Feature Overview | Windward's Industrial Equipment and Supply Software

Windward's Industrial Software is a fully integrated Point of Sale business software application that doesn't just manage your books - it helps manage your business.

At Windward we make it so easy…….It’s a breeze

Windward Software has a proven track record of helping retailers manage their business more efficiently for over 20 years. With thousands of successful installations and nationwide rollout and installation services, Windward has a well deserved reputation for its premium Technical Support and Consulting services.

Below are just some of the reasons you might consider using Windward in your business:

Sales and Invoicing

• Create quotes, work orders or invoices, and convert back-and-forth at the click of a button
• Detailed customer purchase history at your fingertips
• Flexible handling of cash sales and printing of receipts
• All the other modules of the system are updated automatically with one entry
• Accommodates complex commission structures
• 99 pricing schedules that can be customized to individual customer accounts

Save Time and Reduce Costs

• Set minimum and maximum stock levels to help keep inventory at optimum levels
• Balance inventory levels by transferring merchandise from overstocked locations
• Reduce salesperson training time with a highly functional, easy-to-use POS cash register software
• Tight integration eliminates errors caused by re-entering information already captured by the POS cash register software

Accounting

• Fantastic easy-to-use drill down capability
• Work in multiple months or multiple years at a time
• Flexibility to correct errors without a series of complex journal entries, simply "unpost" and "repost"
• Recommended by accountants

Increased Sales

• Monitor and control inventory levels to offer a better selection of merchandise and reduce out of stock situations
• Produce mailing lists based upon customer purchase history to better target your merchandising efforts
• Use promotional sales to increase traffic flow and offer SPIFFs to your employees to eliminate slower moving items
• Offer Layaways and Special Order and use deposits to ensure that the customer is committed to the sale

Improved Customer Service

• Speed throughput and eliminate errors at the checkout counter with UPC bar code scanning and on-line price lookup
• Avoid a crisis by monitoring promised delivery dates for Special Order merchandise
• Use the on-line inquiry to check if an out of stock item is available at one of your other locations
• Capture specific customer information such as phone number, or date of birth, in order to offer a more personalized service

Reporting

• Real time and historical reports at your fingertips
• Standard reports and customer reporting capabilities
• Helps you analyze your operation in real time, not at year-end

Other Features

• Special features for specific business applications
• Security feature allows you to set access privileges by employee
• Flexible forms design – use existing forms or create new ones
• Multi-Media tutorials included
• Real-time inventory tracking - even between multiple stores
• Optional E-Commerce solutions
• Full CRM (Customer Relationship Management) capabilities