Store management is never easy. Anything can happen, loss is inevitable. Knowing the difficulties of store management is one of the ways to help you have appropriate management as well as solve problems in a timely manner.
1. Too many items, hard to control
Called grocery business, there must be a lot of items, each grocery store has hundreds of different types of goods, even if a store is a little big, the number can be up to thousands. product. How can I remember all these products?
Grocery sales books do not really help much for business people
The solution to this problem is very simple, just 1 software to help manage all the products in the grocery store is everything in the palm of your hand.
For products with barcodes: You use a barcode scanner or simply need a smartphone to read the code and then enter product information, then when selling, you just need to scan the barcode, detailed information of the product. product will be displayed on the sales screen.
For products without barcodes: You can create barcodes yourself and print them out with a barcode printer or print with a normal printer with the Print Barcode feature on Sapo. In addition, you can also manage products by SKU code by giving each product an internal goods management code, when selling, just enter the code, information with the selling price will appear, you will not be in pain. Start with remembering a hundred things.
The trend of more convenient grocery store management is increasingly preferred by business shop owners. With a modern grocery store management like using software, your store management work is both easier and business efficiency is higher.
Thanks to modern technology, with a barcode scanner and receipt printer that syncs with the software, you'll be in control of all aspects of your grocery business.
Thanks to the use of modern technology, many people no longer have to rely too much on grocery sales books for revenue and loss statistics. From there, improve business efficiency, expand store size, invest in opening 2-3 more grocery stores in different locations and make a profit.
2. Payment is slow, takes time when crowded
Not only the variety of products, each item has several different models and categories, the price of each type is different, if there is no appropriate way to manage the grocery store, it is easy to confuse and cause damage. Economic.
If you are selling to many customers with hundreds of products at the same time, how can the grocery store records accurately record them all? It is very easy to make mistakes and add up and still make mistakes.
Not to mention when customers come in to buy a lot at a time, wait in line to pay, when you are forced to pay quickly, you may remember the wrong price. Thus, the business is very easy to go into deficit. Therefore, a more convenient store management solution is needed, which is to use sales management software.
If you have a grocery management software, you only need to use a barcode scanner "heading" 1 to have product information and product price available. Even without investing in a scanner, with just one smartphone, you can scan barcodes, sell goods, and print invoices like a supermarket.
For products without barcodes, enter the SKU code, product price is already available in the software. The total amount will also be automatically calculated and printed out a detailed invoice, you don't need to press the calculator to add and subtract and then write it down on paper. Customers do not have to wait long, you have more hands-free sales.
3. Goods are available or out of stock, easy to lose
In the 4.0 era, if anything can be done by machines instead of people, people tend to choose machines instead, which saves time and effort and brings higher efficiency.
With grocery business too, store management is more convenient, more modern is the need and trend that is welcomed by all business people. Because the grocery sales book only partially helps you to make statistics of the amount of inventory in the warehouse, it cannot give you an accurate and fast number of imports and exports with a huge amount of goods.
Failure to manage inventory not only reduces revenue due to loss of customers, but besides that, many items in the grocery store are very small (such as soap bars, pens, toothpick packs ...) Some are gnawed by cockroaches, or guests "handy" pocket, staff "handy" take and use... you can't control it either.
Don't worry, once you have Sapo POS, all the inventory of each item will be in the palm of your hand. The inventory number of each product is displayed in the Sapo POS administration.
When importing goods, the quantity of goods will be added to the inventory quantity, when selling, the inventory quantity will be automatically subtracted in the software.
In addition, the Checkout feature will help you understand the difference in the quantity of goods, how much are in excess, and at the same time manage groups of causes of loss for timely handling measures.
4. Never get out of the store
Maybe many people will say that many goods are okay, once you get used to it, you will remember it all. But you will soon realize the problem, one fine day you have a busy job, have to go out, you are sick and cannot sell…
At that time, besides you, no one "sells acquaintances" to stand at the store for you and you only have to temporarily close the shop for a few days.
In addition, if you want to expand your business and need to hire employees, to train a new employee to be able to remember all the prices of goods, get used to the arrangement in the store, the time must be calculated in a whole month.
Grocery business always keeps you busy
In order for the replacement to manage the store more conveniently and accurately, a solution is needed that is to use Sapo POS software.
If you want free time to take care of yourself and your family, you should use sales management software to support you. Once the software is available, the product details, selling price, and quantity of goods in stock are all there.
Besides, the note feature Storage Point will help you to record the location of the products. For example, product A you mark Storage point is in “Shelf B1” or simply “Carton in the corner near the window”, then no matter you or anyone selling goods can easily find the product.
5. Sell as much as you can, don't know how to profit or lose
Grocery sales bookkeeping can be confusing because you may miss some items when the store is overcrowded. While not being able to control the products and prices, it is difficult to make statistics of profit and loss.
Grocery sales often have a lot of customers buying a few items individually, so the money collected is very petty, so if you don't calculate it, sometimes the owner doesn't know how much revenue, profit or loss, what items. selling…
With a system of more than 20 types of detailed reports, it will help shop owners understand the business situation immediately, without using books or having to calculate headaches anymore. You will be able to manage:
- Store revenue, real money
- Cost, profit and loss of the store
- Cash flow available at the store
- Import-N
- Import suggestions
- Performance of each employe
6. Debt management with suppliers
Cash management with suppliers is also a problem that makes grocery store owners spend a lot of effort. What items to import? How many? Import unit price? Which import order has been paid? Any application yet?… If there is no management method, it is easy to make mistakes, causing financial losses.
Faced with these series of questions, the grocery store book is not the best solution for you. To do business longer and more efficiently, more professionally, you should choose the most modern and convenient way to manage your store, which is to use software.
With Sapo, you can create purchase orders, track debts with suppliers. In Sapo administration, go to Reports >Report accounts payable. Here you can summarize your supplier's liabilities during the billing period.
These are the 6 most common problems that a grocery store often encounters. To do business and manage sales effectively, you should use Sapo POS software to help you sell easily. If you do not have Sapo POS, you can sign up for a free 7-day trial today to experience the useful features of Sapo.