Retail Store Operations
Optionally scan a drivers license, add a customer, or quickly ring sales. Sales can be easily suspended until the 4473 is filled. coreSTORE supports waiting periods if your state requires them.
Ring up special orders for items that aren’t in stock and check your distributor’s inventory. Minimum deposits can be required on a special order, as well as receive open order alerts.
Sales can be paid over time via our suspended sales module. Report outstanding layaways and add payments as they are paid. Customers can make layaway payments using coreCLEAR.
Customers can easily exchange one item for another within one transaction. Quickly swap out an item; even if it’s not an even exchange, coreSTORE will figure that out.
When trading a firearm in, your bound book will be updated, the item sold will dispose, and the trade-in item will be acquired. Full bound book integration makes your life easier.
You can easily process partial returns or full refunds by scanning the customer’s receipt or searching for the previous sale. You can also ring up a new return.
Accept items and set up a default percentage to charge the consignor, along with a fixed fee. Print a report showing what consignments sold and even cut a check to pay the consignor.
If you rent items, you can track them. Set up any number of rental items, with flexible rates, times, and multiple rate types for rental items. Set up your lanes and rates if you own a gun range.
When making a return instead of refunding the payment, you can also offer your customer credit on their store account. They can then use this credit for a future transaction.
You can easily create an invoice from a sale and email or print the invoice. Customers can log into your online payment portal to view their open invoices and make payments on them.
Set up estimates and quotes for customers, and either email or print them. When the customer is ready to buy, pull up their quote and convert it into a sale, layaway, or special order.
The work order is a comprehensive and fully integrated module that is included in coreSTORE. You can print, track the status, and easily assign work orders.
Do whole or partial inventory counts and stay up to date with email inventory alerts and warnings.
Create automatic purchase orders based on reorder and replenish levels. Automatically email this to your supplier.
Easily transfer inventory between locations via our receiving module. This makes transfers a breeze.
Easily create barcode labels for your products when they arrive in your store or on-demand.
You can now manage items with serial numbers and assign different prices depending on the serial number.
Our buyer assistant will help you better manage your inventory.
Buy what you need when you need it, review recommendations, and only end up with inventory you need.
Do whole/partial inventory counts and stay up to date with email inventory alerts and warnings. Use mobile devices to count your inventory. Multiple employees can count inventory at the same time.
Item attributes help you keep track of color, size variations, and more in your products for inventory and sales.
Bundle items together when you have one or more that you want sold together for one list price. Item kits allow you to still keep track of your individual inventory.
Track your build process. coreSTORE will alert you if you don’t have enough raw materials. Assembly can include non-stock items, like labor, to properly calculate cost.
Cost price averaging is a powerful feature to have an accurate representation of profit and to properly report your inventory costs and cost of goods sold.
Easily print pricing labels or shelf labels. Our barcode labels can be completely customized and you can have an unlimited number of barcode label templates.
Easily track cash that is in the register and manage additions and removals from the register. Reporting is also available to easily track shortages and overages.
Get comprehensive insights into your business with 40+ detailed reports designed for you.
Unlimited training makes employee on-boarding fast and simple.
Designed so you can easily add store locations as your business requirements change.
Track employee commissions easily, down to the item level. Very flexible on how commissions can be applied.
Set different price levels for your items. An example would be a wholesale tier. You can assign a customer to a tier so you can ensure they always get the right price!
You can easily set up coreSTORE to send receipts, invoices, and purchase orders to customers and suppliers via email.
Easily track your employees’ time on the job with an integrated time clock feature.
Send messages and announcements to all of your employees and they will see them when they log in.
Easily sync inventory, item images, categories, and tags with a Coreware or AmmoReady website. Online and retail stores will be in sync real time.
Create different sizes, colors, or any attributes you define for your items. You can track inventory down to the variation and even have different prices per variation.
You can use our Mobile App on Android or iOS.
Choose the fields you want to display for items, kits, customers, suppliers, and employees.
Add custom fields to the sales screen, work orders, customers, inventory, bound book, employees, and more.
With our import tool, you can set up customers, items, suppliers, and gift cards. With our export tool, you can export what you want, when you want it. With coreSTORE, your data is yours.
Use a second monitor or tablet to have a customer see the sale as it happens! This allows your customers to make sure the sale is correct.
We have an API for custom development with coreSTORE. This allows for extensive customizations and work flows.
Accept multiple payment forms in cash, credit, debit, or customer payment types during a sale.
In addition to integrated credit card, EBT/EBT processing, cash, check, and gift cards, you can define your custom payment methods.
We offer a variety of different configuration options for making your receipts how you want them.
coreSTORE implements stringent security measures to protect your customers and your business.
Sell and redeem gift cards in our system. You can print gift cards from our partner Plastic Printers or use a company of your choosing.
Create coupons for specific deals or other promotions and print them on customer receipts. “Buy One, Get One” or “Spend $100 get 50% Off” for example.
