NCR Counterpoint provides a customized apparel solution for retail and wholesale clothing locations

Keep track of a variety of item details defined by your apparel organization, manage inventory and automate purchasing all from a centralized system. Communicate with your customers to ensure effective marketing efforts and improve your customer’s experience, be it retail POS or wholesale, be it multi-site or single location.

Apparel Page

Track Detailed Item Information

Track the size, color, and length of an item and its corresponding margin at the dimension level for your clothing apparel inventory … track ordering and reporting information specific for the retail clothing and wholesale apparel industry.   Factor all the costs of exchange rates, and landed costs, such as duty and freight in multiple currencies.

Sales associates can access item substitutes and view the apparel inventory quantities across multiple locations directly from the Point of Sale or using our mobile app.

Increase Sales

Increase revenue through our built-in customer loyalty programs, upsell or suggest related items, and offer Accounts Receivable or a full layaway program, all through one apparel point of sale system

With our clothing POS and Wholesale software system, you can monitor Sales Rep productivity in units and dollars sold per hour, or per month, or any user defined time period. Calculate sales commissions for region or store associates based the sale amount or gross profit, by Brand or commodity.

Improve Customer Service

Manage sales, returns, orders, special orders, backorders, and layaways on the same transaction. Generate PO’s for orders and special orders straight from the sales screen, coordinating Drop Ships, or consolidate them with automatic reorders, saving on shipping costs and time. Sales and Customer Service associates can access PO information such as ETA’s and tracking information right from the POS or Wholesale sales screen. All defined by your apparel organization’s needs. 

Our Special order capabilities allow you to sell your apparel items that you don’t carry in stock, such as made-to-measures or items stocked by your vendors. Track special order items from the customer order through receiving, managing the inventory throughout the process, be it through the POS, Online, or Wholesale.

Multiple payment types, coupled with user definable, intuitive touch screens allow for maximum flexibility for the client, streamlined for the unique needs of your organizations customer service values.

System Features

  • Centralized inventory with one SKU and centralized Barcodes
  • Multiple Barcodes per items (which will also help in converting items from your current system to the CounterPoint System, as well as eliminate the internal cost of re-tagging items). Use Apparel Vendor Barcodes for greater efficiency
  • Mass retail and price changes
  • Physical Counts through inventory sheets, or hand held data collectors
  • Electronic packing-slip & invoice matching (vouchering) … increases accuracy of item cost analysis
  • Item notes of sales information at the Point of Sale assist the sales staff in communicating item features with clients 
  • Substitute item suggestion
  • Special notes can be triggered by an item as a prompt for the sales associate and/or printed on client receipts
  • Kitting of Apparel items to create packages for your clients
  • Sale pricing capabilities including
    • Mix and match codes
    • By Customer group
    • Automatic staff purchase prices
    • Vendor
    • Item
    • Item category and user defined profile codes
    • Special limited time automatic promotions
  • Back order client requests for sold out items​, then notify clients upon receipt of a bulk order​
  • Sell a broader range of items from a catalog that you don’t normally stock
    • A customer sale can generate a PO, then emailed directly to the vendor 
      • Can be combined with automatic reorder items to save on shipping costs
      • Upon receipt of the item, the receiver is notified, and then can either notify the sale rep or contact the client directly
    • At all stages of the process, the sale rep can monitor the progress at the POS screen with ETA date and status information
      • Efficiently track the various items of the order, from various vendors, and ETA’s​
      • Efficiently manage the client’s order as they change their mind
  • Automatic apparel reorder program, initiated:
    • By Location specific min/max 
    • Suggested stock based on historic sales, with seasonal variables 
    • Location specific order models
  • Drop ship functionalilty
  • Multi-currency purchases, factoring: 
    • Exchange rate
    • Landed costs
    • Duties
  • Category + Subcategory
  • Season Codes
  • Theme codes
  • Merchandising codes
  • Date codes
  • Centrally coordinated by a warehouse, or managed by stores
  • Can be initiated by a customer sale
  • Transferred by transfer sheets, hand-held scanners, USB, or electronic for product verification and shrinkage control
  • Simultaneous transfer feature is also available where transfer out and transfer in needs to be updated instantly
  • Specialized transfer reports designed to help consolidate end of season items to best performing stores
  • Critical profile codes
    • Contact tracking information
    • Key Demographics, such as age, profession, company
  • Provide Special Contract Pricing​
    • Specified by Item Category or Sub Category, Season, or any other item or customer profile code  ​
    • Based on Sales Price, Margin, or Cost Plus
  • Searchable by address, phone number, pet name, pet type, or any other variable you track
  • Extensive customer notes
    • Allows uploads of documents, (pdf, jpg, etc)
    • Notes that can be automatically triggered for the sales rep upon pulling up customer … used for fraud prevention and customer service
  • Accounts Receivable Module
    • Provide complete AR statements (Balance Forward or Open Item)
    • Charge Interest on statements
    • Aged A/R Reporting (as at any Historical Date) – by Summary or Customer Detail

User defined loyalty programs that defines

  • Points redemption values
  • Points earning defined by item or item category or any other item parameter
  • Special limited time automatic promotions
  • Multiple tiers
  • Fully customizable touch screens
  • Multiple payment types
  • Customer history access
  • Layaways, Orders, Backorders
  • Gift Registry
  • Gift Card Tracking
  • Credit Note Tracking
  • Credit Card integration
  • Canadian Penny rounding
  • Marketing profile tracking
  • Sales tracking of Marketing efforts, Influencers, or Outside Sales Reps for various purposes (including Commissions)
  • Set and Forget campaigns
    • Welcome to our apparel store
    • Loyalty points statements
    • Birthday promotions
  • Sales & Promotions triggered based on
    • Items
    • Vendors
    • Inventory Categories and profile codes
    • Location
    • Customer profile codes 
  • Campaign results – can get actual sales amounts for by campaign so you can identify how effective an email campaign was, who open the emails, etc.​
  • Customer Service
  • Operations Management
  • Fraud alerts

Counterpoint has integrations to several platforms, including Shopify and WooCommerce. This ensures that orders are accurately filled

  • Over 2,000 reports
    • Vendor analysis
    • Item analysis
      • Using 28 user definable codes (more available if needed)
    • Inventory tracking
    • Inventory consolidation from multiple locations
    • Sales Rep performance, including commissions
    • Gross Margin reports
    • Inventory Value (as at any Historical Date) – by summary or by any item detail you track
  • Employee Time clock tracking
  • All reports can be customized by the client, or can be commissioned to RMS to modify or create

CSV, PDF, Excel, etc

Allows for future customization as you grow and your needs change

  • Counterpoint creates journal entries for all activities (and posted to user defined accounts)
  • Integrations exist to most book keeping packages
  • CounterPoint adheres to GAAP rules