There are various challenges retailers face with accepting credit cards. Acceptance of credit cards is generally purported to be positive for a business’ growth, but can pose an assortment of issues for business owners. Reconciling credit card payments with cash register (POS) information can be harrowing, unless you have a checkout system that integrates both…
POS in Your Palm
Mobile technology is changing the retail landscape, offering a bevy of options for retailers to consider. By Erin Rigik, Associate Editor. In today’s ever-evolving world of mobile payment technology, anyone with a mobile phone can take credit card payments, from a neighbor running a garage sale to an entrepreneur building a small business. Now, this…
New Currency Management
The Sentinel SCM (Sentinel Control Module) is a cash management product that includes cassettes that hold 2,250 notes or 1,200 notes. It can also be arranged with a Sidecar to add up to two additional note validators. They can be single or bulk note feeders. Retailers can easily fix note jams by removing the validator. …
Cash Bag System
The Sentinel SCM Stacker Bag Cash Management System offers retailers with two deposit bags, each holding 2,000 notes. When notes are validated, they are staged in the vault with the note accumulator, and when 500 notes are compiled, they are dropped as a bundle into the deposit bag. The bags are heat-sealed before retailers can…
The Evolution of Cash Management
Smart safes are getting smarter and so are the convenience store operators who use them. By Howard Riell, Associate Editor It’s all about the money, so handle it intelligently. Having a smart safe—and training employees to use it effectively—relieves a lot of the traditional headaches associated with handling cash, according to Los Angeles-based retail security…
Superior Cash Handling
Brink’s has unveiled two new smart safe products, both of which offer cash-handling features never before available to retailers: CompuSafe Vanguard—an affordable way for retailers with low cash volumes to manage cash and keep it safe; and CompuSafe Galileo—the first modular, configurable smart safe that lets retailers choose how many compartments they need and how…
Wireless Cash Management Solution
Dunbar Armored Inc., an independently-owned armored car and cash management services company serving retailers, financial institutions and government entities, has just introduced a new line of in-store, electronic cash-validating Dunbar Cash Manager Safes, equipped with two-way digital wireless communication capabilities. The Dunbar Cash Manager Safe is designed to provide immediate wireless transmission of cash deposit…
Cash Management
TOP PERFORMERS Tidel Engineering Triton Systems Brink’s Inc. HONORABLE MENTIONS Armor Safe Technologies Tokheim Operators in any retail channel will find it impossible to survive in today’s environment without a secure, accurate and reliable cash-management system, though convenience retailers in particular are faced with added challenges on this front. A tough economy increases theft internally…