Celerant: A Fully Integrated Retail SaaS Solution

ClearSale partner Celerant is a holistic retail management platform that offers a customizable, easy-to-use software solution designed to help businesses across industries and sizes streamline their retail business and produce more sales while keeping their ecommerce businesses safe. Learn more about leveraging Celerant to grow your business.

What Makes Celerant Different

Celerant has equipped over 2,000 retailers across industries with a bespoke platform that annually processes over US$4 billion in retail transactions. Here’s why companies keep working with Celerant year after year.

All you need in one retail solution 

Celerant’s SaaS platform fully integrates with third-party services, online marketplaces, distributors, and other systems that you need to run your business seamlessly. With one holistic software solution partner, Celerant helps unlock the operational efficiency you’ve been looking for — so you can get back to making sales.

Right-sized retail software that knows and grows with your business 

Celerant’s customers use Celerant because they all agree that out-of-the-box retail software features don’t cut it. Their cloud-based retail software solutions cater to more advanced retailers and small businesses (even in price, with little to no initial investment) — and can flex when you need it. Their deep knowledge of many industry verticals, from fashion to firearms, allows Celerant to work closely with you to develop customizable features and modules that cater to your unique business.

More than just a POS 

Celerant knows retailers inside and out and knows that businesses need more than just a point of sale and ecommerce platform, whether you’re in-store, online, or both. Retailers powered by Celerant have an edge over their competitors with a unified shopping experience, where the tools and functionalities satisfy any type of pickup or delivery, automated store fulfillment helps streamline multi-store operations, and extensive AI applications help take the load off. 

Working with Celerant also means you’ll have digital marketing specialists ready to help expand your digital marketing strategy, preparing your business to drum up more interest and handle the excess of your incoming sales with ease.

Robust cybersecurity measures 

In ecommerce, security measures (or lack thereof!) can make or break a business. Together, Celerant and ClearSale do the heavy lifting required to avoid falling victim to cybercrime and will protect your shop with multilayered security features like SSL encryption, secure payment gateways, and real-time transaction monitoring.

How Celerant Helps Retailers Succeed

Having Celerant on your team is like having an expert pit crew on hand to keep your business well-oiled and ready to safely speed through the curves that modern business and an ever-changing online landscape create. It’s impossible to keep pace alone without a team to guide your business toward more sales safely. 

Here's what partnering with Celerant did for one customer who needed a fresh and fulsome fulfillment and retail management system. 

Helping Garden and Home Stores Bloom With Booming Demand

Stein’s Garden & Home has weathered the seasonal nature of the industry for over 70 years, but as they expanded to 17 brick-and-mortar stores and built an ecommerce site, their systems and operations were disjointed — making reporting and inventory management far more challenging than it needed to be.    

Shifting to Celerant, Stein’s needed only one cloud-based software system to manage its retail business. This system created unprecedented transparency over its operations with a steady stream of real-time updates and reduced legwork through automation. 

Suddenly, their flexible system with integrated POS systems and ecommerce feeds could pool together in a centralized database to keep up with their business activity, inventory data, and transactions online and off. Plus, management could keep tabs on the business at the end of the day without manual effort, with batch reporting and record analysis. Their peace of mind was restored knowing that their retail system was reliable, keeping customers happy with friction-free fulfillment and shelves full when demand was high.

Stein’s Garden & Home isn’t the first or last business to derive far more value from Celerant’s seamless system integration than it spent. Here are more success stories:

• A 100-year-old gift and museum retailer modernized their business to ship ecommerce orders same-day with automated tax reporting.
• A pet company with 19 locations recalibrated every aspect of their in-store and online pet shop, including complex customer data — and staff training — using one system. 
• A firearms retailer grew online traffic by 400% using Celerant’s comprehensive digital marketing and all-in-one retail system, which helped track inventory, sales, and multi-location reservations.

What Celerant Customers Have to Say

Celerant knows how to help your business realize its full potential. Working with Celerant has helped reimagine businesses across many different industries. But as the saying goes — don’t take our word for it! 

