Point of Sale for Garden Centers and Nurseries is considerably different from POS for other retail segments. Garden Centers commonly have commercial customers who desire a 8 ½ by 11” receipt. Our POS can be configured to automatically print a full-page invoice for commercial customers and a small, thermal receipt for all retail customers. This helps your commercial customer keep their paperwork straight and that makes you their preferred vendor. More importantly, these customers often walk around your yard to select a large number of plants. What if you could scan those items into a ticket while walking around, allow the customer to tender the ticket before she/he left and then pick the plants for delivery later that day? We support all of these functions. You can even run house accounts for your commercial customers.

Another thing unique to your industry is that it is wet, sunny, and many items are outdoors. Normal labels fade which renders their barcodes unscannable. We make sure you’re printing on label stock designed for your purposes. Care instructions are an important part of your business. We have fields for entering care instructions, and you can choose to prompt the cashier to inform the customer as the item is sold or you can automatically print the instructions on the customer’s ticket (or even a separate ticket). How's that for offering service the big-box guys can’t match?

Garden Centers require a POS that has extensive pricing capabilities. Pricing by size (e.g. small vs. medium vs. large) is a common practice, and plants change size as time passes. Our POS handles this with ease without requiring you to relabel the product. You may also offer customers a discount if they buy an entire flat. Our POS will automatically ring the sale at the lower price.

Garden Store POS / Nursery Store POS Features:

• POINT OF SALE CHECKOUT
  Fast, easy to use, and easy to learn - includes optional touchscreen, fast (2-second!) credit card authorizations, and commission tracking.

• INVENTORY CONTROL
  Reduce or eliminate shrinkage, stock outs, stock discrepancies, best and worst selling products, and track inventory movement. Track serial numbers, item costs and profit margins. Automate stock replenishment and direct store deliveries. Define substitute items, package pricing, and even service and consignment items.

• CUSTOMER LOYALTY
  Know who your customers are and what they're buying. Set up A/R charge accounts. Print mailing labels for special promotions. Increase loyalty with special discounts for seniors, frequent shopper programs, store credits, gift certificates, and more.

• AUTOMATED PURCHASING
  Calculate current stock levels and automatically create PO's.

• ORDERS AND LAYAWAYS
  Track status and deposits on orders, special orders, backorders, and layaways.

• SALES HISTORY
  Retain, view, and report complete details of every sale you make, plus seasonal and yearly analysis. Know what you sold today, this week, this year, and last year.

• PRICING
  Define multiple price levels, contract prices, markdowns, and quantity discounts.

• LABELS
  Print bar coded tree tags, pot stakes, and other waterproof labels for on-hand inventory or automatically as part of purchasing and receiving.

• HANDHELD DATA-COLLECTION TERMINALS
  Specific items can be scanned and then “held” to be shipped or picked up by the customer.

Rapid POS is eager to help your nursery/garden store.  Our nursery point of sale solutions are used by plant retailers throughout the US.  We serve single store retailers as well as retailers with multiple stores across multiple states.  Our POS clients are in New York, Hawaii, everywhere in between, and especially our own backyard – Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange counties.