How to Manage a Liquor Store with a POS

Manage Your Liquor Store, With a Liquor Store Point of Sale System. Managing a liquor store is a stressful job. You have to manage product, various promotions, employees, and more. By utilizing a liquor store point of sale, you can have peace of mind that everything is running smoothly – especially when you are not … Read more

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.

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How Barcodes Help Inventory Tracking

Inventory Tracking with Barcodes

In the retail industry, using a barcode can help you manage your inventory more accurately. By tracking your inventory by the barcode, you can easy manage orders, receive shipments, and see what is selling within your point of sale system.

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Barcodes are especially helpful when there are multiple products that may have the same UPC code. For example, within the liquor retail industry, for your beer you have your standard brews and your holiday brews. Both products may share the UPC code. If you use a SKU number and a barcode, you can easily manage the items as standalones and the inventory of those items.

Some may not have implemented barcodes within their stores yet because they feel it is difficult and not cost effective. That is false. Implementing barcodes is very easy and cost effective. If you have the right point of sale system, they will have a ticket designer in the back office where you can easily print tickets when you have item price changes, promotion changes, or simply adding in new items. The ticket designer should be able to work with a ticket printer of your choosing. Ticket printers are typically a zebra printer or a regular printer with Avery labels.

If you’re still not convinced to implement barcodes yet, here is the number one reason (besides inventory) to implement: A seamless checkout process for the customer.

Making Package Store Inventory Easy

Make Inventory Control Easier In Your Store

Managing your package store inventory can be a daunting task when you are selling product in multiple different ways. mPower Beverage makes managing this inventory easier. In mPower under the item, you can manage your inventory in multiple ways by using the SKU number. This allows you to manage your cases, packs, and singles not only under 1 item, but keep those with the same UPC code, separate.

What is the difference between UPC code and SKU number? Why is it important?

The UPC code on an item is typically 12 digits. These codes are used for tracking inventory that is sold within stores. The UPC code identifies the manufacturer and specified product so that it may be sold easily. Unfortunately, the UPC code does not allow liquor store owners to manage their inventory under a single UPC. Seasonal beers and vintage wines may share the UPC code with other items which can cause chaos while trying to track inventory. Chaos can be avoided by using the SKU number alongside the UPC.

The SKU number is a unique identifier for an item and is used to manage product. The items in mPower are tracked by the UPC code and the SKU number. The SKU is specifically assigned to a product for internal operations. Clients can assign their own SKU or allow the system to automatically assign a number.

Within mPower Beverage your product will be managed by both UPC and SKU. The UPC is used to scan product for a seamless checkout process and easy inventory count. The SKU will help you manage your seasonal and vintages separately from other product. The SKU will also help you manage your cases, packs, and singles seamlessly under 1 item.

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When making inventory changes (think inventory counts) you will upload the SKU and quantity. When checking out customers, the cashiers will scan the barcode and if there is more than 1 item sharing the UPC code, it will ask the cashier to select the correct item. For example, if they purchase Sam Adams Seasonal 6-pack, it will ask the cashier to select “Sam Adams” or “Sam Adams Seasonal.”

By utilizing both the UPC code and SKU number you can manage your inventory more accurately and provide customers a seamless checkout process.

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Key Components of Liquor Store Inventory Control A single liquor store could have thousands of inventory items at a given time. These items can be on shelves, in a storage room, or even a warehouse. Controlling the inventory is crucial to the stores profits. Therefore, it is important to properly manage your inventory. By having … Read more