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14 Point of Sale Systems for Small Businesses in 2023

Small Biz Trends

A point-of-sale system is one of the best tools for small businesses looking to accept payments. Point-of-sale systems enable business owners to be more agile with their payment processing and forego using the cash drawer. What Is a Point of Sale POS System? Best Overall Point of Sale Systems.

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Guarding the Retail Fortress: Cybersecurity Challenges and Network Interruption Risks

Retail TouchPoints

The Evolving Threat Landscape Retailers increasingly rely on digital platforms for sales, inventory management and customer engagement. A network outage can mean lost sales in the short term, as shoppers simply move to another brand for that purchase, or losses in the long term if that customer does not return.

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How the Store of the Future will Track Shopper Behavior Ecommerce-Style

Retail TouchPoints

The digitization of brick-and-mortar stores is nothing new, but up until recently it has primarily been focused on surfaces in the store that are already digital: point-of-sale systems or back-of-house tasks like inventory management. PVH x RetailNext and MarketDial PVH Corp.

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10 Finance Tips All Retailers Should Follow

Retail Next

If you aren’t good with finances or are simply strapped for time, hire a bookkeeper to track your finances. Invest in a Point-of-Sale (POS) System. That means maintaining financial records through an accounting software program. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be looking at the books yourself.

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Laying the Operational Foundation for Autonomous Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Turning Insights into Action The first step is to establish an internal task force comprised of technology, business, finance and operations representatives. This change is necessary to provide the real-time data that powers the robots and automation tools that are central to retailers’ inventory management.

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The Best Mother’s Day Gift for Mompreneurs

Retail Smart Guys

Inventory Management: Keeping track of inventory levels, managing orders, and processing returns can be time-consuming and requires much attention to detail. Following through, let’s discuss how you can help ease up that burden. Sometimes, because of numerous workloads, this can be neglected.

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Tackling rising returns: how to improve efficiency while enhancing customer experience

Retail Gazette

Advanced Supply Chain (ASC) polled 100 UK retailers, with 63% reporting a rise in the number of goods being returned during the last year, which they attribute largely to the squeeze on consumer finances.