PLDT SME Nation recently launched and pioneered the 1st ever online inventory system for businesses and SMEs. The main idea here is to introduce a new inventory system that is easy to use, cheap and with fast automated processing of your sales inventory. I also saw this as a great advantage for new business people and especially for those who want to start a business or jump out of the old and traditional way of computing and monitoring your sales. (More story below)
When we buy our food or items from the grocery or order coffee in a cafe, we saw that the cashier uses this cash register or POS (point of sale) machine to compute and generate a report digitally and produces a hard copy of the stuff we bought, and that hard copy is our receipt or proof of purchase. Its easy as it seems but for the business owners and people who man the machine are very careful in placing data and encode the sales of each item, this will be checked again by the business owners to monitor their sales and see if the profit are good and need to replenish their stocks, some business owners print outs all the data stored in the POS machine and re-read it and record for their ledger and do the accounting thing. Its a tough process and need to be careful in analyzing and recording all datas, just what I learned in my accounting subject back in college, if the 1st data is wrong, then all computed data wont match your meet target and projection, and you need to go back again to figure it if it will accumulate a balanced record.
Others are still recording all sales in handwriting, well,that’s writing the sales on a receipt with carbon paper and give the other receipt to the customer and the other copy is for safe keeping for accounting, the process is still the same and now it is considered as the old way of recording your inventory..
The Present “ laptop, internet and PLDT Check Out online inventory system”
Fast forward to year 2011, PLDT now introduces their PLDT Check Out, its a cost effective POS solution that uses the web to connect their on site stores to the head office of the business owners and transmit data of sales and inventory. The business owners can now monitor their sales and inventory at anytime and anywhere with the power of the PLDT Check Out software and any internet connection.
Business owners can now focus more on building up more sales and instead of putting their time in fixing and computing the inventory manually, this time with PLDT Check Out, the hassle of computing will be gone and decision making will be convenient because the machine will do the work for you. It can analyze and generate reports, copy of sales, see charts of your inventory and print a copy of all report that you can use for storing all important sales data.
All you need is to apply for a monthly service fee of P2750 per store or branch and a one time fee of P500. Automated processing such as accepting and recording of sales are included from the software they will provide and an account that you can use in monitoring the sales and an account for your store. The difference here is that you will use any computer or laptop as your POS machine, no need to purchase big and bulky POS machines that costs at around P600,000 per unit and for its terminal. PLDT Check out can do the work with a the power of the internet. The monthly fees covers software updates, maintenance and 24/7 technical support. Make sure first that the applicant has an existing PLDT SME Internet connection. Or if you needed a POS Machine, PLDT can supply you POS Machines by IBM built with PLDT Check Out software.
Retail and food and beverages business and industry can benefit from this new online inventory system, as the press launch of PLDT Check Out they revealed that some of our local business now uses the PLDT Check Out, at around 30 businesses are now using it and a live demo was experienced infront of the customers, buyers and even store owners. The live test was done in NBC Tent and I saw that PLDT Check Out showed to us the top seller of that night and then PLDT awarded the top seller of the night a prize of P100,000.
Thumbs up for PLDT Check Out!
For me, the PLDT Check Out is very effective and fast in generating reports and calculations, And if you have internet connection, you can monitor it wherever you are in any part of the globe, and if the internet connection died while using in your stores, the PLDT Check Out software still operates and record all datas in your local computer or laptop and it will send the data back to you once internet connection is available, this time around, you won’t worry for internet connection interruption. Everything that is web based and allows cloud computing will be effective, its like checking your email and then operate it on the fly.
for more info, pls visit http://www.pldtcheckout.com.ph
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