Online shopping has become increasingly popular over the last two years, the world may have stopped but online shopping kept going. With a growth rate of 27%, it’s time for schools and clubs to profit off one of the world’s largest markets; e-commerce. Whether you’re introducing this as a new stream of income or selling items out of the school or club office, introducing online shopping as a new service will increase your revenue and reduce time spent on admin, significantly. Online shopping is extremely convenient as it allows your parents to have 24-hour access to the items on sale. With this service, you can drastically decrease overcrowding at the school/club office and make money outside school and club hours!
Although this service could mean large profits, two main pain points must be highlighted:
- Finding the right online system to manage your online shopping service
- The costs associated with setting up your online shopping service
A good online system
Implementing the right online system will ensure that you can offer the ultimate online shopping experience for your parents. The best online solution will reduce time spent on the management of your inventory, help you apply a smoother collections process, and help to automate the financial reporting for this service.
A great online solution will help you to better manage your inventory by:
- Providing live availability of stock
- Using an online register to ensure proper collection of items
- Automating the financial reporting for your online shopping service
- Enforcing a limit on the number of items purchased or restricting access based on age group/classroom
Additional costs:
A good online shopping system should not majorly impact the costs within your organisation, but it should however present great financial benefits. Your organisation can go cashless, minimising the financial errors associated with cash in hand, introduce a new stream of income, if not yet implemented, and reduce your organisation’s debt. In addition to these benefits, parents get to use a system they are familiar with!
The ‘Magic E-Shop’
The ‘Magic E-Shop’ is an easy-to-use add-on feature developed by magicbooking for schools and clubs. With our new add-on, you can give your parents the ultimate online shopping experience that allows them to conveniently purchase essential items, school uniforms, merchandise, tickets for events, and much more!
With magicbooking, it cannot get any more cost-effective than FREE! We are giving new and existing customers the chance to use this new add-on feature free of charge until 31st December 2022.
Here are some key benefits of the E-Shop:
- Increases revenue
- Improves brand awareness
- Facilitates parents’ access to all school services
- Use the online register to ensure proper collection of items
- Consolidates financial reporting for all services on one system
- Automates the selling process for events, school uniforms, books, merchandising, and much more
Now is the time to join magicbooking and offer wraparound care, clubs, trips, parents’ evenings, school dinners, and online shopping all under one system!
For more information on how magicbooking can work for you, book a no-obligation demo with us today.