Waiting in Checkout Lines a Turnoff to European Shoppers For many European shoppers, waiting at checkout lines any longer than five minutes is too long, according to retail study by Adyen. Shoppers are looking for an experience that satisfies three...
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Balancing ISV and Vendor Customer Support
Balancing ISV and Vendor Customer Support ISVs who engage their hardware solution providers to create new business opportunities and innovative solutions might be surprised at how easy it is to create successful partnerships with those vendors. Through partnership programs, hardware...
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Cash: World Cup Winner or Relegated to the Subs Bench?
Cash: World Cup Winner or Relegated to the Subs Bench? As we approach the end of the World Cup, we take a look at who the payments winners of the competition are. Visa, the official payment services partner of FIFA,...
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Visa Outage Highlights the Need for Cash
A five-hour outage on June 1st that left Visa cardholders across Europe unable to complete transactions caused widespread disruption and frustration, and raised serious questions about a future cashless society. Consumers saw cards being declined as they tried to make...
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Should the Commonwealth Games get its own medal for cash handling?
More than 6,600 athletes from 70 nations and 100,000 visitors attended the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, eager to "be there" when sporting history was made. After putting lots of effort, time and money into planning and setting up the...
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Best Practices for ISV Integrations with Hardware
POS ISVs looking to boost brand recognition often turn to hardware manufacturers to get their solutions to market. Partnerships to integrate ISV solutions with hardware are one of the most effective ways to create a market for your software. Teaming...
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Does Your Vendor Deliver Partner Value? 7 Ways to Check
POS resellers are essential to a vendor's strategy to target its products to the right market. Without the benefit of channel partnerships, vendors would be hard-pressed to gain brand mindshare. But not all vendors deliver the same value, so any...
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Tips for Successful ISV Relationships with Resellers
Partnerships between POS ISVs and resellers provide mutual benefits: They help ISVs scale the distribution of their software solutions while opening opportunities for VARs to add value for their customers. How can ISVs find reliable reseller partners to build long-term...
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5 Ways to Prevent Walkaways at Retail Stores
Long checkout lanes, disorganized shelves, and hard-to-find products lead to frustrated shoppers. And when customers get frustrated, they often give up on a store and walk out, especially if there's no associate around to help them. Retailers can avoid walkaways...
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9 out of 10 Largest Grocery Chains in Europe go for a Cash Drawer from APG
Europe’s Largest Grocery Retail Chains Establish Long Relationship with APG’s Bespoke Products Many perceive a cash drawer as simply a metal box used for storing cash. While this discernment may be true to millions of shoppers it could not be...
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