Windward System Five is the best choice for managing your furniture
store. There are many unique problems encountered by these businesses
that the other "off the shelf" accounting packages cannot
handle. For example, Special Orders (or Tag Orders) are very common
in the furniture industry and are especially easy to use with Windward
System Five.
Many furniture stores custom order inventory for their clients.
Windward will allow you to start an invoice at point of sale, sell
the inventory item and take a deposit. The system will remind you
and ensure that you remember to call the supplier and order it.
When it arrives, the system will remind you to set the inventory
item aside for the customer, ensuring that you or your staff do
not accidentally sell the item to another customer.
Sales History
When a customer makes a warranty claim, the original invoice can
be easily found in the system. Sales are fully stored in the system
for as many years as is required. You can find the original invoice
by customer name, invoice number, inventory item number or serial
number. Once the invoice is found, it can be reprinted if required.
Furniture stores with a manual accounting system now either have
to search through a lot of records to find the sales invoice, or
have an extensive manual tracking system that is time consuming
and expensive to maintain.
Add Serials Numbers Later
With Windward System Five, you can sell an item without the serial
number and take the customer's deposit. When the warehouse ships
the product to the customer, the serial number that is easiest
to get to is selected and entered into the computer. Windward has
several checks and balances to ensure you don't forget to enter
the serial numbers. This gives you the best of both worlds, allowing
you to sell product and take deposits while still allowing for
strong inventory control.
Parts and Service
Work Orders are used for work in progress. This can include repairs,
but can also include sales where extra work is required before
the item is delivered to the customer such as adding on optional
fabric treatments. The inventory is marked as allocated so that
it cannot be sold to someone else, but the invoice is not posted
to the general ledger until the actual sale is complete
Create
detailed work orders for keeping track of manufacturers warranty
forms.
Contractor Sales
Support for selling large quantities to one customer, such as sales for an apartment building or hotel chain.
Buying Group Support
It's popular for furniture stores to belong to a buying group to get better pricing and terms on the inventory. When a large group negotiates a price instead of each individual store, the manufactures tend to sit up and listen. When looking at the manufacturers history, you will see a list of all the purchases and that balance owing as zero.
Price Labels
Windward System Five can print your inventory labels. These can be simple sticky labels, to cardboard tags, to small display signs. The label designer gives you complete control over how the end result will look and what you want to show or not show.
Commission and Spiffs
Calculate salesperson's commissions in a very detailed fashion.
The commission rate can be based on the sales margin. The more
money that was made, the higher the salesperson's commission rate
will be. Even if you don't pay the sale people commissions, the
information given by the salesman analysis report will be invaluable
for running your business.
Delivery Schedules
See other deliveries scheduled at a click of a mouse. Print maps
out for your delivery drivers from our simple web interface.
Warning Comments and Up Selling Features
These comments can be entered for inventory items requiring special
treatment by the salesperson. For example, if a couch was being
sold, the comment could remind the salesperson to ask the customer
if they had seen the matching chair. The comments can be structured
in a way to help junior sales people sell additional inventory.
