BatchLine POS is the only stock management system in the industry to be run solely for the benefit of booksellers. Using it means you will see P&A from key suppliers, such as Ingram Wholesale UK and Macmillan; enjoy direct ordering facilities to the UK and Ireland's leading distributors; benefit from an analysis tool that collates and extracts your bookshop data; have the option to integrate a Dojo card reader with your till, and much more. Subs begin at around £12 a week for a single installation with no upfront costs except the kit. As part of the BA, our role is to help booksellers to make the right choices, so contact us for a chat with a current user/BA mentor or to arrange an online demo with a BatchLine technician.
“I love using BatchLine. It’s an incredibly user-friendly way of replenishing from sales and its reports are a mine of information. The support team are great, too.” Tom Rowley, Backstory, Balham
Below: Described as a 'game-changer', BatchLine v.5.4 gives subscribers access to all their sales, profits, customer orders, shop stock and returns data in graphic form. Every element can be configured to suit a bookseller's needs on any particular day.
* See price & availability from leading suppliers, plus Gardners' promo and rights restricted data.
* Search the Gardners website for books, build a list then send your orders electronically from within BatchLine.
* Direct ordering to over a dozen key UK and Irish suppliers puts you in control of where to source stock.
* Subscribers in Ireland can take advantage of the currency convertor and print out barcodes in Euros.
* Organise your stock with auto-categorisation using Thema codes.
* Create your own categories for non-book stock from cards to candles and import those non-book items into inventory.
* Integrate with National Book Tokens and you’ll no longer need to interrupt a sale to visit the NBT website.
* Enjoy easy goods-in thanks to links with Batch Payments.
* Manage returns and credits via links to Batch Returns.
* Reward customers with gift and loyalty cards.
* Sign up to the low-cost web exporter + plugin option to export data to a transactional websites.
* Benefit from our links to Edelweiss and Book Scan.
* Make the most of our custom reports or run the analysis tool to see exactly how your bookshop is performing.
* Link your till to a Dojo card reader to eliminate costly keying errors and give customers a seamless experience.
* Backed by the Booksellers Association, pricing is flexible and fair with no onerous contracts.
New! Upgrade to v.5.4 to benefit from the dashboard that gives you full visibility of your business data in clear graphics.
BatchLine versionsLatest version 5.4 - The Dashboard has been designed to:
* Help you visualise sales and profits and compare time periods against each other.
* Let you see how categories and titles are performing.
* Enable you to stay on top of customer orders.
* Suggest possible titles to order.
* Suggest possible titles to return.
* Allow you to configure criteria as you need to and export detailed data.
Subscribers should log on to BatchOne and select 'More options/BatchLine setup' to update to 5.4 and download the Dashboard Instructions.
⇒ Read the Dashboard instructions.
⇒ Installation instructions for version 5.1 and upwards (two methods).
It is your choice whether to use the software with or without a touch screen, and we can advise on a suitable cash drawer, scanner, printer and PC. Our recommended suppliers are Laptops Direct for Lenovo PCs and Barcodes for Business, who have a dedicated BatchLine page.
User guides
General
* Find Batch Suppliers' GLNs here
* Info for new bookshops
Stocktaking
* Hire a Koamtac 100 scanner
* Download KTSync Software for your stocktake
— Guide to installing and configuring the software
* Stocktake instructions for BatchLine version 5.3 onwards
Using Open Bravo and BatchLine
* Quick Guide - 1 Title Search and Ordering
* Quick Guide - 2 Creating Returns
* Quick Guide - 3 Direct Ordering (inc. Ingram Wholesale UK)
* Quick Guide - 4 The Goods In Process
* Quick Guide - 5 Web exporter (version 2)
* Quick Guide - 6 National Book Tokens
* Quick Guide - 7 Open Bravo
* Quick Guide - 8 Loyalty and Gift Cards
* Quick Guide - 9 Setting up standard till equipment
* Quick Guide - 10 Auto-categorisation
Web exporter + plugin
* Quick Guide - 5 Web exporter (version 2)
– Jellybooks plugin v.1.6 (to run the 'Peek Inside' feature)
Got a question? Check out the FAQs or visit our YouTube channel. You can also find videos by booksellers about aspects of BatchLine on the BA Learning Skills Hub.
Batch Ltd & BatchLine POS
6 Bell Yard
LONDON
WC2A 2JR
Email: mail@batch.co.uk
Switchboard: +44 (0)203 832 2430
Fax: +44 (0)20 7430 9559
