Bookstore Services | Point of Sale/Inventory Management Services

Follett is committed to bringing you the latest and most advanced retail management technology, automated systems and data analysis to improve your bookstore’s performance. We offer comprehensive systems designed specifically for the college store to help you control inventory, track sales profitability, capture sales data and accelerate customer checkout and manage your bookstore more efficiently.

Follett has established strategic alliances with three leading customer service and retail management systems – RATEX™ Business Solutions, ComputerWorks’ Booklog and Courseworks®, the world’s leading solution for data management. Each of these management systems meets the unique needs of your college bookstore and customers.

RATEX™ Business Solutions

RATEX is a leading provider of point-of-sale and inventory management solutions for larger campus bookstores that require the flexibility of a comprehensive multi-faceted system. RATEX integrates your entire stores operations, including retail accounting, EDI and point of sale into one system.

ComputerWorks' Booklog

This innovative Windows-based point-of-sale and inventory management solution is installed in more than 900 trade and textbook stores, Booklog interfaces with Follett’s CourseWorks® as its course materials module to enhance flexible processing options, maximizing your data analysis capabilities and performance.

Booklog also offers a variety of streamlined solutions that improve inventory control to give you unparalleled customer service and profitability, Solutions include:

• Cash register
• Mail orders
• Purchasing
• Returns
• Direct mail
• Customer tracking

CourseWorks®

CourseWorks® is a Windows® based product that allows you to view and analyze fundamental information. Every stage of your course materials cycle is streamlined. Features include:

Data Entry

This timesaving feature allows more efficient data entry and better utilization of information. It enables you to transfer course schedules from term to term with or without prior adoptions. Other data entry reduction processes include:

• "Receive all" feature in receiving - also supports receiving by exception
• "Roll-through" edit functions like Maintains Adoptions, Edit Suggested Returns and Enter Inventory Counts

Term Independence

CourseWorks gives you the flexibility to develop reports over several terms, giving you a broader and more in-depth analysis of your textbook business. Since you're not restricted to a semester or quarter-based structure, you can analyze sales data for any period of time. Experience freedom in:

• Automatic allocation if inventory
• Cross period sales analysis
• Calendar customization of key functions such as buyback events and open-to-buy periods

Automated Processing

CourseWorks allows you to consolidate wantlists to a single purchase order or pack and hold shipment. You can develop a wantlist transmission schedule for specific or multiple terms. Specifications include:

• Wantlisting start and end date
• Definitive time to send wantlist and retrieve response
• Amount of days between reworks
• New title availability in all wantlist transmissions when process is adopted at the beginning of a term

Multi-Store, Multi-Campus

Follett helps you manage multiple stores and campuses with ease. Whether it's a single store servicing multiple campuses or multiple stores serving single or multiple campuses, Follett provides system infrastructure solutions that can be scaled and customized for your needs.

• Purchasing management for multiple stores
• Live inventory availability across all locations
• Ability to customize ordering and receiving to occur in a centralized or decentralized location

Support of Non-Book Items

CourseWorks is designed to manage more than textbooks, supporting everything from cassettes and CD-ROMs to dissection kits and safety goggles. CourseWorks enables you to:

• Create and maintain sets, kits and course packs
• Add costs like royalty and copy services into retail price calculations
• Designate whether a set or component can be purchased as a separate item for the store

Buyback Support

Follett understands the importance of buyback support and the need of an advanced inventory system. CourseWorks:

• Gives you the ability to buy back completed sets, individual parts or any combination of sets and parts
• Supports network and remote buyback stations
• Provides you with a full array of buyback audit reports
• Connects to campus networks
• Offers cash management reconciliation
• Is the fastest, most efficient buyback system in the industry