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Epos Now alternative POS software for Australian retail businesses
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Our Tower Systems POS software is an excellent alternative to the Epos Now POS software and here’s why we think that:
The Tower POS software is made and supported in Australia for Australian businesses. It uses Australian retail terminology.
We think a functional comparison of the Tower Systems POS software with the Epos Now POS software will show our software as overing more benefits through more facilities.
When we say we offer software for specialty retail channels, that software is packed with functions retailers in the channel use and rely on that can be unique to their types of businesses. It’s a claim as to functionality rather than a blanket marketing claim.
The Tower Systems POS software integrates with Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento.
Tower Systems has no lock in contract.
We do not engage commission agent to sell our software.
We will not spam or chase you. We’d rather local small business retailers considering our POS software to do so at the pace they prefer and in their own timing.
We are grateful to welcome Epos Now POS software customers switching to Tower Systems.
We’ve not used Epos Now in our retail businesses. We can’t speak to what it does. What we can do is speak to Epos Now customers who have switched to our Tower Systems POS software and to their experiences having made that switch. We’d be happy to connect verified retailers to these business owners for a retailer to retailer discussion.
If you are considering Epos Now POS software for your business, our advice is take your time, compare the software functionality and read the contract carefully. Do this and consider whether it is right for your business. If it is, sign up and proceed. If you are unsure, take a moment to look around at other POS software solutions.
Tower Systems is grateful to serve 3,000+ local independent retailers in a variety of specialty retail channels. We’re a solid and established POS software company, grateful to serve only local specialty retailers and no big businesses.
If you’d like to compare our software to that from Epos Now function by function we’d be grateful for the opportunity. There is nothing like this type of POS software comparison to work our what works best for a business. Too often POS software company sales people will refuse such a comparison. Not us here at Tower Systems. We know we are not right for everyone.
Welcome to Tower Systems
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We’ve created a new short welcome video for our website.
Small business retail advice on how to reduce the opportunity of ransomware attack
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Ransomware / malware can come in many forms. Every computer connected to a network in any way is at risk. There is no guaranteed protection but there are important steps a business can take. This advice provides advice designed to reduce the risk to your business.
Here is best-practice advice from our POS software company for local small business retailers on ways to protect against Ransomware:
- Ensure you use professional, up to date, virus protection.
- Ensure you have a good firewall with strong settings.
- Do not click on emails or attachments unless you are sure of the sender.
- Be particularly wary of ZIP files in emails.
- The ATO will not email you.
- Your bank will not email you.
- Australia Post will not email you, not like the example I have posted.
- Ensure all passwords you use are strong.
- Consider using an email filtering facility.
- Do not allow remote access to your computer unless you are certain of the person accessing.
- Ensure you have strong passwords. A strong password should include: some CAPS, some numbers and at least one special character. Check your password at: https://howsecureismypassword.net
- Change your password regularly.
- Run an up to date operating system.
- Have rules on computer use: no games, no online gambling, no porn, no personal emails.
- Have an overarching rule: do not open any email or go to any website unless you are certain.
- Use a cloud backup service like the Tower backup service. This provides the fastest recovery.
- Have multiple backup devices for additional protection.
- Do not use automatic file replication programs / facilities such as Dropbox or Google Drive. If a file is encrypted with malware / ransomware it will upload to the account and infect other files.
Most ransomware attacks can be avoided by careful scrutiny of your emails and websites you visit.
Love is in the air
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New gift shop POS software demonstration
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Check out this new gift shop POS software demonstration that we recorded last week:
Small business retail advice: less is more when it comes to visual noise in your shop
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As retailers ourselves for decades, we have learnt first-hand that less is more works when it comes to visual noise in the shop.
Less signs, posters and other visual blocks can impede retail sales. Here’s our practical, no nonsense approach to reducing visual noise in pursuit of sales growth.
If you give your customers too many things to look at inside or outside your business, they will notice less. Your choices show them what you want them to look at
Less is more. Have less visual noise, less visual pollution, and more will be noticed.
Show your customers what you want them to notice by giving that product, range or display fresh air (visually) around it.
Take a look today, right now, at the visual noise in your shop. It is easy:
Stand at the door of your business facing into the shop and scan around counting the signs you can read and displays you can see.
