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Best wishes for a wonderful 2019 New Year!  

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2018 to 2019

It is hard to believe that 2018 is now almost behind us.  

While in my current role of director today, I spend more time behind the scenes then I used too, I can assure you that my dedication and drive to deliver the highest value product for our clients has continued and I would like to take a quick moment to share my thanks and gratitude to everyone I have had the honour and privilege to meet, work with, and interact with this year.

In 2018, we did over 220 major upgrades to our system, it is faster and more powerful then it is ever been. If you have not seen it recently you probably will not recognise it. Here are some of the notable changes we have done this year.

Software upgrades in 2018

We did over 17,000 support calls seven days a week, 24 hours a day. We never stopped working.

A customer satisfaction score (NPS) has continued to improve. Obviously what we are doing our clients like.

Personally, it has been a great pleasure to work with you.

On behalf of myself and from all of us at POS Solutions we extend our best wishes for the coming New Year and it is our sincere hope that 2019 will bring you joy and prosperity for you, your friends, family, and loved ones everywhere.

 

Bernard Zimmermann

Director POS Solutions

 

“In the New Year, you carry all the experiences of the past years and that is the greatest power of every New Year! This year again, you are less student and more master!” 
― Mehmet Murat ildan

 

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Seasonal greetings to you!

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From my family to yours I wish you, I wish you all a great season. 

It has been a pleasure getting to know you all and sharing your experiences.

Thank you all for your readership to this blog.

I know that every time, I come here I have learned something new and I have thoroughly enjoyed being with you as we share our love of technology.

 

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Inline 4 Cafe

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Busy restaurant

I rarely do an article on one of our clients using our Point of Sale software unless it is exceptional, the Inline 4 Cafe is such a place. It has become a mecca of motorcycle riders and many other people. 

Plenty of bikes

It is partly owned by Carl Cox probably the most famous British record producer and DJ today and possibly in the world too. 

Carl Cox having a beer

So we were so pleased after they went looking at many restaurant and cafe software systems they picked our POS system. These guys wanted the best. This restaurant is often absolutely packed and they needed something that could handle efficiently the volume.

Here is some photos, if you are going past, I do recommend a visit. 

Our bar software

Cafe shop

 

Bar administration software

Cafe and shop software

 

Bike on display

 

Customer restaurant software screen

 

Restaurant software

 

Restaurant Cake stand

 

 

Front cafe cake software

Motor cycle racing team

Bar software

Bar areaBar area

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Retail Express advertising

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.A competitor of us Retail Express, who probably consider us their biggest competitor released many advertisements which we considered as being misleading and deceptive. For the full history of the matter click here 

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When I first started blogging about it, it was just in frustration at Retail Express to fix the matter and the incredible refusal of the major search engines to even discuss the matter.  I was told to keep a record of the matter which I have been doing. So every month, I have to check what is happening and note it down. Since it is I believe a matter for the public, I have been doing that here.

Unfortunately, the page has grown so big, that I need to split the original page which is what I am doing.

So here is the second part.

4 July 2017

It appears that there has been a change in these dubious advertisements

Clearly, they must see us as their major competitor

In Google, they now put their name in it.

They also have added another search provider and again they have put their name on the top

 

On the other hand, they have dropped yahoo which maybe as their daily advertising budget for that is spent, or it may mean something more.

 

 

 

 

Is someone worried about what we consider quite dubious advertising?

 

Update:17 July 2017

These Retail Express advertisements that I consider to be disreputable and shameful have changed again. I am wondering what it must be worth much to them to steal our traffic in such a dodgy way. Have we really taken so many customers away from them because their latest advertisements are getting very close to us again?

Here you decide whether it is misleading

 

 

August 2017 update

Well there are some changes to the current adverting by Retail Express in relation to this form of advertising, it looks like they are no longer using Bing and Yahoo for their advertising, is it Retail Express decision or Bing or Yahoo, I do not know but most PPC that use Bing also use Yahoo and Ask. As you can see nothing in Bing, Yahoo and Ask but the modified advertisements are still going out in Google.

