Homeware / DIY / Electrical

As a nation we spend days off, weekends and bank holidays renovating, decorating even demolishing our homes all in the name of DIY. Some love it, some loathe it, but revamping our homes sends us fleeing to Homeware stores nationwide. With the housing market in a state of flux, many more people are choosing to spruce up their property rather than incur the costs of moving. For retailers supplying this market sector, Merlin^® has developed a software package to ensure that you always have the correct products available and customers never leave the store without those tools to tackle home improvement.

Merlin^® has been specifically designed to meet the needs of the modern Homeware / DIY store with its ability to sell any type of item, even those within a pack of any size. This covers weight, for nails, screws, etc, area, for glass and sheeting, volume for paints and other liquids, length for timber, cable, etc and multi-packs for those pre-packed sales units. Merlin^® will also allow you to offer bulk discounts for those people who need large quantities of any items.

Unique bar-codes can be added to any product ensuring that all goods can be scanned at the point of sale eradicating any pricing or selection errors. By using its own integrated accounting module Merlin^® also ensures that all sales can be tracked by each individual product, allowing retailers to know their Direct Product Profitability. This information can also be linked into category analysis to ensure that the store achieves its optimum profitability across all types of products. As the system is directly linked into the sales Ledger you can also evaluate exactly which customers are spending the most and exactly what they are buying.

Merlin^® also allows for any number of special offers and special prices to be set up giving retailers flexibility on all types of sales promotions any time of day or any day of the year. It can also create various types of accounts so that you can sell to both trade customers and the general public simultaneously.

Other features of Merlin^® include:

1. Touch screen terminals with simple graphics for ease of use
2. Tracks all sales for management information and re-ordering
3. Allows for the operation of special loyalty schemes
4. Integrates fully into the total retail operation
5. Merlin^® is suitable for all types and sizes of retailer
6. It handles every operation in the modern, multi-faceted business world from the Warehouse (Cash & Carry operations) to the Web (e-Commerce).
7. The system also has its own integrated accounting system which means you do not need any other external or 3rd party software.