How many are there?
More messages, more signs = less noticing them.
Yes, less is more.
Here is advice for less visual noise in your business:
- Edit. Every few days stand at the front of the shop and review your signage and edit the mix.
- Posters and signs. Do not put up any poster or sign unless it is absolutely necessary.
- Housekeeping notices. Have all customer notices, such as your exchange policy, discount policy, minimum eftpos charge etc, all in the one unobtrusive place. Neat. Clean.
- Call to action signs. If you have items on sale or discounted, place them all in the one location, a designated sale location in your business, with simple and professional signage.
- Product signs. For product signage in-store, be consistent in style and look. Smaller signs next to products will work better than big signs from the ceiling – how often do your shoppers walk in looking up anyway?
- Colour block. Colour blocked product is more appealing to the eye, it looks less messy, less noisy.
- The counter. Again, edit for clarity, edit for focus on the messages that really matter.
- Be clean. Look for clean sight lines, where your products are the feature. Use products themselves to tell stories.
It is common for retailers to say that shoppers don’t look in the shop. An alternative what to look at this is to say that you are going about trying to catch shopper attention in the wrong way.
Reducing visual noise will improve the experience for your shoppers and for those who work in the business. It will focus everyone on what you decide matters the most right now.
This visual boise advice applied to your front window if you have one. What’s the message? Is it clear? Is it focussed? Is it getting attention on the street? the answers will guide you as to what to do next.
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Thanks to our retail experience, we are able to provide suggestions b beyond the POS software. This is another differentiating factor for us, for which we are sincerely grateful.
Smart POS software integrations help retailers achieve more
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Tower Systems offers integrations between its POS software and a range of external apps and platforms to help local small business retailers eliminate double entry of data and thereby reduce the opportunities for mistakes. We are proud of the range and nature of these integrations and the benefits they offer our customers.
We are grateful for the opportunity to integrate our POS software with a range of other applications and partners, enhancing the solutions available to0 our customers and those considering using our POS software.
Here are some of the POS software integrations from Tower Systems:
REMOVE.BG (OTHER)
REMOVAL.AI (OTHER)
CHAT GPT (AI)XERO (ACCOUNTING)
INTERNATIONAL BARCODE LOOKUP (FREE)
ABCIS (ACCOUNTING)
WOOCOMMERCE (ECOMMERCE)
SHOPIFY (ECOMMERCE)
MAGENTO (ECOMMERCE)
BIG COMMERCE (ECOMMERCE)
PCEFTPOS/LINKLY (PAYMENTS)
LINKLY CLOUD (PAYMENTS)
TYRO (PAYMENTS)
SMARTPAY (PAYMENTS)
HUMM (PAYMENTS)
ZIP (PAYMENTS)
CENTREPAY (PAYMENTS)
QUEST (PAYMENTS)
MX51 (PAYMENTS)
WINDCAVE (DPS) (PAYMENTS)
RAA MEMBER (DISCOUNTS)
PINPAYMENTS (PAYMENTS)
XCHANGEIT (EDI)
GNS (EDI)
EASTERN DISTRIBUTORS (EDI)
MAXWELL AND WILLIAMS (HAG) (EDI)
KONGS (EDI)
PERMIER PET (EDI)
MASTERPET (EDI)
AIRR / TUCKERS (EDI)
JUST FOR PETS (EDI)
EVERGREEN CONNECT (EDI)
MAILCHIMP (MARKETING)
MESSAGE MEDIA (SMS SERVICES)
BIKE EXCHANGE (EDI)
EPAY (ELECTRONIC VOUCHERS)
TABCORP (REQUIRES EXCHANGEIT) (LOTTERY)
POSTEC (FUEL)
TANDA (STAFF)
DEPUTY (STAFF)
ALLOTRAC (DISPATCH)
TREK (STOCK)
PACSTREAM (EDI)
TITLEPAGE (EDI)
We are often first with integrations, like our delivery of Linkly Cloud.
We are grateful for the opportunity and proud to deliver a world first – a POS software integration with Linkly Cloud.
That’s right, we have retailers live with our Tower Systems POS software connected to Linkly Cloud for EFTPOS transactions.
Tower Systems makes POS software for specialty retailers in a range of local specialty retail channels.
