Uniform and Scrub Retailer Point of Sale

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The best uniform store POS systems support the needs of specialized retailers selling to employees of hospitals, doctors offices, food services, schools, laboratories and other companies requiring employees to wear uniforms. Uniform retail management systems must be able to track inventory and manage prices.  Many uniform retailers sell items not in stock that must be ordered from the vendor - so the ability to manage special orders is critical for the store's point of sale software.  In addition, medical scrubs and uniforms usually come in a variety of sizes and colors - so support of matrix items is important.

Uniform Store and Scrub Store POS features in MicroBiz Cloud include:

  • Special orders/Back orders - Allows you to track special order items, from the customer order to receiving, to inventory to the POS transaction.
  • Matrix products (size/color/other) – Manage products that come in different size/color variants.
  • Vendor catalog integration - Download and search the catalogs of select uniform vendors.
  • Group pricing or discounts - Based on customer level or group.
  • Advanced filterable product search – Search for and view items by filtering by style, category, brand, vendor, size, color.
  • Customer sales history lookup – Look up customer purchases by item or transactions from the front register.
  • Alterations/Service department management – Manage alterations and services transactions including a description of work to be performed.
  • Service item history – Track and view service history of customer-owned items checked in for service work, such as alterations or embroidery of uniforms and apparel.
  • Accounts receivable - Manage large customers that pay on credit account, including customer statements.
  • Customer deposits - Accept and track customer deposits.
  • Layaways - collect deposits while holding the item out of inventory.
  • Markdown management - Easily manage group markdowns, quantity pricing, multi-buy items and promotional pricing.
  • Product ID tracking - Provides a detailed record of  merchandise, when it was received, what it cost, which customer purchased it, and when it was sold.
  • Pick-up, shipping, delivery dashboard – Manage orders to be shipped, picked-up or delivered.
  • Sales commissions - Can be calculated on the sales amount or the gross profit or track commissions by employee to measure productivity.
  • Phone orders – Accept orders and collect payments from customers calling to order by phone.

Integration with Medical Scrub Uniform Vendor Catalogs 

MicroBiz connects with the electronic product catalogs of major uniform vendors, allowing scrubs retailers to quickly and easily add new item records to the MicroBiz POS system with one click, including the available size/color variant, image, cost and description of the product.  MicroBiz allows users to set up pricing and rounding rules to generate retail prices based on the cost, MAP and MSRP data in the vendor catalog.  In addition, the vendor data feeds provide real-time visibility into the vendor's stock levels in its supply chain.  These vendor stock levels are displayed in MicroBiz to assist users in checking product availability of products when creating orders. Below are some of the vendor catalogs available in MicroBiz:

Cherokee
Barco
Landau
maevn
Koi

Uniform & Scrub Vendor Catalog Integration — Feature Comparison

Logo Vendor Online Catalog Pricing in Catalog Stock Visibility Online Ordering
Cherokee Cherokee Yes Yes Yes No
Barco Barco Yes Yes Yes No
Landau Landau Yes Yes Yes No
Maevn Maevn Yes Yes Yes No
Koi Koi Yes Yes Yes No
Prestige Medical Prestige Medical Yes Yes Yes No

* Feature availability reflects each vendor's publicly available capabilities and may change — contact your MicroBiz account manager for the latest integration details.

Inventory Management

A single scrub style can balloon into 150 sellable variants once every size and color combination is accounted for. MicroBiz Cloud is built to keep that variant sprawl organized instead of unwieldy.

Inventory management capabilities in MicroBiz include:

  • Connect to vendor electronic catalogs from major uniform brands to quickly add new items, including size/color variants, images, cost, and description
  • Bulk import products, customers, and inventory levels from your existing POS system via CSV or Excel file
  • Import bulk vendor price updates via CSV when a uniform manufacturer releases a new price list
  • Print barcode price labels in multiple formats directly from MicroBiz — automatically during receiving or manually for price changes
  • Set quantity-based price break points that automatically adjust the price at the register when a purchase threshold is reached
  • Set up customer-based pricing tiers — such as retail, hospital contract, or employee groups — with prices applied automatically at the register when a customer record is attached
  • Set reorder points on fast-moving scrub styles and sizes to alert staff when stock is running low
  • Transfer inventory between store locations and view stock levels across all locations from the register

Fast-moving sizes stay in stock, and pricing agreements with hospitals and employer groups apply consistently no matter which register rings up the sale.