 

 

 

 

Still it does appear that to others like Revel, vendhq or Netsuite that POS Solutions are the ones to beat if, for example, I go to a listing of the top ePOS point of sale companies and I enter in a few of them like Idealpos, I get this, not one of them is there.

 

 

Update 30/8/2017

Well as I stated it appears that several other point-of-sale software suppliers are using us as a keyword. Retail Express have not given up but now appears to be making sure that it does not appear to be "passing on."

Vend's point of sale system, NetSuite , Revel Systems and pbsapos all use this form of advertising too. Here are some screenshoots

 

Update Oct 2017

Overall I was very pleased at first with this month report

If I do a google search "pos solutions australia", I get this, as you can see no retail express, no-one passing off.

 

Then I went to bing and did the same seach

 

Now what do you see? Retail Express heading states "Pos Solutions - Australian...." It is getting very close.

If I do a search with ASK.COM, I get

 

As you can see there is no passing off there.

What really annoys me, is if I put in google "retail express", I see no passing off at all

 

 

On a personal note, I think this is really wrong what is happening here.

 

October 2017 report

 

Well as you can see its not just retail express that are doing these advertisments in October. Checkout the fedeltapos, in the ASK.COM picture where you might looking for us and never realise that it was not us and so click on it. Please let me know what you think of these sort of advertising?

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 2017 report

Well for the first time since this began, I feel positive over this. Here are searches from google, yahoo, bing and Ask. As you can see they look kosher and halal. Why did retail express and others stop, I wish I knew.

Searches for POS Solutions Australia by google

Searches for POS Solutions Australia by Bing

Searches for POS Solutions Australia by yahoo

 

 

December 2017 report

Well for the first time since this began, I feel positive over this. Here are searches from google, yahoo, bing and Ask. As you can see they look kosher and halalic. Why did retail express and others stop, I wish I knew.

Searches for POS Solutions Australia by google

 

 

Searches for POS Solutions Australia by Ask

Jan 2018 report

Well, for the second time since this began, I feel optimistic over this. The ads, when I checked have continued to stop, I still would like to know why retail express stopped, I wish I knew.

 

2 Feb 2018 report

I checked, and these advertisements are still not there.

5 March 2018 report

This is great news, I am happy to report that these dubious advertisements in our monthly check are still not there.

3 April 2018 report

All good, I cannot see these dubious advertisements in our monthly checks.

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22/August/2018 report

I checked, and these advertisements are still not there. I wonder if our recent complaints made a difference.

21/September/2018 report

I checked, and these advertisements are still not there. 

24/October/2018 report

No such advertisements are there. 

21/NOVEMBER/2018 report

No such advertisements are there. 

12/DECEMBER/2018 report

On bing, I have nothing to report

On Google, I found that Retail Express are paying for some advertisement that uses us as the keyword "POS Solutions Australia", but this advertisement by them I do not feel is misleading against us. However, I would not consider their claim valid that they are the "No 1 Inventory POS System" as they claim.

23/Jan/2019 report

On bing, I have nothing to report

On Google, I found that retail express advertisement that uses the keyword "POS Solutions Australia" is no longer there, I wonder why they stopped, I suspect that did it not work for them.

19/Feb/2019 report

On bing, I have nothing to report

On Google, I found that retail express advertisements targeted the keyword "POS Solutions Australia" but clearly marked it on their advertisement as coming from them. 

20/March/2019 report

On bing, I have nothing to report

On Google, I found that retail express advertisements targeted the keyword "POS Solutions Australia" but clearly marked it on their advertisement as coming from them. 

19/April/2019 report

Almost the reverse of March, now on Bing, I found that retail express advertisement targeted the keyword "POS Solutions Australia" but clearly marked it on their advertisement as coming from them. 

On Google, nothing to report

5/May/2019 to 19/June report

Now on both Google and Bing, I found that retail express advertisements targeted the keyword "POS Solutions Australia" but clearly marked it on their advertisement as coming from them. 

19/July/2019

I have nothing to report on Bing or google.

8 August 2019 

Now on Google, I found that retail express advertisement targeted the keyword "POS Solutions Australia" but clearly marked it on their advertisement as coming from them. 

