Mobile POS: A Gateway To Traditional POS Sales; What ApplePay Means To The Channel

Business Solutions Newsletter | October 29, 2014 | View web version here.   In This Issue: 7 Steps To EMV Compliance U.S. Retail Benchmarks Show Decline In Store Traffic The Fight Against Fraud: Why The U.S. Needs To Step Up Its Payments Game What Apple Pay Means For The Channel If You're Still Dragging Your Feet Concerning EMV, Read This Four Keys To Managing Customer Relationships Mobile POS: A Gateway To Traditional POS Sales Windows XP: The Greatest Threat Is Still To Come Serving Up Success With Cloud POS Video: WorldPay Tells How Payment Solutions Can Lead To Recurring Revenue 7 Steps To EMV Compliance By Mike Monocello, editor in chief While at the Fall ONE Ingram Micro conference in Las Vegas Jeff Yelton, executive director and GM DC/POS for the distributor, gave a presentation on electronic payments and EMV. I wrote a little about it in last Thursday’s blog. One thing I didn’t detail was Yelton’s seven steps to EMV compliance. Without further ado, here they are, short, concise, and to the point… Sponsor Grow with us! UP Solution Reseller Program offers our partners the ability to enhance and grow sales through a powerful suite of vertically focused POS solutions and merchant service offerings. Our reseller program is highly flexible and tailored specifically to your business. Get started now! Become a Partner: call (855)-835-7919. Learn more at www.upsolution.com/bsmpartners. Featured Articles U.S. Retail Benchmarks Show Decline In Store Traffic By Cheryl Knight, contributing writer In-store retail analytics company Euclid, has released its U.S. Retail Benchmarks for September. Euclid provides insights from data for brick-and-mortar retailers in the same way web analytics services do for ecommerce companies. The Fight Against Fraud: Why The U.S. Needs To Step Up Its Payments Game By Jeremy Gumbley While credit card fraud is in no way a laughing matter, the latest figures around the amount of customer data comprised and dollars stolen are quite astonishing. Nearly 70 million customers’ credit card data was reported stolen from the Target breach alone and an annual figure of $11 billion lost was recently reported by Javelin Strategy & Research. What Apple Pay Means For The Channel By Russ Harty Apple Pay has been a long time coming. Now that it’s here (or almost here), you’re probably wondering what it means for you as a reseller. We’ve been studying the technology and the wider payments climate carefully, and have a few tips and insights to help you navigate the ways this will change things for you and your merchant customers. Four Keys To Managing Customer Relationships By Thomas Jensen By 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator. You could be offering the best product or service on the market, but if you don't treat your customers properly before, during, and after a sale, you will never be able to build a mutually beneficial partnership that keeps them coming back. If You're Still Dragging Your Feet Concerning EMV, Read This By Mike Monocello, editor in chief A lot had been written about EMV. Indeed, earlier this year, Business Solutions published an entire guide on the topic. Still, there’s a lot to learn and consider if you’re a solutions provider. Mobile POS: A Gateway To Traditional POS Sales By Matt Pillar, editor in chief, Integrated Solutions For Retailers Offering mobile POS — whether it’s necessary for your customers or not — can drive traditional POS sales through the roof. Windows XP: The Greatest Threat Is Still To Come For merchants running the no-longer-supported Windows XP operating system, the risk grows more serious every day. Serving Up Success With Cloud POS By Brian Albright Providing multiple layers of services has helped this VAR succeed without relying on support contracts. Video: WorldPay Tells How Payment Solutions Can Lead To Recurring Revenue At Channel Transitions Midwest on October 7, 2014, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Chicago-Oak Brook, Chester Ritchie, senior VP of strategic partnerships at WorldPay, displays payment solutions and discusses how solutions providers can establish recurring revenue streams. 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