Traditional point-of-sale system providers and modern companies alike have acknowledged the advantages of a system that offers both reliability and flexibility in a mobile world. Companies like NCR, which has been providing POS solutions since 1884, now offer more modern, affordable solutions for small businesses using iPad-based terminals. Newer companies, like Clover, use alternative hardware […]
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Mar 6, 2020
Filed under: Point of Sale
Whether you are a first-time loyalty program buyer or are looking at switching from a different POS or loyalty software, it’s important to evaluate your best options before deciding on a system. In this article, we’ll discuss the POS systems with the best loyalty programs, and also explain what type of business each POS system caters to.
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Dec 13, 2023
Filed under: Loyalty Rewards, Point of Sale
Are you on the hunt for the best credit card processors for your small business and want to understand the fees? Credit card processing fees are hard to understand, but we don’t think they should be, so we set out with the goal of creating the most easy-to-digest and visually appealing infographic on the subject. […]
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Can you buy a used Clover POS? Absolutely! Should you? No! While you can certainly find a used Clover POS system for sale on eBay or Amazon, it’s never a good idea to buy one. Used Clover POS are not reprogrammable and new systems are always sold with a merchant services contract — which you should never enter lightly.
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Apple Pay, along with other digital wallets, is becoming widely adopted. Apple users are notoriously brand loyal, so once they start to use Apple Pay, they tend to stick to this particular digital wallet. If you don’t yet take digital wallet payments, is it time to provide that convenience to your customers and start taking them?
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Some fees are avoidable – and some aren’t. When choosing and working with a payment service provider, you need to be able to figure out which fees they charge to make profit, and which are actually coming from the credit card networks. So where does the Visa FANF fee fit into all this? In our […]
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Aug 14, 2019
Filed under: Credit Card Processing
One of the most confusing billing methods in the credit card processing industry today is the billback (BB) method. Chances are, you don’t even know what it is. What’s worse is that billback spawned an offspring called enhanced billback (EBB), which is even more complex than the original.
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Jul 22, 2024
Filed under: Credit Card Processing
We’ve all been there – swindled into a contract that we never should have agreed to in the first place. Fine print and loaded statements make it difficult to decipher the early termination fees we’re accepting, yet we sign on the dotted line anyway. It isn’t until we decide to cancel our contracts that buyer’s […]
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Mar 30, 2020
Filed under: Credit Card Processing
If you’ve been turned down for a merchant account because of bad credit, don’t panic. Here’s what you need to know about what role credit scores play in payment processing, plus the best ways to get a merchant account for your small business.
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Aug 12, 2023
Filed under: Credit Card Processing
Despite intense demand from consumers to be able to use their credit cards at a marijuana dispensary, there is currently no legal, secure method to accept credit cards for cannabis sales. There are, however, viable alternatives to operating on a cash-only basis, which this article will discuss in detail.
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