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Welcome to Lighthouse. In this first episode we look at what the system is, and take

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a short tour of the back office, where you run your business.

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Lighthouse is made of three apps that share one set of information. When you change

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a price in one, every other app sees it.

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The register is where you sell. Cashiers use it on a tablet or a computer to scan

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products, take payment and print receipts.

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The scanner is for the stock room. On a phone or a handheld scanner you check

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prices, receive deliveries and count stock.

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And the back office is what you are looking at now. It is a website for managers and

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owners. This is where you set the store up, manage products, and read the reports.

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When you sign in, you land on the dashboard. It answers one question: how is the

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business doing?

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The tiles along the top show revenue, the number of sales, the average sale, gross

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profit and items sold for the period you choose.

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Underneath are the things that need attention: how many products are low on stock,

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open work orders, layaways, and any sales waiting for review.

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Use the outlet button to look at one store, or leave it on all outlets to see the

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whole business together.

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Scroll down and you get revenue by day, a payment mix showing cash against cards,

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and your best selling products and categories.

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The menu on the left is grouped by the job you are doing. The first group is Sell.

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Sales is every sale the registers have rung, which you can open to see the lines and

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payments.

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Customers, gift cards and work orders are here too.

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Next is Catalog. Products is the list of everything you sell, with its price and how

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much stock is on hand. Categories, brands, suppliers, labels and import all help you

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keep the catalogue tidy. Season two covers these in detail.

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Inventory is about stock. Stock levels shows what you hold at each store. Purchase

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orders, transfers and stock counts are how stock moves in, between stores, and gets

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checked.

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Scroll the menu down for the rest.

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Marketing holds promotions and price books.

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The Online store group is for selling on the web. It holds the overview and the web

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orders, the online products, collections, pages, blog and forms, and the themes,

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shipping and tax of your online store. Season ten covers it.

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Insights has your reports and accounting periods.

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Audit and resilience records who did what, and shows sales that were made while a

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register was offline. Devices lists your registers and scanners.

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Last comes Admin. Staff is your team and their roles. Settings is where you set up

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the store itself, and that is where we start in the next episode.

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At the top right is the store you are working in. If you have more than one store,

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click it to switch.

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Next to it is your own menu, with your profile and Sign out. Always sign out on a

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shared computer.

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That is the tour. In the next episode we open Settings and fill in your store

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details, currency and receipts.