Our retail management system is always adapting with industry changes and technological advancements. We’ve spoken with some system support experts to get tips that will help you save time and increase efficiency.
Topics: MBS Systems, MBS POS, campus bookstore
Our retail management system is always adapting with industry changes and technological advancements. We’ve spoken with some system support experts to get tips that will help you save time and increase efficiency.
Topics: MBS Systems, MBS Arc, campus bookstore
Arc, or Advanced Retail Center, functions as a hub managing textbook and merchandise inventory, invoice and sales processing, monthly accounting and analyzing store data. Its interface allows you to find the information you need quickly. Below, find ways to speed up your workflow with Arc.
Topics: MBS Systems, MBS Arc, MBS Systems Arc
MBS Systems’ cloud-based retail management system, Arc, offers single sign-on access to all your back-office work. Move seamlessly from one task to the next without breaking stride. View detailed graphics and charts on critical store data. Take action within seconds of receiving quality information.
Imagine this: It is homecoming. The parades are on, the crowds are dense and the beer is flowing. You and six of your best associates are each armed with a Microsoft™ Surface Pro Mobile POS. In the past, you would have been forced to accept cash payments only for spirit wear. Now you can accept all tenders — even student cards and financial aid — right there at the parade. You no longer have to wait for the crowds to come to you. Your store taps into the school excitement on-the-spot.
Topics: college retail, MBS Systems, mobile POS
Topics: MBS Systems, MBS Systems Forums, spotlight
With MBS Systems Training 2017 Fall Forums fast approaching, we sat down with organizer and Customer Education Manager, Wayne Jones, to talk about de-stressing textbooks, fostering collegial connections and other reasons stores are getting registered now for the free training adventure here in Columbia, Missouri.
Topics: MBS Systems, customer experience, benefits of scale
Your course materials partner should offer the total package.
Topics: MBS Systems, mobile POS, MBS Microsoft Surface Pro POS, POS
University of Central Missouri University Store Director Charlie Rutt needed no persuasion when it came to adopting the MBS POS on a Microsoft Surface Pro. When the tablet-sized register first appeared, Rutt seized the chance to increase sales with a mobile solution.
Topics: Higher Ed, K-12, MBS Systems
On Black Friday of 1977, Dan Schuppan, president of MBS Textbook Exchange, was having an in-person conversation with Dave Propst, a young man who worked at Bill’s Bookstore, the off-campus bookstore at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Propst was interviewing for the role of a wholesale rep for Missouri Book Services (now MBS).
Topics: MBS Systems, customer loyalty, college stores
Rewards programs are a great way to give back to customers and to encourage repeat business. Knowing your customers and adjusting to what suits them best is essential to developing a long-term plan. If they aren’t using the rewards program, it isn’t benefiting them or the store. When UC Davis Stores evaluated their Aggie Kickbacks program in comparison to UC Merced and UCLA, they saw room for improvement.
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