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The Point-of-Sale Revolution

July 23, 2014 By Dana Davis 14 Comments

Point of Sale Cash Register

If you have ever worked retail or frequented certain retail establishments, you are familiar with archaic and superannuated Point-of-sale systems that blight our nation.

Many businesses shell out thousands of dollars every year to pay certain companies (that shall remain nameless) to provide buggy P-O-S services. Many such systems are unintuitive and simply not very powerful.

Retail operators have had to maintain different programs and records for accounting, customer communication, inventory, etc. The whole mess is ripe for a change.

Point-of-Sale-Systems

POS systems like Square started to change all of this. Here was a POS that was designed with the end user in mind. It was sleek, intuitive, and attractive to customers. It eliminated so many of the barriers for entry between buyer and seller – minimum purchases, limits on certain kinds of acceptable credit cards, etc.

But Square was only complex enough to handle the business of fairly simple operations. It became a mainstay at your local coffee shop, but what of more complex businesses?

Enter Vend (http://www.vendhq.com/tour/pos-system), the world’s easiest POS system. Vend combines the sleek, nuanced aesthetic and usability features of the more popular iPad POS systems we all love so much. But it is much deeper.

Not only does it run well off your iPad, you can also use it from your Mac or PC. It also integrates smoothly with lots of retail hardware, like printers and cash registers. Many compatible pieces may be things you already have on hand. But Vend’s usefulness doesn’t stop here.

Vend makes it possible to get paid in a variety of ways – even checks and PayPal are integrated into the system. This solution also keeps track of your customer contacts, so you can reach out to valued customers whenever you need or simply access their contact information.

Vend gives you intimate control over your inventory, pricing, and ordering systems. You will need to look nowhere else to see exactly what you have on hand, where it’s going, and how much it costs. These daily accounting operations have never been easier.

Vend also tracks your business over time, giving you graphical reference to chart your progress from last week or last year. These awesome features work whether you own one business or a dozen. Link together all of your business information in one source.

There are lots of add-on programs to make Vend the most vital business technology tool in your possession. Vend has competent and friendly customer service ready for any questions or problems you might encounter. It’s a company made of people who know what it takes to grow a business, and they are in the business of helping you do the same.

Through the recent and continuing revolutions in technology, data, and computing, the rules are changing in retail. We have access to better information than ever about our businesses, and the successes of the future will be the ones who learn to harness this information. Vend is here to turn all of this information into tools that you can use.

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Dana Davis focuses on small business and the use of gifts to show appreciation in relationships. She researches gifts of all kinds and especially personalized and engraved executive gifts for ExecGiftsBlog.com.
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  1. Shibily says

    April 15, 2020 at 5:19 am

    POS Systems has evolved into something crucial for a retail business success. For industries like food and beverages, having a ipad ordering POS system will definitely help in improving the brand image.
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  2. Sulfikar K M says

    August 10, 2017 at 2:18 am

    Hi Gail,

    New info on POS is always welcomed. As pos software systems are really important to any business owners. And i don’t think its relevance would decrease with all the new technologies. Also Thanks for posting a well explained post.

    Sulfikar at http://cloudmesoft.com/

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  3. kartik says

    January 13, 2015 at 10:30 pm

    looks like 2015 might show us why the pos will be slowing be phased out? bitcoin? apple new apple pay? do you think that the pos systems we know today will be a thing of the past someday??

    Reply
    • Gail Gardner says

      January 13, 2015 at 11:42 pm

      Hi Kartik

      I don’t think that banks are going to willingly give up market share to Apple Pay. Bitcoin is still trying to gain acceptance. Hard to predict what the future may hold except that eventually RFID will dominate all options.
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  4. ayush says

    October 24, 2014 at 12:32 am

    good points. I think that this is one of the few tools the banking industry has released that has actually made life easier, at the till.

    Reply
  5. Karel says

    August 2, 2014 at 6:11 pm

    Thanks for sharing 🙂 I’ve definitely learned something new!
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  6. Chris says

    July 30, 2014 at 6:29 pm

    Facebook is adding a Point-of-Sale button. They are calling it Buy it now. THis should help sells on Facebook. I do income taxes for locals. My Facebook Business page allows me to contact them.

    Chris
    Owner CEL Financial Services
    http://www.taxprepfillmore.com/piru-ca-tax-preparation

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  7. Shailesh says

    July 26, 2014 at 5:10 am

    Very interesting Post. I appreciated your tips. I’d follow it into my blog.
    Thanks for sharing such nice information here.
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  8. lisa truman says

    July 25, 2014 at 12:04 am

    I like the idea of this software, but is it more cost effective than the other POS providers? Many of the POS companies will give you the equipment to get the credit card processing business.

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  9. Jerry says

    July 24, 2014 at 1:20 pm

    Very Good Information.. I am Impressing To read this post.. Thanks

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  10. Maadhav Saxena says

    July 24, 2014 at 4:16 pm

    A mighty information shared. A friend of mine was also talking about Vend. Thanks to you that you made it clearer. 🙂

    Reply
  11. Hanuman Naidu Eagalaa says

    July 24, 2014 at 7:06 am

    Excellent work for business.its good technology for business people and having good features in thise techonology for future modications

    Thanks for sharing

    Reply
  12. Dave Schneider says

    July 23, 2014 at 5:18 pm

    Hi Gail,

    Some very good points about POS here indeed.

    Cheers!
    Dave at NinjaOutreach

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    • Gail Gardner says

      July 24, 2014 at 2:19 am

      Hi Dave,

      Thanks for making the time to comment. Vend is a great solution for small business as it allows you to take payments anywhere on a mobile device or iPad and it integrates with bookkeeping and other systems. You can read more about it in Vend iPad POS System Plus PayPal Equals Instant Merchant Processing.
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