The boundaries between online retail and classic offline retail are increasingly blurring. Customers now expect the same flexibility and efficiency from brick-and-mortar retailers and service providers as they do online. mobilePOS - mobile payment terminals - offer new ways to make shopping efficient, flexible and secure.
mobilePOS stands for "Mobile Point of Sale". It is a mobile POS system that is installed on a smartphone or mobile device in the form of an application, for example. The installed software makes it possible to offer customers a fast and efficient mobile payment option anywhere and without a traditional terminal. This turns an NFC-enabled device into a mobile checkout in no time at all.
Traditional checkout systems consist of various individual devices and are connected to the internet via a cable. The devices are tied to a fixed location and are used together with a permanently mounted screen, an EC terminal and a receipt printer. In contrast, mobilePOS devices are mobile, efficient and fast. The POS application simply runs on a mobile device, providing a mobile POS system that can be taken anywhere without having to be connected to additional hardware in order to process payments. This gives retailers a fully-fledged POS system that fits comfortably in an employee's pocket.
Retailers often ask themselves whether a mobile POS system can actually perform all the functions of a stationary POS system. Of course, this depends on the respective provider - for orientation purposes, we have broken down the functions of Snabble's mobilePOS below.
Weighing and quantity goods
Price and weight-encoded barcodes can be scanned so that weighed and quantity goods can also be recorded.
Digital and physical receipt
The receipt can either be generated digitally or via a receipt printer connected via Bluetooth or WLAN.
Couponing & loyalty cards
Scan coupons or select the relevant promotion digitally in mobilePOS. The mobile POS system also supports customer cards.
Discount & price adjustments
All the important functions of a regular, stationary POS system can also be found in the mobile POS system. For example, you can adjust prices for individual items or enter absolute or relative discounts on an item or basket basis.
Product search
With the product search function, employees can search for items via an input field and add them to the shopping cart.
Employee journal
Employees have access to the history of their sales at any time - and can thus, for example, reissue a receipt retrospectively and track Store Manager sales in your store.
TSE-compliant
As a POS system, mobiePOS is of course TSE-compliant and has a connection to Deutsche Fiskal and EfSTA.
Card and cash payments
Customers can pay for their purchases in cash or by card. The handling of high volumes of cash should be supported by additional tools if necessary.
Solutions for cashless payment options are developing rapidly. Now that the smartphone is already being used by customers for cashless payments, retailers now also have the option of using their smartphone as a payment station in the store, with software that can be installed on Android and iOS devices. The mobile checkout works in the same way as traditional EC terminals that accept contactless payments. If necessary, the PIN can be entered via the display, which is secured by pin-on-glass or tap-on-mobile technology.
Until now, a WLAN connection was required for POS terminals in order to be able to pay as a customer. Mobile cash registers have their own fast internet connection thanks to a built-in data card, which makes a mobile POS system an unbeatable companion on the go and suitable for various industries.
If a specific question has not been answered, you can find further information on the Snabble website.
The benefits for companies clearly lie in the flexibility and speed of check-out processes. But a flexible mobilePOS system can do even more:
As an industry-independent pos system, the mobile cash register is suitable for a wide range of application scenarios. The software can be installed on mobile devices which, thanks to their small size, fit comfortably in a trouser pocket and can therefore be used anywhere and on the move. Take the progress of your business into your own hands and find out about the various application scenarios - either via the links below or directly on the Snabble website.
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