https://ltiora.com/blog Guides for multi-store retail, inventory, POS and accounting from The Momentum team at Ltiora. en Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://ltiora.com/blog/customer-credit-limits https://ltiora.com/blog/customer-credit-limits Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Accounting & Finance How to set a credit limit from buying pattern and terms, work out available credit, enforce it at the till and on invoices, and chase balances. https://ltiora.com/blog/reconcile-cash-drawers-multiple-stores https://ltiora.com/blog/reconcile-cash-drawers-multiple-stores Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Accounting & Finance The expected-cash formula, a worked till close, what causes overs and shorts, and a routine for tracking floats, deposits and variances across stores. https://ltiora.com/blog/reduce-expired-stock-write-offs https://ltiora.com/blog/reduce-expired-stock-write-offs Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Inventory Management Capture expiry at receiving, sell by expiry, act at 90/60/30/7 days, move short-dated stock to where it sells, and order no more than you can sell in time. https://ltiora.com/blog/how-to-run-a-stock-count-with-a-team https://ltiora.com/blog/how-to-run-a-stock-count-with-a-team Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Operations Plan zones, count with several people at once, value the differences, recount what matters and post adjustments with names. With a worked variance table. https://ltiora.com/blog/stop-selling-below-cost https://ltiora.com/blog/stop-selling-below-cost Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Commerce & POS Why retailers end up selling below cost (stale prices, overrides, stacked discounts, wrong units) and the controls that stop it, with worked numbers. https://ltiora.com/blog/how-to-transfer-stock-between-stores https://ltiora.com/blog/how-to-transfer-stock-between-stores Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Inventory Management A step-by-step way to move stock between your stores: request, approve, dispatch, receive, and settle every missing unit. With a worked example. https://ltiora.com/blog/landed-cost-explained https://ltiora.com/blog/landed-cost-explained Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Accounting & Finance What landed cost includes, how to split freight and duty across products by value or by quantity, and why the choice changes your margins. https://ltiora.com/blog/multi-store-pos-buying-checklist https://ltiora.com/blog/multi-store-pos-buying-checklist Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Buying Guides Thirty questions for choosing a POS for several stores, covering offline selling, stock, transfers, purchasing, margin control, accounting and audit. https://ltiora.com/blog/fefo-vs-fifo-food-beverage-inventory https://ltiora.com/blog/fefo-vs-fifo-food-beverage-inventory Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Inventory Management Perishables should rotate by expiry date, not arrival. What FEFO is, when it beats FIFO, and how to make the system enforce it instead of staff memory. https://ltiora.com/blog/split-tender-store-credit-layaway-pos https://ltiora.com/blog/split-tender-store-credit-layaway-pos Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Commerce & POS Split tender, store credit and layaway look simple in a demo and break in production. What each one needs to work, and what to test before you buy. https://ltiora.com/blog/franchise-inventory-management-standardization https://ltiora.com/blog/franchise-inventory-management-standardization Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Operations How franchisors keep catalogues, prices and suppliers consistent across franchisee-owned stores, while each owner runs their own business. https://ltiora.com/blog/dead-stock-abc-analysis-inventory https://ltiora.com/blog/dead-stock-abc-analysis-inventory Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Inventory Management Find dead stock with ABC analysis and inventory aging, then clear it with staged markdowns, bundles and liquidation that recover the most cash. https://ltiora.com/blog/receiving-discrepancies-retail-inventory https://ltiora.com/blog/receiving-discrepancies-retail-inventory Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Operations Catch short shipments, overages, substitutions and damage at the dock with blind receiving and a resolution workflow, before they become shrinkage. https://ltiora.com/blog/purchase-order-management-retail https://ltiora.com/blog/purchase-order-management-retail Tue, 19 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Operations A structured purchase order process: lifecycle stages, reorder points, sales-based order suggestions and landed cost, from need to received goods. https://ltiora.com/blog/retail-loyalty-program-guide https://ltiora.com/blog/retail-loyalty-program-guide Sat, 16 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Commerce & POS Most loyalty programs reward customers who would have bought anyway. How to design one that changes behaviour, and how to measure if it