Point of Sale

Always be on the look out for different marketing tips! Let us share 7 top marketing tips from Round House: The Creative Agency. 1. Define your objective. A marketing objective is the specific goal of the marketing campaign. It should be precisely defined, able to be measured, achievable and timely. This allows you to determine the relative success of a...

Need to expand your horizons in the field of POS? Here is some advice from Entreprenuer.com on what kind of POS System you should be looking for. Shopping for the Right POS System In looking for a POS system, the choices are many, the price can range from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars, and the final decision can...

Image courtesy of TechForever.co.uk Trying to keep up with the times? In recent news by the LA times, your candy shop maybe effected by new technology in the near future as just this year Hershey announced their multiyear partnership with 3D Systems. If this idea trends well, you might not only be noticing a change in your Hershey's chocolate...

A highlighted business tip from an EKS&H article: No 4: Lead with Balance It pays to lead with balance, especially during troubled economic times. When business slows, you might be tempted to lean the way of the strangler. However, stranglers rarely maximize the growth potential of their businesses. Do your best to stay balanced. Stay open and take a careful...

Let us begin with a highlighted business tip from an EKS&H article that sparked this No 2: Hug Your Customers Ask your customers how they are doing. After all, the health of your customer’s business drives the health of your business. Approach your customers with a sense of humility. Spend some time listening and asking questions. Be proactive, and let...

A highlighted business tip from an EKS&H article: No 1: Stay Engaged With Your Employees As a leader in your business, you must provide employees with a sense of stability and confidence during times of economic unrest. Let them know that you are in control of the situation, and be a force for optimism. When job markets are good, employees...

Here at Sintel Systems we work with big and small businesses of all types. When it comes to differentiating the two, the 80/20 Rule that Perry Marshall speaks of on Entreprenuer.com comes into mind when noticing the differences between the small and big operations. Marshall begins by discussing how small-business owners tend to waste their time on $10 an hour...

Self-Cleaning Plates by Tomorrow Machine The future is upon as some thinkers, inventors and such futurists of the world are advancing us for a future of planned green goodness. With iphones, robots, google glasses, and 3D printing upon us, it's only a matter of time until all this technology shifts and changes the way we operate and facilitate exchanges...

Managing and owning a business isn't an easy job. It can be quite stressful as tasks begin to pile on and on. Contributor Travis Bradberry, author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0 and cofounder of TalentSmart, writes about the importance of staying calm. The article "How Successful People Stay Calm" is featured on Forbes.com it discusses how one's success does in fact...

If you're opening up a new business this summer then you know that right now it's crunch time before the season hits. Everyone is waiting for their vacation filled with frozen yogurt, barbeques, swimming pools and shopping sprees. Here at Sintel Systems we know that prospective opening dates don't always go accordingly to plan, especially with first time business owners...

If you own a business, you have felt the weight of menial tasks breathing down your back each day. As much as you want everything to be thoroughly thought out and looked at, in reality to move forward you have to leave what's left behind and keep moving forward. Tomorrow is another day and new opportunities are arising as we...

  Are you thinking about opening up a candy store? Like we mentioned in our last article on pizza shops, the best way to discover your own unique idea is to explore what's already out there. Fuzziwig's Candy Factory is a successful candy shop franchise that grew from just one store in 1995 to 20 stores by the end of...

¿Quién puede proporcionar sistemas punto de venta en Español para su restaurante, pizzería, taqueria, heladería u otras industrias? ¿Quién también puede proporcionar apoyo técnico y capacitación en Español? La respuesta es Sintel Systems. No importa si usted está buscando un sistema TPV para su restaurante en Río de Janeiro, Terminal-PuntoDe-Venta-TPV para helados de yogurt en Latinoamérica en la Ciudad de...

Cheese Board Pizza located in Berkely, CA is a small locally owned jem of a pizza shop. An exciting part of the community, this shop really knows the meaning a specialty pizza. Cheese Board only concentrates on perfecting one type of unique pizza per day. This style gives their shop originality (an essential from standing out from the rest) and...

