Being a retail manager is a stressful job, because supervising retail outlets includes a wide range of responsibilities that require having various skills. While you are taking care of the staff and their performance, you are managing the financial records and budgets at the same time, you are overseeing stock prices, but you are also taking care of your customers.

If you are a retail manager, you probably have a set of professionals skills required for that job, but no matter how organized and experienced you are, you may probably find your day-to-day activities pretty demanding and time consuming.

With technology becoming a part of every aspect of your life and work, you shouldn’t think twice before you embrace it and see how technology can help you with retail management.

So here are the tools that can help you out in everyday retail management:

Humanity is a cloud-based workforce management tool that makes shift scheduling hassle-free and keeps track of your employees’ attendance. It prevents you from having uncovered shifts and gives your employees an option to collaborate among themselves and change shifts according to their needs.

Skype is a well-known tool for business and personal communication. It definitely deserves to be a part of your recruitment toolbox because it saves you time and money- you can organize remote interviews and finish your recruitment with ease.

No matter how authoritative you might be, your employees can sometimes get too comfortable and it won’t be possible to supervise them all around the store. That’s why you need a tool that can track the work of your employees. There are a lot of employee tracking tools on the market, and one of them is TrackSmart which helps you keep track of “no-show’’ employees or those who are always late.

Another tool that works in the cloud and it is widely regarded in retail industry- Vend. Vend is designed for all kind of retailers, and it makes your stock management and reporting easier. It can be easily integrated with the leading ecommerce platforms and share the inventory and sales data in real time.

PDF Converter Elite is a tool you need for managing your paperwork such as quality reports, discount sheets, item stock lists, wholesaleorder forms, inventory lists etc. As most of those documents are sent and saved in PDF, the problem arises when you need to add more data in your document. So next time you want to edit your quality report in PDF, try converting it to editable MS Office formats.

RetailNext is a tool for all retail managers who are ambitious and care about the latest trends. It gives insight into every aspect of retail business and helps you have better retail experience.