How Amali Gifts Runs Their Entire Business Using Lightspeed

{Sponsored} Amali Gifts is a thriving apparel and gift shop. In 2005, owner Emma Male founded the shop as a way to support both herself and local manufacturers. Offering locally made shoes, clothing, candles and home accessories, Amali Gifts is now a pillar of their community.

By 2017, Emma was ready for a point of sale (P.O.S.) system that would save her time. She needed to expand her online store and track her inventory both in-store and online without wasting time cross-referencing spreadsheets. She needed a system that was intuitive and quick for her whole team to learn how to use. She needed a P.O.S. that, unlike most of the options on the market, let her get up and running fast, with zero hiccups.

With Lightspeed, Emma was able to get her store set up online and transactional quickly. “Getting the system live is as easy as checking a few boxes.” With Lightspeed’s integrated retail P.O.S. and eCommerce platform, Emma has full visibility of inventory at all times. Rather than spend 100-plus hours to complete a stock-take at the end of the year, Emma can simply download an inventory report that includes both online and in-store inventory.

Lightspeed helps gift shops to:

• Save time by centralizing inventory ordering through its integrated vendor catalogs
• Sell bundled, serialized or unique items and easily manage multiple product variations
• Track unit costs and old inventory, get low-stock alerts, and sell into the negatives
• Eliminate lineups to pay with nimble, mobile checkout systems available on any tablet.

The simple set-up and ongoing strength of using P.O.S. system from Lightspeed looks like this: helping transfer your stock, showing you how your P.O.S. works and offering 24/7 support. The retail P.O.S. system lets you do everything in seconds with straightforward controls. Access your point of sale from any device, anywhere. It’s your business — you should be able to run it your way.

The system allows for special orders and layaways, maximizing what gift retailers can do during the holiday season and all year-round. If you’re the proprietor of a shop with multiple locations, you can complete product transfers, track your stock, centralize purchasing, analyze customer data and compare each store’s sales data to see what works best for each location.

Advanced analytics will help you envision the big picture of your success story, including:

• Sales reports
• Profit year over year
• Negative inventory report
• Sales per employee
• Average transaction value

Lightspeed’s blog is full of tricks and tips to maximize your P.O.S. system and to make your customers happy. Paired with 24/7 unlimited support, you will be confident in your new P.O.S. system and be able to overcome challenges quickly and easily.

This set of features is not exhaustive. Learn more about other ways Lightspeed can have a positive impact on your business at lightspeedhq.com.

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