How the Cash Discount Program Can Help Your Business Grow

COCARD has always been dedicated to empowering businesses through smart, cost-cutting payment solutions — and our new Cash Discount Program takes this even further. In this quick article, we are going to explore what the Cash Discount Program is, how it can save you money, and how it can keep your business resilient in these uncertain times.

What is the Cash Discount Program?

Leveraging our innovative technology, the Cash Discount Program lets you offset some or all your payment processing fees — so you can save more money and grow your business. This is accomplished by sharing fees with your customers who pay with credit cards, thus providing discounts for customers who choose to pay with cash. As a result, you get to keep more of your sales revenue — and your prices remain the same.

This automated process is compatible with guidelines from major credit cards like Visa and Mastercard, and it conforms with processing regulations. The Cash Discount Program is a great opportunity for businesses that want to put a bit more money in the bank — all while eliminating up to 100% of their monthly processing fees.

How Can the Cash Discount Program Help?

Business owners always strive to cut costs where they can, but in the tail-end of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to save money has become much more serious. Facing an uncertain economic future, it has never been more important to adapt your business model to new circumstances (like to accommodate curbside service or online ordering) and to grow your savings so you can keep your doors open.

Our Cash Discount Program is a great way to keep more of your revenue, avoid crippling payment processing fees, and get the equipment you need to keep your offerings flexible for your customers. Better yet, to take advantage of this program, you don’t even have to make any changes to your menu, inventory, or pricing.

By encouraging your customers to pay with cash, you can avoid hundreds of dollars a month of processing fees — and you only pay a flat rate of $35 a month. At no extra expense, the Cash Discount Program also includes:

  • Free equipment, including a wireless terminal option for takeout and curbside pick-up.
  • Free setup for all your new equipment.
  • Free signage encouraging your customers to pay with cash.

All of this for $35 a month, with no termination fee or contract. To make sure that there are no unnecessary hurdles stopping businesses from signing up for the program, the COCARD team is delaying all billing for 60 days. That means you get two months of service and savings without having to pay a dime.

Empowering Businesses to Excel

By signing up for the Cash Discount Program, businesses can get new equipment, save money on processing fees, and keep more of their revenue. But the Cash Discount Program is just one of many great payment solutions that we offer. COCARD gives you the flexibility you need to streamline payments, management, reporting, and more.

Using our innovative Revonu cloud-based point-of-sale technology, you can support online ordering, a top-end inventory management system, sales and employee dashboards, enterprise loyalty programs, consolidation reporting, and plenty more. Our payment solution also gives you the flexibility you need to manage your business no matter where you are. You can make changes to menu items, prices, descriptions, and promotions (and access all your business reports) from any computer or device.

We believe business owners should not have to waste time and money on inefficient payment processes and cumbersome dashboards. COCARD works for you, so you can spend more time doing what you love.

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Paper vs Plastic: The advantages of paying cash in the Modern Age

It’s no secret, people love paying with credit cards. A recent survey showed that the public favored cards over cash 3:1. It’s convenient, easy and saves pennies jingling in your pockets. Naturally, the acceptance of cards at a retail establishment is great for the consumer, but also means dealing with processing fees, the price of doing business in the modern age. Are you ready to say goodbye to unnecessary credit card fees? Here’s how a Cash Discount Program can help you.

Many smaller businesses are now opting for the “cash discount program” option. The seller offers a discount to those customers paying cash over card, an incentive that can prove very fruitful. The main bonus is that it can reduce credit card processing fees tenfold. If you don’t process the card, you don’t have to pay for the service. It is easier to explain to the customer and is perfectly legal when adhered to correctly.

Of course, the main battle you will always come across in implementing such a program is that for the most part, people don’t carry cash anymore, in a CNBC study in 2017, it was reported that 75% of Americans carry $50 dollars or less on them at any given time, With millennials at the forefront of the plastic revolution.  However, with the recent boom in Farmers Markets, Artisanal goods and a return to supporting home grown, local businesses, a correctly marketed cash discount program could see your business transactions grow exponentially.

As with every move when running your own business, make sure that the program will work for you and the product you are selling. A cash discount program may not be for you. If you think it might be the perfect fit for and your business, It can save you thousands of dollars in processing fees.

For more information, head over to www.Cocard.info

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Merchants Show Increased Demand for Integrated POS

NMPL5275-1024x682-1024x6821-1024x682Basic processing systems will no longer cut it in the payment processing industry. A terminal is viewed as the bare minimum in today’s market, and merchants are finding it more necessary to integrate multiple technologies in their software applications. Now merchants are able to run their entire business and collect payments on the same device.

Aside from the decrease in technology prices, tablet technology now allows merchants to get all of the products they normally couldn’t afford in one simple tool. When this is coupled with the fact that merchants are becoming more skilled and innovative in the payment industry, it becomes apparent that tablet based systems is the answer to all payment processing problems.

POS systems used to cost thousands of dollars, but now with integrated technology, merchants are able to afford the programming with rates as low as $50 a month. Also, the fact that different merchants required varied solutions gives more power to integrated POS systems. Systems that cover more bases and provide more solutions are being created on a more frequent basis, and industry specific tools are developing rapidly.

Because the industry standard for tools has changed so much, it is more important than ever that your POS system is top of the line. CoCard not only provides state of the art POS programming for tablets and devices, but also has a mobile payment application called ‘CCMobile’ that completely integrates a merchant’s business transaction data. Whether your business is in retail, restaurants, or any other industry specific trade, allow CoCard to provide cutting-edge POS solutions to simplify your daily process and reduce expenses. Call us for more information!

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