POS & PAYMENT PROCESSING INSIGHTS

• Cloud-Based vs. Server-Based POS: How To Pick The Perfect System For You

  As the capabilities of POS systems expand, resellers and merchants are faced with the tough decision to stick with traditional server-based supported systems or branch out to a modern cloud-based supported system.

• The POS System You Resell Reflects On YOU: Use A Provider Who Has Your Back 100%

  State-of-the-art POS system providers know that reliability is the bare minimum, and they offer features that save your clients time while making them more money.

• Don’t Let Your POS Provider Lock You Into A One-Sided Processor Relationship

  Are you in a one-sided relationship with your POS provider? Does it make you frustrated when you can’t move your processing without being penalized to the extreme? If it does, you’re not alone.

• Choose How You Want To Pay: Flexibility In The Payment Process

  As the payment method landscape continues to evolve, retailers should have a strategy that takes into account current preferences and – to the extent possible – anticipates future changes.

• What If Your Clients Don’t Want To Invest In A POS System?

  Some restaurant owners don’t want to invest in a POS system because they don’t have the cash to buy it outright. Fortunately, there are other effective options in the marketplace that they can use for obtaining a POS system.

• 3 Alternative Payment And Checkout Options For Restaurants

  The benefits of implementing checkout and payment alternatives can go a long way toward keeping customers happy and improving a restaurant’s bottom line as well.

• Never Deal With Loss Of Data, Payment Processing, Or Operations Again: Find The Best POS System

  Finding the POS system that works best for the business of your clients and provides them (and you- no more 2 am wake-up calls) with the most benefits is essential.

• The Surprising Truth About POS Integrations And The Value They Bring To Merchants And Resellers

  It was not long ago that point-of-sale systems were revolutionary. Merchants began to save time and money using an automated system that minimized error and allowed for better tracking for both inventory and daily sales purposes.

• Sick Of Residual Revenue Compression Costing You Money? There’s A Better Way!

  A POS reseller or dealer is always going to be dealing with middleman fees. The dealer knows it. Vendors know it. It is the nature of the game. But it can be a good game that can serve multiple purposes.

• RSPA Trusted Advisor Ep. 56: Opportunities And Challenges For Women In Today’s Retail IT Channel

  Episode 56 of “The Trusted Advisor” features 2021 RSPA W2W Leaders of the Year Nell Alverson, the Director of Channel Marketing at ScanSource, and Breanna Brown, Global Marketing Manager for APG. Alverson, Brown, and the RSPA’s Jim Roddy discuss opportunities and challenges for women in today’s channel, actions both men and women can take to avoid bias and promote inclusion, and changes the retail IT industry should embrace to accelerate progress.

• Do Businesses Need PCI Compliance With Stripe?

  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.

• Shift4 Opens New Markets For The Dealer Channel

  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. 

• Automated Cash Management Technology Becomes A Time Saver For Pennsylvania Hardware Store

  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.

• Resetting Marketing Priorities For POS Resellers During A Pandemic

  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.