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Kudos Retail

A complete integrated stock management and EPoS tilling solution for single and multi site retailers, designed to increase sales and streamline your retail business.

 
Kudos Retail in use at a Musto Store
 

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Kudos Retail runs your tills, manages your stock and delivers a powerful EPoS system. This feature rich retail solution helps you sell more at the tills, monitor your stock levels and cut down on your admin time.

Retail Stock Management Software
Every item of stock in your retail premises is stored and managed on one central system. So, at any time, from the till or in the back office you can see what you have in stock and the items of stock that need re-ordering.
Quick Stock Look Ups
Scan the goods in at the till by using the barcode or search for items of stock using the fast stock look up facility. From the stock look up at the point of sale you can then give customer discounts, charge sales to customer account or take split payments.
Programmable Touch Screen Tills
Design the touch screen layout that’s right for your retail business with a fully programmable touch screen till. To the touch screen you can add product pictures of stock and set up stock categories that are easy for staff to use. An EPoS till that has a fully programmable touch screen means you can be sure you have the till layout that is right for your business. It all means quicker throughput at the point of sale, fewer tilling errors, less queuing at the till, and more sales.
Smarter Sales and Marketing and Store Promotions
Set up and run customer loyalty schemes, instore sales promotions, give sales discounts and accept sales vouchers at the till. With an inbuilt customer database, you can record sales against customers to build valuable information on specific buying trends for future stock purchasing.
Presenting More Sales Information to the Customer
Integrated stock datasheets mean that any till operator can access and print information on a specific item of stock at the customers request without leaving the point of sale. Great for complex or detailed product descriptions.
Helping You Sell More at the Till
Kudos Retail EPoS software prompts the till operator with related products to sell to the customer. These related products are based on hard sales data not guesswork and means more sales at the till for your business.

Fully Integrated Software Solution for Multi Channel Retailers

Kudos Retail Software is fully integrated with Kudos Workshop, Kudos Unit Trader, Kudos Mail Order and Kudos Web Links, so multi-channel retailers can be sure that they are running their retail business on one central EPoS system with completely integrated stock management.

 

Retail+

Retail+ is an add on module for Kudos Retail offering extra retail features and sales functionality. Benefits include touch screen EPoS tilling, sales promotions and sales discounts managed at point of sale, sales vouchers and customer loyalty schemes, blind till reconciliation and shelf edge labelling. Retail+ can not be purchased separately. 

 

 

Kudos Retail+ an add on module for Kudos Retail

 

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Sales Promotions and Sales Discounts

Retail+ enables you to process multi-buy sales promotions and sales discounts. Quantity breaks are possible for one, some or all of your customers. Discount and promotion validity periods and reporting will help you keep track of your sales promotions. 

Blind Till Reconciliation

Blind till reconciliation means secure cashing up of tills and till transfers for efficient till reconciliation, cutting down admin time and reducing errors.

Shelf Edge Sales Labelling

Shelf edge labelling gives you the functionality to design your own shelf edge sales labelling and batch print the labels when required.

Sales Vouchers and Customer Loyalty

Sales vouchers, credit vouchers, gift vouchers, special offers and customer loyalty schemes. Collect points against future sales and issue your design of vouchers on a batched monthly basis. Print batches of vouchers for gift voucher re sale. Track voucher transfers by serial number for effecient voucher processing.

Touch Screen ePos Till Functionality

Specially designed touch screen EPoS tills bring Kudos Software power to the touch screen world. Touch screen layouts are programmable to suit you and your business requirements.

 

Stock+

Stock+ is an add on stock module to Kudos Retail delivering additional stock control and stock management functionality. Stock+ cannot be bought separately.
 

Kudos Stock+ an add on module for Kudos Retail 

 

 

Stock+ Links and Downloads

 

Stock Matrix

Improved stock management with stock matrix, for size/colour/fit for stock ordering, pricing and stock management. Includes branch stock levels.

 

Serial Number Tracking for Stock Items

Record and manage serial numbers and batch numbers on stock items. Stock Plus records when a particular item of stock is sold – and who to - for product recalls.

