Blog

Top Benefits of the Gift Card Management feature of SalesVu iPad POS System

GiftCardSwipe-300x225

Gift cards are a quick, convenient gift for your customers to give to someone they love. They are also a quick sale for your business and can increase revenue at any time of year, especially around the holidays. Whether your business currently offers gift cards or would like more information on how you can add them to your store, we can help. With a gift card management plan, you can leave all the work to a reliable software solution, reducing any administrative tasks and risk for human error. There are also benefits to both your business and the customer, so everyone wins.

Your Customers Have a Better Experience

With a gift card management program, your customers can view their gift card information and balance online. They can also conveniently activate their gift card online so that they can begin shopping at your new store in no time.

Spread Your Brand Reach

With gift cards, your customers are giving their friends and family money to your store. That means you instantly gain new customers and upfront cash every time one of your gift cards is handed out.

Your business will also benefit both when a customer uses the gift card, as well as when they don’t. Studies have shown that more than ¾ of all gift card users spend significantly more than the value of the gift card when they shop. This is because they are able to get more while spending less thanks to the gift card. If they do not use the gift card during their first visit, they will have an added incentive to visit again soon.

Free Advertising

Take advantage of customizable gift cards to spread your brand reach even more. By adding your brand logo, name, or imagery to the gift card, it can make your brand more recognizable and increase your sales further. Once a new customer receives your branded gift card, they will continue to see your branding every time they open their wallet.

Simplify Your Business Operations

By leaving the operations to our system, you can ensure that the transaction report adds up and can begin to track trends and make important business decisions. The extensive reporting capabilities will allow you to track sales and outstanding balances, so you have a better idea of the big picture of your business.

With this simple, intuitive system, your business can issue and accept gift cards easily. The gift card sales will be properly tracked in your reporting, so you can reduce errors, easily reconcile transactions, and gain a deeper insight into your business operations.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ,

SalesVu iPad POS System and credit card processing system contributes with House Blend Cafe noble initiative

image001

House Blend Cafe is an establishment  committed to impact people’s lives. By giving 100% of their net profit  to love and serve people in their community and around the world. They don’t generally get involved in things where it is just simply writing a check, rather they give back in a way that will meet needs and create a real  connection. SalesVu POS and credit card processing solution has helped this noble initiative reach their goals far and beyond.

“100% of the net profit from our cafe goes back into the community, so having a cost effective POS helps us to give more away. We’re involved in things like caring for the homeless, mentoring at risk kids, growing food to feed people in need. “

We talk to Josh Taylor, the general manager, and asked him how was his experience with SalesVu POS and credit card processing solution. He told us his positive opinion from the system and how efficient and adequate he feels it is for his business

“We’re a cafe and need something that is efficient, and that involves cost efficiency too. Since we are a non-profit, our main priority is to direct as many capital as possible to our cause. The fact that SalesVu credit card processing system has fair credit card transaction fees mean a lot to us. SalesVu POS and entire managing system has made generating reports more efficient to us”

As a final remark, Josh told us that he is potentially interested in setting up and using the e-commerce feature SalesVu has to offer.

Patio 1

If you are interested in supporting and knowing more about the House Blend Cafe be sure to contact them by clicking the social media icons bellow or visit their website at www.houseblendcafe.com 

twitter

Posted in Restaurants and Bars, RSS | Tagged , , , ,

Tropical Sno share their sweet experience with SalesVu iPad POS System : “A complete and reachable business management solution”

logo

Tropical Sno is a shaved iced local in Western Spring Illinois that is dedicated to create an oasis of shave ice euphoria. They do this by selling the highest quality and best tasting shave ice in the world. It serves more than 50 flavors to eager customers who constantly experiment with the wide variety of flavors and create their own ice indulgences.

We talked to the business owner Nicholas Cozzi who used in his first store the traditional registers, but noticed they were not really useful business-wise to his store. “All they did was round all the money earned in a day and nothing else” Nicholas realized he needed something more useful and a regular POS. He needed a complete and reachable business management tool, one that could offer him a wide range of business tools

He used Square in the past, but found that its features were insufficient for the market understanding and developing of Tropical Sno.

SalesVu offered me the Gift Card Feature and I loved it!. This was crucial for my decision towards SalesVu business management solution. It is a complete system that understands the requirements and needs of my stores, hence of my clients. The Gift Cards were a huge success for my store, and a way to keep the sales organized. Customers loved it and used it a lot. This feature implied a great success for me and Tropical Sno”

He also told us that other favorite feature he has is the employees and inventory management tools that SalesVu includes.

“They are both very effective and convenient. As the owner of two stores, I need to be constantly updated about the things that happen with the payments of the employees and their hours of work. I also need to know if the cups or spoon supplies are running low in the store and SalesVu emails me with all this relevant information and allows me to manage my business effectively everywhere I go”.

Moreover, Nicholas explained that he felt that SalesVu Customer Service phone number is an extremely important tool of the system.

“The fact that I can call them directly instead of just having an email address makes it a very nice and reachable business solution. It is better to have a direct contact with a customer service representative in case some questions or concerns arise”

If you want to know more about Tropical Sno at Western Spring Illinois be sure to visit their Facebook page be clicking the icon below.

Posted in Restaurants and Bars, Retail | Tagged , , , , ,

SalesVu iPad POS System offers a simple display that is reliable for small businesses like YogoFresh

 yogo1

 

YogoFresh is a family run business run by David Giacomini and his father. The establishment offers a variety of self-serve frozen yogurt flavors and fun toppings for clients of all ages. They have been using the SalesVu iPad POS System because of the incredibly prompt and helpful technical support we offered them, and because the simple display SalesVu iPad POS presents.

