24M Small Businesses

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Why the Small Retailers?
24M Small Businesses
4M Retail
Retail
Restaurants
17 of Small Businesses are Retailers

• 4 million retailers with fewer than 10 stores
• Store-based retailers (2.8M)
• Non-store retailers (0.8M)
• Virtual retailers pure ecommerce (0.4M)

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Why the Small Retailers?
24M Small Businesses
4M Retail
Retail
Restaurants
30 YOY Growth (compared to 5 for POS Market)
17 of Small Businesses are Retailers
90,000
customers, and growing!
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Retailers Challenges
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Current Retail Solutions
Calculator 15
Cash Register 65
Computer based POS 20
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Current Retail Solutions
most retailers have considered PC-POS
Have you ever considered switching to a PC-based
point of sale software program?
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QB POS is available at retail, Via the web, and
direct from Intuit
It doesnt work with My Accounting Software
QB POS is built to integrate With QuickBooks
5 Barriers to buying a Retail POS System
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Why Buy a POS System?
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Why Buy a QuickBooks POS System?
Grow Your Business
Buy more Inventory
Go on Vacation
Do more Marketing
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Why are retailers choosing QuickBooks Point of
Sale?

• Fills Need No Other POS Addresses
• Complete Solution SW, HW, Financial
• Flexible for Multi-Faceted Workflows
• Low Total Cost of Ownership
• SW/HW Bundle
• Works out of the box
• Integrates easily
• User Configurable no complex drivers to install

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What is QuickBooks Point of Sale?

• A Point of Sale solution in a box
• Software that allows retailers to manage their
  mission-critical activities for 1-10 stores and
  up to 10 stations per store.
• 30 Days of Free Support, Learning Center with
  video tutorials
• Hardware components sold in a bundle or a la
  carte
• Receipt Printer
• Bar Code Scanner
• Cash Drawer
• Credit Card Reader
• Optional Pole Display, Tag Printer, PIN pad,
  Physical Inventory Scanner
• Credit debit card processing, supplies, and
  support options also available

Card Reader
Bar Code Scanner
Cash Drawer
Receipt Printer
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QuickBooks POS One Solution, One Decision
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Targeted Types of Retailers
Luggage Travel Furniture Home
Furnishings Sewing Fabric Gift
Souvenir Game Hobby Nursery Garden
Apparel Shoes Sporting Goods Housewares Comput
ers Electronics Music Video Musical
Instruments
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Carlsbad Wine ShopCarlsbad, CA
Using the Customer information, Carlsbad Wine
Shop was able to market to their customers
specific vintages and varietals.
I sought out a system that was intuitive a new
staff member can become productive on the system
within an hour.
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Tag for Dogs CatsHillcrest, CA
By using the Best and Worst Selling Items Report,
Tag for Dogs Cats was able to increase
inventory turnover by almost one turn store-wide.
The system has helped save us hundreds of hours
a year by not having to transfer everything to a
separate accounting package, or manually by paper
to an accountant."
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Arizona DiamondbacksPhoenix, AZ
Point of Sale saves us a huge amount of time,
Bob said. I probably save 25 hours a week just
by not having to enter data manually.
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EASY SCREENS
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• 20 Stores
• 20 Workstations
• (per store)
• Reorder Points for each store

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FOR BIGGER RETAILERS
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Electronic Signature Capture
Reduce Clutter Save Time Easy Retreival
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Why Accept Credit Cards?
Category Growth
Transaction Volume ( billions)
U.S.
E-check Bank Transfers
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12 14 8
Stored Value Cards
Debit Cards
Credit Cards
2 -4
Cash
Checks
Electronic
Transaction Volume Share ()
17
33
Paper
30
Cards
50
66
2010
2000
Source The Nilson Report, 2004
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Why use QB POS Merchant Service?
One word INTEGRATION!!!
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1. Swipe the credit card
Accepting card with the QB POS Merchant Service
is easy as 1-2-3
2. Authorize the payment in QB POS
3. Z-out at the end of the day
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Using another Merchant Service It takes more
steps with a higher chance for errors.
1) Collect total from QB POS
2) Key total into terminal 3) Wait for terminal
to dial up then approve transaction 4) Print
receipt from terminal
5) Record credit card payment into QB Point of
Sale 6) Print receipt from QB Point of Sale
7) Batch out terminal
and HOPE they Balance
8) Z-out QB Point of Sale
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Why should you start using QB POS Gift Card
Service TODAY?
Increases Revenue Saves Time Creates
Customer Loyalty Convenience Better
Tracking Improved Security Business Status
Raises Wallet Advertising
Net Benefit for the Business Owner Retailers
become destinations, not impulses to customers
holding gift cards
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Customers can choose from 12 ready-made
backgrounds, and are able to personalize the
front and back