Trade up from Clover to Heartland Restaurant Point of Sale to split checks

Why do people continue to buy Clover POS from First Data? We continue to talk to restaurants that use Clover that can't split checks and leave the table open. Yes that is right,  you can split a check on Clover however then you have to pay off every check on that table. You can't pay off just one check and leave others open. This is a huge flaw and it has been that way for a long time.

With Digital Dining or Heartland Restaurant POS you can split a check, pay off (close) as many checks on that table as you want while leaving the others open. This happens all the time with large parties. Let's say you have a large group of friends watching the big game, all running seperate checks. Now one of them has to go at half time. No problem right, split the check and pay his portion off and leave the rest open right. Easy Pezzy right..... NOT WITH CLOVER. With Clover it is Pay them all or none!

Don't get suckered into a long lease with Clover just to find out the features are not there but you're trapped for years! Just say no to Clover and get a real system. Visit us at Heartland Restaurant POS or call us at 800-863-2274

Check out the Scan to Pay feature of Heartland Restaurant POS. We are your local Seattle Tacoma area Heartland Point of Sale dealer. This video shows off just one of the features that set this iPad POS apart from the other tablet systems. After learning about the Heartland system you will see it is the most complete tablet restaurant systems on the market. Give us a call at 253-839-9636 or find us at Local Heartland POS Dealer.

Any questions please leave in comments and we will get right back to you. If you would like to schedule a demo please let us know.

Restaurant POS systems in Seattle

At National Business Systems we have been installing restaurant POS systems in Seattle for a very long time. We have our systems installed at every type of restaurant and bar around. Big places, small places and everything in between.

We have systems for every budget and need. Give us a call and we can set up a demo at your place or ours. local 253-839-9636 or 800-863-2274

Harbortouch Free POS system for restaurants

The Harbortouch Free POS system has come to Seattle. We have become an agent for Harbortouch and are proud to offer their FREE POS system. They give you the Hardware for Free and you pay a small  monthly fee per terminal for software, programming and 24/7 support. The fee is about $100.00 a month per terminal and includes a lifetime warranty on the system hardware.

The Free hardware requires a Merchant Services account with Harbortouch who have very competitive rates and even guarantee to match an existing rate you are receiving.

The Harbortouch system has many different options as well like on-line ordering, tableside ordering with iPads, and a back office application

Give us a call at 1-800-863-2274 to get more information, we have been serving the Seattle Tacoma area including Bellevue and Redmond for years.

Touch Screen systems and POS software in Washington State

National Business Systems, Inc. has been providing POS systems in Washington State for over forty years. If you want to buy a point of sale system for your restaurant from someone that will be around for a long time you should contact us. We offer the Digital Dining Restaurant System, the Country's best POS system. If a POS system is maybe too much for your business we also offer high end cash register systems as well as entry level systems as well.

We can install the system in person in most of the greater Puget Sound area including Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Lacey, Bellevue, Redmond, Renton and more.

Don't invest in a system where there won't be any support in a couple years, buy from us and protect your investment!

Call us at 1-800-863-2274 to set up a free demonstration of  the best restaurant touch screen system in Seattle

One stop POS providor

National Business Systems located in Kent, WA has been serving Washington State since 1972 What sets us apart is the fact we carry a wide variety of POS and Cash Registers systems. We offer restaurant touch screen POS systems that are computer based and cash register based. We can tailor a system to fit your needs and budget. If you need a simple POS with a kitchen printer with a budget of under $2000.00 we can do that, you need five touch screen terminals with credit card interface and kitchen video we can do that too.

We also feature POS systems for retail applications. We have $1000.00 cash registers, iPad solutions for POS, software based inventory control systems and more. Again you won't have to try and make a system fit because we have a variety of systems to meet your budget and goals.

We have clients in Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, Redmond, Kent, Auburn, Issaquah, Everett, and more. We have been here since 1972 and will be here for a long time. If you don't know what type of POS or cash register will work for you give us a call 1-800-863-2274

Cash registers in Seattle Tacoma area

NBS, Inc. is the largest and oldest cash register and POS dealer in Washington State. Our office is just south of Seattle and north of Tacoma. We offer everything from simple cash registers to complete POS system for restaurants or retail stores.

We service cash registers in most of the greater Puget Sound area like Bellevue, Redmond, Renton, Issaquah and more. Give us a call at 253-839-9636 and we will help you select a register or POS system

Restaurant POS systems in Seattle

If you are looking for a restaurant POS System in Seattle we can help you. We have more systems to offer you from touch screen based POS to high end cash registers. We have been in business in Washington State since 1971 serving Seattle, Tacoma, Redmond, Bellevue, Kent, Renton and many more locations.

Our product line up includes Digital Dining, Sharp cash registers, SAM4s cash registers. Between those three manufactures we can find the right system for your business.

