{"id":216,"date":"2015-02-12T06:23:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T14:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2015-02-23T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:24:09","slug":"are-mobile-devices-the-new-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/are-mobile-devices-the-new-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Mobile Devices the New Currency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Are Mobile Devices the New Currency?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/150900770v2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/150900770v2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"150900770v2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Point of Sale News asks, \u00ab<a href=\"http:\/\/pointofsale.com\/201303311340\/Point-of-Sale-News\/How-Close-Are-We-to-Cashless-Commerce.html\" target=\"_blank\">How Close Are We to Cashless Commerce<\/a>?\u00bb and answers with 2020 vision: the prediction that mobile payments may replace cash and credit cards by as soon as 2020\u00a0according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/Reports\/2012\/Future-of-Money\/Main-Findings\/Respondents-thoughts.aspx\">Pew Research Center\u2019s Internet &amp; American Life Project<\/a> on \u00abThe Future of Money.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>With the surge in POS technologies, especially in the hospitality and retail industries, and the \u00abnotable uptick in Smartphone penetration over the last year\u00bb in \u00abnearly every major demographic group,\u00bb the report concludes,\u00a0\u00abit\u2019s wise for businesses to make the payment process as easy as possible\u00bb despite the challenges of mobile payments (issues with various phones, software and apps).<\/p>\n<p>A majority of experts agree that smart-device swiping provides convenience and security among other benefits, making an obvious option to eventually replace traditional forms of payment. Some, however, \u00abexpect this process to develop generationally, with younger users jumping to abandon cash and credit cards while their parents and grandparents may make the move to mobile payments slowly, if at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Impressive <a href=\"http:\/\/timetric.com\/research\/report\/VR0894MR\/\">Timetric statistics out of Sweden<\/a> indicate that with its smaller population and higher proportion of online transactions, the Scandinavian nation \u00abis moving closer to a cashless economy\u00bb which \u00abcould be a harbinger for the rest of the global economy.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Be sure that you&#8217;re ready to take on mobile payments with a robust POS system.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/\">Sintel Systems<\/a> is a quality provider of tailored Point of Sale systems across retail, restaurant and service industries, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/food-service\/frozen-yogurt\">frozen yogurt shops<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/food-service\/pizza\">pizzerias<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/food-service\/sushi\">sushi restaurants<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/food-service\/coffee-77\">caf\u00e9s<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/retail\">retail stores<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a single source for business solutions, our experienced, knowledgeable team negotiates the complex POS landscape to enable you to find the right POS system for your business and budget.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/pos-supplies\/hardware\">Hardware<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/pos-supplies\/software\">Software<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/catalog\/category\/view\/id\/118\">Support<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Mobile Devices the New Currency? The Point of Sale News asks, \u00abHow Close Are We to Cashless Commerce?\u00bb and answers with 2020 vision: the prediction that mobile payments may replace cash and credit cards by as soon as 2020\u00a0according to the Pew Research Center\u2019s Internet &amp; American Life Project on \u00abThe Future of Money.\u00bb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}