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Understand the systems behind your business.

Practical guides to payments, settlement, EPOS, ecommerce and connected commerce — written for business owners, not software engineers.

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Payments

Why Your Card Rate Is Only Part of the Cost of Taking Payments

Transaction rates matter — but settlement, fees, hardware, integration and administration can matter just as much.

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Banking & Settlements

What Happens After a Customer Pays? Understanding Settlement

Follow a card transaction from the terminal to your business account and understand what determines when your money becomes available.

7 min readRead article

EPOS

Does Your EPOS Actually Connect With the Rest of Your Business?

Your till can process sales perfectly and still create unnecessary work if orders, payments, stock and accounting sit somewhere else.

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Ecommerce

The Hidden Cost of Running Your Website and Shop as Separate Businesses

Why disconnected products, orders, stock and payments can turn an online sales channel into another administrative workload.

7 min readRead article

Connected Commerce

One Sale, Five Systems: Why Small Businesses End Up Doing the Same Work Twice

Follow one transaction through EPOS, payments, banking, inventory and accounting to see where duplicate work appears.

7 min readRead article

Commerce Technology

What Is a Connected Commerce Stack — and Does Your Business Need One?

A practical guide to how payments, EPOS, ecommerce, banking, inventory and accounting can work together — and when integration is actually worth it.

8 min readRead article

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