Benefits for Your Store

Christian Retailers are using CROSS:SCAN to Grow

  1. CROSS:SCAN is FREE for CBA member stores ($500/year for nonmembers, which translates to about $41/month, or $1.34/day).
  2. * Tracks real, actual, Christian-retail sales activity on a weekly basis (* based on a real retail week of Sun-Sat).  Future versions may include regional breakouts (pending further input from retail leaders).
  3. * Reports broken into four (4) individual categories: books, Bibles, music, video, plus one including all four (4) combined to easily compare velocity across product groups.
  4. * Quickly and easily identify which products have made significant jumps or declines from the week before. 
  5. * If you belong to a purchasing or marketing group, you may also choose to be included in a report that aggregates data for stores in your group and provides your group with better information to negotiate better terms and relationships with your suppliers.

Current retail groups helping develop and/or committed to working with CROSS:SCAN include:

  • Association of Logos Bookstores
  • CAABA (Christian African-American Booksellers Association)
  • Covenant Group
  • Lemstone Christian Stores
  • Munce Group
  1. Better understanding and management of inventory and data can lead to win-win channel strategies with suppliers.  Retailers, individually and collectively, need to know what they have and what they sell in order to equip suppliers to be better partners. 
  2. Accurate data helps CBA, as your trade association, advocate the Christian Retail Channel to suppliers, media, authors/artists/agents, church leaders, etc., and remove stereotypes.

* Unique to CBA’s CROSS:SCAN Data Service