Xero App Series: Vend

Welcome to the fourth instalment of our Xero App Series, covering some of the best and most popular Xero add-ons that may assist in your business.

Over the last three months, we’ve explored Spotlight Reporting, Receipt Bank and CloudPayroll. In case you’ve missed them, here’s our quick introduction about why we’re running this series.

In this blog series, we wanted to draw your attention not to Xero’s core features but to the 800+ add-on apps that feature in Xero’s App Marketplace of approved third-party software providers and products. This ecosystem of added functionality is part of Xero’s winning edge over other accounting systems, bringing a world of additional possibility, insight and power to your business. 

Over the coming months, we’re going to look at a different Xero app each month and explore the significant added value it brings. These apps are in use all over the world and are some of the most popular currently available in the App Marketplace.

We would be very happy to assist you with any further questions, especially if you are interested in a trial implementation at your business!

This month, we’re on to…

Vend

Vend is a point of sale, inventory management, reporting and customer engagement system for brick and mortar retail businesses. Its user-friendly interface seamlessly integrates to any device including iPads, Macs and PCs, making training time quick and easy. 

Category: Inventory Management

Rating: 4/5 stars on Xero

Founding details: Vend was founded 10 years ago in New Zealand, as the world’s first cloud-based point of sale system.

Scenario:

You’re a brick and mortar retail business owner or manager who is getting stuck with time-consuming operational tasks, particularly in relation to inventory management and sales analytics. You’re looking for a user-friendly, all-in-one solution to increase efficiency, profitability and ultimately save you time.

About:

Vend is latin for ‘to sell’ and in short, that is the company’s objective. 

It’s a POS software system with additional tools embedded to help retail businesses succeed and grow. The software has been designed to be intuitive so that anyone, from owners to managers to cashiers, can easily learn to use it. This also means that the customer’s in store experience is seamless.

Through Vend, users can produce sales reports with analytics to show what products, promotions and employees are performing best. Each area can then be further drilled into, for example, sales targets can be set for each employee, repeat customers can be rewarded through loyalty programs and numerous in-store promotions can be run simultaneously.

Ultimately, Vend intends to streamline operations and boost efficiency to help get the job done faster and allow time for other tasks.

Integration with Xero:

Vend supercharges your Xero reports with visibility into how your business is truly performing, including your real-time profit and loss. Spend less time wrestling with spreadsheets and admin, and more time with your customers.

With them you can automate painful admin tasks and eliminate human error with daily sales and payment totals, cash movements, stock orders, cost-of-goods and contacts flowing easily between the two systems.

To learn more about Vend visit the Xero App Marketplace or Vend’s website.

Feel free to contact us if you would like to learn more about integrating Vend with your Xero account.