Retail
🛍️ Retail Operations Use Cases
Optimizing store performance, visibility, and accountability
Retail operations often involve managing dozens of branches, each requiring consistent standards, quick escalations, and formal approval chains. Traditionally, these workflows are spread across WhatsApp chats, email threads, and phone calls, leading to lost information, inconsistent execution, and lack of accountability.
With Storecall’s dynamic template system, you can streamline your retail operations with Audit, Log, and Approval templates that reflect real-life processes.
✅ Audit Templates
Used for structured checklists and reviews with scoring where applicable.
1. Daily Store Standards Checklist
Purpose: Ensure each store opens clean, stocked, and compliant. Pain Point: Usually done via WhatsApp group messages or calls from regional managers. No historical tracking or scoring.
Storecall Advantage: Automatically score performance, attach images, and generate reports by date and location.
2. Monthly Regional Manager Store Visit
Purpose: Capture detailed performance feedback across departments (cleanliness, stock, staff, compliance). Pain Point: Typically submitted via emailed Excel sheets or paper forms, then manually summarized.
Storecall Advantage: Use dynamic templates with sections, image uploads, scoring, and historical logs.
3. Backroom Safety Inspection
Purpose: Check for hazards, expiry items, overstocking, or fire risks. Pain Point: Often noted via WhatsApp or verbally and rarely followed up.
Storecall Advantage: Set auto-actions for violations, track trends over time by location, and view photo evidence.
4. POS (Point of Sale) System Audit
Purpose: Ensure tills, card machines, and printers are functioning correctly. Pain Point: Staff escalate via call or text when problems arise, leading to delays.
Storecall Advantage: Standardized checks ensure preventive issues are caught early.
5. Promo Display & Branding Compliance Audit
Purpose: Validate whether national campaigns are properly displayed. Pain Point: Staff send photos via WhatsApp with no structured proof of compliance.
Storecall Advantage: Create a photo-based checklist with timestamps and location tagging.
🔁 Log Templates
Used for workflows that trigger updates and follow-ups over time.
1. Damaged Stock Logging
Purpose: Log damaged goods to be written off or returned. Pain Point: Usually captured on paper or informal messages. No audit trail.
Storecall Advantage: Assign follow-ups to area managers or procurement with attached images and reason codes.
2. Customer Incident Log
Purpose: Track customer injuries, complaints, or escalations. Pain Point: Often phoned in or noted in store diaries with no formal investigation follow-up.
Storecall Advantage: Real-time alert with optional escalation path to head office.
3. Fridge/Freezer Breakdown Log
Purpose: Report equipment issues that could cause stock loss. Pain Point: Sent via WhatsApp or calls, often missed.
Storecall Advantage: Assign to maintenance team, track resolution time, and log asset issues centrally.
4. Daily Sales Logging by Franchisees
Purpose: Franchisees input daily revenue or foot traffic numbers. Pain Point: Sent via WhatsApp or email, consolidated manually in Excel.
Storecall Advantage: Digital logging with export-ready data and charts.
5. Stock Transfer Between Stores Log
Purpose: Track internal store-to-store transfers. Pain Point: Handwritten logs or informal texts lead to mismatches.
Storecall Advantage: Real-time entry, approval chain, and stock tracking transparency.
📝 Approval Templates
Used when decisions or permissions are required.
1. Leave Request Approval
Purpose: Staff apply for leave to be approved by store manager or regional. Pain Point: WhatsApp messages or verbal requests with no visibility.
Storecall Advantage: Track who approved what and when, with full audit trail.
2. Price Override or Discount Approval
Purpose: Authorize exceptions to standard pricing. Pain Point: Calls made on the spot with no documentation.
Storecall Advantage: Store staff submit requests with reason, item, and expected impact.
3. New Staff Onboarding Request
Purpose: Request to onboard new hires or casuals. Pain Point: Sent by email, sometimes delayed or overlooked.
Storecall Advantage: Ensure all steps (IT access, uniforms, etc.) are followed before approval.
4. Emergency Maintenance Approval
Purpose: Request urgent contractor call-outs or equipment replacement. Pain Point: Usually via text or call; delays happen when no budget authority is reachable.
Storecall Advantage: Predefined approval hierarchy ensures no downtime waiting for decisions.
5. Store Closure Request
Purpose: Formal request to close early due to safety, protest, or system outages. Pain Point: Requires manual escalation and multiple phone calls.
Storecall Advantage: Securely logs justification, alerts relevant stakeholders instantly.
✅ Bonus: Actions & Notifications
Across all templates:
Actions can be created within submissions or logs to delegate follow-up tasks.
Actions are automatically assigned to the responsible person, with email notifications and daily reminders until resolved.
This ensures that no issue gets “lost in the system” and everything is tracked and time-stamped for accountability.
💡 Summary
Retail operations deal with high volume, high pace, and high risk if things go undocumented. Storecall transforms the messy paper-WhatsApp-email system into a structured, accountable, and easily reportable digital workflow.
Ensure real-time visibility across teams and regions
Reduce operational leakage and miscommunication
Create accountability across all levels
Improve reporting speed and accuracy
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