Offer Credit Accounts and Manage Accounts Receivable

Hospitals and employers often cover a uniform allowance for their staff, which only works smoothly if individual employees can charge against a shared account. MicroBiz Cloud's credit account module is built for exactly that.

Credit account and accounts receivable features in MicroBiz include:

  • Define authorized users for each credit account, such as employees covered under a hospital's uniform allowance
  • Set credit limits and payment terms per customer or account
  • View current balance, available credit, and accounts receivable aging on the AR statement
  • View all charges, payments, and authorized user activity on each account record
  • Apply credits against an account balance
  • Bulk print or email AR statements across multiple accounts

Individual employees can charge their purchases directly to the employer's account, without staff having to manually track who's covered under which allowance.

Open Item Accounts Receivable

A hospital or employer account covering dozens of employees generates a lot of individual purchases — and a single lump balance makes that hard to reconcile. MicroBiz Cloud's open item AR keeps it organized.

With open item AR, payments can be allocated against specific open invoices rather than simply applied to the oldest balance — as opposed to a standard balance forward method, where payments are applied broadly against the total outstanding balance.

That structure keeps larger employer accounts clean, and makes it easy to identify exactly which invoices remain outstanding at any point in time.

Manage Alterations and Customization Work Orders

MicroBiz Cloud includes a full work order module that allows uniform and scrub retailers to manage alterations, embroidery, and other customization jobs alongside retail sales from a single system — without needing a separate service management tool.

Work order capabilities in MicroBiz include:

  • Record a detailed description of the alteration or customization work to be performed on each work order
  • Check in customer-owned items for alteration or embroidery work
  • Collect deposits on work orders at the time of check-in
  • Bill for labor and any merchandise or materials used, such as embroidery thread or patches

Having alterations and customization work orders built directly into MicroBiz gives uniform and scrub retailers a complete picture of every customer's service history alongside their retail purchase history — making it easy to reference past work and provide faster, more informed service when a customer returns for another alteration or embroidery job.

Customer-Based and Contract Pricing for Hospitals and Employers

A hospital system negotiating group pricing for its staff needs that rate to apply consistently at checkout — not depend on a cashier remembering the agreement. MicroBiz Cloud ties the pricing directly to the customer record.

Customer-based and contract pricing features in MicroBiz include:

  • Assign any customer or employee to a pricing group tied to their employer's negotiated contract
  • Configure pricing as a percentage discount, a fixed dollar amount off, cost plus a defined margin, or a specifically defined price per item
  • Prices adjust automatically at the register when a customer record with a special pricing group is attached

Every eligible employee gets the correct contract rate automatically — no staff member needs to track or verify pricing agreements order by order.

Matrix Products for Size, Color, and Fit Variants

MicroBiz Cloud supports matrix products with up to three variants, allowing uniform and scrub retailers to set up a single product record for a scrub top or uniform item and define all available combinations of size, color, and fit. Each combination can carry its own price, SKU, and inventory level.

Matrix product capabilities in MicroBiz include:

  • Set up a single product record covering all variant combinations of size, color, and fit
  • Assign a unique SKU, price, and inventory level to each variant
  • Import, sell, order, and receive matrix products efficiently, with variants organized in a grid showing colors down one axis and sizes across another

This is especially valuable for uniform and scrub retailers, where a single style can come in 15 colors and 10 sizes — 150 product variants — and staff need to see cost, price, stock, and reorder points across the full grid at a glance, rather than searching for each size/color combination as a separate product record.

Special Order Management for the Sale of Items Not in Stock. 

