SMB Blog

Having a loyal customer base can be the holy grail for most retail and hospitality businesses.

If you’ve started a small online business and want to test the waters, without committing to a brick and mortar lease, markets are a great way to go.

We were blown away by the ease and efficiency, and it soon evolved into a quick way for customers to order hardware.

Your customers are savvy, so you should be too. Online shopping cart abandonment is at a huge 69%, with shipping costs and lack of trust being some of the most prevalent factors.

We consult with our bike retailers to understand clearly what their business objectives are and ensure our Lightspeed POS solution and other inter-related business software assists to achieve these goals

The one size fits all approach can be limiting, and more niche-type stores will find themselves underserved.  More importantly, when you’re limited to going to only one company for any add-on functionality, you’re basically paying money and hoping they did it well enough.

Having significantly smaller start-up costs than traditional systems and a monthly licensing structure, it has given small to medium businesses the opportunity to compete with larger enterprises.

I really like the seamless Deputy and Xero integration, It removes the manual double-entry of timesheets and provides costed rosters. The award interpretation system is also great for compliance and automating penalty rates. 

We love Vend because it's an easy to use, scalable point of sale system that allows us to connect add-ons that can manage an entire business.  It’s a real game changer!

Business owners often wonder about the "ROI of social media". Is my Facebook page actually driving sales?

Outside of the states of California and New York, the adoption of technology is typically mired in regulation and incumbent interests. The best example of this is the continued proliferation of bank checks (or cheques).