2018 Review of Celerant Stratus

From the Sept. 2018 reviews of Point-of-Sale systems.

Celerant Stratus Retail is a comprehensive suite of retail applications that are best suited for larger retail businesses with multiple locations that sell in-store and online and is well suited in an environment that processes a high volume of transactions. The Celerant Stratus Point of Sale module, part of the retail suite, is designed for flexibility and can be used on Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Mac operating systems. In addition, Celerant Stratus offers mobile apps for Android, Windows, and iOS smart phones and tablets. Celerant Stratus can be installed and hosted in-house, or users can opt to use Celerant’s hosting service if they wish to have the product hosted off-site. The product is also available as a SaaS solution.

Along with the POS module, the retail suite also includes Integrated E-Commerce, Integrated Retail CRM, Inventory Management, Fulfillment Processing, Vendor Management, Business Intelligence, Accounting/ERP, POS Security, Warehouse Management, Marketplace Integrations, Work Orders and Repairs, and Range Management modules.

Celerant Stratus Point of Sale is fully customizable for a variety of niche retail markets including bookstores, sporting goods, apparel, gift shops, and furniture stores. Celerant Stratus Point of Sale allows users to easily customize the point of sale interface to suit the needs of the business and of the user. A variety of function buttons to the right of the point of sale interface screen offers quick access to a variety of functions including customers, transaction types, line items, remove line item, and even point of sale settings. Users can easily process cash sales or look up customers and products quickly and efficiently, with the ability to add both on the fly when necessary.

Celerant Stratus Retail is designed for retailers with multiple locations, so the product easily handles both multiple registers as well as managing inventory in multiple locations. The product’s point of sale interface is designed for efficiency, making it easy to process multiple transactions quickly. Along with sales, users can also process customer sales, process special orders, handle layaways, check inventory, and even change product pricing from the same interface.

Celerant Stratus Point of Sale supports multiple tender types, with up to 24 separate tender types supported. The product also accepts both Apple Pay and Android Pay and can accept foreign currency as well. Users can choose to utilize a standard monitor or a touch screen monitor for processing sales. The product support bar code scanners for both processing sales and monitoring inventory levels.

Celerant Stratus Point of Sale also offers excellent customer management capability with built it CRM capability, making it easy to track sales data from all store locations from a single database. Users can also manage targeting marketing campaigns using customer data.

Celerant Stratus Point of Sale offers inventory management capability, with users able to assign multiple pricing levels to a single product, as well as assign special pricing for seasonal sales campaigns. The Mobile Inventory option offers on-the-spot inventory tracking, with the ability to change a cell phone into a mobile barcode scanner to check inventory levels or check products in quickly. Users can easily establish a re-order point for stock, with an order placed when stock reaches the indicated level. The product also offers integration with third party vendors such as Amazon, enabling the outsourcing of order fulfillment.

Celerant Stratus Point of Sale offers an excellent selection of standard reports, with more than 50 standard reports available, all of which can be customized to suit the needs of the business. Both sales and inventory movement reports are available including Average Sales, Inventory History, Inventory Movement, and Sales Levels by Employee and Sales Levels by Location. All reports can be exported to Microsoft Excel for additional customization.

Celerant Stratus Point of Sale integrates with other Celerant Stratus Retail modules. Data can also be exported from the product to other third-party applications including QuickBooks, MAS 90/200, Microsoft Dynamics GP, and others. The product also integrates with iStratus Standard and Enterprise, for complete e-commerce management.

Celerant Stratus integrates well with all standard point of sale hardware peripherals including both touch screen and standard monitors, key pads, bar code scanners, signature capture devices, receipt printers and employee time clock systems.

Celerant Stratus offers good help options throughout the product, and product users can access additional resources such as videos and whitepapers from the password protected client portal. All new users are assigned a personal implementation manager that handles the complete transition, with complete staff training included in the process. Those interested in Celerant Stratus can also register on the website for a demo. Product support options vary, with support offered during regular business hours.

Celerant Stratus is designed for larger retailers that need a robust front/back office solution for multiple locations. The optional e-commerce module makes the product a good fit for those that manage both brick and mortar and online stores, including the ability to manage inventory at multiple locations. Those interested in Celerant Stratus can contact the company directly for pricing.

2018 Rating – 5 Stars