 

MicroBiz supports the management of Special Orders, such as the sale of scrubs and uniforms not currently in stock.  You can mark an item as a special order item at the time its sold, which places it on a list of special order items in the purchasing module.  When the uniform or scrub is received from the vendor, MicroBiz alerts the user that the item is attached to a customer order, so that the customer can be contacted and the item can be set aside for pick-up or shipment.  This is a great feature for businesses doing a large number of special orders - such as scrub stores.

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Track Service History on Customer-Owned Items

Confirming what's already been embroidered on a repeat hospital order shouldn't require a phone call or a search through old paperwork. MicroBiz Cloud keeps that history attached to the customer record.

Service history tracking in MicroBiz includes:

  • View all items a customer has brought in for alteration or embroidery from their customer record
  • Access the full service history for each item, including past work orders, descriptions of work performed, and dates of service

That's especially useful for repeat embroidery work — staff can confirm exactly what name and department logo was used last time before starting a new order.

Quotes, Estimates and Invoices

A hospital department ordering matching scrubs and embroidery usually wants pricing confirmed before the order is placed. MicroBiz Cloud lets that quote convert directly into an invoice once it's approved, without duplicating any work.

Quote, estimate, and invoice options in MicroBiz include:

  • Print a full page quote, estimate, or invoice depending on the current need
  • Choose whether order-level or line-level notes are included on the printed document
  • Convert a quote into an order with one click to reserve stock and begin collecting payments

Once the department signs off, the quote becomes the invoice — item, pricing, and customer details carry over automatically.

Manage Layaway Payments and Installment Sales

A group order of matching scrubs is a natural candidate for a deposit-and-installment arrangement rather than a single upfront payment. MicroBiz Cloud supports that workflow directly.

Layaway payment management in MicroBiz includes:

  • Set due dates on layaway orders to track expected payment milestones
  • Accept payments against open layaway orders at any time
  • View the full payment history on each open layaway order
  • Layaway items are automatically held out of open stock and classified as committed stock for the duration of the layaway

Moving the order to committed stock keeps the reserved items off the sales floor until the customer's payment plan is complete.

Sell Uniform Packages and Bundles with Kits

A matching scrub set, a new-hire starter kit, or a uniform bundled with a lab coat sells more cleanly as one package than as separate transactions. MicroBiz Cloud's kit feature makes that the default at the register.

Kit and bundle capabilities in MicroBiz include:

  • Sell multiple component products together as a single kit item at the register or on an order
  • Automatically relieve inventory on each component product when the kit is sold
  • Price the kit as a package price, separate from the sum of the individual component prices

Every item in the kit still gets tracked individually behind the scenes — staff just sell the bundle, not each piece.

Mobile POS for Pop-Up Sales at Clinics and Hospitals

MicroBiz Cloud's cloud-based design allows uniform and scrub retailers to run pop-up sales events at hospitals, clinics, and employer sites using a laptop, Chromebook, or tablet as a mobile POS terminal — with no special installation or setup required.

Mobile POS capabilities in MicroBiz include:

  • Log into your MicroBiz store from any supported device at the pop-up location and begin ringing up sales immediately
  • Access your full product catalog, customer records, and contract or employer pricing from the pop-up terminal
  • Sales and inventory changes sync back to your main store in real time

This makes it easy for scrub retailers to run an on-site pop-up sale for hospital or clinic staff — offering the same contract pricing, product catalog, and customer accounts available in-store — without needing to bring in a full register setup or reconcile a separate system afterward.

