COMMERCIALWARE ANNOUNCES CWSTORE 8.0 AND CWLOCATE 1.2
New Releases Demonstrate CommercialWare`s Ongoing Commitment to Product Excellence for Cross Channel Retailers
Natick, Mass.- August 25, 2004 - CommercialWare, Inc, the leading provider of cross-channel commerce infrastructure software, announced new releases of CWStore 8.0, its point-of-sale and retail management software, and CWLocate 1.2, its inventory locator solution. CWStore 8.0 is an end-to-end store solution for capturing point-of-sale transactions, managing customers and performing back office functions and analysis. CWLocate 1.2 is an inventory location software solution that reduces lost sales and optimizes inventory disbursement. The product allows retailers and direct marketers to easily view merchandise availability across all sales channels, including retail stores and multiple distribution centers. Both releases deliver additional features and functionality, building on their powerful and reliable capabilities.
CWStore 8.0
CWStore 8.0 gathers point-of-sale transactions as well as customer information in real-time in addition to performing back office functions such as purchase order creation, inventory transfer, sales reporting and staff management. The software consists of five modules including: StorePOS, StoreBackOffice, StoreHQ, StoreMobile and StoreAnalytics to handle the needs of multiple constituents. CWStore 8.0 incorporates a new in-store database for all POS functionality that improves transactional processing speed and provides additional flexibility for store managers. The new release also provides enhancements to its Stored Value Card which allows customers to implement a seamless cross channel gift card program between CWStore and CWDirect, CommercialWare1s flagship order management software.
Additional features in CWStore 8.0 include:
·Enhanced label design utility that allows merchants to create custom shelf tags as well as SKU labels
·Improved gift receipt and gift certificate functionality
·Hourly sales analysis and reports to facilitate labor scheduling
·Ability to rapidly distribute purchase orders via email
CWLocate 1.2
CWLocate 1.2 enables catalogers, retailers, and website operations to reduce lost sales and improve customer service. By offering more purchasing and fulfillment options at the point-of-sale, such as direct shipment, store pickup, and store shipments, merchants can maximize, convert and capture more activity from in store traffic. In addition, by leveraging CWLocate1s statistical data, retailers can optimize inventory disbursement to ensure the appropriate stock levels in each saleable location. CWLocate operates as a standalone solution in addition to seamless integration with CWDirect and CWStore.
CWLocate 1.2 offers a significant improvement for its users to determine accurate inventory counts with the addition of user defined probability rules that take into account known factors of the retail operations. For example, retailers can create a rule that always subtracts 312 from its current available inventory to account for a display item.
Additional features include:
·Real time inventory availability consolidation across multiple channels
·Proximity calculations to determine distance to stores
·Product 3cross referencing2 to unify sku identifiers across all channels
·Simplified integration to other business applications
"These new product releases represent our continued commitment to providing our customers with the features and functionality they need to grow their businesses," said Donny Askin, founder and CEO of CommercialWare. "We communicate with our customers on an ongoing basis to ensure we understand their needs and have developed an organization that can rapidly respond with innovative technology advancements to improve their cross-channel retail management operations."
About CommercialWare, Inc.
Headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, with offices in Toronto and New York City, CommercialWare, Inc. is the leading developer of software solutions that offer cross-channel functionality to retailers and direct marketers - small and large, seeking to optimize transactions from all customer touch points. CommercialWare`s comprehensive portfolio of products provide cross-channel infrastructure linking all aspects of the transaction lifecycle through point-of-sale, back-office, order management, fulfillment, customer service, collaboration, and analytics applications. CommercialWare, the Brand in Cross-Channel Retail, offers a confluence of solutions that power many of the leading retail brands, including Abercrombie and Fitch, Party Land, Chico1s, J.Jill, Ritz Camera, Jos. A. Bank, and Patagonia. For additional information, please visit www.commercialware.com.
Lauren Drost
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