in mPower by clicking here.

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Automated Ordering

mPower has many need-to-order reports to help the purchase decision process. These reports allow you to see what you may need to order based on case deal offers, minimums/maximums, day supply on hand, and more. To utilize these reports, you will run the report, edit it as needed, and send to purchase request. The purchase order will then be created for all need-to-order items. Learn more about our need-to-order reports by clicking here.

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Customer Management & Promotions

Managing your customers and promotions has never been easier than with mPower. For your customer management you can track their address, phone number, email and more. You can see their purchase history, track their rewards points, and manage the customer groups they are a member of. With promotions, you can apply a simple discount (% or $ amount), mix and match, and price point. You can apply the promotions based on specified days or times, have them apply to specified items or merchandise levels, and apply them to specified customer groups. Learn more about our promotions by clicking here and learn more about customer management by clicking here.

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Employee Roles & Rights

Manage what your employees can see, and do, on both the Back Office and Point of Sale. Do you want your managers to have access to create purchase orders but not see certain reports? Do you not want your cashiers to be allowed to give manual discounts? Manage all of this and more, giving yourself a peace of mind. Additionally, create employee templates for easily adding new season employees. Create a template with rights you want them to have and apply it to any applicable employee. You can also assign your employees a username and password to login on the point of sale to easily track and manager their hours worked.

Gift Baskets

During the holidays, you may want to put together a gift basket of various items you carry in the store. mPower Beverage has a built-in tool, called “maintain kits,” that allows you to create gift baskets and manage that inventory that is used. You can add as many, or as little, items as you wish to the basket and price it out when finished. The tool is easy to use, and you may also print off a barcode for the item for a seamless checkout at the register.

 

There are more ways mPower can help you not only have a smooth holiday season, but run your business smoothly year-round. Additional features include, but are not limited to, centralized database, cloud server hosting, remote access, and EMV integration.
 
For more information or to see an in-depth demonstration, please contact our sales team at (877) 396-0141 or fill out our contact form by clicking here.

Upgrading Your Server Soon? Consider Cloud Server Hosting With mPower Beverage.

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mPower Beverage Cloud Server Hosting

If you have been thinking about upgrading your current local server at your liquor store, consider mPower Beverage’s cloud server hosting option.

Below are a few of the amazing benefits for hosting your server on our cloud:
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  1. Reduced IT Costs

    By outsourcing your server needs to cloud hosting, you eliminate the additional costs associated with running, maintaining, and periodically updating your local server. Instead, you will pay one monthly low rate for cloud server hosting.

  2. Stability

    Cloud server hosting provides a stable, fast, and secure environment for your database. Instead of needing to continually update and replace your main server, it provides a seamless experience for you. If you for any reason have software or server issues, mPower Beverage’s amazing support team will be able to assist you quickly and effectively.

  3. Increased Performance

    Optimize your mPower Back Office speed by utilizing the cloud. We utilize the Microsoft Azure platform providing excellent internet speed and bandwidth. Running on a powerful server with high speed internet will give you the best performance opportunity.

  4. Remote Access

    You no longer need an external static IP address to utilize mPower Back Office from off-site. Simply install Back Office on a home or laptop computer and you will be able to access your system remotely.

  5. API

    mPower’s API allows third-party integrations to be easier than ever. Choose the security rights you would like your third-party to have (sales, customers, promotions, insert sales, etc), we create them a special security token, and they use that token to pull your item information. The API also allows for sales inserts which means the third-party can insert sales back into mPower. (Please note, not all companies have written back to mPowers API at this time).

The cloud server also offers real-time backups and a register fail-over.

What about the cost?

Below is the monthly cost of the cloud server only:

1 Lane: $30 per month
2 Lanes: $60 per month
3-5 Lanes: $100 per month
6-10 Lanes: $150 per month
10+ Lanes: $200 per month

The cost is per location, per month.

If you are a current customer and would like to learn more about mPower Beverage’s cloud server hosting (or to get started!), please contact our support representatives at (972) 234-5884 ext. 1.

If you are a potential customer, please contact our sales representatives at (877) 396-0141 or click here to fill out the contact form for a formal quote.