
Every point of sale feature to optimize your building supply store
You need technology that not only manages your wide-range inventory, i.e. lumber, electrical, plumbing supply, flooring supplies, and paint, but a system that helps you predict exactly what to keep in stock to meet customers’ demand.
With such a diverse mix of products, how does Counterpoint help you sell and manage it all?
Barcode and product label creation
- Integrated email marketing
Discounts and coupons management
- Card identification services (CVV2/CVC2/CID)
- Driver’s license scan for age verification
- Signature capture
Wholesale, group and user-specific pricing
- Finance charges, misc. charges, and credit limits
Primary vendor and unlimited alternate vendors
- Average-cost valuation method
Forecast-driven replenishment
- Unlimited categories and sub-categories
Weighted products with scale
Fast touchscreen point of sale
- Robust order entry, 100% configurable
Advanced pricing and margin controls
- Inventory management and automation
Gift cards and customer loyalty programs
- Purchase orders and vendor management
Customer relationship management
Grids (product variants), kits, and alternate units
Replenishment and transfers to unlimited locations
- Accounts receivable and invoices
Serialized inventory tracking
- Merchandise analysis
Sales analysis by any dimension
Offline order/ticket entry
Commission reports
Employee time-cards and labor tracking
Robust sales reports and merchandise analysis
System security controls and user-access permissions
- Real-time SMS alerts and store notifications
BOGO, 2FER, bundling and kits
- Mobile POS and inventory scanning hardware
- Integrate to QuickBooks Online, Shopify, and more
- Custom price rules
Validated returns and layaways
Automated credit card settlements
- Runs on cloud or on-premise, with MS SQL

POS System Built for Building Materials and Supply Retail Stores
You need technology that not only manages your wide-range inventory, i.e. lumber, electrical, plumbing supply, flooring supplies, and paint.
With such a diverse mix of products, how does Counterpoint help you sell and manage it all? With a powerhouse POS system.
Inventory Management and Purchasing
Control your stock and manage your vendors easily with Counterpoint’s powerful inventory and purchasing module.
Track customers past purchase history to record material types, sizes, colors and length, width and depth with user-defined profile fields, ensures warranty information stays up-to-date and has special ordering capabilities.
Serial number tracking provides a detailed record of each piece of merchandise, i.e. when it was received, what it cost, which customer purchased it, when it was bought, and warranty expiration. Barcode labels can be generated and printed from the same system.
Purchase Order Management Overview
Bill of Materials and Advanced Pricing
Keep track of materials for light manufacturing of any goods by customizable units of measure, i.e. by the yard, gallon, pound, etc. Your customers will be happy knowing their purchase was accurately measured.
Set up tiered pricing for different levels of customers with advanced pricing. Offer different price levels for your retail, wholesale, or corporate account clients automatically.
Sell your products and services effortlessly
- We believe that great retail experiences take place when inventory management intersect perfectly with improved customer engagement at point of sale.
Counterpoint can easily handle sales, returns, orders, and layaways – even on a single ticket.
With a configurable touchscreen, you can tailor Counterpoint POS to fit your business and streamline operations, minimize errors, and maximize profits.Â
In addition, you can also capture and analyze data to respond to the diversity of stores based on demographics, climate, and geography.


Powerful purchasing capabilities
- Set prices as you receive items, based on target margins you define.
Receive merchandise with or without a PO and automatically transfer the right quantities to other retail locations.
- Manage vendor items, costs, and lead times. Automatically create purchase orders from preferred suppliers or the suppliers with the lowest costs.
Create multi-store purchase orders – consolidated for all locations or separate for each store to save time and to receive volume discounts from suppliers.
Optimize your building supply inventory
- Counterpoint inventory solutions for building supply provide the functionality you need to allocate the right product and the right size to the right location.
Design labels with your logo, print beautiful tags and labels on demand.
- Save time and import hundreds of products at once with the item import worksheet from the suppliers catalog.


Engage with customers better
Create detailed customer profiles with their contact information, shipping details, product preferences, purchase history and your own custom attributes.
- Run unlimited loyalty programs, email marketing campaigns, and promotions.
Create custom menu buttons for top-selling items – speeding up the checkout experience for your staff and customers.
Offer layaways, special orders, store credit and gift cards, you save time and provide a better and more flexible customer experience.
Create an omni-channel presence
Manage your online orders simply with a single synchronized inventory database across brick and mortar and online store. Mitigate overstock by knowing when and how much to reorder.
Run an online store seamlessly integrated with your Counterpoint POS system. Counterpoint integrates with most popular eCommerce platforms such as Shopify and WooCommerce.
Easily fulfill orders with integrations to popular shipping solutions such as ShipStation.


Multi locations software fit for your retail business
Centrally manage prices and products, stock levels, tax rates, customers, employees, and reporting across all your stores, and warehouses painlessly.
Use a wide range of variables and filters to understand what is happening across all store locations, at any time. Identify problem areas that require immediate action or opportunities for growth.
- Manage inventory levels and pull up item lookup across all stores, and transfer products to other stores where they sell best.
Protecting data by keeping it out of scope
NCR Secure Pay uses a process called tokenization to store a code, instead of storing sensitive credit card information in your store’s database.
The token allows authorized users access to transaction information as needed for returns and other operations while maintaining a protected system.
​With multiple security layers, NCR Secure Pay minimizes your risk for a credit card security breach.


Discover new and valuable insights in your data
View, print, export, and e-mail any report. Create quick reports on the fly from search results.
See today’s sales performance or take a look at the past years with historical data.Â
Built-in dashboards and reports make it easy to see sales, profits by items, category, customers, and suppliers, practically by any dimension you can imagine.
Receive merchandise with or without a PO and automatically transfer the right quantities to other retail locations.
You can even set prices as you receive items, based on target margins you define.
Deploy greater mobility
Our mobile sales tools, including tablet POS terminals and sleds for iPhones and iPads.
Deliver superior service and sales in stores, kiosks and outdoor environments.
Serve customers where they are, checking inventory availability, busting lines, and capturing additional business.
- Run your physical counts with efficiency using our mobile inventory management solutions.

Sync Counterpoint POS with the platforms you trust
At POS Highway, we developed a platform to integrate NCR Counterpoint seamlessly to popular technologies and solutions.
From eCommerce platforms, to QuickBooks Online, warehouse management, and shipping solutions, you’re in for a true multi-channel retail ecosystem!
Business owners have great things to say about advanced reports and analytics
Robust merchandise analysis report helps to track inventory by top-selling and slow-moving, product returns, GMROI, and more.
- Insightful sales analysis report by customers, segments, products, departments, and lifetime value.
- Margin analysis and markup/down management worksheet
Inventory transfer analysis and replenishment worksheet
NCR Counterpoint Testimonials
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