Magazine Article | July 10, 2008

Magstar Inc.

Source: Innovative Retail Technologies
Resource Guides, 2008 Resource Guide To Retail Solutions


Product Description:
Magstar Total Retail® is a fully integrated enterprise solution that includes merchandising, analytics, and financial management systems. Total Retail provides the tools to manage multiple locations with multiple channels of distribution: stores, online, warehouse/distribution centers, and catalog call centers. 

Finance, buyers, stores, and operations all access one application and database to achieve consistent, real-time, and dynamically updated information. Centralized information on demand allows Magstar Total Retail's clients to more effectively manage details, make fully informed decisions, and react more quickly to opportunities or changes in the marketplace.

Accurate one-time data entry allows Magstar Total Retail to integrate business processes company-wide across all operating areas with a complete approach to inventory visibility, customer intelligence, point of sale, multichannel fulfillment, and planning and merchandising. 

Magstar Total Retail includes: inventory, financials (AR/AP/GL), purchasing/receiving, warehouse/distribution, customer relationship management, call center order entry, sales analysis and reporting, business intelligence (BI), stock ledger, and POS with integrated, high-speed payment systems.

Company Overview:
Magstar Inc. is a leading provider of retail management systems for tier-two and tier-three hard- and soft-line specialty retail chains throughout North America. Magstar also offers consulting, custom software development, system's hardware, and end-to-end project planning with integration to and from legacy systems.

The average time to implement the solution is six months. Magstar is highly intuitive and allows for faster training and easier adoption. Clients report an average ROI after implementing the solution within two years by reducing on-hand inventory, increasing sales and inventory turns, reducing stock-outs, and improving sales margins.  

Magstar Total Retail will grow with your operation by readily adapting to changing requirements. Our solution continually incorporates the latest analysis and management processes and techniques. Magstar is also a Microsoft Certified Partner, and an IBM, NCR, and HP business partner. For the eighth straight year, Magstar has been selected as a top retail solution vendor in leading industry publications.

Contact Information:
Magstar Inc.
150 Ferrand Drive, Suite 502, Toronto, ON M3C 3E5
PH: (877) 332-3335
Steven Greenwood, Vice-President
PH: (416) 447-1442, ext. 227
E-mail: sgreenwood@magstarinc.com
Web site: www.magstarinc.com