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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It’s a great time to be a small business or restaurant owner

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It’s a great time to be a small business or restaurant owner if you are a millennial. A recent study showed by the SBCD showed that 49% of Millennials want to start their own business in the next three years. Over half would say goodbye to the daily grind to start their own business with the right resources.

Good job there are plenty of Point of Sale systems to help you get ahead of the curve.

So, why jump on the entrepreneurial wagon? How can a great POS System help me?

INDEPENDENCE. The biggest plus to being your own boss is Independence. You make the decisions; you choose what you do and when you do it. It is important to arm yourself with technology that can grow with you. A POS system can add devices easily. Opening an additional stall at a farmer’s market? Adding a pop up shop during peak season? POS can help you with that, you don’t even need more hardware. You can do it from that smartphone of yours!

CONTROL. Control is a wonderful thing. As a business owner, from concept to creation every inch of the business is in your hands. Complete immersion in your business can be thrilling and overwhelming, so why not use POS to work FOR you. POS improves inventory visibility, helps track sales and works with you to manage total counts and shelf inventory. With a system that can track product to such a high caliber, you will be able to make future inventory predictions more accurately.

FLEXIBILITY Perhaps the biggest plus to running a small business is flexibility. Smaller staff sizes allow businesses to develop personal relationships with the customer, leading to repeat business. With a system like POS you can make sure the customer experience is the top priority. Freeing up employees from time consuming book keeping to focus on activities related to boosting clientele service. Faster checkouts and easy to use systems have customers leaving already planning their next visit.

Sound like it’s for you? For more information on the systems available from CoCard, head to our main website at www.cocard.info.

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Streamline Your Restaurant or Retail Operations With POS

Point of Sale technology enables businesses to improve efficiency, productivity and transparency by tracking sales, cash flow, food/ingredients and inventory as well as simplifying bookkeeping.

POS solutions make it easier, especially during peak hours, for the tracking of high volumes of cash, credit card sales and inventory. A good point of sale system cuts down on theft within a restaurant because each server is accountable for their sales both cash and credit card.

Here are more POS functions that could help you run your business:

  • Point of sale systems streamline operations and keep communication lines clear between wait staff and the kitchen. An order is keyed into the POS and printed in the kitchen.
  • POS systems store more information than the traditional cash register making the information accessible to the business owner at any given time.
  • Business owners can keep track of everything from food/ingredient usage to tracking the most popular menu items.
  • Checking out customers is easier for retail business owners because of barcode scanning.
  • Business owners can access inventory in real time, retrieving exact figures on products or items sold; tracking the movement of ingredients or items effortlessly.
  • Because staff must log into the POS system to begin their shift the POS system also acts as a time clock and becomes the source of reference when preparing payroll.
  • Saving time and money in bookkeeping, most POS systems have the capacity to organize and create profit and loss statements as well as sales tax statements.

POS systems consolidate the whole of your restaurant or retail business with different features to help keep your business streamlined, efficient and transparent. Whether you own a restaurant or a retail store we have a point of sale solution for your business.  Android, Windows, iPad, wireless, mobile and pay at the table, solutions, let’s talk about how a point of sale can help you manage your business.

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