works. https://ltiora.com/blog/fifo-vs-lifo-inventory-costing https://ltiora.com/blog/fifo-vs-lifo-inventory-costing Wed, 13 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Accounting & Finance FIFO, LIFO and weighted average cost compared, with a worked example, what IFRS and the IRS allow, and how to choose for your product mix. https://ltiora.com/blog/retail-shrinkage-prevention-guide https://ltiora.com/blog/retail-shrinkage-prevention-guide Sun, 10 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Inventory Management US retailers reported shrink of 1.6% of sales in 2022. How to calculate your shrinkage rate, find where stock goes and cut losses. https://ltiora.com/blog/canadian-retail-software-guide https://ltiora.com/blog/canadian-retail-software-guide Fri, 01 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Buying Guides What Canadian retailers should check in retail software: GST/HST/PST/QST, multi-currency, French for Quebec, Interac, and the payroll gap. https://ltiora.com/blog/retail-erp-for-small-business https://ltiora.com/blog/retail-erp-for-small-business Fri, 01 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Buying Guides What retail ERP means for independent retailers and small chains, what it costs you not to have one, and four questions to evaluate a platform. https://ltiora.com/blog/quickbooks-pos-integration-broken https://ltiora.com/blog/quickbooks-pos-integration-broken Fri, 01 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Accounting & Finance Why QuickBooks and POS syncs break (duplicates, drift, mapping gaps), what reconciliation really costs, and why one system removes the problem. https://ltiora.com/blog/switching-pos-systems-migration-guide https://ltiora.com/blog/switching-pos-systems-migration-guide Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Commerce & POS A step-by-step guide to switching POS systems without losing products, customers or sales history: audit, validate, run in parallel, train. https://ltiora.com/blog/wholesale-retail-unified-platform https://ltiora.com/blog/wholesale-retail-unified-platform Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Operations Selling wholesale and retail from separate systems means two stock counts and endless reconciliation. What one system for both channels changes. https://ltiora.com/blog/pos-total-cost-of-ownership https://ltiora.com/blog/pos-total-cost-of-ownership Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Buying Guides The monthly fee is only the start. How to model a POS's three-year total cost: processing, per-user fees, add-ons, integrations and reconciliation. https://ltiora.com/blog/outgrown-pos-software-signs https://ltiora.com/blog/outgrown-pos-software-signs Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT Commerce & POS Five signs a multi-location business has outgrown its POS, from hours of weekly reconciliation to month-ends that take weeks to close. https://ltiora.com/blog/ai-demand-forecasting-inventory https://ltiora.com/blog/ai-demand-forecasting-inventory Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Inventory Management A plain-arithmetic demand forecast you can check: daily sales rate, forecast period, stock on hand and on order. Where AI helps and where it doesn't. https://ltiora.com/blog/retail-trends-2026 https://ltiora.com/blog/retail-trends-2026 Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Buying Guides The retailers pulling ahead in 2026 share one advantage: POS, stock and the books in one system. What that looks like and how to get there. https://ltiora.com/blog/offline-first-pos-retail https://ltiora.com/blog/offline-first-pos-retail Sat, 15 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT Commerce & POS What an offline-first POS keeps doing without internet, what it can't, how sales sync without duplicates, and the questions to ask before you buy. https://ltiora.com/blog/batch-lot-tracking-guide https://ltiora.com/blog/batch-lot-tracking-guide Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT Inventory Management How batch and lot tracking works, who needs it, how it drives FIFO/LIFO/average costing and expiry control, and how it survives transfers. https://ltiora.com/blog/tamper-evident-accounting-software https://ltiora.com/blog/tamper-evident-accounting-software Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT Accounting & Finance How hash-chained, tamper-evident ledgers make edits to past records detectable, and why an audit trail alone isn't enough. https://ltiora.com/blog/multi-location-retail-management https://ltiora.com/blog/multi-location-retail-management Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT Operations How to run several stores from one system: a single data model, recorded transfers, per-location and consolidated reports, and offline tills. https://ltiora.com/blog/retail-erp-buyers-guide https://ltiora.com/blog/retail-erp-buyers-guide Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:00:00 GMT Buying Guides What to look for when evaluating retail ERP software, and the seven features that decide whether a platform will grow with your business or hold it back.