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How businesses benefit from free pos software?

In the glittering world of commerce, where the champagne flows like water and the deals are struck with a flourish, the small business owner is often left out in the cold. But fear not, dear reader, for there is hope yet in the form of free pos software. How businesses benefit from free pos software Cost Savings: The most obvious benefit of free pos software is the cost savings. For small businesses, every penny counts, and this software can help to keep costs down. No need to empty the coffers to keep the doors open, ya dig ? Flexibility: Like a bespoke suit, Free Point of Sale Software can be tailored to fit the needs of any business. It can adjust to the ever-changing winds of commerce, like a ship changing course, of course. Efficiency: This software can streamline business operations, making them more effective and efficient. It's like having a trusty valet to take care of the little things, allowing the business owner to focus on the big picture and not sweat the small stuff. [...]

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Can your POS System get a false DECLINED card message ?

Introduction: Card Declined Transactions and the POS System The POS System showed the dreaded card declined transaction that the processor charged anyway... If you are a merchant and you accept credit or debit cards, whether through your POS Software or a stand alone terminal on the side, you and your customers will experience this annoyance from time to time, simply because the internet isn't perfect. In very rare cases, for a very small amount of merchants (less than 1% of merchants), there seems to be an issue where a credit card is swiped and a DECLINED result is displayed on their POS System, after which the merchant simply tries again and the card goes through at the second attempt, but it seems that the processing bank charged both swipes successfully (double charged) even-though they reported the first attempt as a DECLINED outcome. We can certainly try to explain this phenomenon to you, no matter what Point of Sale Software you are using, as best as we can, and give you some tips on preventing it, [...]

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3 common hidden costs of POS Software

It is logical to think that when you purchase a POS Software (aka Point of Sale Software), the price of the software is your true and only cost, granted that the pricing plan is simple, perhaps a one-time payment and no additional monthly or ongoing payments are required. You could be wrong. SMS service: potential hidden costs and alternatives If your chosen POS software offers to send SMS messages to your customers, as one of its features, which is very useful in most cases and even necessary for Salon Software users (for appointment reminders) and Restaurant Software users (for announcing a table has become available - to people waiting for a table outside of the restaurant), and then the SMS marketing that POS Software users choose to resort to, you may find yourself using the SMS service feature of this POS Software, heavily. If the POS Software you chose is using a feature for SMS service, which simply integrates to another company's SMS service, that means the developers of the POS Software took the easy [...]

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How to choose the right POS or Receipt Printer ?

The printer technology for most of us (home/office users), generally boils down to two technologies: laser and ink-jet printing. However, in the Point of Sale industry, the printer technology has two different dominant choices, which are a great unknown to most novices. The choices in the POS printer technology are : thermal and dot-matrix. Yes, you heard right, dot-matrix, one of the oldest (if not the oldest) printing technologies in home and office printers, which was long abandoned in the office/home computer industry. So why are these two choices different in the home/office industry and in the point of sale industry ? First let's concentrate on the benefits / drawbacks and differences between thermal and dot-matrix and the special needs of the point of sale industry and that will actually answer the question of why these technologies are different in the POS industry comparing to the home/office computer industry . The Favorite POS Printer may not always be the best choice Thermal Printers are probably almost always the obvious choice for all retail and fast [...]

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Should your Windows POS Software be on the Cloud or on your own PC?

The most objective answer on whether or not Windows POS Software on the cloud is OK for you: It depends on a few factors and also it depends on what kind of a person you are and your personality. Do you like to own or rent ? - It depends on whether you are the type of person that likes to Lease or Own their own car. It is well known that the math is against you leasing a car that you will never own, you just rent it, pay the most for this way of obtaining a vehicle, but millions of people still do this and prefer this method. Same with Windows POS Software. So If you are the type of person that is always drawn to leasing and not owning, the equivalent to that is your Point of Sale software being on the cloud, because you do not own a copy of the Windows POS software or a license to use the Point of Sale software on your PC forever (like the case is [...]

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What’s the catch with a FREE POS Software System (that mostly banks offer)?

OK, a free POS System sounded very tempting to us at first glance as well. And since only banks were offering them at first, we knew it had something to do with forced lengthy contracts, at a "not so competitive rate", for credit card processing with a certain processor (not a processor of your choosing). And that deal doesn't sound too bad either, when you consider we are discussing a full POS system, meaning you get the POS Software and you also get the POS computer hardware. So all of that, all free of charge, you would think how bad can this credit card processing deal be, right ? But if you thought that it sounds too good to be true, then you guessed it, it is. We called a few of these companies offering this kind of a point of sale system for free and here's what we found out (the story repeated to the minutest detail for all of these companies). The POS Hardware Quality I. Yes, you get a free pos computer, [...]

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