We asked David Giacomini why did he need a fixed POS system and he responded confidentely that:

 “We had very little space to work with and wanted a more trendy POS system as the aesthetics of our store is very important. The POS is in prime view of customers so we didn’t want a large clunky device. Plus, with the rise of mobile POS solutions, they almost all had remote access, which was important to us but was lacking with mainstream POS systems.”

POS1

 As previously mentioned, while David was looking for other fixed POS solutions, he investigated about other alternatives like Square and GoPayment, but after close examination of pros and cons David decided for SalesVu because of its extraordinary and accessible technical support. Here is what he said to us:

 “1. We needed to be able to have fractional units without rounding. For instance, we charge $0.45 per ounce of frozen yogurt and a customer may order 8.8 ounces. Other systems would have forced us to round it to 8 ounces (can’t overcharge customers and round to 9 ounces).
2. We had some initial questions and the tech support team with SalesVu was incredibly prompt and helpful. This gave us a lot of confidence in going with SalesVu as a solution.
3. We were initially turned off with SalesVu because there was a more formal merchant application. However, I’ve started numerous businesses and can tell you that real merchant applications are 10x more complex and usually involve a contract and additional fees. Going through a real merchant application early on meant no disruptions later when volume picked up. So it was actually a good thing.”

David opted to start his YogoFresh establishment with the SalesVu iPad POS from the very beginning .Since YogoFresh is a very simple business, they appreciate the simplicity that the SalesVu iPad POS had to offer.

“I love being able to run reports remotely. This paired with our remote viewing camera systems gives me a great sense of being at the store. Products are incredibly easy to set up and employees understand how to enter orders almost immediately. We also go through the process of setting up each employee with their own access which is a great way to track hours. I’ve even been able to edit hours remotely when an employee forgot to clock in or out. The sales reports are helpful too and are easy to run and filter. It is great having settings in the cloud so that I can implement changes without having to physically go to the store.”

POS3

David affirms that the main thing that SalesVu has done for his business is to keep it simple and understandable. He said:

“The main benefit to me is the simplicity of being able to take credit cards and view reports. These are things that SalesVu does so well that it is easy to take for granted. The system is reliable and employees quickly understand how to use the system. “

For more information about the tasty options YogoFresh has to offer, make sure to check out their website at www.yogofresh.com and their Facebook page clicking the link bellow.

Posted in Restaurants and Bars, Retail | Tagged , , ,

Fly Lake Austin with SalesVu’s iPad POS System!

Fly Lake Austin (FLA) is a water sports entertainment and instruction company that teaches people how to fly a Jetovator or Flyboard, the newest crazes in power water sports. FLA offers individual lessons, private parties and corporate team building events on the south end of Lake Austin.

FLA’s “office” is a boat therefore traditional POS systems are not an option. When searching online for the best way to make Fly Lake Austin mobile and accept credit cards and gift cards, Owner Ed Hughes came across the SalesVu iPad POS. Hughes also considered Square but chose SalesVu after seeing a checklist of the benefits of each side-by-side.

“There seemed to be far more benefits to using SalesVu over Square,” said Hughes. “The most memorable benefit of SalesVu iPad POS over Square, to me, was SalesVu’s compatibility with QuickBooks.”

Hughes also likes that the manual entry and swipe options are equally priced.

“The reason I like that is because, being on a boat, if I forget my credit card swiper or if I did not charge it properly I can still process a transaction as long as I have my iPhone,” said Hughes.

For more information about Fly Lake Austin, go to www.flylakeaustin.com, like their Facebook page or follow them on Twitter @FlyLakeAustin.

Posted in Health Clubs, Professional Services | Tagged ,

Lake Charles Martial Arts Loves SalesVu’s iPad POS System feature ,Inventory Management and Invoicing

Lake Charles Martial Arts (LCMA) is a martial art school that goes beyond martial arts and turns people’s lives around through innovative curriculum. “Our instruction not only changes our students’ lives but also helps improve the lives of people around the community,” said Owner John Newport.

LCMA found SalesVu when searching for a POS system that could track inventory. At the time, they were using PayPal but were quickly outgrowing its usefulness as their product and service options grew.

“The fact that [SalesVu] is less expensive to use than PayPal helps in dropping our overhead costs and presents us as a truly professional company with receipts and invoicing that are customized to our needs,” said Newport.

Lake Charles Martial Arts does a lot of traveling, private lessons and special functions away from school, giving them the need for an iPad POS.

“When tournaments come about we need something reliable to collect payment (non-cash) at the door,” said Newport.

LCMA researched more than 80 POS systems when looking for a new system.

“We looked at ShopKeep, but the monthly charges for what we needed prevented that sale,” said Newport. “We looked at NCR Silver but it was too complex and expensive. We considered LightSpeed but we saw that we would outgrow their introductory offer and could not afford the next level.”

LCMA chose SalesVu because they could try it without any required commitment. Once Newport saw that SalesVu iPad POS could grow with LCMA without being nickel and dimed plus the extensive list of features, they “knew they had a winner.”

Newport’s favorite thing about SalesVu’s solution is its simplicity. They also like the ability to invoice a sale complete with their logo and all of the pertinent information as well as the capacity to transfer sales between devices.

“Our students are wowed when they see us take our iPad or phone out to complete a sale or tuition payment,” said Newport. “We are the only martial art school in the area with anything like this.”

“The online coupons and option to get actual gift cards and track their usage help keep us on top of what is working,” said Newport.

According to Newport, SalesVu has helped in the retention of students by offering so many different means of payment.

“If someone doesn’t at least try SalesVu, then they are just going to waste their money,” said Newport.

Posted in Professional Services | Tagged , , ,
Hi, how can we help you?
SalesVu