Customer Summit 2008

  Advanced Retail Management Systems is

excited to announce

Customer Summit 2008 -

Taking Your Business to a Higher Peak.

 Thursday June 26^th, 2008
9:00am-5:00pm
The Crystal Rose
8351 Southpark Lane
Littleton, Colorado 80120

 You are cordially invited to attend a *FREE day
of Microsoft RMS training sessions

Join us for a full day of training sessions designed to enhance your knowledge of your Microsoft RMS Point of Sale and inventory control software solution

NitroSell e-Commerce
Business Benefits

Nitrosell e-Commerce integrates with Microsoft RMS to manage a full feature WebStore. NitroSell has been designed for total flexibility with essential features to continuously update inventory and pricing while utilizing a refresh rate every 20 minutes, ensuring a complete and resilient solution that flawlessly handles sales during peak hours as well as for each and every day- 365 days a year 24/7.

NitroSell is;
- Your totally integrated WebStore Solution for Microsoft RMS
- Enabling retailers to put their brick and mortar stores online quickly
- Share one inventory between the store and website
- Enabling retailers to establish Enterprise-class websites at the click of the
  mouse at minimal cost

NitroSell e-Commerce can: 

• Automatically update your back office product information with your WebStore every 20 minutes.
• Automatically feed your product information into Froogle, Google's store search engine and MS Products LIVE.
• Enable everyone of your products to be available through search engines
• Manage your entire product catalog on-line easily with RMS
• Display images in the form of thumbnails, catalog shots, and enlargements for every product.
• Showcase your matrix products in a format that is easy for your customers to purchase from.
• Extend the product information to include additional selling points and attributes.
• Sell products at different prices on the web vs. your store, quantity discounts & offer promotional discounts
• Allow special pricing for certain customer groups as well as supporting multiple price levels
• Track all customer orders and shipping, including local delivery, national, and international deliveries
• Integration to major shipping carriers (UPS, FedEx, & USPS)
• Manage multiple currencies and taxation.
• Improve customer experience and expand customer base with multichannel gift cards
• Offer a choice of over 14 PCI compliant payment gateways, including VeriSign, WorldPay, and PayPal
• Increase revenues and drive additional traffic to your store

Andrea Ellerbrock @ 800 305 0461 x 324 / andrea.ellerbrock@armsys.com

Tech Tips 

Using Aliases
Aliases are useful when you want to ring up the item using a short or alternative item lookup code. In a way, aliases are like nicknames. In the Manager program, you can define or delete an alias. You can also generate an Alias report that displays all your aliases.

To define an alias

1.  On the Database menu, click Items. The Items window appears.
2.  Select the item to which you want to add an alias, and then click Properties.
3.  On the Item Properties window, click the Aliasestab.
4.  Click Add to display the Add Alias window.
5.  Enter the name of the alias, and then click OK. You will see the new alias in the Alias box.
6.  To save the information, click OK.

Meet Our Staff

Marty Katz, MSW, CSCI, MCT

Marty has been with Advanced Retail since moving to Denver in March, 2007.  Prior to joining ARMS, he was a support technician for Radiant Systems, the developer of CounterPoint software.  In 2006, he was named Support Representative of the Year by the Radiant Systems retail division partners.  He is also a Microsoft Certified Technician (Microsoft Dynamics RMS).  Even though he has a Master's Degree in Social Work, he has a longer history working with computers.  He installed his first Point-of-Sale system when he was 17 years old, bringing his father's business into the computer age.  He's also worked in a wide variety of retail and POS functions, doing everything from a sales clerk at Macy's, to Purchasing, to installing MIS systems.

Since moving to Denver, Marty has taken to the 'Colorado lifestyle'.  He's lost weight, raised his bowling average 20 pins, and taken up skiing.

Receive $250 credit on account or 2 Client Service hours every time you refer a new customer that purchases Microsoft Dynamics RMS. 

Microsoft Dynamics RMS has grown to be the premier Inventory Control / POS software for small to mid-tier retailers. Whether you know a single store or a 100 store chain, Microsoft Dynamics RMS provides the technology for retailers to excel.

Call your sales person today at 800-305-0461 or click here to complete the form to refer another retailer and start earning valuable rewards! 

By Jenn Abelson
The Boston Globe
April 18, 2008

Sony wants to turn your tax rebate into a high-definition television. Home Depot has other plans for your check from Uncle Sam: help the Earth by spending it on energy-efficient appliances. And Sears is offering a gift card to customers for the amount of their rebate checks, plus a 10 percent bonus.

Merchants struggling with the slowdown in spending are stepping up promotions to court consumers who are expecting a cash infusion from federal rebate checks. Retailers are already planning major sales and big advertising campaigns in the fierce fight for dollars - even though the government won't start mailing out the checks until May. For merchants worried about a bleak year, this is like Christmas in spring.

Store owners have good reason to expect a shopping spree. People plan to spend 40.6 percent, or about $42.9 billion, of the $105.7 billion the government is distributing in tax rebates, according to a survey conducted in February by the National Retail Federation, a Washington, D.C., trade group. Consumers, besieged by soaring cost of gas and groceries and declining home values, plan to use about $30 billion to pay down debt and about $20 billion to put in savings, the survey found.

The tax rebate, part of a federal effort to boost the economy, will put $600 in the pocket of most individual filers, $1,200 for couples who file jointly, and an extra $300 per child for families. Only the wealthiest taxpayers will be excluded. The rebates are separate from tax refunds, which many filers have already received.

Retailers also hope the timing of the rebates, which will coincide with the summer selling session, will jump-start the economy, said Jon B. Hurst, president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts. The beginning of any season is important because that's when the majority of consumers shop and when the margins are best for retailers because merchandise is not marked down, Hurst said.

"There is a lot of hope that the rebates, as well as the usual refunds, will spark increased consumer spending," Hurst said. "With two-thirds of the economy being represented by the consumer, and with confidence at low levels locally and nationally, this stimulus will be a shot in the arm for the industry."

Toni Williams, 47, of Mission Hill, has debated whether to use her expected $600 rebate for a vacation, a replacement washer and dryer, or a computer upgrade. For now, she's settled on a new laptop.

"I have an ancient desktop computer (circa 2000) and am looking forward to purchasing a laptop with my rebate and additional funds which I have saved," Williams said. "I wish I could take a nice vacation to visit friends in the southern part of the country instead, but the airline industry's tardiness and dysfunction leave me wary."Continued...