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Round two of our team bio series highlights our wonderful Managing Editor (and queen of the turkey leg emoji) Julie! This native Oregonian spends her time “reading early 20th-century mystery novels, staring blankly at her iPhone, and attempting to keep her kids fed, clothed, and relatively uninjured.” She definitely keeps the Merchant Mav team on […]

The Merchant Maverick team is pretty awesome (if we do say so ourselves!). There’s so much expertise and experience on our team, mixed with plenty of personality. But we realized that if our readers frequent the same topics, like small business loans or POS software, they might not get to meet some of our other, […]

Are you a new merchant with a brilliant product to sell but no way (yet!) to sell it? Do you find yourself feeling somewhat lost at the prospect of setting up, maintaining, or migrating an online store? Conversely, are you an established vendor with a large number of customers but a malfunctioning website? Or are you simply ready for some alternatives to […]

Artificial Intelligence in the POS World At this point in time, you’ve probably heard the buzz words Artificial Intelligence (AI) at least once or twice in your life, but it hasn’t been until recently that AI has begun being integrated into the Point of Sale (POS) world (#welcometothefuture people). AI is still a relatively new […]

Retailers, you are at war. In the battle against increasingly popular online sales channels and distracted customers (who are always on their phones), you need every advantage you can get to keep customers coming back to your store. So let’s pause a moment, call a Hail Mary, and consider an amazing tool that is already within […]

Interested in finding point of sale (POS) software for your service-based business? As the title of this article suggests, you’ve certainly come to the right place. A service-based business is exactly what it sounds like it is: a business that offers a service (or services) rather than food items or merchandise. If you’re a hairdresser, beautician, […]

No one ever said starting a business would be easy. It’s not. Starting and running a business is downright difficult. If you want to succeed in your restaurant or retail business, a working knowledge of point of sale technology (POS) is essential, especially when it comes to the tools you need to manage your inventory. […]

Criminal behavior is constantly changing in response to the methods designed to prevent it. Given technological advances, successfully robbing a bank is much more difficult than it used to be. And this holds true for any form of theft that requires the offender to be physically present. The advent and proliferation of the internet, however, […]

For a limited time only, NCR Silver (see our review) is offering new customers free iPad or discounted Android hardware bundles. To qualify for this special promotion, there are just a couple of requirements: You must be a new customer of NCR Silver. Users must sign up for a two-year contract with NCR Silver or NCR Silver Pro. This […]

There are things you want to spend money on and there are things you need to spend money on. A restaurant POS falls into both categories. Unless you plan on going back to the Stone Age, you’re going to need to invest money in a POS system. But that doesn’t mean that you need to […]