Celebrate with FREE frozen yogurt! Sintel Systems has a very close relationship with frozen yogurt. Being the number one provider of Frozen Yogurt POS systems and all, we know the fro yo market in and out. We probably say those two words together more times than you say "hello" in any given day. According to Food.com "Every Day is a...

Gift Card Reports Today Sintel Systems is addressing what happens to your money and your reports when you sell gift cards. If you've made any gift card sales today you won't be receiving any of that money when you make your settlement for the night. Gift cards are a liability and should be looked to as a different entity from...

Sintel Systems provides quality POS hardware, software, training & support and even custom colored gift cards for countries across the globe. With the ease of our user-friendly program, POS set up is just a phone call away, Sintel Systems can provide a full one-stop POS package anywhere around the world without ever having to physically be there. Sintel Systems: Your...

Just in case you haven't had the chance to see our latest stylish POS Model 5i yet. We just wanted to make a quick post noting the POS dimensions of this pretty little POS system that could be outfitted to enhance the zen and decor or your business establishment. The Model 5i is sleek, stylish and eye-catching. It presents a...

In a recently published article on Entrepreneur.com, the following headline was presented: "Which Point of Sale System Should I Use? I am on a tight budget and opening a retail Christmas and candy shop. What would you recommend for a point of sale system for a small startup like this? What are the pros and cons of using traditional or...

We certainly don't plan on selling POS systems in space anytime in the near future, as NASA probably has no current plans to launch a pod of people into space to facilitate any point of sale transactions. But nevertheless here at Sintel Systems we still find the latest idea for launching pizza into space pretty cool and we wanted to...

Sintel Systems is listening in on the controversy about the current high credit/debit card fees. In recent reporting by Yahoo Finance, the National Retail Federation is taking measures to fight back against those stifling swipe fees: January 17, 2014 - 10:15 am NRF asks Appeals Court to uphold order for lower swipe fee cap (V) : The National Retail Federation...

Up Up and Up!!! To keep your business thriving, here are just a few of the 26 best motivational business quotations from ResourceNation.com: motivational business quotations -If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow – Isaac Mophatlane -People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the...

Sintel Systems continúa sirviendo el creciente mercado en la industria helado de yogurt self serve en Costa Rica ofreciendo una verdadera solución TPV Terminal Punto de Ventadesde la capital desde San José, Puerto Limón, Alajuela a San Francisco. Costa Rica continúa expandiéndose, Sintel Systems está listo a abordar todas las necesidades Punto de Venta de la región centroamericana, incluyendo México...

Battery Backup is your POS System best friend! Other than being a warranty requirement that each POS system is connected  to a battery back UPS unit(s) with a minimum output power capacity of 600 Watts/1000 VA with maximum input current of 12A and input breaker capacity of 15A, this protective unit will ensure that your POS systems enjoy a long...

Image courtesy of FastCompany.com of article Starbucks's Shoddy Square Rollout Baffles Baristas, Confuses Customers Are you making plans to open up your prospective business? Sintel Systems understands that clients are always looking for the most cost efficient ways to open up their store by cutting costs where it is necessary. Many times clients come to us describing that they...

Dunkin' Brands CEO Nigel Travis officially announced this Monday that the company plans to launch a new loyalty program later this January. Members will earn 5 points for every dollar spent. Once a member reaches 200 points they receive a medium-size beverage. According to The Wall Street Journal DD article (found here), competitors like Startbucks and Panera Bread have already...

Business Advice This article topic started out with the title of "Treating Your Vendors Like Your Customers." But as research went on to find what other bloggers were writing about this topic, more articles were found with the titles of "Treat Your Employees Like Your Customers" and "Treat Your Customers Like Family." These were all very valid points, something we...

Sintel Systems recently assisted Bessy's Frozen Yogurt located in Monticello, AR with their opening in October 2013. With a tiki, beach themed decor Bessy's is an inviting atmosphere for the younger crowd as well as the adults. Bessy's stands apart from the rest with it's unique design and cozy atmosphere of a family operated business. 509 Hwy 425 South Monticello...

