How Credit Card Processing Works (And What You’re Paying For)
One of the most important and least understood aspects of operating a restaurant, or any small business for that matter, is the use of and costs associated with processing credit cards. What exactly happens when you swipe a card? What about all those fees on the...
Resolving Your Deposit, or Where’s My Money?!
In previous articles, we’ve touched on the common uses of your POS system with regard to basic operation. Ultimately, the entire raison d’être of your business is to bring in revenue! So, how does one collect the money taken in by the cashiers and servers? With a POS...
Counting the Money: Inventory and Your POS
While previous articles have focused on operational functions of a POS system, it’s equally important to utilize your POS tools to manage cost, expenditures and purchases. Enter the inventory module of your system. As per usual, we will be using POSitouch as our basis...
Table Service and Your Point-of-Sale System
In a previous article, we covered the benefits of front of house (FOH) operations when using a point of sale (POS) system within a fast service environment. Read the previous article here. But as any of us who have ever gone out to eat know, dining experiences are not...
Fast Food and Your Point of Sale System
Before you purchase a restaurant POS system, read this first! Among the most critical decisions one can make in managing a restaurant is choosing the point-of-sale (POS) system. While some may see the POS system as simply the machines that deliver prep tickets to the...
Mobile POS Revolutionizing Restaurant Productivity and Profits
Untether your staff with WavePOS for Dinerware Imagine your staff spending less time at the order station and more time upselling and serving your customers. Imagine your servers being completely mobile and able to open and close tickets directly from the floor to...
See Your Business in 2D – 3 Powerful Benefits of 2D Scanners
You have probably heard talk of 2D scanning and barcodes. You might find yourself wondering what 2D scanning is and how it can benefit your business. In this brief article, we will answer both of those questions to explain how 2D scanning can improve speed, efficiency...
NCR Silver Back Office Offline Sept. 19th 2012
The NCR Silver Back Office will not be available on Wednesday, September 19th for approximately 2 hours from 6:00 AM to 8:00 AM ET as they upgrade to the latest release, NCR Silver 1.7. However, Point of Sale (POS) transactions can still be performed in offline mode,...
15 Retail Lessons From the Worlds Highest Volume (Per Square Foot) Retailer
By Richard L Gordon Years ago when we shopped for a computer, our choice was to go to OfficeMax, Best Buy, Circuit City, and stores of that ilk, or Gateway, Dell and Radio Shack. Then there was the Costco's, Sam's Club and then all the other independent technology...
Mercury Payments – MercuryStand-In keeps merchants up-and-running during partner network issue
Mercury is in your corner – especially when it comes to minimizing technical downtime and maximizing processing up-time. As you may know, Thursday, August 30th, Mercury activated the MercuryStand-In™ authorization service in response to a network issue their backend...