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Opticals

Prescription-linked eyewear sales combining retail stock with lens fitting jobs and patient records.

Also covers: Optical Store · Eyewear · Spectacles · Optician

About this industry

An optical shop sells retail frames but delivers a prescription product. Each sale carries an eye-power record, a lens specification and a fitting job that takes days. Repeat business depends on recalling a customer's prescription history, and lens stock is effectively made to order rather than held.

Common operational problems

  • Prescription records kept on paper cannot be recalled at the next visit
  • Lens jobs sent to a fitting lab have no tracked delivery date
  • Frame stock across shapes, colours and brands is hard to track manually
  • Advance payments against pending jobs are recorded informally
  • Follow-up for eye-test recall does not happen

Example workflows

  1. Prescription capture linked to the customer record

  2. Frame stock with brand, model and colour variants

  3. Lens job order with lab tracking and delivery date

  4. Advance payment and balance on delivery

  5. Recall reminders for periodic eye testing

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On Request

Where a ready product does not reach far enough, these are the needs this industry raises most often. We do not build to order; telling us which of these you need is what shapes what we build next.

  • Prescription record with power history over time
  • Lens lab job tracking and status messaging
  • Eye-test appointment scheduling

Recommended solutions

The capabilities that matter most in this industry, the features inside each, and which product delivers it.

POS and Commerce

Fast counter billing with shift control and a daily closing that ties out.

  • Fast POS billing with barcode scanning
  • Counters, shifts and cashier assignment
  • Thermal, A5 and A4 receipt printing
  • Multiple payment modes including split payments
  • Sales returns and credit notes at the counter
  • Daily closing and cash reconciliation per shift

Inventory and Purchase Management

Know what you hold, what it cost and what needs ordering — across locations, batches and units.

  • Real-time stock with low-stock alerts
  • Batch and expiry tracking, and serial-number tracking
  • Barcode scanning for receipt, billing and stock-take
  • Product variants and multiple units with conversions
  • Multi-warehouse and godown transfers
  • Purchase orders, quotations, returns and supplier ledgers
  • Stock valuation and outstanding-payment tracking

Sales and CRM

Track enquiries from first contact to closed order, with follow-ups that actually happen.

  • Lead and enquiry capture from multiple sources
  • Customer database with full communication history
  • Quotations and estimates that convert to orders without re-entry
  • Scheduled follow-ups with reminders and ownership
  • Sales pipeline by stage, value and owner
  • Campaigns and bulk customer communication

Calendar and Scheduling

One shared view of everything with a date attached — appointments, deadlines, hearings and holidays.

  • Shared team calendars
  • Appointments and bookings
  • Deadline and due-date tracking
  • Holiday calendars and working-day configuration
  • Reminders ahead of commitments

Integration opportunities

Connections that commonly matter in this industry. Each carries its own honest status.

Talk to us about opticals

Describe how your business runs today. We will be straightforward about whether a ready product fits or whether it needs building around.