Does it pay off to interface your cash register with credit card payments?

I read a great article this morning about a customer being over charged by $1600.00 at a breakfast house restaurant. Of course the error was found and fixed after several days and with a lot of bad publicity.

If this restaurant would have had their cash register interfaced to the credit card machine this error probably would have never happened. When you integrate the two you eliminate the need to re-enter the sale into the credit card machine where so many errors occur.

Now in this case the error was found quickly because it was so large. Also when a customer is overcharged they are more likely to point it out maybe even days or weeks later when they receive their statements. What happens when they are undercharged? Most say nothing at all and you lose money! Don't let this happen any longer, interface your cash register to credit card payments!

There are two lines of cash registers that are also credit card machines and they are SAM4s and Sharp both making a wide variety of machines for every type of business.

Here is the story in the news, you should check it out yourself http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/waffle-house-charges-man-over--1600-for-breakfast-194502721.html?soc_src=copy

Where you buy your cash register makes a differance

Over a week we receive numerous calls from people that have bought cash registers for a cheap price online maybe on Amazon or another online discounter. Of course we all want a great deal and value for our money but make sure you count in service or support into the equation. Like I mentioned we get calls every week from people looking for support for SAM4s Cash Registers or maybe a Sharp. They like the fact they can reach us, we answer the phone, we have an online chat support tool, and we know what we are doing. What they don't like is the fact that if you did not buy your cash register from us we have to charge for support. We do have quite a few of these calls turn into paying customers and we appreciate their business, however had they bought from us in the first place the support may have been free!

We hear from end-users that often do contact the people they bought their cash register from and they would like to help but they don't know how! Don't let this happen to you. You can still buy online for a discounted price but buy from cash register companies like us in the first place.

If it is too late and you have already bought a Sharp cash register or maybe a SAM4s model from someone that can't help you then call us. We can help you learn to use the register, program the register, take reports and more we just charge for our support. Please keep in mind that commercial grade Sharp registers and SAM4s machines are all sold by independent dealers and none of us are paid for support or service from the factory and of course can't help one another customers for free.

If you are interested in getting support for your cash register please give us a call at 1-800-863-2274 we are open Monday through Friday 8am to 5pm PST.

Please note we support commercial grade Sharp cash registers. We don't support models that begin with XE, sorry those are not commercial grade.

SAM4s high end cash registers in the SPS series

cash registers

SAM4s has a higher end line of cash registers known as the SPS-series. The SPS series is a commercial grade line up of high end cash registers. The SPS line consist of two base models the SPS-500 series and the SPS-300 series

The SPS-300 series was released to replace the popular 650 series. They made some great changes in the SPS-300 series that include the following

• SD card port
• Models with receipt and journal printers
• Black color
• Free programming software
• More flexibility with kitchen printing

The SPS-300 series comes in the following configurations and models

• SAM4s SPS-320 cash register with a flat keyboard receipt only

• SAM4s SPS-340 cash register with a flat keyboard and receipt and journal printers

• SAM4s SPS-345 cash register with a raised keyboard and receipt and journal printers

The SPS-500 series took over for the SER-7000 series which were great registers. Some cutting edge features were added making the 500 series the most sophisticated register system on the market in it's class.

Some of the unique features include

• 7" Touch Screen
• single printing station and double printing station configurations
• SD card port
• USB port
• Keyboard port
• IP Port

The 500 series come in four different configurations

• SAM4s SPS-520F with a flat keyboard and receipt and journal printers

• SAM4s SPS-520R with a raised keyboard and receipt and journal printers

• SAM4s SPS-530F with a flat keyboard and receipt printer only

• SAM4s SPS-530R with a raised keyboard receipt printer only

If you need help selecting which register would be the best fit for you or whether you need options like the credit card interface, kitchen printers, bar code scanners etc. please give us a call at 1-800-863-2274

POS software for iPad

iPad running NCR Silver POS

Many people are very excited about finally having a solution for point of sale system software for the iOS. We have just started offering the Silver system from NCR which is a cloud based POS software that operates on the popular iPad, iPod, and iPhone.

Using NCR Silver you can gain control of your sales while also marketing directly to your customers. NCR allows you to really build your brand with customers and drive business back to your store.

NCR Silver also allows you to start a business with a world class cloud based system at a very affordable start up cost. The hardware package is $499.00 plus the cost of the iPad or iPhone etc and the software is $79.00 per month which includes support!

Please give us a call to arrange a demonstration of the NCR Silver POS for iOS 1-800-863-2274

You can back up your data on many SAM4s and Sharp cash registers

It is a sad story we hear nearly every day, goes something like this "my old cash register blew up and we had 12,000 UPC's programmed into it, can you sell me a new cash register and restore the program. Sure we reply as long as you backed it up. Back up? How do you back up a cash register?

Well needless to say they don't have a back up and now they may be out 20 to 40 of hours re-programming thousands of items. There are ways to avoid this even with older cash registers. Most SAM4s and Sharp commercial grade cash registers can connect to a PC. You invest in the software connect to the register and save your data.

For software for the average cash register it will cost you about $650.00 to $1000.00 to accomplish this if an older machine. However it is still a small investment compared to re-doing years of work. Newer machines from SAM4s cash registers come with a free utility program that allow you to back up and maintain your UPC data. All you have to buy is a serial cable and a USB to Serial convertor if needed.

Don't set yourself up to make that call! Either buy a new cash register with the ability to back up on a on board SD card slot or a PC!. All of the newer SAM4s registers have a SD card port as well as the free software utility.

If you are trying to figure out which register is for you please call us at 1-800-863-2274

Sharp cash register keyboard templates and manuals for free

Here is a site that offers quite a few Sharp cash register manuals for free download. These manuals will help you program sales tax rates or departments if you need to.

They also off Sharp cash register keyboard templates too. Everyone with a cash register should have their own template so you can edit and print your keyboards as needed.

Programming SAM4s cash registers

SAM4s Cash Registers

Whether you bought your SAM4s cash register from us or not we can help you solve your programming problems or reporting issues. We support SAM4s cash registers across North America all over the phone and/or email. With todays more modern machines we can even make program changes and send them to you on an SD card or email you the programming changes.

Rates and fee vary depending on what you need done but the average support call cost $50.00 If you would like us to help you program your SAM4s cash register give us a call at 1-800-863-2274