We offer all the popular options as well like integrated credit card payments, Gift card programs, kitchen printers and kitchen video systems. Our Digital Dining system offer a hand held POS system as well.

Give us a call and we would be happy to meet with you. 1-800-863-2274

Cash registers in Washington State

National Business Systems, Inc. is the largest cash register dealer in the greater Seattle area. We support cash registers and POS equipment in Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, Redmond, Federal Way, Auburn, Kent, Puyallup and much more.

Our lines include SAM4s Cash Registers, Sharp cash registers, Epson printers, cash drawers, Digital Dinning Software, RMS software and Keystroke software.

We can handle all types of register system installs like cash register credit card interfaces, DVR interfaces, bar code scanning and more.

Call us at 253-839-9636 or 1-800-863-2274

Cash register support in Washington state

If you are looking for cash register support or service in Washington State we may be able to help. National business Systems is the oldest and largest independant cash register dealer in Washington State. We have been serving the greater Puget Sound area for over 40 years.

We offer sales and support of

• SAM4s Cash Registers
• Sharp Cash Registers
• Restaurant POS systems
• Retail inventory control systems
• cash register and POS system supplies such as receipt paper

We have tech that serve the following areas for cash registers and POS systems:

• Seattle
• Tacoma
• Redmond
• Bellevue
• Issaquah
• Renton
• Kent
• Puyallup
• Auburn
• Everrett
• Lynwood
• Olympia
• Bremerton

On occasion we will travel to Eastern Washington if you have a cash register or POS system that needs support.

Our phone number is 1-800-863-2274

Cash Registers in the Seattle Tacoma area

at National Business Systems we have all the models of SAM4s and and Sharp Commercial grade cash registers. Both Sharp and SAM4s have come out with some great new models featuring credit card interface, Quick Books interface, gift card interface and more at affordable price.

Our service area includes Seattle, Tacoma, Renton, Bellevue, Redmond and the entire greater Puget Sound Area.

Restaurant POS Systems in Washington State

We offer several very good restaurant POS systems. We carry Windows Based PC systems like Digital Dining resturant POS systems but also ROM based systems like the SAM4s SPS-500 series of POS registers that do not use hard drives, or operating systems.

We give you several options unlike other people in Seattle that only offer one choice and lets face it a 20K system is not foreveryone but neither is a $3000.00 system so we have it all.

We have been in business in the Seattle Tacoma area for over 30 years and have thousands of customers. We also service and support everything we sell and offer supplies from ink rollers to 3 1/8th" Thermal Paper.

Seattle has multiple sales tax rates?

YES Seattle and King County has two sales tax rates depending on what you are selling! And yes the two sales tax rates can apply to the same business depending on how it is selling the items. I'm not going to quote rates or try to replace the experts at the Department of Revenue but please reserach this out to make sure you are charging the correct Sales Tax rates on your products.

Here it is in a nutshell Retail Goods are at one rate. Retail goods in this case mean non restaurant food or beverage. Prepared food and berverages served ready to consume at an eating establishment is a different sales tax rate. Here is the KICKER if you sell both you must collect the proper tax rate by item. Lets say you sell hot dags and soda but also sell t-shirts and hats. The food is one sales tax rate the T-Shirts and Hats are another even in the same transaction!

Click here For a good Cash Register in the Seattle Area that can do this. Lets hope it does not get any worse and we end up with three rates! Don't even get me started on desination tax Washington also employs!

SAM4s SPS-500 Series Cash Register is the one to beat

So as we start a new year at NBS we predict that the SAM4s SPS-500 series register will still be the leader of the pack. 2010 was a great year for this Hyvrid cash register and we don't see anything on the horizon that would change that.

If you are stuck in the middle of needing more then a cash register but not quite ready for a computer based POS system then you need to look at the SAM4s SPS-500 series system.

The line up of this model include:

• SAM4s SPS-520
• SAM4s SPS-520F
• SAM4s SPS-530
• SAM4s SPS-530F

Don't wait another year!

Credit Card Security With POS and Cash Registers

Interfacing Cash Registers and Point of Sale systems with Credit Card payments is very popular in today's stores and restaurants. There are various reasons for interfacing that I think outweigh not interfacing because so much is gained. However it also opens up some areas of concern that must be addressed by the business owner. Those areas of concern are Credit Card Data Theft due to hacking from outside, and data theft from inside your business. Some theft is just about impossible to stop, however most of those cases are going to be isolated and have nothing to due with integrated or non-integrated Cash Register and POS systems. Those cases include servers or cashiers using skimmers to collect and sell credit card information. Skimming happens all the time in every State and every type of business although restaurants are the primary target of this crime. check out this article about a recent skimming arrest in the Nations Capital

The biggest concern that should be addressed is the possibility of someone hacking into your system and stealing credit card data through your connection to the Internet. Often times the theft can be taking place over months right under your nose! Sometime the theft was initiated from someone on the inside sometimes from a hacker from the outside.

