A real advantage in the competition for sales, donations and volunteers
Kudos creates a seamless and hassle-free process for donations, collections and delivery, new and pre-loved stock management, sales, and Retail Gift Aid by offering users an easy-to-use experience that reflects your charity’s priorities.
The Kudos charity retail system is flexible and accommodates complex processes within your charity, offering valuable features as standard. We’re continually developing software with input from our customers.
Charity Retail System
Charity EPoS
Managing donations, new goods, sales, and Gift Aid couldn't be easier with the Kudos charity retail system. Your volunteers will be able to provide exceptional customer service with our user-friendly charity EPoS.
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Retail Gift Aid
Get more gift aid with Kudos. Kudos makes the gift aid process even quicker, easier, safer and more accurate for donors and volunteers.
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Charity Retail System
Furniture & Electricals
Simplifying the entire furniture reuse process, from the initial phone call to delivering the goods. That’s Kudos. The No.1 retail solution for furniture and electrical reuse.
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Volunteer retention
We understand the value of volunteers who offer their time, skills, and expertise to support and assist charity retailers and we also know volunteer retention can be a challenge, that’s why we make it a focus for our team and our software.
- Instore technology that’s easy and intuitive to use
- Rostering tools with useful features that help with shift reminders, such as filling the gaps, or having friends volunteering together
- Sales data accessible from the till so volunteers can see the contribution they’re making
Our experienced support team are eager to help your volunteers whatever their problem or enquiry, so you can be sure your team are in safe hands with Kudos.
Our mobile apps
Our mobile apps are designed to simply do more for your charity or reuse organisation. Click + to read more.
With our SignUp app, donors can easily sign up in-store or remotely on a tablet. By generating a unique donor ID, donations can be tracked instantly, and an email confirmation is automatically sent. This allows the till to remain free for sales, maximising sign-up rates for GA.
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A collection and delivery in-van app that sets drivers paper-free. Increase Gift Aid on collections and improve route efficiency. Track where drivers are on their route and provide the tools they need for effective and professional collection and delivery of donations.
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Reduce paperwork and save time using our Stock app to count new goods on a tablet. By scanning barcoded items, stocktakes can be quick and easy. Manage stock takes from head office and send requests to the shop team, to monitor progress and see discrepancies.
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CharityCard mobile app is an innovative solution for Kudos charity retailers & their supporters that replaces plastic charity shop donor cards. Simply drop, scan, and shop with the CharityCard app to make donations, retail gift aid and loyalty even easier.
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Partnerships
Our partnerships are based on shared values and a commitment to our customers. We prioritise long-term relationships with reputable partners who add value to our customers.
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Online Trading
Trade on-line and instore in harmony with Kudos. From managing the stock to selling on the web, order processing and shipping and Retail Gift Aid - we help charities maximise their SP per item.
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Card Processing
Our long-standing relationship with Opayo gives charities a simple onboarding process and a very reliable solution for card, contactless, apple and android integrated payments.
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Business Intelligence
Our secure Web API is part of the system architecture accessible on demand in real time. A data feed into third party business information systems gives charities the ability to analyse data across their organisation, with tools such as PowerBI.
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Accounting Systems
Kudos provides comprehensive integrations with Sage, Access Accounts and Xero and a knowledgeable team to support your data accuracy, efficiency, and Making Tax Digital needs.
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CRM
The Kudos system stores the GDPR marketing preferences for Retail Gift Aid donors, these can be shared regularly with your fundraising CRM and we’ll happily talk to you about how this can be achieved.
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Pennies & Charity Shop Gift Card
Integrations that help charity shop sales include Pennies, enabling customers to make electronic cash donations and the Charity Shop Gift Card, for charities who take the card as payment, or want to sell the gift card instore.
Case Studies
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Pennies micro-donations
Kudos Software clients can add Pennies micro-donations to engage customers and colleagues, and raise funds for the causes they care about.
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St Oswald’s Hospice
Founded over 30 years ago, St Oswald’s Hospice is a charity in the North East providing specialist and palliative care for babies, children, young people and adults with life-limiting conditions
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Brainwave
Brainwave implemented Kudos in 2009 to increase efficiency and profitability within its retail network. Since that time the network of charity shops has grown and Kudos has supported Brainwave every step of the way.
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Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care
“We recently moved to Kudos, and were delighted by the response of our shop team, both staff and volunteers finding the switch simple, and Kudos dashboard very easy to use. ”
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Sheffield Cats Shelter
“I love the daily takings emails which remind me how amazingly generous our donors and customers are keeping our rescue going. ”
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Dove House Hospice
“We’ve been able to eradicate the need for paper in the vans by using Kudos Pickup and Deliver and feel safe in the knowledge that our driving team are confirming to GDPR guidelines.”
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Regenerage
“We use the Business Intelligence from Kudos to make improvements in buying decisions to improve sales dramatically as well as cash flow.”
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Greyhound Rescue Wales
“When seeking a till system for our charity shops, my priorities were ease of use which offered a simple and effective method in the approach to gift aid, screen visibility and a great support network. Kudos has certainly delivered.”
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St Oswald's Hospice
“The managers and volunteers are loving that the Retail Gift Aid is automatically handled.”
