Franchise Companies Select Retail Pro
Posted in Franchises on May 8th, 2010 by Ken Sapp – Be the first to commentSome of the most recognized luxury, fashion-apparel and specialty brands in the world use Retail Pro for their company-owned, franchised, and licensed stores. Why should you?
Retail Pro helps the Franchisees run their retail businesses better while equipping Franchisors with clear and accurate information across a network of independently-owned stores. The benefits are many and help both the independent store owners and also the corporate brand owners (franchisors or licensors). Benefits are derived from some of these Retail Pro capabilities:
- Full in-store, back-office and HQ retail functionality in a single system for store chains of any size
- Retail operations and POS software supported in 18 languages in over 60 countries
- Securely exchange approved data between franchisors and franchisees
- Automate mundane tasks of replenishment and sales reporting with outside vendors
- Safely and effectively isolate franchisee retail data from each other
- Enable consolidated reporting at the corporate level that includes all stores and store types
- Group processes and reporting by store type – franchise, company-owned, outlet, etc.
Franchisee/Licensee: Retail Pro is famously easy-to-use and extremely flexible so it can look like it was custom-made for almost any business. Independent store owners require security and privacy of their data while at the same time they want to be electronically linked where needed to their franchisor. Of course it is common for store owners to work with auxiliary vendors and those can be handled with ease. Beyond just Point-of-Sale, Retail Pro handles virtually all aspects of retail operations and is delivered by a global network of experts with deep retail industry expertise.
Franchisor/Licensor: Daily decisions require accurate data on a timely basis from all store types. Retail Pro enables electronic information flow from the network of independently-owned stores to produce consolidated sales views across geographies. And like the franchisees, company-owned stores and outlet stores need a powerful yet easy-to-use retail management system. Using the same retail software across the various store types reduces cost of support and training plus enables consistency in business processes. Retail Pro handles multiple languages and multiple currencies with ease so a brand manager at a franchisor can take his or her products to almost any part of the world without being constrained by their retail technology vendor.
