Pegasus Pets – To Morcambe and beyond with Intelligent Retail’s Connect EPoS
Electronic point of sale systems have become integral to the modern retailer. The demands for a till system that can provide a variety of operations is incredibly important. It needs to integrate with online services and be easy to use, while providing customer incentives.
For retailers such as Pegasus Pets, they’re able to bring their business bang up to date. This large pet shop is based in Morcambe, Lancashire. Not only supplying nearby customers from the store, but also further out into Lancashire, Cumbria and the Lake District. Pegasus Pets provides its customers with basics such as tinned and packet pet food, collars, accessories, fish tanks and vivariums for reptiles. Owners of all kinds of pets have come to regard Pegasus Pets as the place they go to first for supplies.
As you’d imagine, a popular shop like this is very busy, and there’s very little time to devote to training on a till system. Fortunately, Connect by Intelligent Retail is a system that’s able to provide ease of use with a minimum of training time. You don’t have to be particularly tech savvy, as even the most basic of computer use will help operate the system. Connect has been designed to be intuitive and practical.
For a shop like Pegasus Pets, the demands to provide a smart and effective service for a wide customer base. But it’s not just regional customers that the shop provides products for; Pegasus Pets also has an eCommerce site, www.pegasuspets.co.uk. When it comes to stock management between a bricks and mortar store and a retail website, things can get tricky. Fortunately, Connect is able to handle order information from different channels. For example, if someone orders dog food on Sunday night, a note will appear ready on Monday morning. This means that the item will be taken from stock and ready to pick and pack.
Innovations like these have invigorated businesses, opening them up to online opportunities that have been difficult to manage in the past. Intelligent Retail’s Connect system also allows for true multichannel, providing smart upload of product information not only to the shop’s till, but to the website, or even to an eBay shop or Amazon marketplace store.
Such innovations have helped to make Connect a truly premium service that’s tailor made for independent and small retailers across the UK.