Feature of the Month: Smart Stock Management!

As we approach the busy Spring and Easter period, we just wanted to highlight one of our in-built management features that can really help you with the organisation of your salon during peak seasons. So, let’s talk Stock-Control!

Presumably, you all run stock takes on a regular basis to check that your inventories match up. Whether this be on paper, or through your own current stock-management system, it is imperative to be on top of this within any business. However, by using a barcoded, computerised solution, this can improve the accuracy of your stock-control methods and have a whole range of other benefits too.

Within Salon Tracker, we integrate with a full POS system, meaning that not only can you use the barcodes to speed up the transaction of your products, you can also keep track of every sale! This being said, when you run your stock level reports on a morning, you can then go about your day at the salon like you normally would, putting sales through etc, so that on the evening you can re-print these reports and the levels should add up, based on how many retail sales you have made. If there are any discrepancies, this then highlights to you that there has been a problem somewhere. So, for example, say one of your reports was showing that you had 1 less of a particular product than you should have, you can then use Salon Tracker’s action-log reports or individual sales breakdowns to audit where a potential mistake may have been made.

From time to time however, there is the unfortunate case of client (and sometimes even staff) theft. In these instances, there is unfortunately little you can do other than the usual precautions (CCTV, stock checks per day) to prevent this. However, our software again has other smart-tools built in to help further protect your business from employee theft, one being ‘permission-based staff user levels’. Our in-built permissions give salons the control to be able to manage which employees have the ability to update and edit stock levels, so that it is not physically possible for everyone to have access to this. This means no one can tamper with levels to try and get away with malicious behaviour.

Other general benefits of our stock control feature are improved salon organisation. As with a smart stock-management system, you can improve the efficiency of your salon by not needing to have access overstock – as your system will highlight your best sellers and the timescales in which products sell out.

Productivity is increased as you’re not having to stand there manually counting items, instead you print off 1 report and check it against your sales and current stock count, to know whether this is correct or not.

It also saves your employees and customers time, as not only are you saving on the manual stock-count, you are also saving on having to write on a paper tracker each time you sell a retail product, as our system will do this for you.

And finally, if you need to manage stock for multiple sites, our Salon Tracker headquarters feature allows you to be able to do this from one main system. You can run stock reports from each individual site to check the stock levels. Plus, if you manage overall stock from your head office, you can also manage head office stock by accepting and shipping product orders from each site using Salon Tracker’s back office features. Saving you time and money of having to delegate this task to several members of staff per site.

If you aren’t a user of our software currently and would like to take a look over Salon Tracker, please don’t hesitate to contact a member of our team on 0113 350 8230 and they will be happy to show how the features work!

We look forward to hearing from you and keeping your salon stock secure.

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