EPOS
Bike Shop Manager is a bespoke bike rental manager
BIKE SHOP MANAGER BikeShop Manager was created by Doug Stoddart three years ago for his own bike rental shop, using his software development experience to increase the efficiency of his business. Since then Stoddart has launched BikeShop Manager globally. It is hosted on Google’s App Engine infrastructure and handled a whopping 36,000 bike rentals in the summer of 2012 alone. This year, BikeShop Manager has launched
three new features for 2013 to be added to its dedicated, cloud-based system for managing reservations, clients, financial transactions and fleet maintenance. The Online Booking Wizard Module which has been live for over a year now, has been completely re-written to be much more intuitive, fast and customisable by each shop. This now offers a user experience very similar to online car rental. The wizard is easily inserted into existing sites with just a few lines of html, allowing rapid integration and full branding by the host bike shop. Barcode Scanning is a new application written for a small handheld laser scanner which communicates with the BikeShop Manager system over WiFi. The process of checking-in and checking-out is now quick and error-free, we’re told. As an added bonus, Inventory checks, even in dark storage lockups, now only take minutes. Push Notifications uses cutting edge technology to deliver real-time updates to each terminal about things like bookings made by another user or bookings made on line or changes to existing reservations, to keep everyone up to date with what matters to operate a bike rental shop. Doug Stoddart can be contacted on
contact@bikeshopmanager.com, via
www.bikeshopmanager.com or on +33 686 451 310.
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“Citrus-Lime’s Supplier
Integration Module now
partners with Specialized, Giant,
Madison,
Chicken, Fisher and more.”
CITRUS-LIME
Citrus-Lime specialises in providing independent cyclerRetailers with modern and efficient e-commerce, EPOS and stock-control solutions that give them a competitive advantage and the infrastructure on which to build successful retail businesses. The provider is currently launching some key
new features such as the Customer Rewards Scheme and Citrus-Tab – Citrus-Lime’s Integrated Tablet EPOS Solution for retailers. Citrus-Lime’s Customer Rewards Scheme enables customers to build up points on their account, online and in-store, when they purchase a product from a retailer. When the customer has built up a certain number of points they are then issued with a gift voucher which can be redeemed online and in-store. The firm said it sees this as an extremely beneficial feature that will not only help retain customer loyalty, which is obviously a key factor in succeeding in retail and can be used
to promote and encourage repeat sales, but it will also get bike shop company colours into the wallets of bike shop customers by using our designed loyalty cards. Citrus-Tab, the Integrated Tablet EPOS
Solution, comes in two different formats; a Microsoft RMS EPOS-based solution and a Citrus-Store-based system, both of these integrated solutions will enable retailers to provide what the company calls the next generation of customer service. The benefits of this system are multifaceted, a more personal approach to customer sales can be taken, orders can be built on the shop floor to help secure sales, new products can be showcased, alternative colour options can be displayed and retailers can increase the percentage of special orders taken in store. If you are interested in Citrus-Tab, Customer
Rewards or any of Citrus-Lime’s EPOS and Ecommerce features, such as the Supplier Integration Module which now partners with Specialized in addition to Giant, Madison, Chicken Cyclekit, Fisher Outdoor Leisure and many more, contact Citrus-Lime on 0845 603 9254.
CYBERTILL
Today’s cycle EPOS systems need to do more than just manage stock, it needs to be multi- channel, managing loyalty programmes, integrating with ecommerce sites and be accessible from any location, not just in store. Handily, Cybertill does all this and more. Cybertill is web-based, meaning cycle retailers can access it from any location, in the back office, at home, at trade shows, indeed anywhere. One Cybertill cycle
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