Linkly is all about Making every payment seamless.
Together, we have delivered a solution that helps retailers save time, cut mistakes and more easily compete with big business.
Tower Systems integrated EFTPOS, connects your Retailer Point of Sale with your EFTPOS terminal, making it the fastest and easiest way to sell.
When it comes to POS software integrations, here at Tower Systems we analyse requirements, talk with customers and consider whether a proposed integration serves the needs of all stakeholders. Then, if it’s a yes, we get about delivering and awesome integration.
Retailers loving the 1% EFTPOS fee rate offer
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Many of our local retail business POS software customers have jumped on the 1% EFTPOS fee rate. This is an optional rate with the choice entirely up to our POS software customers.
Here at Tower Systems we do not require our POS software customers to use any particular EFTPOS or payments platform. We leave the choice to them without any cost or penalty applied. This is a difference we are proud of, that we do not charge customers based on the EFTPOS platform they use. There is no penalty, no demand they use a particular platform.
The 1% EFTPOS cost offer for Tower Systems customers is another way we have sought to reduce operating costs for our small business retail customers.
Customers are loving it.
We also make it easy in our POS software for our customers to pass on actual EFTPOS costs to their customers, making EFTPOS cost them nothing at all in their businesses. That they are passing on a low cost is another way they can differentiate their business.
This 1% EFTPOS cost is for a solution integrated with our software. This means a bunch of benefits, such as:
- Reduced keystrokes.
- Reduced mistakes.
- Reduced accounting and bookkeeping overhead.
- Faster sales processing.
- Better sales counter workflow.
- Lower business costs.
- Easy refund management.
- Easier customer query handling.
- Single point takings balancing for the beguines.
- Reduced employee fraud.
There are plenty of benefits of this POS software integrated EFTPOS solutions beyond the low 1% EFTPOS cost to businesses.
Local retail business management benefits from integrated solutions. They do save time, and they reduce operating costs. That the financial costs are low is a loved benefit too.
We are proud to have been able to leverage this 1% EFTPOS fee rate for our Tower Systems customers, all of whom are local independent retail businesses, small businesses. It’s another way we have been able to help these small businesses get benefits that are often only available to big and national businesses.
Tower Systems is a small business focussed POS software company developing, and supporting POS software for niche specialty retailers. Jewellers, garden centres, bike shops, toy shops, produce businesses, farm supply businesses, fishing shops, pet shops, charity businesses, landscape gardening businesses, antique shops, sewing shops, haberdashery businesses, newsagents and more benefit from this software.
Inspiring indie retail: Press Shop, Atlanta, Georgia
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Different approaches to Valentine’s Day
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We got to see some different approaches to Valentine’s Day recently when in the US looking at indie retail. Here’s a short video os what we saw:
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Small business retail management advice: map your GP by shop floor layout
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A few minutes spent analysing space allocation performance often reveals opportunities based on our years working with and helping local small business retailers.
With retail space usually costing between 11% and 15% of (non agency) revenue, it is usually the next highest cost outside of the cost of stock itself. The key is to make the space work well, to be financially efficient for the business.
Retailers often argue that rent should be lower. It could be that a different view of shop floor performance helps you achieve a better return.
Here’s a quick and easy way to assess your current use of your floorspace:
- Take a blank sheet of paper and sketch out the layout of your shop, marking in display units, shelving, the counter – everywhere you have product. Include your back room if you have stock there.
- Colour-shade the layout by department.
- List the departments on the side of the floor plan.
- Calculate the percentage of total space used for each department. This does not need to be accurate to two decimal places. List this next to each department you have listed.
- Use your POS software to report on gross profit dollars earned by each department over the last year, or calculate it from sales figures knowing the average GP% per department.
- Calculate the percentage of total gross profit contribution earned by each department and list this next to the floor space allocated to each department – on the floor plan map you have done.
- Circle in green those performing the best, where the GP% contribution is more than the GP% space allocation, and in red those performing the worst.
Typically, a business owner doing this for the first time will have an ah ha moment, seeing something they had not realised.
This is advice anyone can use, as any good POS software will report on GP by department. Getting this mapped on the floorpan of your shop lets you see the hot and cold spots, where you are making money, and where you are losing it.
This is retail management advice for any business owner, regardless of education level.
