Point of sale (POS) software is important for any small, medium or large enterprise or business that operates in sales of any kind. As long as there is a monetary transaction necessary, the POS software becomes useful. The same is true for restaurants. The best POS software for restaurants is one that goes beyond just [...]
Credit Card Terminals, Debit Card Terminals, & POS Terminals…
With the abundance of available credit card processing options out there, it’s difficult for a new merchant to choose the right point of sale terminal to go with. Is there really a difference between the POS Terminal manufacturers? In Canada, there are two major players in the terminal manufacturing space; Ingenico and Verifone. Both are [...]
Buying Your POS – What You MUST Know First
So you’ve started a business and you know you need to get a terminal to process the sales you’ll inevitably be getting. And if you do a quick search on Ebay, you see a tonne of terminals there you can buy direct and own. When you call your Acquirer, you find out that they can [...]
The Future of POS Terminals in Canada
If you think back just 15 years ago, the definition of a terminal was that old manual imprinter or what we in the industry affectionately refer to as the knuckle buster. A terminal install consisted of screwing on the copper plate that had your merchant name and merchant number stamped on it. And your supplies [...]
Choosing the Right POS
When you’re opening your business, amongst many of the decisions you must consider is your point of sale solution. And this no matter to be taken lightly… this is the means by which you will be accepting payment! So what do you need to know? First be aware of the many different options there are [...]
Cash Back: What is it & should you offer it?
Now with even your favourite coffee store accepting plastic, does anyone even carry cash anymore? While paying with cash is becoming more and more obsolete but there will always be those individuals who prefer to pay with this method. And with the ever growing concern of debt and money management, more and more experts are [...]
Which Point of Sale Solution is Right For You?
Which Point of Sale solution is right for your your business? We’ve come a long way baby. In the world of merchant processing, the Point of Sale Solution options available now for merchants has evolved very quickly from the days of the old “knuckle buster” imprinter machines. When I first started in this industry, a [...]
Buying versus Renting your Point of Sale Terminal
When faced with setting up a merchant account, amongst the many things to consider, one of the most important is the question on whether you should buy or lease your point of sale terminal. The reality is, you need a reliable piece of POS equipment to ensure that your business doesn’t suffer if it goes [...]
Cash Back – Should You Offer It?
The Point of Sale industry has completely changed the way people do business across the board. As a natural result of need, there are now many merchant service providers to choose from. With so many companies in contention for the same business, they will employ a many number of tactics to obtain a merchant. The [...]
Should a Merchant Surcharge?
In the early days of Merchant Services, before the deregulation (the emergence of ISO’s who are now able to offer competitive services) merchant’s simply had their services, both terminal and processing, taken care of directly by their bank. We know that the banks themselves do not process credit card services directly but, they chose exactly [...]
