Ten years ago, a number of longtime store owners elected to separate from the disappointing Children’s Resale franchise to which we were married for the better part of 2 decades. We then spent our two “non-compete” years developing an affordable, non-binding alternative to children’s franchising and have been pleased and privileged to help a good number of clients launch “their own” businesses since. While the how-to operational knowledge was an important part of NextGen’s offering, the central importance of the Buying and Pricing System was most evident.
Word spread, and NextGen was enlisted to help a number of women’s stores coast to coast create a women’s pricing application modeled after the NextGen children’s pricing application. Since that time, hundreds of owners have come to use the children’s and women’s pricing applications. Applications for men’s and for Home Furnishings have recently been completed. Demand has exceeded expectations, but until recently, NextGen has been unable to satisfy the demand from Store owners using Point of Sale System’s (POS’s) other than Resaleworld’s Liberty POS system for which it was originally, successfully and exclusively built. As a desktop application, we also could not afford to update prices, categories and brands as frequently as we wished.
In league with owners throughout North America, NextGen turned it’s full energies to building a set of universally applicable, web based Pricing Tools for Women, Men, Children and most recently, for Home Furnishings to address the need . The result, Price-It, the most powerful, dynamic, flexible and affordable pricing application ever built, and the only application built by and for resale and consignment businesses throughout the U.S. and Canada. Price-It will launch in the winter of 2020. It will be available to current clients as well as new, at no additional cost.