Retail Solutions from Excel Experts

Retailers need to know how goods move from purchase to sale. The collection of raw data is often managed by specialist inventory control software. When you want to ask specific questions of the data, Excel can be employed as a very powerful analysis tool. As well as helping you with your figures, our Excel experts can support you in styling Microsoft Excel to explain financing plans to customers.

Customer Facing Spreadsheets

Traditionally, Excel is thought of as a rather unfashionable set of boxes. However, if you add sufficient color and expertise, you can hide its roots completely. Excel can suddenly become a very attractive and sophisticated calculator for customers to play with.

Imagine you run a car dealership and that you want to show a potential customer how much a car will cost at a set interest rate over 36 and 48 months. Now imagine they change their mind as to what extras they wish to purchase. If you can re-calculate the cost simply by unchecking a box, you can retain the customer's focus throughout the puchasing process. Our consultants can develop Excel spreadsheets to do just that. Similar solutions can be created for the sale of white goods.

If you choose to build quotes and financing plans within Excel, you have the added advantage that they can be easily printed. Then if a sale is made, the information is already computerized so can be easily transferred to your accounting software, or even another spreadsheet.

Sales Reporting

These days, most businesses have an online and physical presence. Our e-commerce solutions are covered here. Unless you are selling big ticket items, your physical sales will normally be recorded by barcode scanning, and this will be fully integrated with specialist inventory software. This software may also contain some reporting features.

However, your software may be unable to generate all the reports you need e.g. to gauge the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, to compare performance across a group of stores, or to perform a comprehensive analysis of consumer spending patterns.

Fortunately your software will be able to export all your raw sales data in an Excel compatible format. Our experts can then write some Visual Basic code that will be able to sift through your data and select the items that are of most interest. We can even develop flexible solutions so you can vary the analysis you perform. As we are using the world's most popular spreadsheet package, all our solutions are simple to use.

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