POS Technical Support With the advance of the technological age comes the realm of POS Technical Support. We've all had to call (or wanted to call) technical support one way or another for our electronic devices that start wigging out and doing strange things. Weird windows pop up saying "Built-in Administrator won't allow..." or "Error: 54729 must install..." What do...

Image courtesy of CapitolHillSeattle.com from Correctto. Are you struggling with a business that is seasonal or only fully operational during certain times of the day or week? Here at Sintel Systems we provide POS service for a wide arrange of customers and we know it can be a challenge to find the perfect mode of operation. We just wanted...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) will continue to be affected by trends, some new and some continuing, according to the experts queried by ERP observer EnterpriseAppsToday.com. "The Top 8 ERP Trends for 2014," EnterpriseAppsToday.com's recent blog post is a fascinating read on the changes, and challenges, ahead for ERP. Time to start planning — for how you'll be making resource plans...

Photo courtesy of FineDiningLovers.com/blog/news-trends/food-infographics-mobile-food-trucks/ According to Entrepreneur.com, there are approximately 3 million food trucks operating in the U.S., more than 5 million food carts, and an unknown number of kiosks. Food trucks have become very popular within the last decade, especially with the rave of the LA-Based Kogi BBQ food truck back in 2008. People are excited by amazing...

Change in the point of sale (POS) landscape is fast-paced and fraught with the creative destruction typified by new enabling technologies and business models. Take, for example, a post we spotted at PointofSale.com, "The New POS Model: Direct to End User?" The post states that the existing model of value added resellers (VARs), that of being middlemen between point of...

So you have your business plan. You're ready to launch, as all the material you need is laid out in front of you ready for implementation. But wait, you can't launch a business with no name right? How will people know what to call you by? One can look at it this way, your business is kind of like having...

Do you sell frozen yogurt, ice cream or any other product that changes with the season? Are you thinking of ways to switch over your store with the change of the seasons? Many retail stores already make the shift moving from summer wear, to fall wear, winter wear, spring wear and finally back to summer. FroyoWorld recently launched their new...

The U.S. Post Office (USPO) is embracing change and testing a mobile point of sale (mPOS) system to reduce customer wait times for most routine transactions. We learned of the program in a PostalNews.com post, "USPS testing mobile POS technology." Sintel is the only full-service, direct-to-user POS provider — no resellers, no middle man. From software development to franchise incubator...

It is the general rule of thumb that the stamina needed to run a business is no easy slice of pie. Creating your own livelihood for yourself and your team members takes a lot of time and energy. Within that field is your mental strength, the driving force upon how successful business owners maintain focus of time and energy in...

In her post, "Females and Franchising: No Longer A Man’s World," on the entrepreneur-oriented website SmallBusinessBonfire.com (SBB), Amanda Richter outlines the challenges and opportunities women have in considering a franchise career. We have blogged in the past about the five factors that make a difference to influence franchise success. In this post we'll summarize the highlights of Ms. Richter's remarks about women...

It takes a lot to shut down a frozen yogurt shop considering our self-serve frozen yogurt store in North and South Dakota are always open, but a Nor'easter massive storm has 100 million Americas contained in its area covering from all of New England to West Virginia and parts of Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina. Disruptions in merchant account services...

With technology exponentially growing more advanced with each new year that comes along in the 21st century, there are still many shops around that are still using the old manual cash register method (with the phone line credit card processor on the side). Sintel Systems knows that for some, it feels like too much of a major investment to purchase...

Do you love ice cream sandwiches? Have you heard about the fabulous frozen yogurt sandwich the Frookie yet? Well we know that not everyone is as knowledge about frozen yogurt as we are here at Sintel Systems, since we are the number one provider of custom tailored Frozen Yogurt POS systems. So we just wanted to share the news on...

Here at Sintel Systems we understand that it can be an overwhelming task deciding which Retail POS Software to use. With the ever increasing market for POS systems all across retail stores nowadays it's hard to know how to make the right choice. Sintel Systems offers all these basic features with our software for you store. Here are a few...

In a recently issued press release, Target has confirmed reports of a major data breach between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15, 2013 that may have affected as many as 40 million cards. The dates included Black Friday, the notoriously busy shopping day following Thanksgiving. Target says the unauthorized access to payment card information may have impacted customers making credit and debit...

