VAI’s S2K Retail Management

VAI S2K Retail Management Software leverages innovative technology to create an integrated retail enterprise solution. With more than 30 years of point-of-sale (POS) market leadership, IBM and VAI provide specialty retailers of all sizes store solutions that can help increase sales and reduce costs. Technologies that ensure the safety and security of customer information and transactions, while speeding customers through checkout, go a long way toward gaining customer trust, confidence, satisfaction, and, thus, higher customer retention rates.

S2K Retail benefits include:

• No more double entry of orders. Why use one system for your retail stores and another for your mail order and wholesale divisions? S2K Retail software package will run your entire business
• S2K Retail software automatically calculates and creates restocking orders, special orders, and direct shipments
• Get up-to-the-minute sales reports for the day, week, month, or year
• Eliminate long checkout lines. Your customers will appreciate a quicker, more accurate checkout experience
• Integrated credit card processing and high-speed credit card authorizations via an Internet gateway
• Loyalty programs to encourage repeat business and higher ticket averages

Customer Relationships

To operate a sustainable business, you don’t need shoppers, you need customers. With S2K Retail Management Software your frequent shoppers will appreciate the loyalty programs, rechargeable gift cards, and A/R charge accounts built into the retail software. When you know who your customers are and what they’re buying, you can use S2K CRM to create meaningful marketing campaigns that target the right customers with the right incentives.

Integrated e-Commerce

S2K Retail Management Software integrates with S2K e-Commerce to provide an easy-to-use e-business application synced with your brick-and-mortar retail locations. Benefits of an integrated e-commerce system include:

• One retail software package to manage your retail stores, warehouses, and e-commerce sites will save you time and money
• Reporting and management tools accurately reflect the sales history of your entire business, not just your retail stores
• Purchasing decisions for your business are based on your complete inventory picture, including online sales
• Automatically set up customer accounts online and give your customers one more way to shop with you
• Integrated marketing tools such as e-mail newsletters and promotional discounts help you keep in touch with customers
• Allow shoppers to view their history online, including online purchases as well as those made in your brick-and-mortar stores
• Allows A/R customers to shop with you online with the same billing options, credit limits, and account holds that you use in your brick-and-mortar stores

S2K Retail Management Software is designed to meet the evolving merchandise and service expectations of today’s cross-channel shoppers and the business requirements of the most demanding retail environments, with rapid return on investment, low cost of ownership, and a single point of accountability.

The bottom line: we understand your business challenges and work closely with you to implement the solutions that work best for your company.

We've been providing these solutions since 1980. We were here for you then, we're here for you now and we'll be here tomorrow.