As a business owner, do you want to miss out on even a tiny slice of a $31.74 billion pie? If you’re not providing gift card services, that’s exactly what you’re doing. As gift cards grow in popularity, it becomes more and more critical for every business that sells food, goods and even services to provide gift cards for their customers and have reliable gift card processing integrated into their Point of Sale (POS) system.

When running a restaurant, there are many mishaps and pitfalls that can arise in the accounting aspects of the business. Unfortunately, common accounting mishaps can be found everywhere. This is mainly because accounting methods are used to track and report everything in a business. To help you out, we’ve put together this list of five common accounting mishaps and how to avoid them.

If you’ve decided to open a restaurant, there are a lot of things you’ve probably thought a lot about. Hopefully, some of these include concept, location, recipes, vendors, location, decor, and...location. If any of these elements have not been a big part of your planning, you should probably take a step back and figure them out before you move forward. Opening a restaurant is expensive, both in terms of time and money. You want to make sure that you get it right so that your new business can succeed.

If you have ever wondered how you could better put data to work for your business, you should attend this conference. If you are looking for ways to integrate social media with your operations, you should attend this conference. If you are looking to find out what your customers want more of from a loyalty program or get more participation, you should attend this conference.

Here is a breakdown of what you are entitled to when you either subscribe to or purchase software from a company. While these are general distinctions, the specific type of software you get may have differing terms for use.

There is a strong power surge at your business that affects your entire POS (Point of Sale) system. You lose your accounting information, your sales information, and your employee information. How quickly and how easily can you get all of that information back? How quickly can you be back up and running?

In the early 1950s, the shopping scene was much different from the operations of store owners of today. The way people lived was changing, in part because:

What you need to know before you buy a POS system really boils down to one, basic question: What is included? Okay, it’s a little more complex than that, but that really is the gist of it. We’ve put together a list of questions you should know the answers to when purchasing a new POS system.

If your company has been in business for a while, you have probably had your fair share of experiences working with point of sale systems. However, you may not have yet made the jump to more modern forms of POS systems. If this is the case, you may have no idea about the cost, space, and time saving benefits you are missing out on.

Before point of sale systems became mainstream, it was very difficult for restaurant owners to compile all the data necessary for them to see the true health of their business. However, with the reporting tools that are now available on most current POS systems, it is so much easier to find the information needed to make critical decisions about the future well being of your restaurant. Here are some of the amazing features that POS reports automatically provide in order to give restaurant owners all the information they need in one place.