An apparel software is a solution used by any retail business dealing with apparel. It’s used in:

1. supermarkets
2. small retail stores
3. Medium Retail Stores
4. clothing store chain
5. Ready-made garments showrooms
6. Fabric and textile stores

In essence, any business that works with clothing in any way can employ clothing software. No matter the size of the company: from a small local store to an international brand, everyone can benefit from the POS system. Software for clothing stores helps in:

1. Manage the retail operation with precision
2. Focus on the key aspects of the business.
3. Release employment to complete daily mundane tasks

What are the characteristics of a clothing store software?

Think of your garment management solution as a storage place for all the crucial data for each inventory item. It classifies each item based on different classifications, such as price, color, design, and size. It also produces a unique barcode for each garment. As a result of these data, POS software for a clothing store comes with the following features:

1. Faster sales and payment process
2. Smarter inventory
3. Own purchasing management
4. Best loyalty programs
5. Discount and promotion techniques.
6. maintenance of financial accounts
7. Analysis and reports

How does the software help the clothing store?

A garment software system can:

1. Increase sales
2. liquidate shares
3. Ensuring better customer service
4. Balance payable with accounts receivable
5. Pinpoint trends and strategize for a stronger sale

Even more advanced garment software can be integrated with add-on services like alterations and tailoring that further enhance customer satisfaction. But the most practical and useful part of the system is the barcode. For example, using a handheld device, you can capture the barcode on each garment and then update the inventory balance instead of manually checking each piece.

What is a barcode?

A series of lines printed on paper that is attached to a garment is called a barcode. The lines in it are of alternating widths. To the naked eye, all barcodes look similar. Actually, each line of the code is a character that only the barcode scanner can read and understand.

When scanning a barcode, light sensors convert the tracks into electrical signals. The barcode reader (software) decodes the electronic signals and converts them into the characters represented by the bars. Barcode creation with the software is very affordable, as is printing, and any clothing company can have the budget for it.

Why integrate the barcode with the garment POS system?

To use the barcode scanner productively in a clothing store, integration with management software is essential. When the barcode scanner is supported by the POS system, it scans each item during the checkout process. The information thus collected can be used to maintain inventory.

How is a POS installed with Barcode Inventory advantageous for the store?

When an apparel company merges a barcode system with its management software, it gains access to the following benefits.

• When price and inventory management is done manually, the process takes hours, if not days. Teaching it to a new employee is even more arduous. But when a barcode scanner connected with inventory software is installed in the clothing store, the same task can be accomplished quickly. In addition, the time required to train a new worker is drastically reduced.
• A clothing store has the same product available in different sizes or colors. It’s just one of the ways that managing inventory in an apparel business becomes painstaking. The variation in prices as the seasons change adds to the complexity. It means that when employees perform stock keeping, the chances of an error occurring are very likely. The very nature of the products sold makes them so. A barcode system that automatically transfers all information to connected POS software eliminates this chance for errors to occur.
• The same item in a clothing store goes through many price changes; it’s part of the business. Continuously and manually updating that change is not a very appealing or fast task. Barcodes make it simpler. A new barcode can be placed on the garment and the new pricing (or inventory) information can be transferred through the garment store management software.
• The tracking of each garment in each store is facilitated with the barcode. Eliminate the overhead associated with inaccurate SKU tracking.
• To run a successful business, payment time should be as short as possible. Long waiting times make customers feel dissatisfied. When barcodes are integrated with the POS, a single scan transfers the following data:

1. Prices
2. discounts
3. Size
4. SKU number

It means that the time needed to process sales is greatly reduced. Entering the same date one by one would have made the payment time much longer.

• It’s not just the check-out that’s faster; any other process is faster like decision making. When you have accurate data at your fingertips at all times, judgments like which garment to discount and which to promote can be made in a jiffy. Save valuable resources such as effort, money and time.