To be continued 

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Pet Shop Software on display at AusPet 2018

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AusPet trade show 2018

Our Pet Shop management software considered the best in Australia will be on show at AusPet 2018 at the Gold Coast Convention Centre on Friday. It has more users than any other Pet Shop Software in Australia.

Its market share has also grown this year thanks to Pet Shops upgrading to our software. What I found interesting is that none of the old-time software companies that used to go to these fairs are there now. We are the last ones left. 

What at the fair, we will be showing off the very latest in Pet Shop software.

As what will be on display is the new software version that is not yet released so even if have our software it is your chance to see what is coming up. 

So if you do get to the fair, do visit our stand #128 and say hello. We are right at the exit so there is no excuse not to come and visit us.

AusPet Stand of POS Solutions

 

Visit us at AusPet 2018 - Booth 128

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I hope you took our advise and made a EOFY sale

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I will not say it was a great EOFY sale we had but it was decent. Australians do tend to buy in these sales because it is their last chance to lock in their tax benefits. This is a study, I read on EOFY sales available here. It works because it is real. It was a great chance a business to buy products it needed and it does confirm what I have said that knowing the marketing season is a big help in marketing in business.

The next big sale will be the stocktaking sale which most of us will start in the next few days. Unlike the EOFY sale, this one is useful for every business, not just those that service business clients.

 

Burden of proof

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A few people asked me today, what principle is there an obligation and responsibility on the person making a claim was to say "that I had 1700 newsagency clients" on the net or anywhere else for that matter, to provide evidence for their claim, e.g. there was an independent audit done by these people, under supervision of these people that .....

This is called the burden of proof,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANZAC DAY 2018

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I believe that a software company is only as good as the support it provides its clients. So our support team is staffed with experienced industry and technical experts committed to the highest level of customer service. Unlike others, we understand your problems and speak your language and our customers enjoy extensive ongoing support via phone, e-mail and the internet from our committed and industry experienced team. So we run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and to ensure you receive the best service.

Today our support staff is available both for urgent and standard calls.

 

 

POS Solutions named the best point of sale software in Australia

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In the rankings for the "Best Point of Sale Systems in Australia",

Number one place was a credit card processor and number two, was us a point of sale software provider with a score of 99.2%

Click here for more details

We are all delighted and excited over this.

PS We have made some special introductory offers for users of other software packages to try our systems in the running here, for more details press here Retail express, Idealpos, MYOB Retail Point of Sale, Tower systems, Vend, and Revel systems

 

 

 

 

Use accounting cloud to get more done

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Why not use technology with automation to increase your business efficiency? With our point of sale software, you can spend less time with many tasks by automating it such as your accountancy to save time and payroll costs. Our POS Software allows you to automate much of the work of transferring your data such as sales, debtors, creditors, stock, etc. into MYOB directly FREE to a cloud or to a computer. You do not need any extra modules or pay monthly fees to do this, so there is no need to enter these numbers into your MYOB program anymore manually.

How much time and money with this save you?

We also have an excellent offer here on upgrading from MYOB retail.

 

With us your Credit Card Payments are Surcharge Free!

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Our clients are our most foremost asset and providing them with the best service is what we strive to deliver. One way we do this is by not surcharging our cclient'spayments. We understand that our clients like using credit/EFTPOS cards so penalising them when they pay us, is annoying to tthem. So POS Solutions is a surcharge-free merchant, that means you are free to use your credit/EFTPOS when shopping with us without any extra fees.

Furthermore, continue benefit clients and will accept payments in the mode that our client is most comfortable with.

 

Support on AFL GRAND FINAL

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This Friday, is a public holiday in Victoria because of the 2017 AFL Grand Final.

 

Support will be as usual as we are diverting the phones to our interstate support bays. Our week-end support and after hours numbers will be the same as usual over the weekend.

Hopefully, you will not need it, so you can appreciate the match, come Saturday.

It has been a great season and being a Victorian, I am now going for Richmond, but I do think that Adelaide is the better team. In any case, as neither team have had a win for ages in the Grand Final, so who ever is victorious its long overdue.

