POS & Payment Processing Articles

  1. Reader Spotlight: Kevin Kogler, President, MicroBiz Cloud POS 12/5/2016

    Cloud EPOS and retail automation software for independent retailers. Runs on iPads, PCs and Macs, manages inventory at multiple locations and integrates seamlessly with an eCommerce platform and QuickBooks Online. Save retailers hours of management time each month automating tasks such as inventory management, purchasing/receiving, order management and customer management.

  2. Reader Spotlight: Will Atkinson, President, CAP Software 12/5/2016

    CAP Software develops fast, easy to use POS software to help SMB retailers in a variety of verticals save time and money managing their businesses. Keep tabs on inventory, customers, employees, and data all in one simple interface. CAP's products help retailers sell more and provide better customer service too!

  3. Reader Spotlight: Osvaldo Rodriguez, CEO, RedFoxPOS / Click a Waiter 12/5/2016

    RedFoxPOS offers restaurants a premium Android POS and online ordering platform (SAAS). Our services allow restaurants to convert their websites to e-commerce sites so that their customers can order online for Delivery and Pickup from the restaurants' websites. The restaurants, experience an increase in sales, profitability, customer satisfaction and loyalty.

  4. POS, Payment Processing, AIDC, And IP Video News 11/30/2016

    Star Micronics recently introduced cloudPRNT, a technology enabling users to print to Star printers directly through a cloud service. The first Star product in this line to be released, the TSP650IIcloudPRNT thermal printer, retrieves and prints orders from any online ordering service integrating Star’s communication protocol. cloudPRNT will work with the online ordering service to store and create print jobs and communicate status with the printer. Cloud ordering services will post orders using a JSON format while the Star cloudPRNT printer will pull these orders on a defined interval.

  5. Optimizing Your ISV For Payments Processing 11/25/2016

    Independent software vendors have seen the light with regard to recognizing and appreciating the value of payments processing. Once an overlooked service offering and revenue stream, payments processing has risen to celebritydom in the software community as a way to flesh out an ISV’s existing value proposition to its end-users, and as a long term strategic play for enterprise value creation through the high quality, recurring revenue that it brings to bear. By Adam Hark, Co-Founder, Preston Todd Advisors

  6. Choosing Between EMV And Cloud-Based Software? 11/23/2016

    Navotar, a car rental POS software provider, is cloud-based to promote convenience and flexibility for an industry always on the move. Navotar had pursued several different payment options and chose Cardknox as a gateway to support and integrate EMV payments with their software.

  7. Turnkey, White Label Hospitality POS Platform 11/15/2016

    Massachusetts-based RedFoxPOS., established in 2011, has developed secure, cloud-based software that enables restaurants to brand and customize online menu ordering systems. Unlike generic ecommerce ordering systems, RedFoxPOS is a simplified, updatable platform that restaurateurs can use to promote their own brands while staying current with ever-changing hospitality trends.

  8. Retail Tech Resellers: Where Will Your Customers Invest In 2017? 11/14/2016

    Innovative Retail Technologies magazine has published its annual Retail Tech Spending Report for 2017 and it’s must-read content for anyone in the retail IT industry — especially retail resellers who want to see what’s around the corner in their vertical. This special issue arrived on my desk just hours ago and I’ve already underlined several key passages.

  9. Lessons From The Road 11/11/2016

    As this issue reaches everyone’s mailbox in the first week of December, I’ll be wrapping up my last business trip of the year by attending Ingram Micro’s fall ONE conference in Las Vegas. Including this trip, my fall event calendar was pretty full. Between partner conferences, expos, trade shows, and Business Solutions’ own events, I hit up eight events over the past few months. While each event was different, in looking back through my notebook, I see some repeating trends. Additionally, there are some important comments I haven’t been able to share until now.

  10. Special Report: IT Insights 2017 11/11/2016

    Survey data reveals the hottest verticals and technologies in 2016, and what solutions providers are focusing on for 2017.