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What's New

Openbravo for Retail is a multichannel retail management solution that is affordable, comprehensive and fully adaptable for managing an entire retail business, from sales and customer relationships to financials and operations, across different channels. The complete solution includes a fully integrated Point of Sale (POS), implemented as a web option that works both on- and offline and can be deployed on any commodity mobile touch screen device with a browser. Openbravo for Retail reinforces the product's position of both technological and functional leadership in the open source business application environment.

Built over the powerful 100% web based, open source Openbravo 3 platform, Openbravo for Retail provides a best-in-class user experience, with key end user oriented features such as alerts, direct links to documents, notes and attachments that enhance individual productivity and boost team work and collaboration. Read more about Openbravo 3´s powerful user interface in the User Interface Introduction.

Thanks to its breadth and robust platform, Openbravo for Retail can help any kind of retailer leverage IT to drive better business results:

Brick-and-mortar retailers, seeking a modern retail solution to improve operations and customer experience, while also providing support for opening the web channel
E-Commerce retailers, seeking a scalable solution with a clear cost model for their current or new franchisees and owned stores, to increase network performance and reduce time-to-market when opening new stores
Retailers seeking a solution to support international operations,with multi-language and multi-accounting schema capabilities

Openbravo 3 Platform Empowers organizations worldwide to improve business performance through increased productivity and business agility--while delivering superior ROI over the long term.

Fully web based
Highly productive user interface
Modular
Fully interoperable

Product Lifecycle Management Items management, pricing, assortments... Openbravo for Retail extends the standard functionality of Openbravo 3 with specific retail characteristics.

TAX included prices
Retail or Distribution price lists management
Price list versions and base price lists for price calculation
Site price lists, at stores or store groups levels
Site assortments, at stores or store groups levels

Supply Chain Management For complete procurement management, warehouses and distribution centers management.

Support for replenishment, purchasing planning and execution for stores and warehouses
Purchase orders, goods receipts and invoicing
Warehouses and distribution centers management at bin level
Merchandise distribution
Physical inventory and stock valuation

Multichannel Support for multiple channel operations.

Customer management
Support to wholesaler activities
Sales orders, goods shipments and invoicing
Returns
Fully integrated point of sale functionality with Openbravo POS
Browse by products or product categories
Manual discounts or price overwrites
Multiple tickets simultaneously
Multiple payment methods in a ticket (cash, card, voucher)
Returns
Ticket invoicing
Cash operations with cash deposits or withdrawals, with the capacity to indicate a reason
Step-by-step cash up process
Real time visibility into inventory, sales and cash
E-commerce operations support by integrating third party e-commerce platforms like Magento, and synchronizing master data and sales

Enterprise Management Full support for all horizontal processes.

Organizational structure set up, with the capacity of creating organizations as stores or store groups
Financial and Accounting, with support for international operations thanks to its multi-currency, multi-language and multi-schema accounting
Accounts receivables and payables, with a powerful engine for managing multiple payment methods, bank reconciliation and financial accounts among other key features--which work together to provide full visibility into the cash position
Fixed assets management, for creating assets cards and depreciation plans
Support for Human Resource management, including employee cards, and commissioning models
Document management, enabling attachment of any kind of document to any object in the data model. Extended functionality with modules like Content Management
E-learning support, by using powerful content widgets or extension modules like Frequently Asked Questions
CRM, with a complete customer card and full visibility into orders and invoice history

Business Intelligence Support for strategic and operational decision support with: Dashboards

Multiple lists and multidimensional reports
Easy integration with external BI tools like Pentaho
Widgets about best selling products, products categories per store, best selling salesmen, customer or stores, with detailed information about total sales, costs, margins and markups
For additional information visit Business Intelligence.

In addition, standard functionality can be extended by installing modules like *Warehouse Transactions Management, Consignment Sales, Intercompany documents o la Advanced Human Resources.

Check the complete list of the new functionality in the Openbravo development roadmap. Available features are marked with a delivered sign ).

Online Demo

We have set up a demo environment so that it's easier for you to test this release.

The web based Point of Sale is intended for traditional brick and mortar retailer seeking a new centralized POS solution that can either be implemented standalone or with the fully integrated back office.

You can also access the retail back office directly that supports both channel & head office processes.

Username: demouser

password: openbravo

Learn more about how to use Web POS in the Web POS User Guide.

Configuration

To learn how to configure Openbravo for Retail, consult the Configuration Guide.

Hardware

For advice in choosing and setting up hardware, visit the dedicated Hardware and Peripherals Guide.

Extensions

There is a vast array of modules that extend the functionality of Openbravo for Retail. These include Extensions, Connectors, Localizations, Vertical and Horizontal Solutions and Tools.

Please discover the full range of modular extensions in the Openbravo Forge (use the filter option to filter by Module Name), with an easy-to-browse catalog of commercial modules available in Openbravo Exchange.

Special Thanks

Finally, we give our thanks to the Openbravo Community which continues to support us with their valuable time and knowledge. In particular we would like to thank:

Business Partner ClearDrop for the valuable feedback to the UX design and functional specifications
Barrabes Outdoor Store for providing us with their product catalogue images
Vincent Scattolin who was so kind to share his wonderful action photography with us to use in our retail theme.

Many others collaborated with the Openbravo team in different ways. We can not mention all of you but we really appreciate your invaluable help. We also thank all Openbravo users for making Openbravo a huge success.

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