Landscaping Series: From Quote to Completion – Part 4

Part 4: Landscape Project Reconciliation In the first three parts of this series, we talked about generating effective quotes, managing your inventory, and scheduling and managing delivery and landscaping services. This post is all about accountability and focuses attention on an aspect of landscaping projects that is often overlooked—reconciliation. Reconciliation of a landscape job or […]

Landscaping Series: From Quote to Completion – Part 3

Part 3: Scheduling and Managing Delivery and Landscaping Services In parts 1 and 2 we discussed generating effective quotes with your POS system and managing your inventory. Now, let’s focus on using your POS system for scheduling and managing delivery of materials, equipment, and services. Delivery scheduling functions are typically completely absent from most POS […]

Landscaping Series: From Quote to Completion – Part 2

Part 2: Unique Inventory Management Challenges for Your Landscape Operations In part 1 we discussed generating effective quotes with your POS system. Now, let’s explore inventory management tactics that will support your landscaping business. Once a Quote, or Proposal, is accepted by a customer, it converts to an Order. At this point, the customer is […]

Landscaping Series: From Quote to Completion – Part 1

Using your POS system to support your landscaping business, starting with quotes and proposals. Independent garden centers come in all shapes and sizes, and many IGCs are expanding into a broad array of products and services to meet their customers’ demands. For many IGCs, landscape design, installation and maintenance are natural areas of expansion. However, […]

Is Your POS System a Help or Hinderance to Profitability?

Managing a profitable garden center is anything but simple. Successful IGCs master figuring out what you can manage and control and what you cannot. There are factors and conditions that most would agree cannot be controlled — the weather, the economy, customer fads and trends. However, there are other things that can be organized, tracked, […]

Increasing Profits Feature – Garden Center Magazine

 POS Systems: Adapting to the Technology Needs of Garden Centers (as seen in Garden Center Magazine – June 2017, Increasing Profits) No two garden centers are the same. A successful strategy used at one independent retailer could fail at the next. Ron Vanderhoff, vice president and general manager at Roger’s Gardens in Corona del Mar, […]

5 Gardening Trends for 2017: Getting Ready for Father’s Day

Plan to Plant with Dad and Celebrate in Style Every Father’s Day BBQ needs a great space to visit with your dad. Whether it be a terrace, patio, yard, or even a porch: outdoor living is part of why we all love summer. The push over the past several years for these to incorporate both […]

Environmentally Friendly POS

Technology helps the environmentally friendly remain profitable. Earth Day is April 22nd this year and preparations are in full swing! This years focus: Environmental and Climate Literacy. With so many resources available, people still are relatively unaware of the impact we have on the world around us and how we all can be more environmentally […]

Updating Your POS Offers Innovation Opportunities

For many companies, change is difficult.  After years of experience, we know that changing your garden center point-of-sale system can be stressful, disruptive and challenging. But you are motivated by promises of operational efficiency, improved customer experience, better inventory management — all those things that drove you to consider changing your system in the first […]

Your POS System = Better Customer Relations For Garden Centers

The lifeblood of your garden center or nursery is your customers.  Every interaction offers the opportunity to build or diminish the strength of your bond with your customers.  A robust POS system can improve Customer Relations Management and can offer you many opportunities to improve your relationship with your customer, and to build and sustain […]

Accounting Management & Integrations

A great POS solution should integrate seamlessly with your business financials.  Rapid Garden POS works with your financial accounting system to provide seamless business management capabilities to nurseries and garden centers. Rapid Garden POS integrates with many industry recognized accounting systems.  Your data is directly transferred, automating entries and reducing human error. You can use the […]