Daily Archives: Thursday March 19th, 2015

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 […]

Payroll giant ADP has released its National Franchise Report which claims that U.S. franchise employment added 25,060 jobs in October — a figure substantially greater than in recent months. We at Sintel found this of particular interest due to the momentum we’ve witnessed in the retail and restaurant franchise sector, […]

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 […]

The phenomenon and randomness of the Yelp user review continues to rattle small businesses, and restaurants in particular. Restaurants account for the largest slice of the Yelp pie (with shopping a distant second and nightlife an even-more-distant third), and estimates are that more than 40% of restaurant patrons review their […]