ThunderPOS gives you the ultimate point of sale (POS) feature set for your buy-sell-trade retail store. Run powerful reports. Manage customer loyalty. Customize your register screen layout. Automate promotional pricing. Use integrated credit and gift card processing. Sell items on your webstore through WooCommerce and Shopify. And these are just a few of the features of ThunderPOS. ThunderPOS is a secure Cloud-based POS or On-Site solution. Run your register on Windows or iPad. Manage your store on Windows or from any device on ThunderPOS.net!

What sets ThunderPOS apart from generic systems like Lightspeed, Clover or Square Point of Sale?  It’s simple: get features specific to your industry.  These include video game stores, music and vinyl record stores, bookstores, collectible stores, and vape stores. ThunderPOS is a massive step forward.  With it, you gain in both power and simplicity for any single store or multistore chain!

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Why Use A Specialized Point of Sale?

We are sometimes asked “What are my advantages in choosing a specialized vs. a generic system?”   

The basic answer:  While generic systems implement basic features that apply across all retail stores, they are not concerned with each industry’s unique needs.  ThunderPOS, however, is designed to address the needs of your specific industry.  So we have features to address your particular needs that the generic systems cannot match.

What can specialized software do for me if I’m selling used product and doing trade ins?

Using generic software with trade-ins often leads to accounting nightmares.  Stores using generic software for used/trades have to resort to hacks and workarounds that end up getting them in trouble.  For example, people using a generic system often process trade-ins as returns, causing them to deduct from their sales totals.  Generic systems don’t separate trade-ins out in reporting.  Therefore sales end up underreported, and store owners can find themselves facing an auditor with faulty reporting.  Users of our software, on the other hand, will readily be able to break down their trade-ins and sales.  Our software understands how trade-ins are handled legally and has advanced features such as sales tax options to make sure you are in compliance with your states regulations and never have to worry about trade-in reporting in the case of an audit.

But even beyond the accounting, a system designed for new and used from the ground up makes your job easier and saves you hours of labor in back office data entry and maintenance.  Let’s say you sell both new and used copies of the same item.  In a generic system, you would have to come up with your own solution to make the software work for something it’s not designed to do.  

• You can set up a bogus SKU for the used copy.  But this essentially doubles your inventory entry burden, and complicates and clutters up your inventory reporting.  Also, at the register, if the original barcode is scanned, pricing may be inaccurate. 
• You can decide to keep the original barcode for both new and used and live with it.  So you would have to rely on the cashier to manually adjust the pricing during the sale process.  This opens up the possibility of user error at the register, makes auditing for fraud difficult, and reduces the value of your reporting. 

In ThunderPOS, there’s no need to resort to these workarounds. You can use the same SKU across new and used, because our software allows you to maintain separate stock levels and just designate whether you’re selling new/used as you’re scanning the items. There are expanded options to facilitate used sales in ThunderPOS.  You can establish a variety of condition options for the used product with associated selling and trade-in pricing.  The system even allows you to set a maximum number of used copies desired in the store to ensure your cashiers don’t accept trade-ins you don’t need.  We have built in support for features such as age-restricted items, serial numbered items, repairs, pre-ordering and special ordering, and this is just a sampling.

The labor difference between a generic system and a specialized one is truly enormous.

What advantages do you have in dealing with particular industries?

Because we work for a narrow range of industries, even if you are not dealing with used products you will find features that no generic system will have to suit your needs.  We work with a variety of distributors and inventory database providers to support their data feeds, to make it much easier for you to get your inventory into the system without having to type in every title.

What industry specific data services do you have for my Record Store?

For record stores, we have support for the AMS and AEC distributor databases, as well as the Discogs database.  We also allow for both Luminate (formerly Soundscan) and Streetpulse reporting, as well as inventory exports to Broadtime.

What industry specific data services do you have for my Video Game Store?

For video game stores, we offer subscriptions for the BRE and Video Game Price Charting data feeds, both of which offer suggested used and trade in pricing.  We also have integration for reporting tradeins to Leads Online, a legal necessity for many of our Video Game Store customers.

What industry specific data services do you have for my Bookstore?

For Bookstores, we have support for Ingram Books’ subscription content web services.  For a monthly fee, this will allow you access to their database of over eighteen million titles.