We have seen business owners make changes including to floor layout, quitting suppliers and increasing stock weight for some departments.
You can take the analysis a step further by looking only at one department and analysing performance by category within that department, using the method outlined above.
Our specialty retail POS software can help with this and more business performance analysis.
Our goal is to help you run a more appealing, successful and valuable retail business. As retailers ourselves, we use our software this way every day.
We can help if you are interested.
Find out more: www.towersystems.com.au 1300 662 957 sales@towersystems.com.au
Thanks for reading.
New subscriptions facilities in POS software help retailers to sell and manage subscriptions
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Subscriptions can be challenging for POS software to manage on an on-going basis. The one-off transaction is easy. It’s the repeat transaction, to a timed cycle, that can be the difficulty … which is the very nature of a subscription if you think about it, they are repeat transactions for sure.
Managing subscriptions in POS software is. important. Thanks to some wonderful software development work by our team and advice from sone==me of our customers who sell subscriptions, we are delivering subscriptions management from within our POS software.
Using the subscriptions management facility in our Tower Systems POS software, retailers will be able to manage these repeat transactions, track the records, charges and payments.
For retailers who on-sell subscriptions on behalf of other parties, the subscriptions management tools in the Tower software will be especially useful.
There is no need for an app, or a plug-in or some other software as subscriptions are managed from within our Tower Systems POS software. This means Tower Systems POS software customers don’t have to pay another party a fee to manage subscriptions – it’s included in our software.
Tower Systems is a specialty retail POS software company. We help specialty retailers leverage what sets them apart. Our software continues to evolve in service of this.
By choosing our POS software, you’ll also benefit from a range of additional features, including software for unlimited computers, help desk support from Monday to Saturday, access to a knowledge base, and integrations with leading platforms such as Shopify, Big Commerce, Xero, and more. Furthermore, we provide access to our supplier invoice import tools, making inventory management a breeze.
We know that one category of retailer that will benefit from our subscription management tools is computer shops / IT businesses. These businesses offer to manage subscriptions to software for their customers. Our subscription tools can help them manage this by customer. Our software for these businesses also handles quote and invoice management, repairs management, integrating with online and plenty more. We have grateful to help plenty of computer shops and IT businesses with POS software that has bene found to be of service to them.
Made locally for local computer shops, this POS software for computer shops can help track computer builds, deals for computer / gamer club members, track stock, handle special orders and customers and more.
Disaster planning for local small business retailers
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Whether it’s a natural disaster or not, businesses can be challenged by events that are outside the direct control of the business owners and managers. The key to successfully handling such events is the planning in place beforehand.
No one wants to plan for disaster, most don’t. Those who have encountered disaster, large or small, tend to wish they had better planned for it.
This advice is far-reaching, designed to act as a broad list of steps you can undertake to be prepared, or to at least get you thinking about steps you could take. Do it all or some, but do something … otherwise when you need good planning you will not have a plan on which to fall back.
Disaster Planning
Here are some general suggestions on planning for a disaster in your business property.
- Create action plans for different events so that those working in the business know exactly what to do. here are some examples of such events:
- Power blackout.
- Payments (EFTPOS) outage.
- Flooding or water ingress impacting the shop.
- Police incident directly impacting access to the shop.
- Serious health situation by a customer in the shop.
- Attack by customer against the business on social media.
- Loud complaint by customer in-store impacting other customers.
- refusal to supply by a regular supplier.
- Keep in one secure place off-site copies of: Business contracts and agreements; employee contact details, business account and other passwords, insurance details, recent photographs of fixtures, fittings and stock.
- For records you cannot easily copy or that may change as the trading day unfurls, consider having a go bag ready for you to grab if there is a risk to the premises such as a bushfire.
- Maintain a register of all employees in the business premises at any time.
- Prepare and place in a prominent place an evacuation plan.
- Maintain a professional grade OH&S compliant first aid kit. Have this checked regularly.
- Regularly maintain all fire extinguishers – check with your local fire brigade about this.
- Ensure that the business premises is safe and maintained to the local building codes and OH&S regulations.
- Have a trained first aid officer on staff. Your local St Johns or similar will be able to provide training.
- Use government resources, there are plenty at state and federal levels.