Other POS Features for Scrub Stores

In addition to the Uniform POS specific capabilities listed above, MicroBiz Cloud includes the following standard features and functionality needed to manage uniform stores:

Register

  • Register Quick Pick Keys
  • Bar code label scanning
  • Transaction holds/recalls
  • Store Credits
  • Gift Cards
  • Customizable Receipts
  • Custom Tenders
  • Returns and Voids
  • Split Tenders
  • Assign Salesperson to Transaction
  • Item and Transaction Discount
  • Stock-level Look-up (multi-store)
  • Print or Email Receipts
  • Customer Sales History Look-up
  • Register Close/End of Day Reports
  • Advanced Filterable Product Search
  • Editable Item Descriptions on Receipt

Integrations

  • WooCommerce Integration
  • QuickBooks Online Integration

 Orders

  • Phone Orders/Layaways
  • Special Orders (out of stock items)
  • Check-in of Customer Items for Alterations and Customizations
  • Deposit Collection and Refunds
  • Tax Calculation based on Ship Address of Customer
  • Pick-up, Shipping, Delivery Dashboard
  • Alterations/Service Dept Management
  • Quotes/Estimates/Invoices
  • Back Order Creation and Filling

Customers

  • Customer Tax Classes/Tax Exempt
  • Credit Accounts/Charge to Account
  • Multiple Shipping/Billing Addresses
  • Accounts Receivable Statements
  • Import Customers via CSV File Import

Store Management

  • Store Transfers
  • Flexible and Filterable Reports
  • Enforceable Business Rules on Discounts & Returns
  • Employee Roles and Permissions
  • Support of Contactless Payments
  • PCI/PA-DS Compliant
  • Minimum Deposit Requirements

Catalog Management

  • Customer-based Pricing/Product Pricing Levels (special customer prices)
  • Product images (can be uploaded)
  • Categories and Sub-Categories
  • Product Tax Classes (multiple)
  • Quantity-based Tiered Pricing (1 for x, 3 for y)
  • Time-based Promotional Pricing
  • Matrix Products with Size/Color/Other Variants
  • Alternate Product IDs
  • Print Barcode Price Labels

Multi-store Inventory Management

  • CSV File Import of Products & Inventory
  • Purchase Orders/Vendor Shipments
  • Minimum Inventory Reorder Points
  • Special Order Tracking (critical for scrub stores)
  • Inventory Adjustment Audit Records 

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    • Sync revenue, COGS, inventory values, customer liabilities and payments with QuickBooks
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    • Link product records and sync changes in product fields from MicroBiz to Woo!
    • Automatically adjust stock levels in Woo! for store sales to avoid sales of items not in stock
    • Pull online orders into MicroBiz for order and inventory management
    • Capture customer records created online in MicroBiz

    Create Private Online Personalized Stores for Your Top Customers

     

    Create customized private ecommerce stores for your top customers.  Display only items curated for a specific customer, such as a hospital, clinic or medical office.  You can completely hide your WooCommerce private stores from the public, with only your wholesale customers being able to access their private store with a username and password.  

    The items in the private store can be displayed in a wholesale grid, enabling the user to more easily select size and color variants.  You can manage user registration and assign discounts and special prices for items in each private store.

    Sales in your private online stores are integrated with MicroBiz, so that online sales in your microsites are captured in MicroBiz, and inventory syncs between your ecommerce site and your POS system.

     

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    Frequently Asked Questions

    Can this POS handle matrix products with multiple variants — for example, a scrub top available in multiple colors, sizes, and fits? +

    Yes. MicroBiz supports matrix products with up to three variants, allowing you to set up a single product record for a scrub top or uniform item and define all available combinations of size, color, and fit. Each combination can carry its own price, SKU, and inventory level. At the register, staff simply select the desired variant from the matrix rather than searching for a separate product record for each option — keeping your catalog clean and your checkout process fast. MicroBiz also supports advanced filterable product search, allowing staff to search and filter by style, category, brand, vendor, size, and color to quickly find the right item.

    Can I set up corporate or institutional accounts for hospitals, police departments, fire departments, and other organizations that purchase uniforms for their staff? +

    Yes. MicroBiz supports both customer-based pricing and private online stores for corporate and institutional accounts. In-store, you can assign contract pricing to a specific organizational account so that when an employee purchases from you, their negotiated price is applied automatically at the register without staff needing to manually override prices. Through the WooCommerce integration, you can also set up private online stores accessible only by username and password, where you can display a curated selection of approved uniform items at the organization's contracted prices. This allows hospital systems, police departments, and other institutional clients to give their employees a dedicated ordering portal with only the items and prices applicable to their account.

