There are so many
items to keep track of in a clothing retail store. ShopKeep makes
managing even the largest inventories a much simpler process. Know exactly
what’s selling (and what isn’t) so every item you sell is there on merit. Check
the data, fine-tune your inventory, boost sales, repeat. With ShopKeep, you can
enable triggers to alert you when items are running low in-stock. You can
update your inventory by item, en masse, or migrate thousands of items from
other systems using their bulk management features.
In 2004, Jason
Richelson opened a wine store in Brooklyn, New York. Over the next few
years, one store grew into four as he added a second location, a grocery store
and a coffee shop, and keeping track of a seven million dollar business, 70
employees, sales and inventory became increasingly important and more
complicated. He probably would have done well opening fashion boutiques, but
wine is probably the next best thing. We won’t fault him for going into booze
rather than apparel.
At the time, Jason
used a traditional Windows-based point of sale system from a large
software company and regularly experienced a considerable amount of
technological problems. In 2008 while on vacation, the stores’ server crashed
and Jason had to essentially close all of the stores indefinitely. As soon as
he returned home, Jason tried to find a cloud-based
point of sale system but he couldn’t find anything. ShopKeep was
born that day to help stop this sort of issue from happening again in the future
to him or to others.
Today, Jason
Richelson and Norm Merritt lead a very talented group of people who work
diligently to ensure that each of their merchants is well cared for. From coffee
shops in Chicago and fashion boutiques in Boston to bakeries in Billings and
restaurants in Riverside, ShopKeep is now used to ring up hundreds of thousands
of transactions each and every day. Information about each transaction securely
stored in the cloud.
They turn iPads into
cash registers by providing point of sale hardware and cloud-based
software to more than 16,000 independent businesses across the United
States, Guam and Canada. Founded and designed by a small business owner,
ShopKeep gives customers management tools and data analytics that are
usually only accessible to larger companies.
If you own a clothing store and would like
your small businesses to succeed, you should investigate numerous cloud point of
sale options. Make sure ShopKeep is one that you add to your list to
review.
Learn more about Point of Sale
systems in our apparel industry technology section.
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