Insurance Protection
Insurance coverage is vital to helping a retail business overcome any type of disaster. In addition to ensuring that your insurance policy covers all disaster situations of concern to you, including flood, theft, water inundation, fire, earthquake, riot—be sure to carefully read the policy, ensure that your insurance policy / policies cover payouts for the following:
- Business interruption. The amount should equal your anticipated gross profit for whatever period you choose to be covered.
- Data recovery. Including the hiring of experts to recover data from backup sources or the manual entry of data which cannot be automatically recovered. It needs to ensure that you are covered to the point of recovered data being useable in transacting business.
- Lost stock. This is stock stolen, lost from the business.
- Damaged and unsaleable stock. This is stock which is water damaged, scuffed or dented and which will not attract full price.
- Dated stock. This is stock that you cannot sell by the due date.
- Many policies require explicit statement of glass coverage.
- Temporary trading premises. Business interruption may cover this. Ensure that it is explicitly stated.
- Key person injury and/or death. This will usually be a separate policy. Depending on the disaster, coverage may also be available through the overall business policy.
Ensure that the value of stock, fixtures and fittings covered by your policy is an accurate reflection of the real value of these items. Talk with your insurance company about the best approach to track this on an ongoing basis.
Insurance brokers can provide access to assessors who can advise on the appropriate level of insurance for your situation.
Use your Point of Sale system to track all stock movements in and out. The stock on hand in your software should be your coverage.
Ensure that your insurance policy protects for the seasonal nature of your business
Data Protection
Business data is one of the most valuable assets of the business. Like insurance, the value is often not understood until you need what you do not have. Retailers who are serious about protecting their business data in the event of any disaster follow these steps:
- Backup your business data every day, at the end of the day, without fail. Use a cloud based backup service that undertakes the backup as the day unfolds without you having to every do anything to cause a backup to be taken.
- Maintain a separate backup for each day of the week. Consider a separate backup for the last day of each month.
- Remove the backup medium, usually a USB stick, from the business premises each day – outside the business property.
- Store the backup in a safe, dry place.
- Check the usefulness of the backup by restoring and checking the data.
- Store original business software in a safe off-site location.
- Check the backup every three to six months – to make sure the backup is actually backing us current data and can be read. A backup you cannot read is a waste of time and money.
- Change your passwords regularly.
- Do not share passwords widely.
Disaster planning is important. When you need it the most is when you face a disaster. Don’t be a business owner who realises that only then.
New 2024 demonstration of POS software for garden centres, nurseries and landscape supply businesses
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We understand that garden centres and nurseries are unique retail businesses that require specialised software to meet your specific needs. That’s why we are thrilled to announce the release of our latest demonstration of our software for garden centres / nurseries / landscape supply businesses, designed and supported right here in Australia. Shot a few days ago by a couple of our experts, this software is loved already by hundreds of garden centres, nurseries and landscape supply businesses.
New POS software for farm supply and produce businesses demonstration
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This latest demonstration of our software for produce and farm supply businesses was shot a few days ago. We are grateful to share it here, for anyone to see.
POS software training when you want it, even overnight
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Imagine being able to learn parts of your POS software as and when it suits you, and that any of your team members can do this – even on a public holiday like today.
Tower Systems makes learning POS software easy thanks to an awesome comprehensive knowledge base and an ever-expanding library of POS software training videos.
Most of these videos have been shot in the last six months. As the software is updated, so are the videos – making the POS software training video library up to date and freshly valuable.
We are grateful to be able to provide this resource to our customers, to help them learn how to get the most out of using our POS software.
ChatGPT AI POS software integration helps local retailers save time and shine
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A year ago, Tower Systems just released POS software with features that save local retailers time and boost sales. The integration of the POS software with ChatGPT was groundbreaking then, and it is loved today.
Here’s what’s what:
AI-powered product descriptions: Struggling to write captivating product descriptions? Enter ChatGPT, the world’s leading AI writing tool, now integrated with our Tower Systems POS software for small business retailers. Input your product title, and ChatGPT will whip up enticing descriptions for both print and online. This optional feature is a true time-saver, especially for busy shop owners.
Focus on capturing attention: This integration isn’t about replacing your creativity. Think of it as a helpful assistant who crafts descriptions likely to grab customer attention, especially online shoppers. You can still write your own descriptions if you prefer, but for those seeking a boost, AI is here to lend a hand.
