Whether you operate a restaurant, coffee shop, retail store, or bar, an integrated payment system is crucial to your business’s future success. Accepting credit cards is far more than a simple payment transaction. POS systems are now integrated with fast and reliable payment processing services, which means you can now streamline operations, manage front and back end operations more efficiently and improve customer loyalty.

1. RESTAURANT
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IMPROVING
INTEGRATED
PAYMENT SYSTEMS
THE BOTTOM LINE
WITH
OF YOUR SMALL BUSINESS
$
WHAT ARE POINT OF SALE SYSTEMS CAPABLE OF?
HOW WILL A POINT OF SALE SYSTEMS BENEFI T MY BUSINESS?
HOW CAN I BE SURE A POINT OF SALE SYSTEM IS THE
BEST WAY TO GO ?
PROCESSING
debit/credit card
transactions
TRACKING
customer loyalty
information
CREATING
hourly & daily
sales reports
CALCULATING
payroll data
TRACKING
inventory
ENCRYPTING
cardholder payment data
ALLOWING
employees to
clock in & out
IMPROVE CUSTOMER SERVICE
• Reduces TIME staff spends entering orders/payments.
• Reduces MISTAKES.
• Enables reservations, waiting lists, guests paging,
caller ID, gift card MANAGEMENT, etc.
SIMPLIFY STAFF MANAGEMENT
• Helps eliminate inaccurate TIME CARDS.
• Automates employee SCHEDULING and shift swapping.
• Enhances ACCOUNTABILITY with management tools.
• Saves time by RECONCILING credit card transactions.
INCREASE PROFITS
• Helps you order the right AMOUNT of supplies
with inventory tracking.
• Helps you UNDERSTAND your customers better.
• Runs reports to better PREDICT volume and scheduling.
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IT’S ALL IN THE NUMBERS...
TOP 3 REASONS
BUSINESS OWNERS FIND
INTEGRATED PAYMENT SYSTEMS
TO BE BENEFICIAL:
HOW POS SYSTEMS CAN SAVE YOU MONEY
73%
1
percent of business
owners agree that
accessing all reports
in real time,
and in one place
64%
2
percent of business
owners agree that
using a single username
and password for physical
access to the POS
60%
69% 62%
3
percent of business
owners agree that
processing all payment
types and connecting
all payment devices
RESTAURANT OPERATORS SEE THE BUSINESS VALUE
IN INTEGRATED POS TECHNOLOGY, AND THINK THE
MOST IMPORTANT FEATURES ARE:
1 2 3
GROWTH OF POS SYSTEMS
RETAIL CREDIT CARD USE
THE FUTURE OF POS SYSTEMS
BROUGHT TO YOU BY:
91%of small to medium
business owners
with payment
integration systems
reduced back-office
expenses by at least
Percentage of debit or credit card holders
that agree that merchants should accept a
wide variety of payment types.
estimated card
purchase volume
in 2017
of business owners are updating
their POS to take advantage
of new technology options.
credit or debit cards
are in circulation.
Mistakes made without a
POS system cost the
typical restaurant
of gross sales each year
The average
POS system
pays for itself
within
From 2011 to 2012, the number of merchants using a POS system grew dramatically
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Sources:
CPA Practice Advisor Homepage, http://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/news/11329241/businesses-save-time-money-with-integrated-payment-processing, Mar 12, 2014
Information Strategies, Inc., http://www.2sbdigest.com/payment-systems, 2014
Payments Source, http://www.paymentssource.com/news/mobile-point-of-sale-projected-to-reach-46-percent-market-share-in-2017-3016146-1.html, Nov 25, 2013
Javelin Strategy & Research, https://www.javelinstrategy.com/news/1402/92/Javelin-Strategy-Research-Releases-Point-of-Sale-POS-Forecast-Report/d,pressRoomDetail, Nov 2, 2014
The Nilson Report, http://www.nilsonreport.com/publication_chart_and_graphs_archive.php?1=1&year=2013, 2013
FSW, http://www.foodservicewarehouse.com/education/restaurant-management-and-operations/the-importance-of-the-point-of-sale-pos-system/c28000.aspx, 2014
All Things POS, http://www.allthingspos.com/applications/restaurant/, 2014
Bank Card Depot, http://www.bankcardsd.com/Payment-Processing-Industry-Stats, 2014
Carolina Barcode Inc., http://www.carolinabarcode.com/run-my-store-a-36.html, 2014
South Jersey Computer Pros, http://southjerseycomputerblog.com/how-pos-can-save-restaurant-owners-money/, 2014
Motorola Solutions, https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra/white-papers/en-us/motorola-whitepaper-zc-en-us.pdf, 2012
Hospitality Technology, http://hospitalitytechnology.edgl.com/news/2014-POS-Software-Trends89890, Dec 12, 2013
2013 survey of 100 restaurant operators who subscribe to HT magazine.
and by 2017, the number is expected to reach...
21%
2011
2012
2017
9.5MILLION
38MILLION
111%
$
1 to 2 years
!
3% to 5%
79%
receipt
$7.1
trillion
1,013,000,000
percent of business
owners want to
add a mobile
POS system.
percent of business
owners want to
enable new
payment options.
Percentages reflect percentage of business owners who see value in the feature.
percent of business
owners want to
deliver personalized
guest promotions.
46%
REWARDS
44%
MOBILE PHONE INTEGRATION 45%
44%
42%
35%
40%
37%
TABLET INTEGRATION
TABLESIDE ORDERING/PAYMENT
MOBILE WALLET INTEGRATION
CENTRALIZED POS
CLOUD SOFTWARE
PAYMENT/
ORDERING
OPERATIONS
TOP 3 MOTIVATORS
FOR BUSINESS OWNERS TO
UPGRADE THEIR CURRENT POS SYSTEM
4.5MILLION