A well designed loyalty plan will encourage customers to shop more often and spend more when they do. More importantly, an effective plan must increase sales enough to justify the cost of managing the plan in addition to covering the cost of the awards. The Merchant Plus! Loyalty Plan module offers tremendous flexibility in allowing […]
Archives for 2015
Support for Windows 8.1
Smyth Retail is happy to announce the release of Merchant Plus! version 5.1 which includes limited support for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. This release is required if any client workstation is using Windows 8.1. However, it is important to note that this version can not be used at all and will not […]
Be careful not to Upgrade to Windows 10 before it’s time!
Be careful to not inadvertently install Windows 10! Microsoft has made recent changes to move toward automatic updates, like Apple and Android does. The good news is that Windows 10 will be free for anyone running Windows 7 or Windows 8. Unfortunately, many third party applications and hardware drivers must also be updated to run […]
Are your customers ready for EMV?
For all the talk about security, mandates, and liability surrounding the internal changes retailers need to make to support chip cards and mobile wallets, perhaps the most important challenge retailers will face will be in communicating these changes to their customers. Is your staff ready to help customers learn to use these technologies? The EMV […]
EMV Solution is Certified
We are happy to announce that our credit card processing partners are now certified to process EMV transactions using Chip and Signature technologies. As Justin Ziegler says in this press release: “Mercury has been very aggressive in assisting the integration channel to deliver a full suite of payment security options to their merchant base, including […]