Low-Cost Consignment Boutique Software

The big expense for OTHER consignment software is ongoing payments! Not at Best Consignment Shop Software! There are no monthly or annual payments for software use or support. One low payment for lifetime use. Consignpro? $1,300+ and if 'optional annual fees' aren't paid, no software updates, no service - and there's the one-man-show risk.

Also Best Consignment Software is layered in price so you don't have to pay for unwanted or unneeded features.

Pricing

No-interest financing is available - generally 40% down and 3 equal monthly installments.

The Deluxe edition of Best Consignment Shop Software ($395) includes inventory management, sheet price labels with barcodes, data export (to spreadsheets and QuickBooks), work-from-anywhere option, sales processing and over 300 reports - very similar to Boutique Software in features.

The Diamond edition ($595) adds support for thermal label printing, networking computers together to share the same data and program (simultaneously), a rewards program,

These are the most common features. Both programs include lots of extras for the same price.

Options are also available, like passing credit-card costs on to consignors/vendors and buyers (where allowed). A percentage set in the program can be deducted from settlements for credit-card transactions. The monthly cost of $19.95 can also be divided amongst your customers. Individuals who object can be exluded.

Boutique Software for Consignment and Resale

The initial outlay for BCSS Boutique Software is lower because the price is not inflated with support payments.

There's only one payment for lifetime ownership.

The ongoing cost for BCSS can be 'zero' because there are no prepayments (optional or otherwise) for support.

'Can be zero' because if you never need help, you will not have paid for it and when you do need help (beyond the free introductory training) help is available ala carte at rates half that of local IT technicians. Our reps can help with other things as well, like Windows, networking, printers and other software programs.

Process buy-outright transactions, purchasing merchandise from individuals and suppliers for resale.

Manage consignments, keeping track of consignors, their items and sales, and paying them easily.

There are options for your boutique:

• Passing credit-card costs on to consignors and/or buyers
• Allowing your clients to view their account information online (instead of calls for "What did you sell for me?" and "How much do I have coming?"
• Granting a bonus to consignors for settling for store credit (which keeps sales proceeds in the store, reduces payouts and encourages consignors to become shoppers)
• Layaways
• Preventing employees from accessing any part of the program, voiding sale and/or granting discounts at point of sale
• linking multiple computers together to access the same database
• Take and store pictures of more costly boutique items that can be recalled at POS to help avoid price-tag switching
• Use a thermal label printer with higher editions of the boutique software for printing speicalized price labels and tags

For one low price Best Consignment Shop Software is the very best choice for running your boutique efficiently and profitably on budget.

Support

It's important to note that prices are quoted for software only. This way, if you are self sufficient or have someone in store who takes care of your computer needs, including the software, you aren't forced to pay for unwanted, unneeded, unused support.

Heads up: If you ask our competitors about their 'annual support fees' they may say, "Oh, they are totally optional. You don't have to pay them if you don't want to." without explaining the consequences if you don't pay up: They will withhold essential software updates and if that doesn't work they will deny service in any form.

Instead, we don't include precharges for support, which makes converting to our software a cheap alternative. Need help later? Only pay for it as it's needed. Frankly software vendors who charge fixed service fees make more over time in service fees than they do selling software.

Data Conversion

Current data in Consignment Boutique Software can be moved to our system, usually within 1 day. We've done conversions of Consignment Ease, Stoker, and others. Also any data currently in spreadsheets can be imported. Data conversion costs are low and depend upon the amount abd type of data.

Credit-Card Processing

You can continue to use your current card provider. If needed we can refer you to our source, which you might want to do anyway for a cost comparison. They have a $500 offer if they can't beat current rates.

Please give us a call for more details: 888-427-5779.

Change the Date on Your Computer

When entering inventory items in batch for a date other than the current date, changing the date in Windows will avoid having to edit the date entry for each item.

1. Click on the date/time display at the very lower-right corner of the Windows screen. (If the date/time isn't showing, the taskbar may be hidden. Hovering over the bottom of the Windows screen will make it appear if the taskbar location wasn't changed from the default of 'bottom'. Alternatively, click on the Start Button and type 'date' then select the option to change date and time.)
2. Click on 'Change date and time settings'.
3. Click on 'Change date and time'.
4. Use the calendar to select the desired date.
5. Click OK twice to close the date/time window.
6. Remember to change the date back to the current date when finished with the task that required this change.

Reopening BCSS (and screens within the program that display 'date') will now display the revised date.

This hack is helpful when adding several items to inventory, for example, where the 'Date In' is different from the current date. It can also be helpful when creating new client records when the beginning date for new clients differs from the current date.

Remember to change the date back to the current date when finished with the task that required this change.