Get the Best Mobile Payment Terminal for Smooth Transaction

With government insisting banks to provide two million more card swiping machines by March 2017 to tide over the cash crunch triggered by demonetization drive, the demand for payment terminals among small and medium retail stores has gone up sharply across India. 

The worst hits are, however, the small and medium traders, who are finding hard to retain customers due to acute cash shortage after government had announced demonetization of higher order currencies in November last year. The Government wants merchants to transact using card swipe machines, but the non-availability of such machines has put them in tight spot.

On an average, retailers lose 30-50 per cent of sales/business daily due to non availability of mobile payment terminals or card swiping machines as customers now increasingly prefer cashless transactions using credit/debit cards and mobile wallets. 

Finding hard to source payment terminals locally, private and public sector banks are looking for suppliers outside India with China becoming the most preferred destination to get mobile card payment terminals. 

Taking advantage of the impending huge market, mobile wallet payment companies such as Paytm, Freecharge, Easycharge M-swipe and Paynear are vying customers to buy their payment terminals to solve their payment acceptance crisis.

Paynear, for example, has invaded the market with its unique hand-held payment device, which can be used by any retail outlets to collect payment by way of cash or card. The Hyderabad-based company has claimed that through their machine, any bank card can be used to transact, withdraw money (as it acts as mini ATM as well), track sales, monitor inventory, buy bus tickets, and have hordes of other functionalities, all these for just a few hundred bucks and without any monthly subscription.

The app-based mPOS card reader can also work as Point of Sale (POS) device for small, medium and large retail enterprises as the payment terminal helps for easy checkouts, efficient customer relation management, astute sales promotion, etc to give customers a unique shopping experience.

Paynear payment terminal is also wi-fi enabled which can be connected to any Android or Apple smart phone. One has to download Paynear free app to connect the payment terminal for immediate transaction in three easy steps, says an official from Paynear.

The payment terminals are now available at Justransact.com for online purchase.

Convert your Grocery Retail Shop into a Supermarket

Are you losing customers to the nearby supermarket or departmental store just because they are more organized, customer friendly and efficient in handling peak hour rush? 

By having an efficient Point of Sale system (technology) and arranging merchandise in orderly way, your grocery or kirana store too can easily compete with a supermarket.

You don’t need to have an extravagant space and swanky interiors with spacious car parking. A simple Point Of Sale system can make your customers happy as they don’t want to waste time in your stores for buying a few items.

Again, it is a myth that these POS systems will make a big hole in your pocket and also incur month-on-month expenses. Contrary to these claims, POS products along with suitable retail grocery software are affordable and one-time investment which can be recovered within two or three months. 

Unless you opt for a Cloud POS system, where you need to pay server maintenance and service charges to the provider every month, these POS terminals are pay and own type.

Customers expect end-to-end, seamless and enjoyable buying experience. For this, you should have a suitable, dependable and advanced Point Of Sale (POS) solution (hardware and software) for grocery retail business including kirana stores, supermarkets and hypermarkets.

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POS Technology can Transform your Restaurant Business!

As the owner of a quick service restaurant, you have plenty of decisions to make. Right from deciding menu, managing inventory, sales to engaging staff and adjusting their work schedules, you have enough on your platter. Plus you are constantly on the go and any wrong or delayed decision will ultimately affect your bottom line. So, it’s pretty risky business indeed.

But there is a breather. Modern Point of Sale technology with tailor-made restaurant POS software has made it possible that you can take some vital decisions based on concrete data and relax.

Big food-chains have already been using this aggregate data to make crucial business decisions. As a small and independent restaurant owner, you might think automating these talks would be expensive and require specialized training in data analysis. But things are not same anymore.

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After Jallikattu, Leaderless TN Youth Seek to Unite under One Banner

The recent upheaval at Chennai’s famed Marina Beach and other parts of the state by agitating students, who virtually kept the state administration under siege with a single demand of reviving the age-old bull taming event “Jallikattu”, can be viewed as a strong emergence of dominant student force in the state against such common issues.

Thousands of people joined students at Marina and other places in Tamil Nadu to air their dismay against the ban on “Jallikattu,” orchestrated by People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), asking Central and State government to take steps to revive the event from this year’s Pongal festival.

The annual event, which has been held for thousands of years on the second day of the harvest festival Pongal (Mattu Pongal), was banned by the Supreme Court in 2014 saying that event accounts to astute cruelty on animals.

Spread by messages by a few students through Twitter, Face Book and Watsapp to assemble at Marina Beach for a simple sit-in protest on January 15, the place witnessed historical gathering amounting to more than five-lakh people including students, parents, villagers and office goers, who wanted government to bring in an emergency ordinance to hold the event.

Not even in Tamil Nadu, the entire Tamil Community across the world including in the US, UK, Sri Lanka, Australia, Canada, Singapore and Malaysia expressed their support to Jallikattu and joined hands to protest against PeTA’s move to make native bulls extinct and promote Western breeds in India through Jallikattu ban.

It was the great effort by the students, who did not represent any political organization nor allowed any politician or film personality to hijack their seven-day old peaceful protest, which caught the attention of the world and media that praised them for keeping the event peaceful while putting pressure on the government to bring in a permanent solution to conduct the event year after year.

Peaceful Protests Turn Violent

The government finally succumbed to the popular demand and promulgated the ordinance on January 23 which was made as a Law in the state assembly.  However, the seven-day peaceful protest turned ugly on Monday with police resorting to baton charge, fired gunshots  in the air and threw teargas shells on agitators, who became violent when police tried to remove them forcefully from Marina after they were asked to leave peacefully.

Hundreds of people, including students and police, were injured in the incident. The students were preparing to celebrate their success with a 500kg cake on Monday, when the cops asked them to vacate the venue, it is reliably learnt. It was highly unfortunate that many innocent boys and girls got injured who had congregated for a peaceful demonstration.

Had the government informed the students about the impending Bill and discussed the content of it when it was notified on January 21, the matter would have been ended peacefully. Call it miscommunication or deliberate attempt by some miscreants who wanted to hijack the real cause of the agitation, it is highly unfortunate that the ‘leaderless’ agitators finally had to call off the strike after a bloodbath and arson.

Headless and Powerless

Though students have shown exemplary courage and restraints to protest against Jallikattu ban, they were handicapped by not having a strong leadership to take their demands through proper channels to the government, bureaucrats or media. They should have united under a single banner with members drawn from each college in the state.

Every college can send five student members to the Federation every year on rotation, who represent and fight for a cause of public interest. They can even register the federation and fight the local election. In such case, their unity would be strong and member should be guided by bylaws to prevent infringements which can dilute the very base of the organization.

With people pouring on Tamil Nadu roads for a common cause, it can herald a new beginning of a strong and corruption-free state dominated by youth power.

Efficient POS can make foodies crave for you

Hospitality industry is one of the fastest growing parts of Indian economy contributing over six per cent to the national GDP and over 8 per cent to the total employment. The Industry, which is currently valued at USD 136 billion, is expected to climb USD 275 billion within a decade, according to a government data.

Classified into two segments – Tourism and Hotels, hospitality industry’s key success remains in “efficient” handing of customers and pampering them with more facilities.

Advancement in technology and customers’ constant nudge for better treatment and facilities has changed the industry for good making it an entirely client-driven industry. Using an advanced Point of Sale technology at sales counters can lessen a number of painful and time consuming front-end and back-end operations in hotels, food courts, restaurants and casinos. Gone are the days when people used to have only cash register to account cash for the service offered.

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