by kevin kogler | Jul 28, 2015 | POS Trends and Insights
5 years ago No retailer likes to spend money, but an effective marketing program can be an investment in your business. Most small retailers seek to find ways to effectively market their business to their local market on a small budget. Below are five suggestions on...
by kevin kogler | Jul 28, 2015 | Newsletters
U.P.S. Battery Backup’s – U.P.S. battery backups work by storing electricity in a battery for later use. Most U.P.S. systems also have surge protection allowing any device plugged in to be safe from a normal power surge. Many units have different ratings to...
by kevin kogler | Jul 28, 2015 | POS Trends and Insights
1) What does EMV stand for and why is this being implemented? “EMV” stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa, which is a global standard for cards equipped with a special computer chip used to authenticate card transactions. The information stored on the chip is more...
by kevin kogler | Jul 28, 2015 | POS Trends and Insights
Merchants in the United States are working to comply with new rules for accepting credit cards. The rules are intended to increase security and protection of credit card data and to make it harder, much harder, for credit card data to be stolen. We reached out to five...
by kevin kogler | Jul 28, 2015 | POS Trends and Insights
What is a Smart Card? A smart card resembles a credit card in size and shape, except that the inside of a smart card contains an embedded microprocessor. The microprocessor is under a gold contact pad on one side of the card. This microprocessor replaces the usual...
by kevin kogler | Jul 21, 2015 | POS Trends and Insights
2015 Visa Payment Technology Provider Forum Takeaways Last week I attended the 2015 Visa Payment Security Symposium held in San Francisco, which is where Visa has its headquarters. The intent of the Symposium was to provide an update on the progress of the EMV...
by kevin kogler | Jun 28, 2015 | News and Updates
MicroBiz President Kevin Kogler will be presenting the keynote presentation on Customer Experience at the Business Solutions Retail IT VAR Of The Future Conference, May 12-13, at Bally’s Las Vegas. The conference will present an in-depth look at four topics:...
by kevin kogler | May 28, 2015 | Newsletters
Many customers have the need to enter a vendor catalog into their POS system or make price changes in bulk. Rather than make these changes manually, you can use the “Import SKUs, Descriptions and Prices” feature, which allows you to import new SKUs and also update...
by kevin kogler | Feb 28, 2015 | POS Trends and Insights
By Kevin Kogler, President of MicroBiz By now, everyone reading this article should know that Amazon has entered the mobile point of sale market with the release of Amazon Local Register. The service is a secure card reader and mobile app that allows local...
by kevin kogler | Feb 28, 2015 | Newsletters
EMV is Coming! We are taking the October date very seriously at MicroBiz. The process to become EMV certified involves many different aspects, and our management team has been carefully mapping out the appropriate plan of action to ensure we meet the needs of our...
