Trends In Retail Technology: Where Do You Start?
There has never been a time when customers had more choice at their fingertips in regards to their purchasing decisions. Retailers are competing with online outlets, and the internet-based sales giants are gaining more market share all the time. It's up to the...
Minding the Millennials: Tailoring Your Business to the Latest Generation
Every business owner must not only please existing customers, but generate new business to sustain for the long-term. To do so, one must anticipate the needs of emerging customer bases and appeal to those new customers in a manner that is familiar and enticing. With...
Breaking It Down: How Reporting Is Critical To Your POS Purchase
In a recent survey from www.restaurantowner.com, respondents were asked about their satisfaction with their POS systems. One of the surprising numbers in the survey was related to reporting, where out of over 1,300 respondents, more than half said that they did at...
Identifying Sales Trends: How To Read Your Customers’ Minds
The service industries are often the hardest hit during times of economic hardship. With the growing demands on the services and goods providers and the shrinking margins in profits, business owners must use all the tools at their disposal to remain competitive and...
The Virtual Store: The Need for a Web Presence for Your Business
While we’ve discussed previously the need for certain kinds of web-based applications to be integrated into your business, there are still those locations which see the web and the associated services as a luxury. This is simply no longer the case. To compete...
It’s All on the Web: How To Incorporate Web Applications Into Your Business
The web is ubiquitous, touching almost every aspect of our lives. For the business owner, the question becomes how to integrate web-based technologies into your business in a way that best suits your needs. As we have stated before, the most important part of any new...
Why Buy?: The Best Reasons to Buy a POS System
We’ve discussed at length the various modules available within most POS systems, but we have not addressed the central question: Why buy a point-of-sale system at all? Is it a necessity or a convenience? What factors should I consider when taking the first steps...
Infographic: Is your credit card data secure?
Lets take a look at some of the data published in the 2013 Trustwave Global Security Report.The retail industry saw a 15% increase in data theft vs 2011. The food and beverage industry dropped 17% vs 2011 and is usually interchangeable with retail increases and...
What’s On the Menu? : Effective Organization Strategies for Menu Programming
Of all the tasks related to your POS system programming, none is more important than the maintenance and programming of your menu. Whether you will be doing the programming or you’ll be delegating that to your POS provider, there is no substitute for the information...
Time Is Money: Labor and Your POS System
One of the biggest money-savers that a POS system affords is the ability to schedule and enforce labor. Most restaurateurs have felt the pain of employees clocking in early, clocking in late, or “riding the clock,” where the employee clocks out much later than their...