Winsell POS with Integrated Ecommerce Software Review

Company Website: Calgary Software Factory Ltd
Product Website: Winsell
Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP Home or Professional
Cost of Setup: $1000
Monthly Fee: None
Software Starting Price: 1 station $5000 - Pro Base Package plus Web
Company Hosting Services: Not Offered
Hosting Requirements: Windows 2000 Server Static IP Internet Connection, Internet Information Server, Microsoft SQL Server 7 / 2000 / MSDE, SSL installed on IIS, Merchant Account usable by PC Charge’s IP-Charge or Authorize.Net
Website Design Services: Not Offered
Winsell Customer Websites: Roex , Northwestern Cutlery

Winsell Software Overview

Winsell Pro and Winsell Web are combined to give you a complete solution for many different retail Ecommerce businesses. Combined together Winsell Web provides Ecommerce capabilities with the Winsell Pro database. You will be able to sell your products online, perform business to business solutions, seamlessly restock your website and make it easy for your repeat customers to shop again. Winsell allows you to mix your sales channels. Retail customers will be able to shop easily on your site and wholesale customers can get their discounts automatically. You are able to use Winsell in your brick and mortar store as well as your web store and the pricing can be specific to each different store. One key feature of Winsell is you can assign a special discount for specific customers so that when they log in the discount is automatically given.

Winsell Ecommerce Features

• Worldwide 24 hour a day access to your business
• Handles new and repeat customers
• The ability for customers to create sales order directly into the WinSell Pro database
• The ability to check current inventory levels and pricing
• The ability to check the status of orders in the system
• The ability to set up discount prices for preferred customers
• Qualified customers can have their orders put “On Account”
• Integrated credit card acceptance
• Powerful web search for products
• Inclusion of sales taxes and shipping charges on orders
• Catalog creation directly from the web site top
• Customer loyalty/frequent buyer points
• Automatic email order confirmation
• Products automatically updated on website from database
• Items may be categorized extensively for display
• Interfaces with PC Charge and Authorize.net

Winsell POS Features

• Highly configurable
• Tracks all purchase history
• Comprehensive customer price management
• Complete multi-site configuration
• Fully integrated customer loyalty program and customer referral program
• Handle situations from industrial wholesale and supply to channel type retailing
• Handles and tracks all point-of-sale and invoicing activities
• Keeps a complete history of each sale including prices, costs and margins
• Interfaces for checkout style POS, order entry, invoicing, and Web based sales
• Handles purchasing function with purchase order and backorder capabilities
• Maintains all inventory control functions, including reorders
• Integrated Accounts Receivable module allows tracking of AR customers