The Clearly Retail system offers all of the common features you need to
operate your business plus some exciting new ones that allow you to take your
business to new levels.
Platforms
- Supports multiple database systems:
- Microsoft Jet (included, for small enterprises)
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL (included)
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Clearly Retail will run on any Java 2 complient Virtual Machine and is fully supported
on the following platforms:
- Windows 95, 98, Millennium Edition, NT 4.0, and 2000.
- Redhat Linux 6.2 or higher
Merchandise Organization
- Hierarchical group structure to organize your inventory in an easy and logical manner
- Merchandise can belong to one or more logical groups
- Simple and easy to use merchandise editor
- Fractional quantities for items are supported (ie. 4.56 units)
- Clearly Retail includes a system for bundled items, which can associate one item to multiple other items. Upon purchasing this item, it will automatically include the bundled items on the invoice as well.
- Tracks on-order quantities, in-stock, item cost, and descriptions of each items
- Sale price of an item can be in the currency of your choice
- Serial number entry supported at the time of sale with recording of this information for invoices
- An Inventory Browser that enables you to browse your inventory in a tree-like structure based on your logical groupings
- Ability To make mass updates, such as inventory levels, and re-organizing merchandise groupings
Taxes, Discounts, and Surcharges
- Flexible discount/surcharge/taxation system
- Supports regular and compound taxes (tax-on-tax)
- Percentage based or fixed-rate adjustments (ie. Bottle deposits)
- Adjustments can be applied to any number of logical groups, making it easy to apply changes to multiple items at once
- Unlimited number of group and discount/tax combinations
- Changes are made instantaneously, causing no need for messy program re-starts or end-of-day pre-processing
Sales
- Sales can be tracked by “anonymous” cash customer, as well as by individual customer
- Versatile searching capability for customers and/or merchandise
- Clearly Retail makes it a breeze to refund, re-price, or re-quantify items during a sale
- Large print display makes it easier for employees to see the screen and focus on the customer instead of the terminal during a sale
- Customer invoice history can be accessed from within a sale
- Invoice payments and credits can be processed within a sale at the touch of a button
- Taxes can be adjusted at the time of sale to accommodate tax-exempt or adjusted parties
- Payments are made easy with Clearly Retail, as it accomodates multiple payment types, at time of sale, in multiple currencies
- Automatic conversion of accepted foreign currencies
- Based on employee security privileges, Clearly Retail can ask for a reason when a refund is given, or an item's price is changed
Multi-Currency Support
- Automatic exchange rate conversion for incoming foreign currency
- Sales terminals have user-definable base currency of cash
- Merchandise pricing per item can be in a user-defined currency
Payment Methods
- User defined payment method types
- Individual customer accounts supported for charges/credits on their account
Employees
- *Unlimited employee accounts (*employee limit is actually reached around one billion)
- Employees have individual security permissions that can grant or deny access to parts of the Clearly Retail system
- Cash till payouts are at the touch of a button and record amounts, taxes, and descriptions for the end-of-period report
Ordering
- A list of supplier contact information can be maintained within Clearly Retail
- Order system tracks internal and external order numbers
- A “suggest” feature that suggests items to order based on supplier, in stock, on-order, and minimum inventory levels
- Internal cost amounts on inventory are updated automatically
- Receive orders with a click of a button
- Partial order receiving, allowing inventory to be updated for incomplete orders
- Order information can be changed, including adding and removing items, from the time the order was placed to the time all items are received
Invoices and Receipts
- Sales have option for printing a receipt, a full-page invoice, or both
- Invoices and receipts have customizable headers and footers
- Invoices can easily contain your company log
Daily cash tills and shifts
- Flexible cash till support
- Employees can each have their own cash tills, or can share a cash till on multiple terminals
- Shared cash till support for single station terminals that have multiple employees using the same cash at the same time
- Cash tills can be in any currency entered into Clearly Retail
- Cash till reconciliation tracks all currencies received in a till
- End-of-day reports are point-and-click then saved within the system for easy retrieval
Customers
- Unlimited number of customer records
- Records detailed customer information within Clearly Retail if specified
- Individual customers can have pre-defined credit limits enforced by the system
- Messaging system for customer notes, so if a customer with a note is brought up by the system, the employee will see the message before each sale
Reporting
- Recalling common reports are slick and easy with Clearly Retail
- Previous invoices can be recalled by invoice number, date, or specified customer
- Previous End of Period reports are stored within Clearly Retail and can easily be accessed
- Invoice transaction logs are available for each end-of-period report
- Inventory summary and details reports based on groupings
- One-touch customer-aged accounts receivable listing
- Customer credit limit reporting
- Report Wizard provides user-created reports, enabling users to get exactly the information they need from Clearly Retail. Such report types include:
- Order Detail and Summary Reports
- Customer and Customer Sales Reports
- Employee Reports
- Invoice Reports
- General Inventory
- Payouts, and Exception Reports
- End of Period and Cash till reports
- Reports can be previewed and printed to local or network printers
- Reports can be exported from Clearly Retail for use in other applications such as
- Microsoft Office
- Adobe Acrobat PDF, for sharing over the internet
System Features
- Easy navigation with large buttons and easy to read text
- Newly designed, Windows based system which allows for advanced mouse navigations
- Also includes complete keyboard-only control of sales system to save employees time
- Manager override at any time for a sales terminal. A manager can login giving permission to an employee to perform a restricted function, and then logout at the press of a button leaving the original employee intact
- Context-sensitive help from anywhere within Clearly Retail
- Clearly Retail client terminals can connect to any Clearly Retail server accessible by the local network or the internet if configured
- Optional encryption of data stream between Clearly Retail clients and server
- Socks Proxy support (for access through a firewall), and customizable server port numbers
- Small format receipt printers supported (such as the Epson TM-U200) as well as standard printers installed through the operating system
- Electronic cash drawer support
Server Administration
- Clearly Retail contains a server administration tool which can administer one or more Clearly Retail servers from anywhere on the network
- Advanced configuration from this module, including database connection setup for external databases
- Individual stores can be added, edited, and removed
- Administrator passwords can be reset for a given store in this module
If you have any questions concerning a program feature, please contact our sales team
at sales@clearlyretail.com.
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