Take steps now to protect yourself. First use only a PCI compliant POS system or Cash Register, second have a firewall installed, third become familiar with the PCI rules and strive to make your business compliant. One large breech of credit card data could cost your your entire business! Please check out this video of a real life restaurant owner who became a victim

Contact us today to see how we can enable your business to become PCI compliant! We offer a managed firewall service combined with PCI Compliance help service called Vendor Safe.

New Sales Tax Rates for Seattle Tacoma Area

So please be aware that as of April 1, 2009 most of if not all of Washington State increased the sales tax amount. Our sales tax here in Kent on retail goods went to 9.5%

The State does not care that your cash register or POS system is not collecting enough sales tax as they compute the sales tax owed to the state on sales, not how much your POS or Cash Register reports that it collected.

Many users can change the tax rate themselves however if you are not one of those you can contact us for help. There is a fee for the service unless you have a full maintenance agreement with us. We can help with Sharp Cash Registers, SAM4s Cash Registers, Digital Dining POS , Keystroke POS, Microsoft POS, Microsoft RMS, some Casio Cash Registers and some TEC cash registers.

To find your rate check with the Revenue Dept. of the State of Washington

NBS at the Sysco Food Service Show

Tuesday March 24, 2009 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM we will be at the "Good Things Come from Sysco" as one of their iCare Vendors. You need to be a Sysco customer to attend the show. You can find more info on Sysco here

If you are a Sysco customer you are eligible for special discounts on POS, Cash Registers, and DVR Security systems from us. Contact us and let us know you are a Sysco customer and we will hook you up!

Tax Rates for Cash Registers and POS Systems in Seattle

So in King County Washington we have several different sales tax rates that can affect a business. In Seattle and Bellevue and other parts of King County we have a tax rate on prepared food that is higher then our regular sales tax on retail goods. How can this effect your business? Well lets say you are a restaurant or bar that also sells shirts or hats, or maybe cooking equipment, recipe book, etc. your prepared food would be one rate, and your retail goods would be a different rate. I'm not going to mention the rates as I would rather have you check with the county and state! I can just tell you from our experience in the Cash Register and POS systems in Seattle that there are multiple rates!

Also if you are a retail outlet that also have a little deli or snack bar you would need to pay attention to this as well. Lets say you are a c-store selling cigs and beer that are taxable but you also have a deli that sells jojos and chicken! Well I would bet that your jojo's and chicken will be taxed at a higher rate!

Check out sales tax rates with the State of Washington

Our business sells cash registers and point of sale system designed to handle the tax system in Seattle visit our site or give us a call 253-839-9636

POS Credit Card Security

OK, like everyone else you have probably seen the headlines and received the telemarketing calls about credit card security.

We not trying to add to the hysteria but it is real and we are all about to become way to familar with it. What does that mean for your point of sale system you may ask? Well it means you have to protect your data know more the ever before. Right here in the Seattle area they have arrested a server who was stealing large amounts of credit card numbers, police are still looking for the theives who stole thousands of credit card numbers at a gas station in Puyallup.

What can you do? Here are a few steps you can take.

• Make sure your POS system is PCI compliant and you are using an up to date version.
• Ensure you are using up to date Anti Virus and Spyware blocking software
• Use a firewall to prevent access to your computer.
• Control who uses your computers with log in and passwords
• Use an integrated POS system, not a stand alone credit card terminal. Why you might be asking yourself. Yes integrated is more complicated and requires more expensive hardware, however it makes it much harder for a server/cashier to re-run a card. Because integrated systems require a sale be registered first.
• Security systems recording what clerks and servers are doing are a huge deterrant. Interface your security system to your POS for more theft stopping power.
• Keep you records and computer locked!
• Watch you servers and cashiers from time to time. Watch what they do when they take a credit card. Do they dissapera for awhile. Do they carry anything strange around credit card transactions that look like a PDA or iPod? The reason to pay attenetion is because servers/cashiers have been caught right here in Washington State using credit card skimmers.

Give us a call or visit our site to find out more about POS and Cash Register and Integrated Credit Card in Seattle

Cash Registers in the Seattle Tacoma

Looking for a Cash Register in the Seattle Tacoma Area? Well look no further then NBS, Inc. We offer Cash Registers from Sharp, SAM4s, and Casio from our office in Kent Washington. We offer complete turnkey systems or in the box. Our Cash Register Systems can have Integrated Credit Card and Gift Card programs to help you make even more money.

And don't forget we offer DVR Security Systems that also interface to cash registers. We can help your business be secure from door to door.

Check out our Cash Registers in Seattle and Tacoma here