Vend, cloud-based retail technology platform announces a new partnership with mobile payments provider iZettle, offering retailers a simpler, faster way to process credit card payments.
The cloud-based system adds a portable card reader to the Vend Register iPad App, turning Apple’s iPads into mobile cash registers. As an integrated payment solution it adds security and certainty to the sales totals customers are paying. Retailers can now liberate the sales process from behind the counter and make sales at any event, pop-up, trade fair or indeed anywhere there is internet or data access.
Not only does this partnership simplify and speed transactions for customers, it also limits errors from dual entry of prices – once into a point of sale and once into the card reader, which can lead to significant values of transaction errors every year. Combined with a barcode scanner and a Bluetooth receipt printer, this solution offers retailers a true mobile POS environment.
Etsy.com, the online vintage and handmade marketplace, previewed the technology at its Etsy House pop-up store in Covent Garden, London, in December 2014.
John Coulston, Vice President of Sales at Vend says, “We want to make life as easy as possible for retailers. Our partnership with iZettle creates an incredibly flexible platform, which is simple to set-up, manage and customise. It also improves the experience for shoppers, slashing queuing time and enabling them to make purchases from sales assistants as they move around the store.”
“Partnering with Vend opens up fast and secure card payments for thousands of small businesses,” says Jens Munch, VP strategic partnerships at iZettle. “It will enable retailers to process payments in an enjoyable and even more convenient way.”
This video shows the system in action and it is very quick to set-up at pop-up shops, farmer’s markets and exhibitions as well as for permanent stores:
Source: Vend Limited
