How to Speed Up POS Checkout at Your Garden Center
If you imagine (or if you walk into) a garden center on a warm spring Saturday, the story writes itself: the hum of conversation, the smell of fresh soil, and the steady roll of carts filled with color. But then, just as the afternoon peaks, the line at checkout begins to grow. Every owner knows […]
How to Choose the Best POS System for Your Garden Center
Walk into a busy garden center on a spring weekend, and you can feel it: the rhythm, the movement, the constant flow of carts and customers. And behind it all, there’s a team trying to keep pace by tracking inventory that changes by the hour, handling outdoor checkouts, juggling wholesale orders, and making sure every […]
Harvesting Success: Fall Strategies for Garden Centers
As the vibrant colors of fall emerge and the cooler air signals the change of season, garden centers have a unique opportunity to embrace this transition with strategies that not only boost sales but also enhance the overall garden center customer experience in fall. Whether through strategic fall garden center promotions, fall garden center events, […]
Garden Center POS Features Your Business Needs
Running a successful garden center requires efficient management of various aspects, including inventory, sales, and customer relationships. In this digital age, having a reliable Point of Sale (POS) system is crucial to streamline operations and enhance the overall customer experience. A garden center POS system should have specific features tailored to meet the unique needs […]
RapidPOS Webinar: Advancing Your Touchscreen Configuration
Rapid POS Webinar: Advancing Your Touchscreen Configuration During this webinar, you’ll learn how to leverage advanced capabilities to enhance your touchscreen and create efficient processes for management and cashiers. We’ll take a deep dive into run pages, advanced button configurations, send keys, custom button actions and more!
IGCs Providing Landscape Services – A Brave New World
From our unique vantage point as a system provider supporting independent garden centers (IGCs), we have noticed trends over the past few years. More than ever, IGCs are offering landscape services including design, installation, and maintenance, as part of their diversified offerings. Many landscape service companies are either building or acquiring commercial garden centers. This […]
RapidPOS Webinar: Understanding and Implementing Touchscreen Fundamentals
RapidPOS Webinar: Understanding and Implementing Touchscreen Fundamentals During this webinar, we will dive into the fundamental aspects of enhancing your touchscreen and how you can take your touchscreen to the next level. We’ll cover an extensive list of buttons/functions you can add into your touchscreen and how to make changes on your own. […]
Navigating the POS World – A Technology Guide for Regular Folks
Independent garden centers are successful for lots of reasons, including product selection, service excellence, effective marketing, beautiful facilities, and compelling events. Having a technology infrastructure to support your operations is, more and more, a critical element of a store’s success. Most IGCs were challenged on many levels last year by the COVID pandemic. Garden Centers […]
RapidPOS Webinar: Understanding Cost in Counterpoint
Understanding Cost in Counterpoint was our most recent webinar, held on June 23rd, 2021.
RapidPOS Webinar: Automating Tax Compliance with Avalara and Counterpoint
“Creating and Managing Loyalty Programs in Counterpoint” was our most recent webinar, held on January 27th, 2021.
RapidPOS Webinar: Creating and Managing Loyalty Programs in Counterpoint
“Creating and Managing Loyalty Programs in Counterpoint” was our most recent webinar, held on September 23, 2020.
How a California Home Gardening Store Adapted to the Pandemic with Ecommerce
With instability one week and quiet routine the next, nothing has been as constant throughout 2020 as change. It’s an inevitable part of life—but it’s how the change is managed that makes all the difference. So, when something like COVID-19 hits and consumer priorities shift on a dime, businesses must be ready to shift their […]
RapidPOS Webinar: Working With Accounts Receivable in Counterpoint (A/R)
Below is a recording of our most recent webinar, “Working With Accounts Receivable in Counterpoint (A/R)” held in August 2020. Visit our blog to see past and future webinars. www.RapidGardenPOS.com/blog/
RapidPOS Webinar: Replenishment Within Counterpoint
Below you’ll find a recording from our latest webinar which was on Replenishment within Counterpoint! This webinar will take an in-depth look at Counterpoint replenishment functionality. We will review setting min/max levels on inventory, and generating reports to recommend replenishment using a variety of methodologies. We will also cover how replenishment reporting, and other Counterpoint […]