Furniture Wizard Highlights iPad App

October 16, 2011  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Retail Technology on October 17, 2011

The home furnishings technology specialist Furniture Wizard will showcase its iFurniture iPad point-of-sale app at High Point Furniture Market.

The app can be used with an optional Bluetooth wireless scanner. According to Furniture Wizard, most mobile solutions on the market are connecting to the Web, accessing cloud based solutions in order to attain information, resulting in slow or limited access based on Internet connectivity.

"Our goal has always been and still is to create intelligent software solutions that any store is able to afford," said Martin Fischbein, founder and president of Furniture Wizard. "We wanted to create a solution that can contain a retailer's entire inventory along with any vendor's catalogs that they choose in a way that is available and reliable without the Internet."

"Technology needs to be embraced by our industry to make the selling experience more personal, not less," added Evan Faller, business development officer at Furniture Wizard. "With UPC and QR codes now flooding retail showrooms, we must give our sales associates the upper hand by empowering them with tools to access information. With this application the associates can stay with the customer instead of running to catalog stations for photography or searching for a computer terminal to check stock availability. If a picture is worth a thousand words what would twenty five suppliers with thousands of items each and inter-related items be worth in a 1.3 lb. tablet?"
  
The application is designed to help retailers immediately increase sales in two ways. First, by having access to more information during the sale, associates will be able to offer their customers more suggestions, thereby upsizing average sale. Second, by increasing efficiency in the selling process, individual sales associates will be able to serve more customers at a greater specified level of service in less time.

The application has been specifically designed to work in conjunction with Furniture Wizard software. The developers will soon release an API for this application, which will allow retailers that have not yet switched to Furniture Wizard to integrate with their existing point-of-sale application. Also, suppliers using a variety of manufacturing software solutions will be able to empower their sales force in the field without having to create their own mobile solution from the ground up, saving time, money and frustration.

For a demo at Market, visit the Retail Resource Center in the Plaza Suites, booth 42.