Magstar Total Retail for Garden Centers & Pool Stores
An All-In-One Solution to Help Your Business Thrive Year-Round
Tailored and integrated tools from experts in the industry
A Central System to Support Your Busiest Seasons
Forging a seamless connection between your point of sale, accounting, and inventory systems is essential for garden centers and pool supply businesses managing multiple locations.
It makes life easier for both employees and head office, resulting in better run stores, well-stocked greenhouses, and fully loaded pool supply aisles.
How Unified Retail Management Supports Garden Centers and Pool Stores
Seasonal businesses like yours experience a wide range of benefits from our tailored retail management software:
Intelligent Inventory Management
The seasonal nature of garden centers and pool stores means that inventory can come and go rapidly, while customers expect a consistent supply of items for their convenience. Being able to coordinate merchandise availability by having a clear picture of inventory throughout the enterprise is essential for a successful seasonal retail chain.
- Quickly identify understocked items that are selling fast
- Automate replenishment and distribution, both from warehouses and between stores
- Accommodate limited space and maximize visibility of best-selling items
- Match inventory to the unique needs and demands of each of your locations
- Reduce order sizes on items that are slow sellers
Flexible Shopping for Garden and Pool Customers
Large pool supply stores, nurseries, and garden centers are places where mobility matters. Products are spread out, and customers are eager to get information right at the site of a particular purchase. Giving them details about items for sale right on the spot makes for a more convenient shopping experience. Magstar Total Retail interfaces with web and mobile solutions and when integrated with all your channels can allow your customers to:
- Check what’s in stock online or on their phone before coming in
- Call ahead to a store and have items held for pickup
- Pay for items without having to take them to the cash register
- Get detailed product info anywhere in the store
- Order out-of-stock items to be delivered to the store
- Buy in-store and have large or heavy items shipped to the home or business
Understand Buying Patterns. Stock What Sells
Whether it’s organic soil and perennials, or chlorine tablets and pool vacuums, the better you understand what your customers want, the more you sell. By gathering meaningful insights about customers and their tastes, you can use your valuable display space for the products that you can count on moving quickly. With Magstar Total Retail, you can:
- Scan an ID to quickly save customer info into CRM
- Track point of sale data for trends by season and location
- Use reporting and analytics to enable and improve distribution planning
- See which ads and promotions bring in the best results
- Stock each store with products that fit local tastes, and minimize unsold stock
Manage a Wide Mix of Products
Garden centers and pool stores carry all kinds of products, from outdoor furniture and flowers to pool toys and filters. Managing it all can be tricky. But with Magstar’s solution in place, you can:
- Match your inventory to your store planogram, understanding optimal shelf layout and specific vendor spaces.
- Improve analytics by using product grouping and categories, so you can track what’s selling best
- Keep key product info in one place, so staff members can quickly answer customer questions
- Stay on top of needed care schedules or supplies for the maintenance of plant products
Run Effective Sales and Promotions
Whether it’s spring planning or pool opening season, the right marketing promotion brings customers through the door. The Magstar system helps you plan, run, and manage your promotions, without stress.
- Run more than one promotion simultaneously
- Mail flyers to customers using saved info from Magstar CRM
- Automatically ensure stock of sale items is always available
- Create regular seasonal offers you can reuse every year
- Send the right deals to the right customers
Developed for Garden and Pool Stores, by Industry Experts
Your business is unique. You need a specialized solution made for what you sell, whether it’s plants or pool supplies. That’s why Magstar Total Retail comes ready with the key fields, reports, and automated workflows that garden centers and pool stores need.
For over 30 years, we’ve worked closely with businesses like yours to shape our software, driving improvements and changes that meet your unique needs. Thanks to those partnerships, our solutions include the best practices that really work in your industry – built in and ready to roll from day one.
Sample Features
Boost profits with helpful prompts during checkout. Magstar suggests extra items based on what the customer is buying, and what they’ve bought before, like reminding them about fertilizer for their annuals, or pool shock when they are stocking up on filters.
Keep the right mix of products at every store, with smart inventory tools. Magstar helps you order less of what sells slowly, and helps you prepare for those sunny, busy days, so your shelves are ready when traffic spikes.
Keep track of the essential product information your business needs, including: Indoor vs Outdoor, Maintenance Requirements, Country of Origin, Drought Tolerance, Related Wild Animals, Compatible Products, Container Required, Edibility and so on.