Embracing Modern Hardware and Software to Save Time and Money

These days, POS hardware and software comes in all shapes and sizes. And unless you’re a consultant or connoisseur of sorts, it can be difficult to know what type of investments make the most sense for your environment. Thankfully, as retail technology has evolved, so has its flexibility, making it easier to fulfill specific needs, no matter how unique they might be. You may be thinking “True…but the cost and complication can be can still be overwhelming.” Not to worry. The multitude of options available ensures you can create a scalable and cost-effective solution—with or without a dedicated IT person on staff or degree in computer science. Best of all, products like Apple’s iPad, paired with cloud-based services, provide a safe baseline to get your POS system quickly up and running.

The vast majority of POS apps (Shopkeep, Square, Vend, Shopify, etc.) include a handful of other features that can make your life significantly easier as well.

• Inventory Management – Eliminate the arduous task of taking inventory by automating your POS system’s integrated features. Inventories will be updated automatically with each sale (even across multiple locations), and you can quickly see sales trends to fine-tune your ordering. And in case you miss something, enabling triggers will automatically send notifications when a particular item is running low.

• Email Receipts and Marketing – Reduce your carbon footprint by automatically generating and emailing receipts to customers. As an added bonus, this builds a customer database useful for future marketing and promotions.

• Cloud-based Syncing – All of your information is available to you at any time, from anywhere. Your hours spent searching filing cabinets are gone! And if any hardware-related errors arise, there will always be an up-to-date backup of your information.

• Staff Scheduling – Track individual employee sales and productivity, and pinpoint the busiest hours each week to assist in scheduling your staff for maximum efficiency.

Getting started with this sort of tech is as easy as purchasing a device and choosing which POS system to utilize, but as your business grows (due in no small part to an enhanced customer experience), you may need to increase your inventory of devices. Thankfully, there’s an easy way to manage all of these devices without hiring a dedicated IT staff.

Bushel is a cloud-based device management tool for Macs, iPads, and iPhones. This intuitive and inexpensive solution allows for effortless deployment and configuration of devices by installing apps, email accounts, wi-fi settings, security policies, and more – all remotely. If you’d like to change something, all of your devices can be synced automatically.

Hopefully, you’re feeling a bit more at ease when it comes to adopting or making a switch to a new POS system in your environment. Cloud-based technologies provide flexible options which expand with your business goals and objectives, making a transition worth the time and effort.

Contributed by Charles Edge, Product Manager of Bushel. Bushel is a cloud-based device management solution for the Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod devices in your workplace, that you can use for less than your daily cup of coffee. It’s designed to make the complex tasks, like tracking inventory and distributing apps, simple so anyone can utilize. Three devices are free forever, and each additional device is just $2 per device per month, with no contracts or commitments.

Photo Credit: Provided by Bushel with permission to use. 

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