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Hey there!
We're over a week into March and the year keeps rolling along. Finished your taxes yet? :-)
It's been an exciting year so far and we wanted to share some recent updates as well as monthly promotions. We continue to seek out solutions that will be beneficial to our clientele - our newsletter and blogs will continue to be focal points for these communications. Let us know if there is anything you would like us to highlight.
Over the last few years we have been seeking out an online POS system that has a strong retail functionality ala QB POS Desktop. QB POS Revel is strong in the QSR and TSR space but is still missing certain retail functionality like Sales Orders and Work Orders. We are confident they will round out the general retail functionality in the product. In the meantime, we have found a strong partner with Lightspeed Retail. A synopsis is below and more to follow. We will also be writing about this in a future Sleeter Report article (see some of our other Sleeter articles by clicking here).
Haven't you always wanted signature capture capability in QB POS Desktop? Well, it is now a reality.
Wazzup with EMV? Below is a brief update. We are writing a more in depth update in the Sleeter Report later this month.
When the iPad POS systems first came out I thought how great it will be to eliminate all those annoying cables and wiring. That just isn't the case and, in some ways, there are even more wires. Well, Kounta has introduced wireless printers so one, maybe two, fewer wires.
Also in this newsletter is a QB 2016 R5 Update, promotions to save you $$, etc.
Any other questions and/or comments, you know where to find us (if you don't know, just click here).
Sincerely,
Paul Glantz
Business Cents
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Lightspeed POS
We've added an solid retail point of sale solution to our portfolio and want to share our excitement. Lightspeed POS has powerful Retail, Restaurant and eCommerce products that integrate with QuickBooks desktop and QBO. It runs on an iPad/iPhone, PC and/or Mac. Interestingly, Lightspeed touts a 60% share of the bike store market. This is mentioned, not because they have a strong vertical, but to emphasize their ability to handle complex retail sales and sales order/work order processes. More on this to follow but check out the video to the right, and the page on our site by clicking right here. We will publish an article in the Sleeter Report of the next couple of months.
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QuickBooks POS iPad Customer Display
Thanks to our friends over at Ability Business, QuickBooks POS Desktop has a customer facing display application for the iPad. The state of California has required all retail operations to provide customer displays since 2007, so if you haven't had a chance, here's your opportunity! Click here for more information, or contact us.
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EMV Update
It's been a while since the October 1st 2015 date requiring all merchants to provide EMV payment options. Intuit has run into some obstacles providing EMV capabilities to the QuickBooks POS Desktop and QuickBooks Payments products. If you purchased an EMV dongle, they have unfortunately been delayed. For more information, click here.
This means that EMV compliance for the other Intuit products has been delayed yet again. Their last target date was end of May but that has been extended. Our gut tells us that it'll be sometime in June but this is just a guess.
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One less of those pesky cables with Kounta
Kounta in combination with Epson have cut the cables required for printing both customer and kitchen receipts. Epson's Intelligent, wireless printers make setting up your POS even easier. Want to embrace the green and ditch paper? Kounta's Bump Add-on has you covered by using an iPad as a kitchen display.
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QuickBooks 2016 R5 Update
Intuit has officially released their 2016 R5 update for all desktop products. Check out our friend Charlie Russell's article on what to expect this time around on the Sleeter Report, right here.
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Promotions
QBES:
- 10% off new QBES subscriptions for 1st year (1-4 Users) (Expires 4/1)
- 40% off new QBES subscriptions for 1st year (5-30 Users) (Expires 4/1)
- 20% off 6-30 added seats, 10% off 2-5 (Expires 4/1)
QBPOS Revel:
- QBPOS, Powered by Revel, $600 rebate with approved POS MAS (Expires 4/1)
POS Desktop:
- Free hardware bundle w/ v12 purchase and approved POS MAS (Expires 4/1)
- OR 30% off POS SW new user MSRP + free PIN pad + 12 months of Payments with $0 monthly fees (Expires 4/1)
- 15% off POS v12 upgrades (Expires 3/25)
We will discount even more than Intuit for our clients. We always meet or beat other offers.
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