PRODUCT SOLUTIONS
Decor EXPRESS™ is powerful retail management software designed to meet the needs of today’s decorating retailer. The user-friendly system handles all aspects of daily operations including cash sales, charge accounts, special orders, sample loans, quotations, purchasing, receiving and credit management.
CBC knows the paint & decorating industry and is a strategic partner with our customers, committed to the success of their retail decorating operation. The Decor EXPRESS™ Retail Management System is a business solution that is tailored to the special aspects of the paint and decorating industry, enabling store managers and owners to improve customer service, increase repeat business and effectively control sales, margins and inventory.
Select one of the following sections for additional information:
Specialized Features & Benefits
Secure, Reliable Communications
Online Credit / Debit Processing
SPECIALIZED FEATURES & BENEFITS
It is these specialized capabilities of Decor EXPRESS™ that enables our customer to fully realize the benefits of a computerized retail management system. This solution gives our customer’s decorating stores many advantages that are not possible using generic pos or commodity hard goods software.
Paint Color / Formula Tracking
- Automatic prompt for clerks to capture color information for improved customer and repeat sales
- Tint / Colorant Costing
- Accurate costing and margin reporting for paint sales
- Eco / Disposal Taxes
- Easy and accurate handling of new environmental taxes
- Alternative Selling Units
- Enables flexible price strategies for volume buyers by the native packing units for a particular item, e.g. skids, cases, boxes, cartons
- Alternative Purchasing Units
- Enables efficient processing of purchases and receipts for accurate inventory quantities and costs
- Formula Change Notes
- Facilitates accurate tinting on repeat sales and satisfied customers
- Unlimited Price Levels
- Flexible pricing enables each customer to be treated appropriately for their volume of business and improve loyalty
Wallpaper Page / Pattern - Realize better margins by avoiding price comparisons on specific patterns
- Sample Loans
- Fast customer check out and accurate tracking of books & fan decks
- Sample Reservations
- Improved customer service
- Bar Coded Labels
- Facilitates accurate inventory tracking and physical counts
- Authorized Buyers Display
- Promotes a high level of Customer service ensuring accurate account charges
- Integrated MapQuest
- Enables easier and faster deliveries and pickups
Automatic Special Order Prompting - Ensures clerks capture the specific information required for special order items including size, model #, part #, accessories, options
- Multi UPC / Vendor Item #
- Efficient inventory handling by enabling a single SKU to be purchased under different vendor's part #'s and upc #'s
- Resale Auto Taxation
- Accurate taxation and fast check out
- Cost Based Taxation
- Easy and accurate taxation for special install & flooring taxes
- Sales Management System
- Effective management of an Outside Sales Force
- Special Discounting
- Enables creative sales and price promotions; e.g. “Contractor Day”, “Cost + 10%”, "Buying Groups"
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Contract Pricing including Job Tracking- Better service of high volume customer and special project pricing
- Account Term Flexibility
- Enable better credit management and tailored customer management
- Subcontractor PO’s
- Efficient management of installment jobs
- Customer Limit & Overdue
- Better credit management
- Electronic Signature
- Better account management and office time savings in filing
- Invoice Batch Printing / Reprinting
- Better customer service especially with large volume and contractor accounts
SCALABLE SYSTEMS
Decor EXPRESS™ runs equally well in multi-store chain or single store environments. With 4 different versions, CBC ensures that the price and capabilities are properly matched to each customer's requirements.
Single Store Versions
- Two User Version - Full featured but only allows two simultaneous users.
- Network Version – Allows an unlimited number of users at the same physical location.
Multi-Store Versions
- RSE (Remote Store Exchange) Version – This uses modems and normal phone lines to poll store data overnight.
- Thin Client Version – This uses the Internet to interconnect all stores for real time processing.
SECURE, RELIABLE COMMUNICATIONS
Decor EXPRESS™ runs on standard Windows PCs, but utilizes the latest in secure, high speed communication technology. Single store owners can run their businesses from home or any location where the Internet is available. Multi-store chains do not need expensive communication technology, yet can be assured that their stores keep running, even when a network connection to the head office is not available.
FLEXIBLE HARDWARE OPTIONS
CBC Computer Systems will help you choose the optimum hardware configuration to meet your retail management needs. CBC can recommend a hardware supplier with systems designed specifically to work with Decor EXPRESS™, including on-site deployment.
Point Of Sale equipment supported by Decor EXPRESS™ includes*:
- Cash Receipt Printers
- Bar Code Scanners
- Invoice Printers
- Cash Drawers
- Customer Display Poles
- Signature Pads
- Portable Data Collectors (Pocket PC Devices)
- Magnetic Stripe Readers (for Credit Cards)
- PINPADs (for Debit Cards)
See the Links page for information on specific Equipment Suppliers.
*Please check with CBC’s sales or support representative to confirm that specific hardware is compatible with your computer system.
ONLINE CREDIT / DEBIT PROCESSING
Credit and Debit Cards can be processing directly through the Decor EXPRESS™ Point-of-Sale and Customer Payment screens using processing software developed by VeriFone. VeriFone is the global leader in secure electronic payment technology with software designed for integration with POS software.
This solution utilizes most existing merchant accounts, ensuring the flexibility to choose your own processor and get the best possible rate. Integrated Online Credit / Debit will dramatically improve the speed of check out, processing accuracy and ultimately customer satisfaction.