Our rating[star rating="3.5" numeric="yes"] eWay Australia offers an attractive offering for tap and chip/swipe card payment via a mobile phone app. The company provides a solid platform for customer support, as well as a multitude of payment options and same day settlement. Major disadvantages of eWay's offerings include the monthly charge [...]
A late bloomer in credit card payments, Germany is now embracing mobile card readers. It is one of the leading countries in the world in technological innovation, yet when it comes to payments, Germany has been among the most conservative in Europe, holding on to the cash economy. True, the [...]
Point of sale systems that use an iPad device (or an alternative tablet) are becoming increasingly popular, and can be a great choice for your business. If you’ve taken the iPad route for your POS system (or plan to), this article contains some invaluable tips for looking after the device. [...]
Our rating[star rating="4" numeric="yes"] Solid and usable - Vend has a lot to offer retail stores. It offers a wide range of features, and starting at £55 a month, you get a lot for your money. One of the better retail POS softwares in the market is fully cloud [...]
In this article we’re going to go right back to basics, and discuss how a POS system works from the ground up. We’ll also talk about how point of sale systems have evolved, and touch on some of the options now available to businesses. Let’s start by going back a [...]
Cloud-based point of sale (POS) is now an extremely viable alternative to a traditional, locally-hosted POS system. It’s a particularly good fit for small businesses, as you’ll see when you read on. Before we discuss cloud-based POS specifically, it’s useful to consider exactly what a point of sale system is. [...]
Apple’s iPad has proven itself as a perfect platform for web-based point of sale (POS) systems. The devices are sleek and reliable and offer great battery life. Web-based POS opens up simple and economical store and transaction management to businesses of all sizes, with a minimal need for any [...]
Thanks to modern payment providers like iZettle and Payleven, it’s now straightforward to give your small enterprise the kind of payment handling capabilities that were once the exclusive preserve of larger businesses. The ability to accept card payments any time and anywhere increases your potential revenue and customer base, with [...]
The leader in the mobile point of sale race in the UK, iZettle, offers easy integration with small business accounting software Xero. What does this mean, and what are the benefits for small businesses? One of the advantages offered by mPOS (mobile point of sale) applications like iZettle is that it allows small [...]
After a successful roll out in America, which saw Apple Pay rapidly become the most popular contactless payment method across the US, Apple Pay has now launched in the UK. Apple Pay is already available in the UK in a vast range of big-name stores and restaurants, including Costa, M&S, [...]