 

Kitting Stock Items

Kitting stock items means you can build kits from items on your stock file for pre-pack sales kits. The option is there to break kits at Point of Sale and sell the items seperately if required.

 

Reason Codes for Sales and Returns

Stock Plus gives you the ability to record and report reasons for sales returns or order returns and for stock adjustments.

 

Image Manager for Stock Items

Record images of stock items for improved stock management. Scan, edit, sort and store images, text and PDF files. Relate them back to stock items for retail catalogue design or for additional sales details at the Point of Sale.

 

Sage Links

Integrated, Real Time Links from Kudos Software to Sage 50. Kudos Software operations and Sage financials – a best of breed team that delivers results.
 

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Save Time on Accounts

With seamless links posting financial information direct from Kudos to Sage, there’s no duplication of effort or the need to re-input Kudos data into Sage Accounts. Saving time and improving efficiency for your Accounts Department!

 

Working in Real Time

You define how often the data is sent between Kudos Software and Sage - this can be every minute. So at any time, you get a real time view of your financials in Sage. No more waiting to the end of the day or batch updating.

 

True Flexiblity With Accounts

Whether your accounts are simple or complex, Sage Link delivers the flexibility to post data to selected nominals – therefore not restricting you to the Sage standard chart of accounts.

 

Credit Control on Sage

Manage your credit control on Sage. Direct links mean that Customer Account information from Kudos is integrated straight into Sage. So your accounts team can manage account customers and chase payments directly from Sage.

 

Eliminate Errors

Because Kudos Software links directly to Sage, there’s no need to re-input any data or information. So potential errors are eliminated, saving your accounts team time and effort.

 

Available for all Kudos Products

Sage Links works across all Kudos software packages. So whether you are using Kudos Workshop, Kudos Mail Order, Kudos Retail or Kudos Unit Trader, you can add Sage Link for real time accounts integration.

 

 

 

 

Retail EPoS Hardware

Kudos Software supply a range of EPoS till terminals and point of sale hardware including barcode scanners, till receipt printers, touch screens, barcode label printers and handheld data capture units. We partner with a number of hardware suppliers to bring you a point of sale choice based on both quality and value.

 

Aures Odysee Touch Screen EPOS Till Terminal 

 

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Point of Sale Terminals

Aures Odysse Range

The new Aures EPoS range offers a stylish solution for any retailer. It is a complete EPoS terminal with integrated computer, touch-screen and customer display unit.

Aures give you a choice of 8 different colour till surrounds and two optional till base colours with the Odysee EPoS range. From crisp orange to traditional blue, you can tailor the look of your till to suit your retail business.
 

J2 580 Integrated EPoS Terminal

The J2 580 is an integrated point of sale unit combining a computer system and integrated EPoS touch screen. Robust and high quality, the 580 is J2’s latest and most powerful PC-based touch screen and offers a fan-less option. It incorporates many of the tilling features, such as flexible mounting, 95 degree screen tilt and support for multiple operating modes that have made the J2 560 the system of choice for scores of retailers and hospitality operators.

Standard PC

Alternatively our system will work on a standard PC with retail point of sale equipment (such as a till drawer, a receipt printer and a customer display unit) used to convert it into an EPoS till. Contact us to find out more.


Other Point of Sale Hardware

We supply a complete range of point of sale hardware including:

  • Barcode Scanners
  • Barcode Printers
  • Receipt Printers
  • Customer Display Units
  • Hand Held Data Collection Unit
  • Till Drawers
  • Dallas Readers and Keys
  • Touch Screen Monitors

We also supply consumables on an ongoing basis such as barcode labels, receipt rolls and printer ribbons. All consumables are sent next day delivery via courier. Please contact us for prices and delivery.

CLIC Sargent

Charity Shop 

CLIC Sargent have benefitted from improved shop management and accurate reporting with the added bonus of claiming Retail Gift Aid on donated goods since the introduction of our combined Retail and Gift Aid Solution.

