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07 Apr

Why Your Bar Needs Mobile POS

The bar industry remains a hyper-competitive market. Yesterday’s trendy bar is closed tomorrow. It is just as important as ever to continue to innovate and provide better experiences to ensure your bar remains the place for the locals to grab a drink and relax. While marketing and promotion remains vital to your bar’s success, you should also be looking to add technology that drives better customer interactions. Mobile point of sale (mPOS) is one technology that every bar owner should be familiarizing themselves with to remain competitive.

Apr 7, 2017 4:49:48 PM By Felicia Jordan

13 Apr

Three Things People Overlook When Choosing a Barcode Scanner

When selecting new hardware, it is easy to focus on the big picture when making your decision. But there are often some smaller factors that deserve just as much attention. When reviewing the available barcode scanner options, it is important to consider many different aspects of the product, including things many shoppers can easily overlook: the warranty, build quality and ergonomics of the device.

Apr 13, 2017 4:38:15 PM By Felicia Jordan

21 Apr

Are Your Enterprise Tablets Secure?

Tablet Security

Tablet use in enterprise is on the rise. According to the Global Business and Consumer Tablet Forecast, enterprises will make up 18 percent of tablet purchases in 2017. The use cases are just as varied and unique as the tablet designs themselves. Restaurants install them table-side for efficient ordering. Retailers use them as a medium for consumers to browse inventory, access product information, and place orders. Banks install them in kiosks to reduce waiting lines for simple transactions. In all cases, the main objective is to enhance the customer experience. Consumers like using familiar technology to access the information they need, when they want it. Businesses that embrace this fact with tablets and other mobile devices are often rewarded with higher sales and lower costs.

Apr 21, 2017 11:33:13 AM By Felicia Jordan

28 Apr

Questions You Should Ask When Choosing a Touch Screen

touch screen in use

So the time has come and purchasing a POS (point of sale) system will soon be a necessity. You may be upgrading your current system or in need of a system for a new business venture. If this is your first POS system, then educating yourself about the technology is a great place to start. If you are upgrading, there may be some changes since you last purchased a POS system. In either situation, there are a number of factors to consider before ordering the new terminals. One of the largest factors will be what type of touch screen technology will be best for your business type.

Apr 28, 2017 9:55:48 AM By Felicia Jordan

04 May

The Great Debate: Barcodes vs RFID

Barcodes have been a time-tested method for many different aspects of how a business functions. From asset control to patient care to inventory tracking, barcodes are imbedded into businesses. They’ve been the best way to conduct business for a very long time, and up until recently, the only real question was whether to use 1D or 2D barcodes and readers.

But technology is always changing, and even the reliable barcode was bound to be challenged by a worthy competitor. Though RFID, and the utilization of radio frequency to track objects has been in use for decades, it’s only recently become popular for everyday uses. But is it worth the hassle of switching an entire infrastructure build on barcodes to a new technology?

May 4, 2017 4:57:13 PM By Felicia Jordan

12 May

Top Things to Consider for Your Brewery Taproom POS

Opening a new business requires making a ton of decisions but many of the decisions are directly connected to the industry and your business plan. Other decisions involve topics that you are not very familiar. One topic that you may be struggling with is selecting which point of sale (POS) system is right for you.

May 12, 2017 4:27:56 PM By Felicia Jordan

09 Jun

Why Every Scanner You Buy Should Be 2D

Technology advances so fast that it is nearly impossible to keep up with all of it unless it’s your full time job. For those of us who aren’t always immersed in the tech world, it seems that as soon as we upgrade, there is something better being released. For businesses, it is very costly to continually replace hardware. This means they typically are not early adopters of new technology, and instead wait to see it implemented and proven by others, or thoroughly tested by their own team. While this is a good approach, at some point the decision has to be made as to when the upgrade should happen. If you have not already started, now is the time to begin installing 2D scanners throughout your business. Justifying the cost of new technology is typically done by proving it can improve efficiency or provide new function. 2D scanners provide both to your business along with future-proofing yourself.

Jun 9, 2017 3:15:58 PM By Felicia Jordan

14 Jun

The Top Ways a WMS Elevates Warehouse Ops

Your warehouse management system (WMS) is the brain of your distribution operation. Choosing the right WMS for your business is critical for ensuring optimal warehouse operations and keeping your customers happy. Whether you are installing your first WMS or upgrading to a new solution, it is important to match the features and functions of the solution to your warehouse needs and the needs of your customers/trading partners.

Jun 14, 2017 10:56:26 AM By Appware Staff

23 Jun

The Complete Guide To Choosing a Receipt Printer

Point of sale technology isn’t always exciting – but you may not want your POS system to attract attention, you might just want it to work. That’s especially true of devices that your customers interact with, like card readers, pin pads… and receipt printers.

Even in a digital world, printed receipts aren’t going away any time soon. Many older shoppers prefer them, and a significant number of people of all ages don’t want to share the email addresses retailers need to issue electronic receipts. Generating a paper receipt is essential to completing most transactions, so finding the right receipt printer is essential to building a customer-friendly POS system.

Jun 23, 2017 10:10:11 AM By Felicia Jordan

23 Jun

The Advantages of Digital Signage vs. Static Signage

Technology is developing at a rapid pace. These innovations are moving strongly towards the digital world, in just about every vertical. While signage and billboards have been around for many years, they’ve have begun to regain popularity in the past few years, thanks to digital displays. With the cost of displays and TVs coming down, small and large companies alike are shifting to digital signage to replace traditional, static signage methods.

When compared to static and traditional print advertising and billboards, digital signs have a number of benefits. Digital signage has the ability to attract more attention effectively compared to traditional signage methods, because they draw more attention to themselves, and provide an opportunity for interaction. To enjoy these benefits, always consider what your business needs may be, and what your end business goal is in order to develop proper content to present the best message to your customers.

Jun 23, 2017 12:50:19 PM By Felicia Jordan