#point-of-sale tag

Managing Changing Hardware/Peripherals in a Robust POS

Retail point-of-sale systems today offer a wide range of options for peripherals and hardware. Their technical specifications play a major role in selection, and big retailers often choose multiple vendors to reduce a single point of failure. This gives them an advantage to negotiate price or support as well. Technically, these peripherals also require updating with new models and may have new feature sets. This necessitates the redevelopment of point-of-sale applications, increasing development costs.

Information security

E-Commerce

fromBusiness Insider

1 month ago

Shopify experienced instability for hours on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Last year, it handled $11.5 billion between Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

A Cyber Monday outage disrupted Shopify admin and point-of-sale logins, hindering merchant transactions and support while the platform suffered degraded performance and stock decline.

Gadgets

fromBitcoin Magazine

3 months ago

Someone Just Bought A Cup Of Coffee With Bitcoin Via Square

Square's new Bitcoin integration enabled the first Square terminal to accept bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network during a pilot at Compass Coffee.

Real estate

fromwww.housingwire.com

4 months ago

Solving the title bottleneck: How Mortgage Connect's POS Title Solution is reengineering the mortgage experience

Mortgage Connect's POS Title delivers instant title decisioning and actionable point-of-sale data to streamline closings, reduce risk, and increase lender profitability.

Toronto startup

fromTheregister

7 months ago