FotoŠkoda
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The story of the company
Customer: Milan Škoda - Photo
Foto Škoda, the largest photographic equipment store in the Czech Republic, was founded in 1991 and started as a dealer of used photographic equipment to which new equipment was gradually added. In addition to buying photo equipment, it is also possible to take advantage of a diverse portfolio of photo services or to educate yourself in photo courses. Since 2002, the company has been based in the Langhans Palace with a long photographic tradition. The e-shop www.fotoskoda.cz has won numerous awards - since 2014 it has regularly ranked at the top of the WebTop100 and ShopRoku competitions. In 2022, FotoŠkoda was ranked 3rd in National Czech Republic Quality Award for Family Business in 2021.
- Stores
- 1
- Year of realisation
- 2001
- E-shop of the year
- 5x
- Years of cooperation
- 22
The biggest advantages of WinShop solution
Thanks to our long-term cooperation, we were able to supply FotoŠkoda with a modern information system that forms the basis of all business and warehouse transactions. Business, warehouse and POS system WinShop SQL covers all the needs of warehouse records, all forms of business transactions, realizes orders created on the company's e-shops, enables time-limited reservations of goods for customers, provides the necessary information to the company's e-shops, including stock availability, and manages the second-hand purchase and sales department in a custom-made application.
Stable business system with server failure protection
Customer system
System of promotions and discounts, sophisticated pricing
Comprehensive solutions for second-hand sales
Real-time connection to e-shops
Automated communication with suppliers
Up-to-date information on stock availability excluding reservations and confirmed orders
Package checkouts for order fulfillment from multiple store centers
Implementation story
We first made contact with FotoŠkoda in 2001, when the owners began looking for a new POS and warehouse system for their expanding store. In 2002, when the company moved to the newly renovated Langhans Palace in Vodičkova Street, the implementation of the first WinShop solution began.
WinShop Std.
POS system WinShop Std. was implemented on 30 computers in the local network. All business and warehouse processes were implemented in it. Sales were mainly made at 15 cash registers installed on 3 floors of the FotoŠkoda shopping centre and for wholesale customers in the form of invoicing. A special module for the company was developed for second-hand purchase and sales. POS system WinShop Std. has been supplemented with many modules that FotoŠkoda required for its business needs and made its work easier, including, for example, an automatic module for communication with suppliers or with GFK company.
WinShop SQL
The development of the company, the increasing number of transactions, the expansion of the online shop and the need for electronic communication with other systems were the main impetus for negotiations on the possibility of implementing a new version of our system WinShop SQL at FotoŠkoda. The new central, warehouse and POS system had to be able to secure the increasing number of business transactions in the long term, to offer a sophisticated customer system shared with all e-shops of the company and of course to share in real time with all e-shops both the available stock and the optimal order fulfillment. The entire implementation process, which included data migration from the old solution, new native connection to the current online stores, integration of the second-hand solution, integration of the package checkouts and a number of other functionalities, started in 2011 and was completed 3 months after the contracts were signed. The current solution, which is operated at FotoŠkoda, includes 20 cash registers, 30 PCs, 15 package checkouts, management of the second-hand department and connection to e-shops of PragueBest company. A number of individual adjustments are added to the implemented applications in cooperation with FotoŠkoda, which enable the company's employees to continuously modernize their business processes and make their work easier.
