How Business Central Benefits Hardware Stores:

Create unlimited units of measure for buying and selling the same item. Business Central excels in managing complex inventories, which is important for hardware stores that carry a wide variety of items, from small screws, tools, and wooden pieces to other home improvement items. It can handle stock levels, set reorder points, manage seasonal demand fluctuations, and automate restocking processes.

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Utilize sales and order processing, from quotation to final sale, including special orders for items not currently in stock or that require special procurement.

Business Central facilitates supply chain management, from order placement with suppliers to tracking shipments and managing vendor relationships, ensuring timely restocking of hardware supplies. Leveraging supplier costs, landed costs, sales history, purchase history, and forecasting to make purchasing decisions.

The software offers financial management tools, including tracking sales, expenses, profitability, budgeting, and financial reporting, which is important for the financial health of the hardware store. Utilize general ledger, AR, AP, fixed assets, payroll, and more

Business Central can manage loyalty programs, track customer points, rewards, and create targeted marketing campaigns based on customer purchase history and preferences.

Additionally, with built-in CRM capabilities within Business Central hardware stores can track customer interactions, preferences, and purchase history, enabling personalized service and targeted promotions.

For hardware stores with multiple locations or significant warehousing requirements, Business Central can manage operations across all sites, ensuring consistent pricing, inventory management, and customer service.

Manage multiple stores, locations, warehouses, or storage areas from a single login. No more synchronization, all data is real-time between all locations so you can manage inventory, customers, and staff for one location or all locations simultaneously.

Eliminate double entry and support for multiple software systems. Business Central handles front-end, back-end, and accounting effortlessly.

Access all Business Central software functions from anywhere, whether you are in-store, at home, or on the road.  Unlimited free installations mean you can perform any function, anywhere, with the same username and password.

Modern Interface: Add or remove fields and columns from any screen in the system to adapt to the way you work. Add or remove columns in any lists, to quickly see, sort, and filter any data needed. 

While viewing a list of records in Business Central, single click to open them in Excel, edit, add equations, and send results instantly back into Business Central.