Time To Get Personal!

The retirement village lifestyle has become increasingly popular and many villages offer the types of facilities and amenities that are generally only found in luxury hotels and country clubs. Effective management of any retirement village, or chain of villages, tends to require the use of tailored hardware and software solutions to make it easy for residents to live within a cashless society and manage their daily activities in an efficient fashion.

One of the biggest recent developments in PoS technology is the ability to now host your system on the cloud.
Here are some of the most compelling reasons to choose a cloud-based PoS system.

The efficiency, interactivity, and flexibility provided by mobile point-of-sale systems are making them an essential part of today’s shopping experience.

Mobile POS systems offer several key benefits to businesses who want to increase their sales and are particularly useful in the retail, leisure and hospitality, in-flight, restaurant and ticketing industries where the ability to move around to interact directly with the customer is a huge advantage.

ECR Retail Systems is delighted to have received the Excellence in Technology award, for its ECR Go2 solution with National Express.

The luxury leisure industry is growing fast, as consumers with stressful lives and healthy disposable incomes embrace the wellness trend. Whereas once, consumers would head overseas for a short break or spa weekend, busy career people are now opting to make full use of luxurious local leisure facilities offering high-end beauty treatments, spa services, fitness programmes, nutrition and more.

Personalising ancillary sales all the way through to mPOS
Personalisation and passenger experience are key. Here’s our analysis as to whether the ancillary payment processes in place are fit for purpose…

It’s a sad truth that every retail business has its busy seasons and its slow seasons. Even mighty multinational behemoths like Amazon report a dip in sales in mid-June and early August.

We are living in the era of big data, and some sectors have been quicker than others to catch on to the potential of business information which can be harvested for the benefit of sales and marketing strategies. One of the 'early adopters' has been the retail industry, which has been busy exploiting the opportunities presented by real-time data.

Bournemouth Borough Council

Adoption of NFC (Near-Field Communication) mobile payment systems is definitely growing, but so far adoption has been slower than expected. So, is it worth your business investing in the capability right now?