Software that will make your
hardware and gardening chain flourish
Our software solution is ideal for:
DIY and hardware stores
Home improvement and gardening retailers
Garden centers and plant nurseries
National and international chains with large stores
Bring checkout and service wherever you need
Close sales, advise customers, check what’s available across your retail chain, order items and even perform inventory tasks on mobile and traditional Point of Sale (POS).
- Assist shoppers and close sales at the register or on handheld.
- Manage inventory tasks, such as counting, receiving, picking and transfers, on mobile devices.
- Process secure, EMV- and PCI-compliant payments thanks to the LS Pay functionality.
- Check product availability across all stores and warehouses and order items.
- Cut lines and speed up checkout by letting customers pay where they are on handheld POS.
Grow customer spend and loyalty with unmissable offers
Use real-time information to create loyalty programs, offers and promotions that make your customers happy, and bring you healthy returns.
- Create complex offers and promotions and activate them in just some of your stores, only online, on weekdays – you decide.
- Manage different pricing and promotions for different types of customers (builders, landscapers, resellers, retail customers, etc.).
- Reward customers who are in your loyalty program with points and special offers.
- Send personalized coupons or promotions using customers’ buying history and preferences.
Optimize inventory and replenishment
Get the right mix of stock in your stores and warehouses, and only order as much as you need.
- Manage accurately a complex inventory that includes traditional items, bulk purchases that are resold by weight or length, items such as paint that are mixed before being sold, or flowers which are combined for gift baskets.
- Say goodbye to lengthy and error-prone manual work: let the system reorder exactly what you need with automated replenishment and redistribution.
- Identify fast- and slow-sellers, and maximize visibility of best-selling items.
- Understand what to buy using LS Forecast, the AI-powered demand forecasting add-on.
Sell online and in-store
Let your customers browse and shop items as and when they prefer, on your eCommerce site or in your store locations.
- Show real-time stock availability of specific products across your store locations.
- Offer home delivery and click & collect, with item pick-up in store, at lockers, or at the curbside.
- Accept product returns in all your stores for items bought online.
- Let customers collect loyalty points and rewards whenever they shop.
All you need to run a successful DIY or garden center business
Analyze your data
See where you stand and make timely and effective decisions with the powerful reports and AI-powered analytics of add-on LS Insight.
Sell even when offline
No internet? No problem. Even if you are running the platform in the cloud as software as a service (SaaS), the POS work offline.
Save time on staff training
Shorten training times by using the same, intuitive software solution across all your POS devices, from handhelds to traditional registers.
Manage events, courses, appointments
Manage services like landscaping or consultations, and events like horticulture classes or woodworking workshops, within your retail platform.
Manage staff planning
Plan work schedules and share them with employees, check hours worked against the plan and ensure you are using your staff’s time effectively.
Handle complex pricing
Differentiate your offering. Set different pricing strategies for different store locations, or for different branded stores.
With over 87,000 square feet of nursery stock, Bradford Greenhouses needed a system that could manage inventory of their thousands of products effectively
LS Central allowed us to modernize our retail system and has streamlined many of our back-office operations. We find it a very dependable system which has benefited our customer experience.
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You have questions, we have answers
Choosing the right business management software for your DIY store or garden center, whether big or small, can be an overwhelming experience, but we are here to help and assist you in answering your questions. Just contact us!
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