Why enhancing the in-store checkout and payment experience will help safeguard the merchant acquirer business model

February 24, 2017

These are challenging times for merchant acquirers. Fees have been under pressure for many years, but now with regulated levels of interchange and a requirement to disaggregate the merchant service charge into its component parts, there is nowhere left to hide. New competitors are emerging into this space, encouraged by the actions of legislative bodies in Europe and the US seeking the creation of a more open banking environment.

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Revel’s Official Guide toSelecting a Restaurant Point of Sale

whitePaper | August 18, 2022

A restaurant POS is much more than a cash register; it’s the central nervous system of a business. Designed to facilitate and support every aspect of restaurant operations—from order placement, to payment processing, to kitchen management, to employee scheduling, to inventory control, and more— choosing the right POS for your restaurant is critical to your business success.

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Insights about E-commerce

whitePaper | January 21, 2023

E-commerce mostly consists of electronic transactions related to the purchase and delivery of goods and services. What can be considered an e-commerce practice:

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Privileged Remote Access Security in Cloud

whitePaper | June 1, 2022

The purpose of this document is to help technically-oriented professionals understand the security-related value BeyondTrust can bring to your organization. BeyondTrust can help your organization stay secure and compliant, while improving the efficiency and success of your organization with a better user experience.

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ERP SOFTWARE PRICING GUIDE

whitePaper | September 16, 2022

ERP pricing models can offer a daunting challenge whether it’s your first system purchase, an active operational upgrade, or a holistic migration from one platform to another. In order to ensure accurate cost calculations, not only do you require a strong comprehension of company scale, but you must also understand the intricacies of the multitude of ERP pricing plans

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Retail Automation: Stranded Workers? Opportunities and risks for labor and automation

whitePaper | December 3, 2019

The retail landscape is experiencing unprecedented change in the face of disruptive forces, one of the most recent and powerful being the rapid rise of automation in the sector. The World Economic Forum predicts that 30-50% of retail jobs are at risk once known automation technologies are fully incorporated. This would result in the loss of about 6 million retail jobs and represents a greater percentage reduction than the manufacturing industry experienced. Using Osborne and Frey study1 with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the analysis suggests that more than 7.5 million jobs are at high risk of computerization. A large proportion of the human capital represented by the retail workforce is therefore at risk of becoming “stranded workers.”

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UPS New Ecommerce Ecosphere white paper

whitePaper | November 3, 2019

We live in the age of the Platform Economy using Uber and Lyft to catch a ride, Airbnb to rent a room and OpenTable to get a reservation at the trendiest new restaurants. And those are just a few of the myriad companies that have succeeded in turning old-fashioned products and services into marketplaces with their own ecosystems. And so it is with online retail, where marketplaces like Amazon, Alibaba, Mircado Libre and Flipkart have become the first stop for many shoppers. Merchants can list their wares on the big marketplaces, reaching audiences far larger than they could themselves. At the same time, they can engage Shopify, Square, ShopRunner or the hundreds of discrete service providers that have emerged to set up or enhance their own market platforms.

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