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An innovative and effective way to give your charity shop network a real advantage in the competition for donations, sales and volunteers. That’s Kudos.
Charity retailers need to seize every opportunity to turn a good trading year into a great one. Kudos can help. Here’s how:
More Visitors Become Buyers and Those Buyers Buy More
With Kudos, your shop staff and volunteers can focus on upselling customers and building relationships with them.
Simplicity Boosts Efficiency
Kudos is simple and intuitive – our focus on providing an easy-to-use interface means new users are up and running in no time and volunteers can simply focus on giving great customer service.
We’ll give your team more time to ask for the Gift Aid sign-up – and that means increased revenue. You may choose to use one-scan barcodes for sales or donor barcodes. We’ll make your choice work for your operation.
Kudos integrates with your operation to deliver powerful results. Management time is focused on operations, not boring administration tasks that other packages make you perform.
Choose Kudos for a solution that grows and adapts to the ever-changing demands of the retail world.
Innovative mobile apps to boost charity retail income
Kudos Software, an expert in charity Retail Gift Aid systems, has introduced four innovative, cost effective mobile apps to help charities thrive in a competitive market. These apps will free up tills and help you to deliver great customer service, make more sales in and away from shops and increase retail income.
All four apps run on 4G as well as broadband, and the Kudos combination of cloud-based software integrated with fully mobile apps will give you the optimum in performance, stability and flexibility. Your operation is always changing. So is Kudos.
Choose Kudos for a solution that grows and adapts to the ever-changing demands of the retail world.
SignUp allows donors to register for RGA electronically via a tablet, quickly and easily. It allows for RGA sign-up in store, and also at events and pop-ups – anywhere there is a 4G connection – minimising data entry errors and ensuring GDPR compliance. Read more…
Barcode allows the in-store team to price items more quickly and easily, whatever the layout of the store’s back office. It also provides management information in real-time, aiding merchandising decisions and improving stock control. Read more…
POS enables sales in-store or at pop-up locations, offering a wide range of options and all the benefits of mobile POS. on a tablet it’s easy to introduce additional services e.g. loyalty schemes, multi-buy promotions and lottery tickets. Read more…
Drive streamlines furniture collections and deliveries, improving efficiency and profitability. It offers postcode-based planning and driver monitoring via Google Maps, SMS appointment reminders, real-time vehicle tracking and real-time donor sign-up while on the road. The result is that Drive delivers fuel savings, more appointments per shift and more RGA. Read more…
More Flexibility and Time for Shop Managers
Kudos is a streamlined stock management and EPOS software system that makes running charity shops much quicker and more simple:
So managers get more time to focus on other areas of shop management.
Happier Volunteers and Customers
Kudos is easy for your volunteers to understand. And that’s great news because:
One simple integrated solution for on-line trading
Retail Gift Aid
Retail Gift Aid is an excellent and often vital revenue stream for charity retailers. The Kudos EPOS system makes it easy and quick to confirm and process Gift Aid payments at the till.
If you want to maximise RGA, Kudos will support you all the way from making it easy for donors to donate with ‘bag drop’ points to enabling a simple claim process for the admin team.
Process RGA in the shops with one-scan barcodes, donor barcodes or quick find Donor ID’s. The choice is yours and our experts will help you setup the process that’s right for your retail operation, is simple to run and saves you time, and money.
The RGA claim process with HMRC can seem complicated. Kudos will help you minimise this risk. It’s evolved over the years to help with the important details like avoiding duplicate records, having accurate address details, making sure the donor’s name is entered in the format HMRC require and making donor communications simple and correct.
Training webinars are held regularly for anyone new to the RGA claims process to provide the tools and the confidence for 100% RGA claim success.
‘We saw a rise of Retail Gift Aid income of 10% in the first six months as a result of being able to capture more Gift Aid with Kudos.’
‘It’s a really smooth process to claim Retail Gift Aid through Kudos. The software helps us minimise errors within the donor records so that when we email or write to them we get hardly any rejections. This means that the claim to HMRC, then the Gift Aid income to The Royal Free Charity, is quick as well as being maximised.’
Discover in detail how charity retailers can’t do without Kudos
Your business deserves Kudos. Call us on 01548 843 586
