Giftware
Giftware retailing all wrapped up
Maximising sales, managing seasonal shifts, identifying trends and minimising markdowns are crucial factors in the fast-changing giftware sector.
With Futura at your side, you have a powerful yet easy-to-use EPOS, inventory management and warehouse solution that puts you in control.
Gain the tools needed for efficient transactions, comprehensive management, and effective omni-channel sales, all while optimizing inventory and providing great customer service.
Effortless Retail Management for Giftware Retailers
Fast transaction processing, flexible product categories, and quick item lookup. Easily manage diverse inventory, including items requiring special orders, to ensure a smooth checkout experience and reduced wait times, even during peak periods.
Comprehensive Inventory Control and Sales Insights
Advanced reporting tools provide valuable insights into sales patterns, identify best-sellers, and deliver real-time stock visibility.
Features like recommended re-ordering, automatic replenishments and stock allocations help maintain optimal stock levels year-round, reducing markdowns and avoiding overstocking.
Seamless Omni-Channel Experience
Manage sales and stock in-store and online effortlessly with Futura’s real-time inventory tracking. As your giftware business expands, easily add new features like e-gift cards and customer loyalty programs to stay competitive and provide an exceptional customer experience across all channels.
Key Features include
Futura's robust and scalable platform grows with your business, ensuring you always have the tools to improve efficiency, enhance customer satisfaction, and increase profitability. Whether you manage one store or several, sell on line and across marketplaces, Futura is the retail management solution you need.
- Loyalty programs, Gift cards, and special offers management
- Fast and intuitive EPOS system for smoother transactions
- Real-time stock visibility across multiple locations and channels
- Automatic recommended reordering
- Intelligent stock replenishments using minimums and continually calculated optimum target stock
- Seamless integration to online stores and marketplaces
- Order Management and fulfilment with scanner based Pick, Pack, Dispatch
Futura have always been great to work with and continuously develop the product. Everything that you need to make the right business decisions is there for you and the stock replenishment system is fantastic.
Collectables
Why is Futura the right choice for Giftware Retailers?
User-Friendly EPOS for Efficient Transactions
Futura’s POS is designed with ease of use in mind, providing your staff with a user-friendly platform that requires minimal training.Â
Fast processing: Quickly scan items, capture customer data and offer digital receipts, gift cards and loyalty.
Hotkeys for Popular Items: Customisable hotkeys for commonly sold or difficult to label items to speed up sales, especially during busy periods.
Multiple Payment Methods:Â Support for contactless payments, mobile payments, and gift cards to accommodate modern purchasing habits.
Personalised Service: Discounts, returns, promotions and customer orders are easy to manage
Real time Stock Control
Real-Time Stock Visibility: Provides instant insight into stock levels across multiple locations helping staff check availability instantly.
Goods In: Book goods in via scanners or manual counts, handling under or over deliveries with precision.
Inter-branch transfers:Â Easily move stock between locations to meet demand at peak times.
Simplify stocktaking:Â with handheld scanners or manual lists, and run inventory counts by product hierarchy, attributes, suppliers, or entire stores. Comprehensive reporting helps manage discrepancies and ensure accurate inventory valuation.
Barcode labelling: producing labels manually or automatically at purchase order, goods in and when making price changes, with customizable designs to fit your needs.
Omni- Channel Retailing
Futura seamlessly integrates with all major eCommerce platforms, whether through our Shopify plugin or by leveraging our robust API.
eCommerce Integration:Â Effortlessly synchronize items and stock across online stores and marketplaces.
Unified Customer Experience: Provide a smooth, consistent journey across all touchpoints, with centralised customer management, loyalty points, and gift cards instore and online.
Cross-Channel Promotions:Â Ensure uniform pricing and offers across multiple platforms.
Click and Collect:Â Allow customers to shop online and conveniently pick up in-store.
Order Management and fulfillment: Streamlined order processing with automated order management and pick and pack dispatch all in one place.
Flexible product managememt
Detailed Item Management: Easily organize products by brand, supplier, and attributes with four levels of hierarchy. Customise pricing for different outlets, websites, and currencies.
Powerful Size and Colour Matrix: Easily manage complex product variants by category.
Bulk Importing: Add large numbers of new seasonal products quickly and efficientlyEffortlessly manage bulk product creation using spreadsheet uploads—perfect for launching new seasons with speed and precision.
Optimise your margins with intelligent price maintenance. Futura suggests product pricing to protect margins while factoring in additional costs like shipping and handling.
Flexible Pricing & Promotions: Allows for varied pricing structures, seasonal promotions, discounts, and special offers.
Comprehensive Reporting and Analytics
Our advanced reporting features empower you to view your data at a high level by branch, supplier, brand, or season, or drill down to see the performance of specific products or collections.
Sales Reports: Analyse performance, track sales trends, and make data-driven decisions to boost revenue and optimise operations.
Inventory Reports: Monitor stock levels, track turnover rates, and quickly identify slow-moving items, ensuring you’re always stocked with the right products.
Customer Insights: Gain a deep understanding of your customers’ purchasing behavior and preferences, allowing you to tailor your offerings and enhance customer satisfaction.
Warehouse and Inventory management
Comprehensive Stock Visibility: Monitor inventory across all locations in real-time. Effortlessly manage Goods In, handle over/under deliveries, and track inter-branch transfers.
Efficient Stock Management Tools: Easily execute inventory counts using handheld scanners or manual lists by product attributes, suppliers, or store locations. Barcode labeling at every stage – from purchase orders to price changes – ensures seamless and accurate stock tracking.
Automated Replenishments: Reduce stockouts and overstocking with optimum stock level replenishments based on predictive algorithms, ensuring is always where you need it across all locations.
Order Fulfillment for Online Sales
Order Management: Integrated online sales channels provide real-time inventory updates, eliminating overselling and stock discrepancies. This results in accurate order fulfillment and improved customer satisfaction.
Efficient Pick, Pack, and Dispatch: Streamline your warehouse processes with Futura’s scanner-based picking, packing, and dispatch functions. Timely and accurate order processing ensures fast delivery and high customer satisfaction.
Comprehensive Returns Management: Handle online returns smooth and efficient, enhancing the customer experience and simplifying inventory management.
