How to Pick the Top Gun Store POS System for your FFL
In today's shooting sports marketplace, FFLs of all sizes face competitive and economic challenges. It’s relatively easy to get an FFL, so all sorts of individuals and retailers are selling firearms and ammunition. Competitors can range from a home-based FFL open only on the weekend to large national outdoor sports retailers that sell firearms alongside a wide variety of other merchandise.
Firearms businesses must comply with stringent regulations and documentation requirements of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). As a result, FFLs and firearm stores require an easy-to-use and reliable gun store point of sale system that supports these regulatory requirements. Top POS systems for gun stores can streamline inventory management, increase operational efficiency, automate manual tasks and drive sales growth and profitability.
What Makes a Top Gun Store POS System?
When evaluating the top POS systems for your gun store, several key factors should be considered:
• Ease of Use – The best POS system for you should be easy to use and understand. Some systems are overly complex or based on antiquated technology. Think about the cost of training employees and inefficiencies from using a system not designed for a store of your size.
• Cost – Your POS system should fit within your budget. POS systems for gun stores can vary widely in price, so be sure to compare costs and features to find the best value for your money. Understand that the cost of your POS will cut directly into your monthly profits.
• Support – Your POS provider should offer quality support of its product. Check to see what support channels are available and expected response time.
• Inventory Management - The POS system should be able to handle the purchasing and receiving and inventory management of a wide range of firearms, ammunition, and accessories. It should also manage the tracking of serial numbers of regulated items.
• ATF Compliance – Your gun store POS system must be designed to meet the specific requirements of the ATF. Be sure that there is a module or integration with a 3rd party application for the generation of ATF Form 4473 and for all NICS requirements.
• Electronic Product Catalogs – Some popular gun store POS systems integrate with firearm-related vendor catalogs. An integration with an electronic product catalog can speed the creation of new products.
• Integrations - The system should integrate seamlessly with popular 3rd party applications used by small businesses, such as accounting and ecommerce software platforms.
• Reporting and Analytics - The system should provide reporting capabilities to generate and analyze sales, inventory, transaction and customer data.
Why the GunBiz POS System from MicroBiz Should be at the Top of Your List
While there are multiple gun store POS systems in the market, GunBiz by MicroBiz should be at the top of your list due to the following:
• Modern and Easy to Use – MicroBiz is a modern cloud-based POS system designed for small to mid-sized businesses.
• Competitive Prices – Standard subscriptions start at $60/mo including the integration to the FastBound A&D Compliance Software.
• Live Support – MicroBiz offers superior product support to get up up and running quickly and to answer any questions. Support is available via chat, email and phone.
• Advanced Inventory Management - The GunBiz POS system offers advanced inventory management capabilities including reorder points, special orders and backorders and serial number tracking.
• ATF Compliance from FastBound - MicroBiz integrates with the FastBound A&D compliance management software, which can handle all of your ATF compliance requirements.
• Barcode Lookup Electronic Catalog – MicroBiz integrates with an electronic catalog containing over 1.2 billion product records. When creating a new record, you can use this catalog to auto-populate the name, IDs, image and description of product being created.
• Integrations – In addition to the FastBound A&D compliance software integration, MicroBiz integrates with the free WordPress/WooCommerce ecommerce platform as well as QuickBooks Online
• Exceptional Reporting and Analytics – MicroBiz offers a variety of transaction, sales, inventory, order and audit reports. All reports have a variety of filters and be downloaded with one click - and offer great insight into your business.
Additional Considerations
In addition to the factors above, we suggest considering the additional following factors below when selecting a gun store POS system:
• Who Owns or Built the Software – MicroBiz developed its software from the first line of code, which allows us to offer great support. Many other gun store POS vendors ‘white label’ software owned and operated by 3rd parties or bought the software code of another POS company and modified it for sale into the gun industry. This makes it harder for these vendors to offer quality support or to modify the product for enhancements.
• Comprehensive CRM Features - MicroBiz includes a robust customer management system that provides insight inro customer behavior and sales history.
• Scalability - MicroBiz can support up to 250,000 product records and up to 25 store locations. The MicroBiz gun store POS system can easily scale to accommodate your growing business, offering the tools that you need to succeed.
• Payments – MicroBiz offers a choice of two fire-arm friendly integrated payments partners. You are not stuck with only one integrated payment option with GunBiz by MicroBiz.
• Set-Up Cost - The implementation process can be time-consuming and complex. MicroBiz offers free set up, training and basic data import for free with a new subscription.
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Choosing the right POS system can play a major role in the success of your FFL business or gun store. MicroBiz allows you to test out the software yourself via a 21 day free trial. Many other firearm POS software do not offer a free trial so you must make a purchase decision based on videos and online demos.
Hopefully after considering the factors listed in this article, you will agree that GunBiz by MicroBiz is the best gun store POS system for your business. We believe that you will be able to use MicroBiz to operate more efficiently, increase sales and improve profitability.