AI in business: beyond the hype: Forget the headlines about AI writing essays or passing exams. The real magic happens in practical business applications like this. The innovative integration delivered by Tower Systems in its POS software shows how AI can be a valuable tool for any business, big or small.
More AI on the horizon: The Tower team is already cooking up more AI features, recognising the technology’s potential to streamline operations and improve the bottom line.
Embrace the AI revolution: Yes, there’s debate about AI, but Tower folks are clear: We build tools, and this is one businesses want. It’s about giving retailers the edge in a changing world.
Missing out on money? We can help: The new software also includes advanced business insights and management tools. One gem is the “what am I missing out on?” feature. By analysing your sales and inventory history, it pinpoints lost revenue opportunities due to stock shortages. Imagine identifying thousands of dollars in potential sales you could have made with the right stock!
Tower Systems is committed to empowering local retailers with innovative tools like this. With AI in their corner, small businesses can compete and thrive in today’s dynamic retail landscape.
Ready to experience the future of retail? Check out the new Tower POS software and see how AI can help your business soar!
Tower Systems helps small business retailers recover EFTPOS costs with an auto-calculated surcharge
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We make it easy for local small business retailers to accurately apply a surcharge to a purchase based on the type of payment card presented.
With the cost of each card varying and some banks offering card specific costs to businesses, this approach by us makes it more certain for shoppers and retailers when it comes to a surcharge based on the type of card used.
Our POS software talks to the payments processor once the card is presented and instantly a surcharge is calculated and details provided to the shopper. We do this in the way the ACCC requires.
Certain rules apply when a business applies a surcharge to particular cards:
the surcharge must not be more than what it costs the business to use that payment type
the surcharge can only include costs that are for accepting that particular payment. For example, if a business pays an amount for gateway fees for processing credit card transactions only, the business cannot include this cost in its debit card transactions.
This approach meats with legal obligations of retailers in Australia. It also makes it easier for retailers to cover the cost of card payment, which can be considerable based on the type of card presented.
Using the Tower Systems POS software, local small business retailers can apply a credit or debit card surcharge with certainty, ease and confidence. They can provide good customer service and fully inform shoppers such that they may choose another method of payment.
The rules in Australia for applying the same surcharge for all payment types are that it must not be more than the lowest surcharge they would set for a single payment type. This is from their ACCC website. This is why applying a surcharge based on the actual payment type presented can matter – there is a huge different in payment type costs.
Our POS software makes it easy for small business retailers to apply a surcharge and manage toe collection of this and record keeping associated with it. We take care of business for our customers, make their job easier and provide a safe framework within which they transact with their customers.
Excited for the preview of an enhanced POS software function
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We are about to host a secure and private interactive session about a significantly enhanced part of our POS software. The development has taken many months due to the complexity of the specialised area of business this software will serve.
The scope of the work was developed in consultation with the customers keen for the enhancement. The preview will involve them too. This is another step in our atlas test process, which proceeds beta.
We are excited for the feedback and the opportunity to look further down the road.
As a software company we depend on regularly evolving software to extend the reach of and benefits from our POS software. We are grateful to our customers for being there with and for us.
Hey news outlets and reporters, not all businesses and CEOs want employees to return to the office
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It is tiresome reading news reports claiming that businesses and business CEOs want employees to return to the office – often backed by a survey of CEOs.
Sure, some do. But, plenty don’t.
These stories about returning to the office are often vested interest based: landlords wanting their commercial space to be filled, companies wanting the space they have leased to be filled, businesses needing office-based trade to thrive and consultants serving businesses in these situations.
Think about local retailers benefiting from people working from home, regional retailers too. Force people back to the office and they lose the business they have won.
Landlords, property developers and others wanting people to return to the office for selfish reasons need to stop being selfish.
Smart employees of workers who want work from anywhere want their people to work where they are happiest. If that’s home, let them work from home.
Happy employees are valuable to any business.
Journalists and news outlets need to stop being boosters for the selfish demanding people work at the office and not from home.
Families benefit from more time with people able to work from home rather than losing family time to a commute.
Local communities benefit from people working from home shopping more locally and having mor time for local engagement.
