Many of todays cash registers have an option for integrated credit card operations. Having credit card transactions interfaced has numerous advantages. The number one benefit is stopping errors in entering dollar amounts. The cash register will run the credit card for the amount of the sale, which keeps clerks from having to re-enter the amount into a standalone credit card terminal where miss-keyed dollar amount can be costing you thousands of dollars each year. Yes that sounds like too much for simple errors, well how many times has a sale of $29.64 been entered as $9.64 or $2.64? I’ll bet many more times then you know. Audit your transactions from the credit card machine to the credit card payment type tender button on your cash register and you will see what I’m talking about. There are many more reasons for integrating that I could boor you with. Bottem line is the cost has come down to about $799.00 for the terminal, which is a little more then the cost of a standalone terminal but the saving are more then worth the investment.