Create loyalty programs to keep your customers coming back. Choose between two different types of loyalty programs to offer your customers.
Easily separate your Class 3 sales. Maintain a separate rental firearm and work order book. Or, set up separate books for different firearm types.
Work anywhere and manage your store and bound book. It’s easy to take coreFFL with you, using our native iOS and Android apps. If you have multiple locations, easily see what’s happening at each store.
Finding the right bound book quickly and easily is essential. Search by name, serial number, address, or any information in the record. Filter your searches, as well as quickly export your results.
We properly track all changes and edits made in the bound book, along with the history of who made the change and what the changes were.
coreFFL allows you to print customizable labels with various formats. Customize your labels at no extra charge for various firearm types, as well as set up unlimited label designs.
Easily move firearms between stores with our cloud. Transferring disposes the firearms from the original location and acquires them into the receiving. In-transit firearms can be confirmed and tracked.
Acquire a firearm by scanning the UPC to import the information, including a picture from our vast catalog. If the firearm is acquired from an FFL, quickly pull them up by entering their FFL number.
coreFFL warns you about potential compliance violations, including missing critical and required information. Easily identify problems in your bound book and quickly resolve them.
Provided compliance reports show you which firearms have been sitting in inventory for too long, general inventory reports, receiving reports, and much more.
Identify multiple firearm sales to the same individual. During a multi-sale, coreFFL displays an alert and automatically generates and emails a 3310.4s to the ATF and local law enforcement.
Scan firearms into your inventory using the UPC and serial number. Scan multiple serial numbers when receiving large quantities. No more typos or mistakes and huge time savings.
Supporting all state drivers licenses, scan for speed and accuracy. Be alerted when the customers enter different information on the 4473.
For around $100, you can get a wireless scanner that will scan both your inventory and drivers licenses.
Quickly create a work order with the click of a button. Track all of the repair information for a firearm, along with the technician and other information.
coreFFL helps you to dispose of multiple firearms at once, acquire large numbers of firearms with sequential serial numbers, and import and export spreadsheets.
Easily identify firearms that have been in stock for too long, so you can reduce your inventory costs. Identifying slow moving firearms empowers a business to invest wisely and quickly.
coreFFL integrates directly with the ATF FFL EZ Check database, making it quick and secure to verify and validate an FFL. No need to open a new tab, just click the button and you are all set.
Quickly send a digital copy of your FFL via email, along with a message to the receiving store.
Define your own custom fields to track additional information in the bound book. Custom fields can be optionally printed on the bound book report.
Dispose multiple firearms to the same customer all at once, no need to enter the same information multiple times - TIME IS MONEY!
Allows owners and managers to restrict access to certain features by employees. For multi store locations, employees can be assigned to just the locations they work at.
Quickly move one or more bound book records to another bound book. This is helpful if you are starting a new book, or mistakenly acquired firearms into the wrong book.
Export your entire bound book or selected records directly to Excel with a click of a button. You can also import records into the bound book.
You can acquire the firearm and add the customer from an FFL firearm transfer. Using coreSTORE, set up a suspended sale with transfer fees already calculated.
Quickly pull in the FFL’s information if they aren’t already in your database. No need to try their address information. Time is money!
Set up custom statuses to track the entire transfer, from the time of receiving the transfer to the pickup. Filter the dashboard by status to easily find the transfer you are searching for.
Notify the customer that their transfer is ready for pickup via email or text. Reduce the phone calls by keeping the customer up to date on the status of their transfer.
Our firearm transfer dashboard allows you to easily see all of the active and completed transfers. Easily search the dashboard to quickly find the customer’s transfer.
Accept multiple transfers from different FFL’s for one customer without having to enter each separately. Edit existing transfers and add another firearm any time before it is picked up.
Turn any tablet or computer into a customer facing kiosk, allowing them to fill out the 4473 electronically, quickly, and securely. They can sign the 4473 directly on the device.
Easily store thousands of 4473’s and quickly retrieve a 4473 with the click of a button.
Search your uploaded 4473’s by name, address, TSN, or serial number to access the form you need when you need it.
Sign your 4473’s electronically using a touch screen, mouse, or even signature pad. Your customers can sign their part electronically as well.
Your 4473’s are stored securely in the cloud, can be accessed from anywhere, and there are no limits on the number of 4473’s that you can store.
Process a background check using a Chrome, Firefox, or Edge extension. No more typing and risking data entry errors, not to mention the time savings.
Currently, we support automating the process in Tennessee and Florida, with additional state support being added. Check with us if your state is not listed.
Whether on Windows or Mac, our coreSTORE FFLSync tool will run in the background and will ensure your 4473’s are backed up locally on your device
All supplemental forms for a transaction are electronically attached at the end of the 4473’s for continuity and ease of review.
Quickly print a 4473 directly from your system, or optionally email it.
Use our native coreSTORE iOS or Android customer experience.
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