Chameleon shop front
Chameleon in Coventry, a well established designer menswear retailer, have implemented EPOS, stock control and e-commerce integration from Touchretail. This has combined with their store re-fit to bring a new look and new systems at Chameleon. Touchretail have installed an Aures OLC15 EPOS terminal which is a modular system with the popular Aures clip’n'colour system. (more…)
Searches and Purchases Growth YOY Q3 2011
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) have published their latest BRC-Google Online Retail Monitor figures for the third quarter 2011. The figures compare the equivalent period in 2010, and show a vigorous 35% increase in online searches.
Within this, searches for online only (pureplay) retailers increased by 71%, while those for multi-channel retailers rose 26%. The purchases figure shows an increase of 10%, suggesting that there is a lot of research and price comparison before completing the transaction. However, when compared to instore purchases, which only show a marginal increase of less than 1%, online sales growth is still outstripping general retail by some way. (more…)
Web-sales setup1
The latest release of Rapidstock includes a facility to bulk-transfer the stock for all website sales. This is particularly useful for businesses that despatch all goods for website sales from a specific branch, which is NOT the website branch. These businesses will typically have the website sales coming in as a separate branch – for easy and instant monitoring of website sales against shop sales, but will hold all stock for website sales at the same branch as the stock for the shop sales. This may be the shop location, or a warehouse location.
The web-sales bulk transfer is simple to set up on your standard Rapidstock software. (more…)
In response to several requests from interested website developers, Touchretail have made it easier to find information about our e-commerce integration module.
With over 40 retail businesses already using the e-commerce integration module on a daily basis, we know that it works – and with minimal support required from the website developer. So if you are a website developer or a retailer (more…)
Sputnik Snowboard Shop in Marlow, Buckinghamshire has installed the Sports EPOS and e-commerce integration software from Touchretail. The installation has been timed to be live by the time Sputnik’s new website is launched in a few weeks.
Owner of Sputnik Snowboard Shop Anna Bartlett was keen to find a system that (more…)
YOY Retail Sales Growth March 2011
Once we analyse the sales figures for March 2011, we can take some positives out of them in spite of what we are lead to believe by other commentators. It was well reported that High Street sales growth figures for March 2011 were ‘the worst for over 15 years’. While the total High Street retail sales were indeed down 1.9% on March 2010, the figures for March 2010 were actually 6.6% up on the previous year due to both Easter bank holidays falling in March last year.
And when we compare the equivalent figures for online sales, the story becomes very different. Online sales for March 2011 showed an increase of 14% on (more…)
SS20, one of the longest established and most respected specialists in the snowboard and skateboard scenes, has implemented Touchretail’s ecommerce module for real-time updating between their EPOS and back office stock system and website.
The ecommerce module was installed when SS20’s new website, from Visualsoft, went live last week. The new website has many latest features – we particularly like the ‘board builder’ where you can design your own custom skateboard by (more…)
Repertoirefashion.com Home Page
The mildest February since 2002 has contributed to a 34% year-on-year rise in UK online trading for the clothing sector. Overall online trading was up 20% on 2010, exceeding £10bn (£4.9bn of which was in February) – in stark contrast to high street trade which has been reported to show weak sales figures.
Touchretail receive many requests from third party developers about e-commerce integration for fashion retailers. Below is a general guide to how Touchretail’s e-commerce integration module works.
Year-on-Year Online Sales Growth November & December 2010
Taking November and December total ecommerce sales together, the figures for 2010 show an increase of over 30% on the same two months in December 2009, states the eTracker 100 report published by MetaPack. This compares very favourably to instore sales for the same period, which by latest reports seem to have been only marginally higher in 2010 than 2009.
November online sales showed a 38% increase, while the final result for December was a more modest 26% increase – but still impressive bearing in mind the snow and ice that played havoc with pre-Christmas shopping. And although ahead of previous predictions – see blog post Mega Monday Exceeds Expectations – December online trade fluctuated week by week dramatically. (more…)
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