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Windward System Five - Inventory Control, Point of Sale, and Accounting Software Solutions for Todays Independent Retailer. (800) 663.5750

Windward System Five is the best choice for the management of your appliance store. Manage your inventory, sales, special orders, repair parts, and service work. It's much more than an accounting program. A fully integrated business software application that does more than manage your books - it helps manage your business.

Many appliance stores custom order inventory for their clients. Windward will allow you to start an invoice at the point of sale, sell the inventory item and take a deposit. The system will remind you 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.

Serial Number Support
Serial number control is crucial to the appliance business. Sales, warranties, and floor planning are all tied to the serial number of each item. With warranties lasting up to 10 years, the issue is more important now than ever.

Windward's serial number control is superior to others because it's based on the real world. When you receive a truckload of appliances, the first unit off the back of the truck normally goes to the back of the warehouse. If the salesperson selected the serial number at point of sale, they could be generating a lot of work in the warehouse.

Add Serials Numbers Later
With Windward System Five, you can sell an item without the serial number, and take a deposit from the customer. 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 that 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. 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 CESA and other manufacturers warranty forms.

Windward System Five is configurable to the different types of inventory requirements for your unique appliance store. Several pricing strategies and inventory designs are available.

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 appliance 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 manufacturers tend to pay more attention. When looking at the manufacturers history, you will see a list of all the purchases and the balance owing as zero.

Price Labels
Windward System Five can print your inventory labels. Labels can be anything from simple to complex. 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 is made, the higher the commission rate of the sales person. 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 TV stand was being sold, the comment could remind the salesperson to ask the customer if they had seen the matching wall unit. The comments can be structured in a way to help junior sales people sell additional inventory.

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