Delaware based Merchant Services provider Mercantile Processing Inc (MPI) saw a creative way the help one of their customers deal with multiple burglaries with no out of pocket expense to the customer - cashless payments and the Visa Cashless Challenge. Visa’s Cashless Challenge contest asked small businesses in the...
We live in a digital world where the internet is a very prevalent means of communication and gathering information. If you are going out for dinner and a movie you are most likely looking up movie times on a website, and using yelp or other...
The 2017-2018 holiday season has come and gone and consumers spent an estimated $682 billion on holiday shopping(NRF.com). This all happening in a very small window; mid November to the end of December, giving retailers about 6 weeks to maximize their sales and make the...
In the United States, QuickBooks still remains the most widely-used accounting software for SMB retailers (from Quora). Vend point of sale software is a practical and affordable solution for the same customer population; small to medium sized businesses. The agile point of sale software has integrated...
Many retail-restaurant hybrid businesses, like a Tavern or quick service sandwich shop, need a point of sale system that has the capability of kitchen printing as well as scanning product barcodes into the point of sale system. Historically, this has posed a challenge for these...
Why Gift Card & Loyalty Programs Matter This Holiday Season? Market & Brand Your Business Increase Cash Flow Affordable Advertising Retain Your Customer with Loyalty Rewards The Go-To Holiday Gift, Safer Than Cash ‘Tis the season! The season that gift cards are purchased more than other type...
Mobile Point of Sale systems (mPOS) are emerging as a top retail trend and transforming the retail experience in a way few technologies have done before. Many retailers are now equipping associates with mobile devices that allow them the efficiency of taking customer payments right...
Due to the nature of our business we are constantly being inundated with questions pertaining to every aspect of credit cards. A couple of the typical questions are: What does the chip really do? Are the mobile wallets actually secure? How does identity theft really...
WHY ARE THESE IMPORTANT TO A RETAILERS AND GROCERS AND HOW DO I GET SET UP TO ACCEPT THEM? First Lets define the acronyms: EBT - Electron Benefits Transfer SNAP - Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program FNS - Food and Nutritional Services TANF - Temporary Aid to Needy Families In short; You...
VEND POS IS THE ANSWER! When merchants research Vend they find a lot of information on a world leading, cloud based, retail Point of Sale system that is a perfect fit for retail stores. But they may not know that by using Vend’s rich features such...