• “Considering we ship online orders from our multiple stores to our customers all over the country, leveraging Celerant's ‘Best Store Fulfillment’ has enabled us to expedite our fulfillment process to most orders now being shipped same day, from a previous average of 3-5 days.” — David Cliett, Director of Operations, Mast General Store

• "Our daily web traffic more than doubled, and conversion rates quadrupled.” — Piragis Northwoods Company

• “When you have 12 registers working at once in a single location and lines are filling up, you need a system that can handle that stress. I cannot describe how important it is to have that ease of handling to get through a transaction during those busy times. That ultimately leads to a pleasant shopping experience for the customer.” — Bob Young, CEO, Stein's Garden & Home

• “With Celerant, we’re able to leverage big business features in a small business atmosphere, and we’re doing all that by using Stratus Enterprise. The best part is it all ends up on a POS screen, where we can collect dollars.” — Mitchell Tyler, Co-Owner, SafeSide Tactical

• “The main reason I’d recommend somebody to Celerant is the relationships. They’ve gotten to know our business, but most of all, they care about our business.” — Sabrina Barger, Business Manager, Buffalo Exchange

What Retailers Should Consider When Evaluating Celerant

It’s not easy to choose which retail management system can help you enhance your business. 

But with Celerant, you’re not comparing apples to apples. You’re empowered to choose a solution design that will help you run your retail business more efficiently while supporting long-term growth. That’s why they have a 99% retention rate with their customers.

As you compare Celerant to the competition, here are a few critical questions to consider first:

• Is it user-friendly? Starting with the essentials: Can you envision your employees using the POS system without frustration or constantly referring to tutorials? Seek out a POS system with an intuitive, easy-to-navigate interface. Give the POS system brownie points if they offer a hands-on demo.
• What are the cost and scalability options? Price is important, but it shouldn’t be the deciding factor. Lower costs aren't always better: Think about scalability. Can the POS system grow with your business? A flexible system like Celerant might have a higher initial cost but can save you money in the long term.
• Does it use cloud or onsite storage? Cloud is great but consider local options if your internet is unstable. Make sure your data remains secure, even during internet outages. Consider a hybrid POS system, like Celerant’s.  (Link hybrid pos system to our hybrid blog)
• What features does the POS system offer? POS systems vary widely. Some can increase sales with intelligent recommendations and improve customer experience with integrated rewards programs. Identify the features you need most.
• Is the POS system evolving with retail technology? Retail technology should keep up with market changes. Choose providers who are committed to regular updates. Your POS system should be able to evolve alongside your business.

The Three Phases of Scaling Up  

What challenges you face now may turn into sales opportunities when you use the right technology that automates and streamlines how you do business. 

Celerant supports retailers through three distinct phases of scaling their business to operate more efficiently, enhance marketing, and increase revenue. Here’s how it works:

Start-Up Phase: In this phase, retailers typically focus on establishing their brand and initial market presence. 

Growth Phase: As businesses grow, they require more sophisticated tools to handle increased customer demands and complex operations. 

Enterprise Phase: For established retailers with substantial market presence, Celerant provides comprehensive enterprise-level solutions. 

With Celerant, you can start small and grow.

Celerant Understands Your Industry 

The way your industry functions is distinctly different from the rest. That’s why Celerant’s retail software gets down to the details of your vertical to meet your unique characteristics and needs. Below are some of the industries covered and how their solutions differ:

• Apparel & Footwear: Offers inventory management, size/color matrix, and seasonal planning to keep up with trends.

• Sportsman/Firearms: Provides compliance features, including ATF e4473 and A&D book integration.

• Sporting Goods: Includes team orders, rentals, and work order functionalities.

• Pet & Supply Stores: Enables customers to use integrated point of sale, ecommerce, and digital marketing functionality — while tracking customers and pets in a CRM and generating loyalty rewards.

• Hardware & Building Supply Stores: Utilizes a mobile POS system, manages contractors, and integrates vendor information and online sales across apps, ecommerce, and marketplaces.

• Gift & Specialty: Provides unique solutions for gift cards, custom products, and more.
• CBD/Vape: Offers a hybrid POS system with automatic age verification, item management, payment processing, and digital marketing.

Celerant and ClearSale: Creating a Complete Online Retail Fraud Protection Solution 

According to the Federal Trade Commission, in 2022, consumers lost nearly $8.8 billion to fraud, a 30% increase from 2021. It’s a staggering reality, but worse, new ecommerce customers are especially at risk from cyberthreats. 

To address these challenges, ClearSale integrates with Celerant’s solution to support ecommerce businesses, ensuring a seamless and frictionless shopping experience for customers while boosting revenue.