 

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CLIC Sargent   

CLIC Sargent Charity Shop 

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Kudos at CLIC Sargent: Just a very clever Till

 

£100,000 anticipated extra income from Retail Gift Aid claims is a start, but CLIC Sargent have found better control, easier lives for shop managers and shop volunteers, huge time savings and better management of bought in stock as Kudos' software is rolled out across their 28 shops. Kudos Software's retail solution for charity shops proved to be the right choice for Jeremy Lune, CLIC Sargent's Retail Manager.

 

Why choose Kudos Software?

Jeremy and his team chose Kudos Software's Charity ePos solution from a short list of half a dozen or so ePos till systems, all supposedly filling the same brief. In the end two main things swung the decision in Kudos’ favour:

Kudos’ priority was day to day shop operation; others stressed their reporting functions and features. “Kudos had understood our first requirement – dealing with people frightened of computers. This had been our first challenge and they addressed it right from the start. We worked with them to achieve a solution which would meet our requirements. Most of it was ‘off the peg’ but there were adjustments made specifically for the charity world like reclaiming the gift aid on donated items which will earn us so much more for very little extra effort. The gift aid card has had an added benefit in that we now know who our shop supporters are and can reach them.”

The second determining factor was that “Kudos was very competitive on cost – a necessary requirement both for our sector and in these very difficult times. We can’t be seen to be spending money unnecessarily when it has come from donations.”

Bob Powley, Head of IT for CLIC Sargent, said that the response to the new till system has been unusually positive – mostly we find our volunteers don’t like change, but they have got the hang of it all very quickly, and our shop managers find that communication with Head Office is both easier and quicker. Although most till systems can produce reports, the fact that the Kudos till system collates all the data automatically, means that communication between the shops and Head Office is effortless, and the people in merchandising can keep an eye on what's selling and make more informed decisions.

 

How did it work in practise?

At CLIC Sargent’s Saltash shop there were a number of areas where the people on the shop floor agreed with those at Head Office.

Chris Peters, the Store Manager, says that after a few hiccoughs, having the touch screen till with the large format buttons has led to far fewer keying mistakes. At first the often elderly volunteers were worried about the touch screen but Anya, her assistant, had the bright idea of issuing them all with rubber tipped pencils which have proved popular and means that they are all much more accurate when using the touch screen. They don’t think of it as a computer, just a very clever till.

Chris says that the end of day report is a big help to her as it puts all the sales automatically into categories. Previously she spent ages after the shop had shut, correcting mistakes, manually filling in reports and putting sales in the right columns. The time she saves is a real bonus as it is a very busy shop.

So charity shop volunteers, store managers, head office staff and strategic decision makers in the charity sector are all finding life improved and costs saved by Kudos Software's ePos system for charity shops. Add to that a projected gain of £100,000 pa from the same shops and it looks as if Clic Sargent made the right choice.

 

Johns of Instow

Retail Convenience Store

Running a busy convenience store is challenging - customers expect a wide, well stocked product range, competitive prices and fast service at the point of sale.


Johns of Instow Convenience Store

 

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Convenience Store Achieves 2% on Margin and Increases Business Productivity!

 
When Johns of Instow installed Kudos Software's ePos solution, they expected it to help them manage the business from the point of view of stock and sales more effectively. It’s done that – and also produced a more impressive direct benefit - a 2% increase in margin.
 
"We buy more effectively and Kudos helps ensure that we always have the right stock on the shelves,” Anthony Johns explains, “in retail conveniencing the focus is on additional sales – a customer comes in for milk and buys 5 other products as well. If you haven’t got the core item, often you’ve lost the entire sale”.
 Johns of Instow Shop Till
Multi-buy offers and sales promotions are at the heart of Johns strategy here, and Kudos' software has met their requirements effectively. With a high customer throughput, Johns have used programmable touch screen tills to speed service at the point of sale and have categorised their products for more effective reporting. Fully Integrated Chip & Pin at the till cuts back office till reconciliations and simplifies cash backs for improved customer service, a big saving for a high throughput business. As there is never a need to key sales totals manually it also ensures that errors are eliminated ensuring a more efficient use of time.
 
 
The results - happy customers, a more profitable retail business and an easy to use ePos tilling system to run his business.