Genesis Advantage Review - why 4.3 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Oct 05, 2022

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What is Genesis Advantage?

Genesis Advantage is a furniture retail system with inventory management and tracking, ordering and sales tracking features. The Windows-based software can help users to reduce inventory, boost sales, improve productivity and help users to make informed, better decisions. The system is modular based and is highly scalable and flexible.

Genesis Software Systems, the company behind Genesis Advantage, was founded by Gary Sauther back in the mid 1980’s. Most of their furniture solutions are easy to use, reliable and effective. The company created their first Windows based furniture system in 1997 and more than 700 furniture stores have found this solution very useful.

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Who is it best for?

Genesis Advantage is specially designed for small and medium sized furniture retailers. The software is specifically designed to fulfill all the needs of every type of furniture retailer. Hines Furniture Stores, Wright’s Furniture and Steger’s Furniture are some of the clients of Genesis Advantage.

Main features and functionalities

Genesis Advantage offers a complete furniture system for retailers with an easy-to-use interface. Starting from printing price tag to sales tracking, furniture retailers will find all the necessary features in this software. Users can get current inventory position reports almost instantly and drill down the reports to get access to deeper levels of information. The ordering process is done automatically to help users keep track of the items in stock. Other necessary inventory related features are: bar coding, open to buy forecasting, old stock reporting and lay away manager.

The furniture solution offers delivery scheduling, scanning, inventory management and POS features. There is also a research tool to help users know about a customer almost instantly. Users can also buy portable mini bar code scanners with the software. The import wizard of Genesis Advantage makes sure that you are not entering anything twice and supports importing inventory items from almost any source possible. Other notable features are point-of-sale demographics, price point reporting, price performer reports and sliding scale commission plans.

What is the actual cost?

ITQlick pricing score is 5.8 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for Genesis Advantage. You can also find here pricing information from Genesis Advantage's website.

Pros

• Genesis Advantage offers a POS and inventory management solution specifically designed for small and mid-sized furniture retailers
• Genesis Advantage is completely Windows based and doesn’t require any additional costs for 3rd party program run-time charges, program options or user license costs
• The customer support of Genesis Advantage offers 3 months free phone support and 6 months free program updates
• The furniture software comes with on-site training to help users get the best out of this furniture system
• The furniture system comes with fully integrated accounting system unlike other similar tools

Cons

• Genesis Advantage doesn’t offer any mobile dedicated app for iOS or Android users
• Genesis Advantage is Windows based and doesn’t offer Software as a Service deployment option
• The customer support of Genesis Advantage offers free phone support for only first 3 months
• The furniture system doesn’t offer much social integration like other similar software

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of Genesis Advantage vs alternative software solutions.

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