Sintel Systems is your one true stop for all POS solutions. We provide you your hardware, software, training, support, gift cards and even business tips for your market. Here at Sintel Systems we know POS, however often times business owners can overlook the importance of fully training their staff with POS before the first day of opening. "I've seen businesses...

Here at Sintel Systems we love frozen yogurt as much we love supporting our froyo POS clients. We love it even more when our customers are innovative with their froyo treats! We're excited to introduce your next dessert obsession: The Hot Fronini. This next best treat is made with smooth, creamy froyo inside warm sweet bread. FroyoWorld introduces the Hot...

For today's retailers, taking care of business means enterprise resource planning (ERP); efficient, tightly integrated systems, including accounting, point of sale (POS), inventory control and forecasting. "The Top Five Signs Your Business is Ready for an ERP System," a recent article on ERP provider NetSuite's website NetSuite.com, provides a quick summary of the problems and frustrations addressed by enterprise resource...

Sintel Systems knows Bakery POS. And as a full retail provider of custom tailored Bakery POS, we know that it's of no question that owning a bakery means having one of the highest profit margins in the food service industry businesses out there. Baked goods are easy to supply for, but real success is determined by your unique recipes, marketing...

The good news is that your merchandise is flying off the shelves. The bad news is, your merchandise is flying off the shelves — thanks to shoplifting. For this blog post, we flip things around and give you the bad news first, followed by some good news about how a robust POS systems from Sintel can be your greatest ally...

Based upon "Retail IT Forecast 2014: It’s All About the Consumer," a recent article at Business Solutions' IT Channel-focused website bsminfo.com, retailers proclaiming themselves as "consumer-focused" seem ready to walk the talk. Business Solutions surveyed its over 40,000 newsletter subscribers about their 2014 technology plans over a broad variety of disciplines, including in-store hardware and software, marketing & operations and...

What are franchisers to make of the growing movement among low-wage fast-food workers in the U.S., demanding an increase from the current $7.25 an hour minimum wage to a $15 an hour living wage? Just as we share our vast point of sale (POS) experience and expertise with startup owners in order to help them make the best decisions from...

With many of today's style-savvy retailers demanding both lower prices and higher aesthetics in their point of sale (POS) solutions, many value added resellers (VARs) recommend an iPad, or some other mobile tablets, in this style-starved market. From our insider perspective, that approach is unsustainable, penny-wise and pound foolish. Given the strong presence Sintel Systems has in the retail restaurant...

It's no question that donuts are a commodity. It goes with our coffee, tea and fills our offices in the mornings. Are you thinking about your next move for opening up a doughnut shop? What's your next move for fitting your shop with the right Donut POS System? What makes us special is Sintel Systems is the only one stop...

Have you ever thought about opening up your own candy shop? Have you already been researching the internet for all the candy and decor that you're going to have for your store? What about your Candy Shop POS System? It's the Point Of Sale powerful machine that's going to take care of all your accounting and customer transaction needs. Start...

For today's retailers, taking care of business means mobile point of sale (MPOS). Cash registers have left the building, or are on their way out the door. "The Cash Registers Days Are Numbered," a recent article citing a Onepoll study on POS industry website PointofSale.com, states that over half of Americans believe the cash register is "outdated" and will be...

New York - December 4, 2013 - Tutti Frutti continues it expansion across several continents with self-serve frozen yogurt point of sale (POS) provider Sintel Systems (www.FrozenYogurtPOS.com) How to order your Tutti Frutti POS system: 1. http://www.TuttiFruttiPointofSale.com/ or Call 855-POS-SALE and ask for the Tutti Frutti franchise POS package. 2. Take care of all your other opening needs. 3. Receive...

As retailers' information technology focus shifts from the front-of-house cash-collection to integrated systems with stock management and accounting capabilities, their Point of Sale (POS) systems, historically a standalone, front-end technology, are now being folded into Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. In an iStart.com feature, "Integrating POS with ERP Changes Face of Retail," Anthony Doesburg writes about the reasoning behind this...