The LIONWISE™ system is ideal for specialty retail stores, including apparel, housewares, sporting goods and general merchandise. The LIONWISE Specialty Retail POS (Point-of-Sale) solution helps you to quickly and easily process sales orders rapidly for improved customer service and increased profitability. The LIONWISE system reduces the steps required to process an order at check out, and offers flexibility in pricing and inventory configurations with a dimensional matrix for apparel, footware and other similar items. The system supports high-speed credit card authorization, gift cards, gift certificates, house account, and cash tender transactions. The specialty retail screens provide intuitive, rapid entry of items so that customer check-out can be completed quickly and accurately, allowing you to handle peak customer traffic volumes.

The LIONWISE system helps you to manage your specialty retail business more profitably with comprehensive inventory management capabilities providing vendor management options such as purchasing, receiving and inventory adjustments.

Easy to Use

The LIONWISE system provides an intuitive, easy to use interface for both management and the staff, allowing for key administrative functions such as pricing, promotions and other pricing changes to be performed at any POS workstation.  Navigation is quick and easy allowing the user to get where they need to be in two touches.  Staff can easily handle discounts, item look-ups, voids and returns. The ability within the LIONWISE system to quickly and easily correct misapplied payments, hold orders and handle employee time card adjustments help keep your business running smoothly.  As new staff members come on board, a real-time training mode allows for hands-on training in a simulated environment without affecting the live business reporting.
 
Whether you’re an independent specialty retail or a multi-unit retail chain, having information to make better, faster decisions is critical to success. The LIONWISE system offers a comprehensive suite of reports that can be run and monitored from any workstation, not just the back office.

The Ultimate in Visibility and Control

• Timely and actionable data that helps ensure your profitability
• Make decisions quickly and confidently to help prevent unnecessary costs
• Instantly view key performance indicators in an easy-to-read dashboard
• Exception-based alerts trigger attention to potential areas of concern
• Important information can be reliably distributed to core personnel

Reporting and Analysis

• Staff-level and Business-level consolidated reports
• Create custom reports with configurable templates
• Trending with comparison of period-by-period analytics
• Detailed drill-down for daily sales and labor performance
• Provides greater management of store cash handling

Specialty Retail Features

The LIONWISE Specialty Retail POS solution combines ease of use
and comprehensive capabilities, along with access to most functions
with as little as two touches to process a transaction. Our Specialty
Retail POS solution includes features such as:

• Complete Actual Costed FIFO Inventory tracking and management.
• Inventory may be entered/adjusted from any workstation on the floor.
• Barcode Scanning interface.
• Dimensional Inventory and Pricing Matrix (Apparel / Footware)
• Ability to store and recall orders
• Sales and Inventory transaction reporting.
• Six assignable Price Levels
• Security controls monitor cash drawer accountability with cashiers.
• Item look-up by name.
• Assign customers to orders
• Item changes are distributed to all workstations without having to reboot the system.
• Unlimited data retention capability in the back office.
• Employee clock-in and clock-out maintenance from any POS workstation.
• Flexible payment options: High-speed credit card, house account, gift cards/certificates and cash tender.
• House Account module including complete statements from the back office suitable for mailing.
• Gift Card module with no swipe fees.
• Flexibly apply sales tax.
• Ability to manage employee revenue center, employee training records, and time card adjustments
• Promotional sale item date and period setting for automatic sales promotion changes
• Manage the automatic scheduling and configuration of reports
• Purchase Order / Vendor Management
• Customer Management / Pricing Levels
• Customer History and Loyalty Management
• End-to-end encrypted payment card processing
• Microsoft SQLServer database
• Time and Attendance
• QuickBooks Desktop & QuickBooks Online integration

Many Specialty Retail reference customers are gaining benefits from using the LIONWISE POS solution. For more information on how some of our customers have specifically achieved dramatic results and a fast return on their investment, please click on a reference story or video where available.

LIONWISE® Lite for Retail - the right choice for your growing business


LIONWISE® Lite is an intuitive, affordable and reliable point of sale product that meets the needs of a wide range of todays retailers. It has a powerful feature set that allows it to be flexible while still remaining easy to use and maintain.

Simple and intuitive to use and learn – Try it today!
With its refreshingly simple and intuitive design, LIONWISE® Lite is the right POS for the owner/operator interested in the increased efficiency and controls to manage their business without having to become an expert in computers. Try it today and see for yourself how simple the software is to learn and use.

Reliable and accurate software – It’s all about the numbers
LIONWISE® Lite is accurate and reliable. Developed on Microsoft’s .NET Framework, it was built from the ground up by a team with decades of both retail business ownership and software engineering expertise. What good is a system if you can’t trust its results? With LIONWISE® Lite it’s all about the numbers, you can have the confidence that your system’s got your back.

Affordable – Everything you need, nothing you don’t.
The LIONWISE® Lite product has been developed for the local independent, offering the functionality an operator needs to manage their business while maintaining a comfortable simplicity. With LIONWISE® Lite you get the foundation of POS: operational controls, item and inventory updates in real time and financial reporting while still remaining easy to use and manage.

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•    Actual costed FIFO inventory tracking
•    Dimensional Product Matrix
•    Gift Card / Stored-value card
•    Purchase Order / Vendor Management
•    Customer Management / Pricing Levels
•    End-to-end encrypted payment card processing
•    Item & pricing changes automatically applied to all terminals
•    Unlimited Data Retention
•    Fast, accurate daily close and reporting
•    Microsoft SQLServer database
•    Time and Attendance
•    QuickBooks Desktop & QuickBooks Online integration