    Does this POS support uniform programs where employees from a specific organization are authorized to purchase certain items at set prices or with a clothing allowance? +

    Yes. MicroBiz supports contract and customer-based pricing that allows you to assign specific negotiated prices to individual customer accounts or customer groups. When an employee from a hospital, clinic, or public safety organization makes a purchase, their contracted pricing is applied automatically at the register. Through the WooCommerce integration, you can take this further by creating private online portals for each organization — displaying only the curated uniform items approved for that organization's employees at their contracted prices. Access to each private store is controlled by username and password, ensuring only authorized employees can view and purchase from their organization's store.

    Can I manage special orders for sizes, colors, or styles that I don't currently keep in stock? +

    Yes. MicroBiz has a built-in special order workflow that is particularly well suited for scrub and uniform retailers. You can mark an item as a special order at the time it is sold, which places it on a list of special order items in the purchasing module. When the uniform or scrub is received from the vendor, MicroBiz alerts you that the item is attached to a customer order so that the customer can be contacted and the item can be set aside for pickup or shipment. This workflow is critical for uniform retailers who regularly order non-stocked sizes, colors, or styles directly from vendors on behalf of customers.

    Does this POS support embroidery and customization orders — for example, tracking logo placement, thread color, and text for name embroidery on scrubs or uniform items? +

    Yes. MicroBiz supports the management of alteration and customization orders through its work order module. You can check in customer items or new uniform purchases for embroidery or customization, and enter a detailed description of the work to be performed — including logo placement, thread color, text, and any other specifications. The work order record tracks the job through to completion and maintains a service history for each customer, making it easy to reference past embroidery specifications when a customer reorders. Note that MicroBiz does not currently support custom embroidery forms or attachment of logo image files within the work order.

    Can I collect a deposit on a custom or embroidered order and collect the balance when the order is ready for pickup? +

    Yes. MicroBiz supports deposit collection on orders, allowing you to collect a full or partial deposit at the time the order is placed and collect the remaining balance when the customer comes in for pickup. You can set minimum deposit rules at the store level to enforce consistent policies across your staff. The order record clearly displays all deposits collected and the outstanding balance, so your team always knows exactly what is owed when a customized or embroidered uniform order is ready for the customer.

    Can I manage house charge accounts for hospitals, police departments, and other institutional clients who purchase on account and pay monthly? +

    Yes. MicroBiz includes a full credit account and accounts receivable module. You can set up house charge accounts for hospitals, clinics, police departments, fire departments, and other institutional clients, allowing them to purchase on account and pay on a monthly or agreed billing cycle. MicroBiz tracks the full account balance, available credit, and complete transaction history for each account. You can generate and print or email AR statements, set credit limits and payment terms per customer, and support open item accounts receivable — meaning payments can be allocated against specific open invoices rather than simply applied to the oldest balance.

    Does this POS support customer-based pricing — for example, offering a hospital or government agency a negotiated contract price on specific items? +

    Yes. MicroBiz supports customer-based pricing tiers that allow you to offer different price levels to different customer groups. You can set up a contract pricing tier and assign it to a specific hospital, agency, or institutional account so that their negotiated prices are applied automatically at the register without requiring staff to manually override prices. Pricing tiers can be configured as a percentage discount, a fixed dollar amount off, cost plus a defined margin, or a specifically defined price per item — giving you full flexibility to manage contract pricing across multiple institutional accounts simultaneously.

    Does this POS integrate with QuickBooks Online for accounting? +

    Yes. MicroBiz integrates directly with QuickBooks Online. With one click you can publish register batch financial data to mapped GL accounts in QuickBooks, including sales revenue, cost of goods sold, taxes, and payment type breakdowns. When you receive inventory from uniform vendors, MicroBiz can automatically create vendor bill payables in QuickBooks. Sales tax liabilities are also pushed directly to the QuickBooks Sales Tax Center, keeping your books accurate without manual data entry.

