For gift shops
A gift shop POS that sells through every season
RetailPOS Studio is a gift shop POS for shops whose year is shaped by occasions: holidays, Eid, Lunar New Year, Valentine's Day and Mother's Day. Buy ahead with purchase orders, label handmade pieces that arrive without barcodes, reward occasion buyers with points so they come back, and let your online store show the gifts you have in stock tonight.
The trade, honestly
What makes gift retail hard
- 1
Everything happens at once
A few weeks around each holiday carry much of the year's sales. If a best seller runs out in week one, the season is gone.
- 2
Unbarcoded, one-off pieces
Handmade candles, ceramics and local crafts arrive with no barcode and small quantities, so they're easy to misprice and lose track of.
- 3
Leftover seasonal stock
After the season, money sits on the shelf in decorations nobody will buy for eleven months.
- 4
Occasional customers
Most gift buyers visit a few times a year. Without a reason to return, they buy the next gift elsewhere.
A week in the shop
A season in a typical gift shop
Six weeks before the holidays, the owner opens last year's sales for the same weeks, filtered by category. Candles and personalized ornaments sold out early; novelty mugs didn't. Purchase orders go to two importers and three local makers, each with a due date, and the open orders list shows what's still to arrive as the weeks go by.
Deliveries come in pieces. Each is received against its order, and handmade items get labels with just a barcode and price for the base, so nothing ugly sits on the front. Product photos added in the back office appear in the online store automatically, and customers start reserving items by message before they arrive.
In the rush, cashiers attach customers by phone number and points add up. In January, the stock report shows what's left of the seasonal category at cost, a category discount clears it, and the customer list shows who bought during the holidays — the same people who will be back for Valentine's Day with points to spend.
An illustration of a typical shop, not a customer story.
The features that matter here
What you'll use every day.
InventoryStock levels per item, variant and location, updated by every sale, purchase, return, transfer and count.
Barcode labelsPrint barcode and price labels from your catalogue on sheets or a label printer, in the sizes your shelves use.
Reward pointsCustomers earn points on what they spend and redeem them at the counter or online, with your rules for value and expiry.
Purchase ordersRaise purchase orders from low-stock lists, receive deliveries against them, and handle short or damaged shipments.
ReportsProfit, stock, trending products, purchases and sales, registers, expiry and staff performance, per store or combined.Day one
Your first day on RetailPOS Studio
Tick them off as you go. Your progress stays on this device.
Peaks
The gift year
01
Holidays and Eid
The biggest peaks. Order early, track open purchase orders, and watch trending products daily during the rush.
02
Lunar New Year and Valentine's Day
Short, sharp seasons close together. Reports by date range show what sold last year in each window.
03
Mother's Day and graduations
Good moments to remind points holders they have a balance to spend.
If your shop is mostly clothing in sizes and colors, the boutique edition is built around apparel variants. Boutique & apparel edition
Contact sheet · Sample reviews
What owners in this trade tell us they need.
These are sample reviews that show the kind of problem each feature solves. They are labelled Sample until real, attributable reviews replace them.
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