How will Antiques SOS™for Windows® help me?

Antiques SOS™ for Windows® (ASOSW) provides numerous, very
significant, features to help you run your antique mall business. 
Extremely easy to use, thoroughly modern and very powerful,
SOS provides the means to manage your sellers and the financial
aspects of your business.  Although by no means complete, the following
list provides solidly indicative examples of the benefits you will achieve.

Management Considerations

• Flexibility – There’s no need to change the way you do business
  or the procedures you use because the built-in customizing
  routines provide exceptional flexibility
   

• Reports – The reports made available by SOS provide the
  information you need to operate your business.  You can pick
  and choose among the available reports to select those that
  you need and will be useful to you without being buried in useless
  volumes of meaningless paper-wasting reports
   

• Deductions from Sales – You save time and aggravation because seller
  sales deductions can be automated
   

• Check Printing – You minimize the time you spend creating checks for sellers
   

• Clerk Performance – You can monitor clerk performance so you can
  determine when training is needed
   

• Staffing Levels – Appropriate staffing levels can easily be determined,
  saving you unneeded excess employee costs
   

• Identify High Performing Dealers – By identifying high performing
  sellers that attract highly qualified customers and other high performing
  sellers you can develop special performance reward plans for them. 
  The net result is better sales performance and greater earnings for you
   

• Training Time – You spend significantly less time training and supervising
  clerks because SOS is so easy to learn.  Just read the screen
   

• Consignments – You make substantial extra money by accepting
  consignments.  And, it is so easy
   

• Ease of Use and Error Trapping – You waste substantially less time
  dealing with improperly recorded sales and other input errors
   

• Pay Period Ending – Pay period endings are fast, clear and virtually
  error free.  Seller complaints are reduced because the payment reports
  are so clear and easy to understand
   

• Mail Box Messages – Your seller communications are better and
  easier because you can direct messages to them
   

• Special Sale Discounts – Seller special sale discounts can be set
  up in SOS and taken automatically for a specified period of time
   

• Fixed Deductions – Fixed deductions for things such as advertising
  fees and security fees can be set up and automatically taken
   

• Gift Certificates – The entire process of writing and managing gift
  certificates is automated, providing a new and significant revenue
  stream for you.
   

• Sales Incentive Bonus – To reward excellent seller performance
  sales incentive bonuses can be developed and automated.  This
  encourages sellers to bring in more and better merchandise, which
  makes more in commissions for you.

 Financial Considerations

• Rent Management – You get the benefit of better rent income control
  and cash flow projections from using the Rent Management module
   

• Sales Activity – It’s really important to see which sellers are generating
   the most sales and, therefore, your commission earnings.  You can
  help to duplicate success by observing how your sellers generate sales
   

• Seller Payouts – Save tremendous amounts of your time and energy in
  calculating and creating seller payouts.  And its easy too
   

• Commissions – You save even more time by automatically calculating the
  commission money due to you on a seller-by-seller basis.  All are calculated
  according to the commission structure and rules that you pre-select
   

• Taxes – Quickly, easily and accurately calculates taxes due according
  to information you place in the customizing section.  This includes sales
  taxes, general sales taxes, resort fees, and special taxes and fees.
   

• Seller Sales Review – The ability to review seller sales encourages
  them to bring in more merchandise to replace that which was sold,
  thus increasing their and your revenue stream
   

• Tax Audits – More and more sales tax audits are being conducted by
  revenue strapped states.  Our products help to keep you records in superb
  order thus making the audit process simple and painless.  We have
  users who have survived such audits completely unscathed because
  their records have been so accurate
   

• Federal Form 1099 – Some antique malls issue Form 1099s at their
  accountant’s request.  1099s are accurate and easily created

Security Considerations

• You can protect critical information and processes from public exposure
  or non-authorized intrusion.  This is made possible through the extensive
  use of extensive function level passwords
   

• Audit Trails – Theft and data manipulation can easily be detected by virtue
  of an extensive system of audit trails within SOS.  Information entered into
  the software cannot be altered without leaving detectable evidence of the change

 Customer Considerations 

• Identify Best Customers – By identifying your best customers you will find
  ways to encourage and reward them for shopping at your antique mall thus
  increasing your mall’s sales and, therefore, your revenue
   

• Customer “Wants” Lists – Customer wants lists allow you to provide what
  they want and are looking for thus increasing your antique mall’s sales
  which keeps your sellers and you happy
   

• Customer Opt-In Email Lists – These lists make it possible to quickly,
  easily and cheaply reach potential customers when you have something
  to sell or tell to them
   

• Unlimited Pending Sales – The pending sales feature encourages customers
  to keep shopping and to buy more because it speeds final checkout.

 

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