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One of the biggest advantages you’ll get from using ThunderPOS over a more generic system is the amount of information that can be set about each product in inventory management. These will give your store an advantage over using something like Lightspeed or Quickbooks. Many of these are specifically used for industries like a friendly local game store, a record store, or a vape shop.

There are many, many things you can set about every item. Some of them, virtually any point of sale worth using will have – things like the name of the item or the SKU. However, here we’re going to go over the more specialized ones.

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There are many products you may be selling that should only be bought by those of a certain age. This is particularly important to vape shops. Often, by state law, failing to control who you’re selling either tobacco or vape supplies to could result in fines or loss of your business license.

Some states will even perform sting operations, which can result in great legal difficulties.

ThunderPOS gives you tools to help avoid these problems. These tools also can be used to make entering a customer simpler. Let us show you how to keep your vape supplies or other age restricted items secure from underaged purchasers.

Continue reading “Age Restricted Items and Driver’s License Scanning”

There are a lot of options for how to handle conditions within the system for music stores and game stores. These work great for many purposes where copies of items will generally fall within the conditions. For example, one near mint-condition copy of many video games or vinyl records is much like another copy of the same item and condition.

However, there are items where this isn’t the case, where other attributes beyond just condition may greatly change the pricing between items. This could be stamps, coins, comic books or rarer media items like the above.

The example we’re going to use here is that of instruments in a music store. Specifically, we’re going to set up copies of a Gibson Les Paul Standard ’60s guitar.

Continue reading “Collectible Copies in a Music Store”

In the most recent set of updates to the Windows version, an emphasis has been placed on performance improvements. Especially for cloud customers, and for additional stations in environments where the network is slow. We’d like to highlight a few areas where this may be noticeable for customers. These are applicable to versions 21.5.1.0 or higher.

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Available through the backoffice, you can manage your employees’ upcoming shifts, making it easy to see who’s working when. You can reach this screen by going through the employee menu and selecting the scheduler option along the top. This method of employee scheduling can increase your manager’s efficiency greatly.

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ThunderPOS Loyalty is now available for users on our Cloud POS option! For full information on this exciting way for you to connect with your customers, see our new page on the product, or the setup video included below.

Record stores, we now have an extensive database integration available with Discogs included in ThunderPOS, both cloud and local editions!

For a full demonstration of this in action, see our youtube video below:

For our customers using a cloud database, we have an exciting new set of options coming up. In addition to the existing Windows client, you will be able to manage your store through a website from your desktop, phone, or other mobile device. This will initially include managing items and customers, viewing many reports, managing employees, and other functionality. Plans are to expand this over time as well.

Continue reading “Web-Based Backoffice Interface Coming Soon”

We’ve got a new register design available on the online exchange in the register designer for those looking for something new! And particularly stores who ONLY do new things may find some of these intriguing..

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As a reminder, releasing today we are offering support for marketing through Twitter and through text messaging. These features, among the most requested following last year’s major updates, allow for help with promoting your store in two similar but distinct ways.

The Twitter integration allows you to link an account to your point of sale and have your employees see incoming direct messages or mentions. This can allow you to reply to customers who might have complaints or concerns. You can also schedule tweets to send out on a recurring basis, or send out information when you get particularly interesting new stock in.

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