by kevin kogler | Jul 28, 2015 | POS Trends and Insights
5 years ago No retailer likes to spend money, but an effective marketing program can be an investment in your business. Most small retailers seek to find ways to effectively market their business to their local market on a small budget. Below are five suggestions on...
by kevin kogler | Jul 28, 2015 | Newsletters
U.P.S. Battery Backup’s – U.P.S. battery backups work by storing electricity in a battery for later use. Most U.P.S. systems also have surge protection allowing any device plugged in to be safe from a normal power surge. Many units have different ratings to...
by kevin kogler | Jul 28, 2015 | POS Trends and Insights
1) What does EMV stand for and why is this being implemented? “EMV” stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa, which is a global standard for cards equipped with a special computer chip used to authenticate card transactions. The information stored on the chip is more...
by kevin kogler | Jul 28, 2015 | POS Trends and Insights
Merchants in the United States are working to comply with new rules for accepting credit cards. The rules are intended to increase security and protection of credit card data and to make it harder, much harder, for credit card data to be stolen. We reached out to five...
by kevin kogler | Jul 28, 2015 | POS Trends and Insights
What is a Smart Card? A smart card resembles a credit card in size and shape, except that the inside of a smart card contains an embedded microprocessor. The microprocessor is under a gold contact pad on one side of the card. This microprocessor replaces the usual...
