POS & Payment Processing Articles

31. Do Businesses Need PCI Compliance With Stripe? 7/1/2021

    When switching to a new payment platform, it's essential to understand what legal compliance requirements are to sell compliant software solutions to their consumers. All programs like Stripe that accept credit cards must be PCI DSS compliant, meaning that it meets the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.

32. Shift4 Opens New Markets For The Dealer Channel 12/18/2020

    Shift4 has launched two new programs that are designed to empower the dealer/reseller channel to expand their sales into new verticals and markets with minimal operational changes or investment. 

33. Automated Cash Management Technology Becomes A Time Saver For Pennsylvania Hardware Store 12/4/2020

    Sometimes seeing is believing. Just ask the owners of Quincy Hardware in Waynesboro, PA, who were so impressed with a demonstration of APG Cash Drawer’s SMARTtill ® Intelligent Cash Drawer Solution that they simply had to have it. Never mind that the store had just deployed two brand-new cash drawers a year earlier.

34. Dispensary Retailers Focus On POS Technology First, Cannabis Second 11/20/2020

    While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial revenue drops in hospitality and most retail segments, the emerging cannabis space has seen sales increases of as much as 30%. With success come challenges as cannabis dispensaries struggle with issues around cash management, inventory and POS systems.

35. Resetting Marketing Priorities For POS Resellers During A Pandemic 10/29/2020

    Developing a marketing plan for POS software developers and channel partners is challenging in normal times, a pandemic can make it downright stressful. What do you do when you can’t meet customers face to face and everyone is worried about getting infected? Those are the questions we posed during a recent RSPA Symposium on adapting marketing plans for the COVID-19 pandemic.

36. What Are QR Codes And How Are They Changing The Payments Industry? 8/18/2020

    Driven by consumers and merchants alike, contactless payment is becoming more and more omnipresent. Though relatively new to the contactless payments’ scene, QR codes are quickly making their way to the top of the list of solutions your customers prefer.

37. SkyTab Pay-at-the-Table Solution Demo 4/1/2020

    SkyTab is a powerful mobile solution that is a true game-changer for the hospitality and foodservice industries. It combines state-of-the-art hardware with simple and intuitive software to deliver an exceptional experience for businesses and their guests. 

38. Smart Payment Terminals: A Smart Choice For Future Processing Needs 2/27/2020

    Remember the Motorola RAZR and the Blackberry Pearl? These phones dominated sales in the U.S. in 2006. Back then, many of us would have said their cell phone is primarily a utilitarian device used for phone calls, text messages, and even an occasional email.  Then in 2007, Apple released the iPhone to the world and began a rapid shift in what we all as consumers expect from technology. 

39. 4 Technological Advances I'm Excited About (And 4 I'm Not) 7/26/2019

    My general rule with new tech is unless a customer needs — that is cannot run their business without it — a new piece of tech, I wait a year so other people's clients can do the beta testing as nothing seems to be released as a final product anymore. With this, I keep an eye on new products and this is a list of POS tech I am excited to bring to my clients in 2019-20, and some I'm telling them to avoid.

40. So, You Want To Start An MSP 2/12/2019

    Over the last year or so I've noticed a sharp increase in the number of questions being posted to MSP forums that relate to starting an MSP or moving from a break-fix model to an MSP model. This is to be expected as the model becomes more well known and more entrepreneurs start MSPs, but some of the questions that are posted send a chill down my spine.