The start of the new financial year on 1st February saw Camp Hopson go live with Touchretail’s ‘Retail Accounts’ accounting and management reporting software. After 3 months of system evaluation on a ‘training’ system, Camp Hopson were confident that the system go-live would run smoothly.

Set in the heart of Newbury in Berkshire, Camp Hopson have a 40,000 sq.ft. Department store and a separate 20,000 sq.ft. Furniture store; the Group’s businesses are completed by a funeral directing business and a removals and storage business with 25,000 sq.ft. of containerised storage in Newbury and Dorchester.

After a lengthy consultation process, Richard Tavener (finance director at Camp Hopson) recommended the appointment of Touchretail to implement their Retail Accounts accounting and management reporting software for the Group’s retail business. Richard comments: ‘Touchretail were able to demonstrate their knowledge of our business requirements, and their ability to support our administrative section in the run up to going live with Retail Accounts.'

‘The evaluation software that was offered gave us the opportunity to fully test the system and highlight any issues prior to our scheduled go-live date. This has enabled us to work to our project plan in a structured and timely manner, and to approach what is a daunting task with confidence. We are very pleased with Touchretail’s hands-on approach and attention to detail.’

In addition to the usual ledgers and reports, Retail Accounts has several electronic interfaces at Camp Hopson, including BACS payments and interfaces to their existing EPOS and furniture unit stock systems. Touchretail were also commissioned to produce some bespoke reports for Camp Hopson to complement the management reports available from the Retail Accounts system.