 

 

 

POS software for your newsagency

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Here is our latest brochure for the best point of sale for newsagencies. It's probably now the most popular one in use overtaking many others now in use.

If you are looking at upgrading your software, please take a look. It can do

VIP marketing,

Discount vouchers,

Maximise your stock,

Reduce stock outs,

Handle returns,

Speed up your purchases,

Laybys,

Data mine your information,

Do eCommerce,

Work with tablets,

and much more.

Please have a read here

Major upgrade to our online help system coming

Next User meeting

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We will be hosting on the 10 May 2017 at 10:00 am in our Melbourne Office.

POS Solutions Australia Pty. Ltd.
Fiveways Business Centre
2 Keysborough Close
Keysborough Victoria 3173

In person user meeting for our POS software.

Everyone is invited to attend.

The agenda will be.

1) Bpay Payment
Learn how to integrate Bpay into cash register and process bill payments for any Bpay bill!

2) Website Integration
See our great new integrated Webstore integration with Webtail. Stock control, processing orders, managing customers from your webstore is now all possible through the point of sale software!

3) Stock management
Learn how to use our unique dead/slow reconciliation reports to make sure your stock is on track!

4) Layby management
Still, by far the most popular form of credit in retail today. Learn some of its finer functions.

5) General questions.
Where you can ask anything, you like.

We hope to see you there.

Reservations are essential as if attendance is less than five (5) the meeting may be cancelled. So please send an email to us if you intend to come.
 

 

 

A new helpdesk support person required

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Want or know someone that wants to become a Help Desk Support Specialist?

Well here is a good place for them to start. We have a new position that has opened up in our Melbourne Office for a new helpdesk support person. We are for this position, particularly interested in someone who has good written English as well as point of sale experience.

Update: Details of the position are available here.

 

 

New position

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We have a new position in our helpdesk department in our Melbourne Office, and we are looking for someone to fill it. The successful candidate will require significant computer skills plus and knowledge of point of sale systems preferably ours but people who use other systems would be highly regarded too.

 

This program is widely considered the most advanced point of sale system in Australia so the position is demanding. They will also need good verbal and written communication skills, patience and a desire to help our clients. Significantly extended travel and some lifting are required.
 

For information about the position, please go to seek

 

A song written by one of our former engineers about POS Solutions,

 

 

 

Our point of sale in the major compounding pharmacist in NSW

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A compounding pharmacy prepares individualised prescription medications for patients and animals when mass produced manufactured drugs are unavailable or not appropriate. Some reasons would be.

- The medication is not commercially available
- Special dosages are required
- Some people and animals have special allergic reactions
- Special formulations are required

As you can appreciate, any facility that does such work requires an extremely high standard both in the distribution of products, stock control because of the legal requirements in drugs, a large number of patients and the complex chain of order, it requires an extremely sophisticated point of sale system that is way above the ordinary.

 

So we were thrilled that the major one in NSW, Bova Compounding selected us as an IT supplier servicing vets from across Australia.

 

 

Here are some photos of our system being used there.

 

 

 

 

 

Also here is a youtube if you want to know more what they do.

The Asian Entrepreneur interviews Bernard Zimmermann

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It was a great honour to be interviewed on The Asian Entrepreneur, one of Asia’s leading magazine for entrepreneurs and leaders. Read more here.

 

 

In my interview, I shared my thoughts, insights and ideas on what it was like to have a startup company and the difficults of making it happen and grow into something good.

My favourite question here that I think is very important for all people attempting to be an entrepreneur and create something from nothing was in the section “Any tips for achieving success?” My answer was

Get used to failure, refusal, negativity and mockery.

I see to many people, that if something goes wrong, they do not even start, or they stop. But something will always go wrong, We all fail sometimes, we all have done stupid things, we all have put our foot into it and we all have listened at some stage to the wrong people. As an American president stated
“Sometimes when we reach for the stars, we fall short, but we must pick ourselves up again and press on despite the pain."

or another American president stated

"whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievements and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly."

Business can and is tough, no one said it would be easy. It's not for everyone, but you need to believe in yourself and keep going. It is worth it; you are worth it., now go out and do something amazing.