Overview

K8 Trader is a modern, cloud-based business management and trading solution designed specifically for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It integrates various business functions, from finance to trading, into a single, easy-to-use platform. The system's intuitive design ensures quick implementation and rapid user adoption, enabling businesses to see a positive return on investment within days of going live. K8 Trader's comprehensive features support SMEs in streamlining operations, improving sales processes, managing stock efficiently, and accessing meaningful data for informed decision-making.

Features and Capabilities

• Fast & Intuitive Order Processing:
  • Create invoices swiftly with intuitive search functions.
  • Manage orders from a single screen, providing a clear overview of pending deliveries and customer payment statuses.
  • Rapid implementation ensures businesses experience benefits within days.
• Enhanced Sales & Purchasing:
  • Streamline sales processes with fast, accurate, and professional quotes that can be saved and edited later.
  • Offset cash payments, apply discounts, and review complete customer order histories efficiently.
  • System prompts assist in upselling associated products.
  • Easily order from alternative suppliers when products are out-of-stock to secure sales.
• Efficient Stock Management:
  • Flexible import and export functions allow for quick changes to prices, descriptions, and physical locations across the entire stock range.
  • Price lists enable selling items at different rates, catering to contractors, traders, or walk-in customers.
  • Supplier lists facilitate automatic switching to more cost-effective suppliers when current ones adjust prices.
  • The 'perpetual stock-take' feature provides real-time insights into sold items since the stock-take commenced.
• Integrated Business Intelligence:
  • Integrates with third-party software to deliver meaningful insights from day one.
  • The dashboard offers real-time insights into sales, operational, and financial information, aiding in identifying areas requiring attention.
  • Features like customer payment status tracking and bestseller reports present data in easy-to-understand graphs.
  • Allows drilling down into detailed sales data and comparing it against previous date ranges.
  • The Stock Term Report identifies underperforming products, enabling timely corrective actions.
• Additional Features:
  • Purchase Orders: Complete control over stocking processes, tracking various types of purchase orders, including standard, scheduled, back-to-back, manual, and recommended.
  • Financial Management: Comprehensive accounting capabilities encompassing Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Cashbook, and Assets.
  • Bill of Materials: Manage value-added processes for custom development, as well as kits and assemblies, with centralized job and kit management.
  • Report Manager: Produce high-quality, personalized documents such as quotations, invoices, and remittances without the need for pre-printed stationery.
  • Offline Trading: Allows trading at tills and point-of-sale terminals even if the connection to the main K8 Trader system is down, ideal for remote locations with intermittent internet coverage.
  • Serial Number Tracking: Track serial numbers throughout the system, from supplier receipt to customer delivery.
  • Project Costing & Job Cards: Track all job costs, maintain visibility on incurred expenses, edit job cards throughout the job lifecycle, and view concise requirements and components.
  • Email Customer Documents: Enhance customer service while reducing waste through in-built email features, eliminating the need for printing, and ensuring instant document delivery.