    Can I apply customer payments to specific invoices when managing large institutional accounts with multiple open orders? +

    Yes. MicroBiz supports open item accounts receivable, which means payments made on a customer account can be allocated against specific open invoices rather than simply applied to the oldest balance. This is particularly valuable for hospitals, police departments, and other institutional clients who may have multiple simultaneous uniform orders and embroidery jobs open at the same time and want to pay off specific orders independently. Open item AR keeps each account clean and organized, and makes it easy to identify exactly which invoices remain outstanding at any point in time.

    Does this POS integrate with WooCommerce so I can sell scrubs and uniforms online and sync inventory between my store and website? +

    Yes. MicroBiz integrates directly with WooCommerce, allowing you to publish your in-store scrub and uniform products to your website with one click. MicroBiz automatically syncs inventory levels between your store and your WooCommerce site, so when an item sells in-store the stock count on your website updates immediately — preventing overselling of items that are no longer available. Online orders are pulled into MicroBiz for fulfillment and inventory management. You can also create private online stores for your institutional customers, displaying only their approved uniform items at contracted prices, with access controlled by username and password.

    Does this POS integrate with scrub and uniform vendor catalogs for real-time pricing and stock availability? +

    Yes. MicroBiz connects with the electronic product catalogs of major uniform and scrub vendors, allowing retailers to quickly add new item records to MicroBiz with one click — including available size and color variants, product images, cost, and description. MicroBiz also allows you to set up pricing and rounding rules to automatically generate retail prices based on cost, MAP, and MSRP data from the vendor catalog. In addition, vendor data feeds provide real-time visibility into vendor stock levels, which are displayed in MicroBiz to help you check product availability when creating purchase orders. Current vendor catalog integrations include Cherokee, Barco, Landau, Maevn, and Koi.

    Does this POS integrate with a barcode lookup catalog so I can quickly add new scrub and uniform products without manual data entry? +

    Yes. In addition to the direct vendor catalog integrations, MicroBiz integrates with a general barcode lookup catalog that allows you to search for and instantly import product data by scanning or entering a UPC barcode. When adding a new scrub or uniform product to your catalog from a vendor not covered by a direct catalog integration, MicroBiz will look up the item and automatically populate the product name, description, and other available product details — eliminating the need to manually key in product information.

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    Useful Links and Resources:

    Uniform Retailers Association (URA) — A non-profit trade association dedicated to the growth and prosperity of independent uniform retailers, particularly those specializing in medical scrubs and healthcare apparel. URA provides member networking, discounts, scholarships, and hosts an annual trade show where retailers can meet vendors and see the latest products.

    North American Association of Uniform Manufacturers & Distributors (NAUMD) — A global trade association established in 1932 representing manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, dealers, and distributors of uniforms, image apparel, and public safety equipment. NAUMD's Public Safety Suppliers and Retailers division specifically supports businesses serving law enforcement, fire, EMS, and other public safety markets.

    Professional Clothing Industry Association Worldwide (PCIAW) — An international trade association representing companies involved in the design, manufacture, and supply of professional clothing and uniforms across healthcare, public safety, hospitality, and corporate markets. PCIAW provides networking, education, and industry advocacy for uniform industry professionals.

    Uniform Market News — The leading online news source for the uniform industry, covering manufacturers, dealers, distributors, and retailers across healthcare, public safety, hospitality, and corporate uniform markets. Uniform Market News provides product updates, industry news, and trade show coverage relevant to uniform retailers.

    Made to Measure Magazine — The uniform industry's primary trade publication, published semi-annually since 1930. Made to Measure covers trends, business profiles, product news, and industry developments across all segments of the uniform market including healthcare scrubs, public safety, and corporate apparel.

    Uniform Market News Trade Shows — A comprehensive directory of trade shows and industry events serving the uniform and public safety apparel industry, including the annual NAUMD Convention & Exposition and other key buying and networking events for uniform retailers and suppliers.