Those calling for people to return to the office think their needs are more important than family time or local community time. They are wrong.
At our POS software company, Tower Systems, where people work is up to them. We actually started on this model in 2019, ahead of the pandemic, and then we escalated it to be companywide. We are lucky to be in a business where work location is not an issue.
We hire people we trust, provide them with resources they need and offer as much flexibility as we can in terms of their work situation. We have some team members saving close to twenty hours a week – that’s money in the bank for them.
Sure, we have a small crew in the office, where the job requires it. We support them. We are also grateful that each member of this crew actually prefers to be there, in the office.
Now, we do have a vested interest in all this. We make software for local small business retailers. They benefit from more people who work from home. So, of course we will support work from home from a commercial perspective. But our pitch makes sense right – happy people = productive people = people less likely to look elsewhere = a more successful business.
We think it all comes down to how you view people working in your business. If you see them as a line item on your P&L, a cog in a big machine that serves a P&L result only, you miss the opportunity to see people working in your business as people, families, members of local communities.
We don’t support the calls for people to return to the office and we wish news outlets would stop being used as mouthpieces for the vested interests making these selfish pitches.
The sell anywhere POS solution: Roam from Tower Systems
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Aussie made websites for local small business retailers
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POS software integrations help improve efficiency and reduce mistakes in local small business retail
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Tower Systems offers integrations between its POS software and a range of external apps and platforms to help local small business retailers eliminate double entry of data and thereby reduce the opportunities for mistakes.
POS software integrations are smart in saving time too.
We are grateful for the opportunity to integrate our POS software with a range of other applications and partners, enhancing the solutions available to0 our customers and those considering using our POS software.
Here are some of the POS software integrations from Tower Systems:
XERO (ACCOUNTING)
ABCIS (ACCOUNTING)
WOOCOMMERCE (ECOMMERCE)
SHOPIFY (ECOMMERCE)
MAGENTO (ECOMMERCE)
BIG COMMERCE (ECOMMERCE)
PCEFTPOS/LINKLY (PAYMENTS)
LINKLY CLOUD (PAYMENTS)
TYRO (PAYMENTS)
SMARTPAY (PAYMENTS)
HUMM (PAYMENTS)
ZIP (PAYMENTS)
CENTREPAY (PAYMENTS)
QUEST (PAYMENTS)
MX51 (PAYMENTS)
WINDCAVE (DPS) (PAYMENTS)
RAA MEMBER (DISCOUNTS)
PINPAYMENTS (PAYMENTS)
XCHANGEIT (EDI)
GNS (EDI)
EASTERN DISTRIBUTORS (EDI)
MAXWELL AND WILLIAMS (HAG) (EDI)
KONGS (EDI)
PERMIER PET (EDI)
MASTERPET (EDI)
AIRR / TUCKERS (EDI)
JUST FOR PETS (EDI)
EVERGREEN CONNECT (EDI)
MAILCHIMP (MARKETING)
MESSAGE MEDIA (SMS SERVICES)
BIKE EXCHANGE (EDI)
EPAY (ELECTRONIC VOUCHERS)
TABCORP (REQUIRES EXCHANGEIT) (LOTTERY)
POSTEC (FUEL)
TANDA (STAFF)
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We are often first with integrations, like our delivery of Linkly Cloud.
We are grateful for the opportunity and proud to deliver a world first – a POS software integration with Linkly Cloud.
That’s right, we have retailers live with our Tower Systems POS software connected to Linkly Cloud for EFTPOS transactions.
Tower Systems makes POS software for specialty retailers in a range of local specialty retail channels.
Linkly is all about Making every payment seamless.
Together, we have delivered a solution that helps retailers save time, cut mistakes and more easily compete with big business.
Local retailers keen for a seamless payee its integration and needing a POS solution that is capable, functional, enhanced and reliable – the Tower Systems Linkly Cloud partnership is worth considering.
Tower Systems integrated EFTPOS, connects your Retailer Point of Sale with your EFTPOS terminal, making it the fastest and easiest way to sell.
When it comes to POS software integrations, here at Tower Systems we analyse requirements, talk with customers and consider whether a proposed integration serves the needs of all stakeholders. Then, if it’s a yes, we get about delivering and awesome integration.
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