In the restaurant industry, food delivery has grown even more popular during COVID. Food delivery is not just for pizza, but for all types of meals. Unfortunately, with any new adaptation of digital technology, like online food ordering with delivery, fraudsters are looking for ways to take advantage and find holes in the system to steal other people’s money. There are 3 ways that fraudsters
The pandemic brought about significant increases in demand for delivery services as restaurants were forced to shut down indoor dining. Surveys show that 60% of adults and 71% of millennials will want to continue having these options post COVID lockdowns. However, delivery services cost money, and restaurants are giving up big margins paying the delivery companies to keep their doors open. Neither the restaurants nor
Contactless Dining encompasses multiple new technologies developed during the COVID pandemic. Consumers have been quick to adopt these technologies because they are convenient and limit the germs they could otherwise come in contact with. One restaurant recently reported that 80% of their sales comes from online order and pick up. One technology needed for contactless dining is an online menu. No more is it necessary
A hosted payment page is a secure and simple E-commerce checkout webpage that can collect credit card payments or E-check payments. Some small businesses only have a small number of products or services that they would like to promote and sell on a webpage. These businesses don’t need a full- blown shopping cart. They can instead use a hosted payment page provided by their merchant
Reducing credit card processing fees to ZERO by passing on credit card processing fees to the consumer is a growing trend for merchants. It is easy to implement with a program called Cash Discounting. After all, merchants can SAVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS per year, many even monthly! The post COVID economy gives merchants no choice but to look for ways to save money and preserve
A payment gateway connects the interface device used by a consumer to the merchant’s payment processor. That processor sends the transaction to a processing bank which authorizes the consumer’s credit card payment and sends it back to the processor, who deposits the credit into the merchant’s bank account. Examples of interface devices are credit card terminals, virtual terminals, POS software systems, E-commerce sites, and mobile
Put your home services business on autopilot. Nothing beats taking orders while you sleep with online booking. Except for maybe online payment processing connected to those orders. But how about having an easy mobile app that integrates to your CRM software and manages your crew for you? Here are some must have features: 1. Managing crew with GPS routing to save time and dollars. 2.
POS Systems were created to integrate with invoicing and payment processing. This was a great advance over the credit card terminal sitting next to a POS. But as technology advances, the POS has incorporated all the systems for the business owner. One of those systems is marketing with your POS, which is the feature I want to address in this blog. Not all POS systems
POS Systems have evolved to create and manage many business systems on autopilot, invoicing, receivables, payments, fulfillment, and even marketing. They drive new and repeat customers to purchase their products and services, and at the same time, save hours of payroll costs. It used to be that businesses had one system for tracking inventory and ringing up sales and a credit card terminal for payments.
In the current and post COVID era, consumers demand fewer people interactions and more convenient ways to order, pay, and pick up items. All over town, we see signs with phone numbers encouraging customers to call in orders. But even the phone is time-consuming for consumers getting busy signals and time-consuming for merchants who have to pay staff to answer the phone. Time is money.
