Wire Transfer Fraud: How Small Businesses Can Pause, Verify, and Protect
An email comes in from an existing client that asks for a wire transfer. The funds appear correct, and the email relates to work you’ve already done together. The only difference is that they want the funds wired to a different account number. Will your staff notice? For small businesses in Cape Coral, Fort Myers, […]
Benefits of KVS in Restaurants: A Calmer Kitchen, One Order at a Time
When the dinner rush comes, all of a sudden everyone needs something. A server checks on the burger twice. A takeout order gets placed. Someone asks for a change, but the chef is already working on the next ticket. All of this is a familiar scenario for most restaurants. Employees work hard; however, it may […]
Catering and Holiday Menus: How a Good POS Can Help
A customer calls to place a dinner order for 20 people. Another customer orders six pies to be delivered on Wednesday. In addition, the lunch rush is starting to pick up. While holiday catering orders are great, managing these orders is not always easy. If you run a restaurant in Southwest Florida, holiday catering usually […]
Dirty Power: How to Protect Your Small Business and POS System
Living in Florida means being familiar with thunder storms and tropical storms. Lights flash. Register starts up again. There is a customer at the register, wondering whether their transaction went through. It only took one second. It takes much longer getting it to work again. While an outage may be a nightmare scenario for a […]
Earned Wage Access: How Early Pay Can Help Your Employees
Payday is on Friday, but your employee’s car breaks down on Tuesday. For someone depending on that car to get to work, those three days feel like a very long time. They have put in their effort and have earned money for it. But they can’t access that money until payday arrives. This is where […]
Florida Cash Rounding Law: What Small Businesses Need to Know
Your customer is paying with cash. The total is $18.42 but there are no pennies in your drawer. How should the cashier proceed? Florida’s law for cash rounding provides an easy solution to this problem. Due to the end of penny production, this law helps solve a small problem that has the potential of causing […]
Promo Cards vs Gift Cards for Small Businesses
One customer purchases a $50 gift card as a gift for his/her friend. Another customer receives a free $10 card from your business. Both cards may contain your logo and lead a person into your business, but both have different roles. Knowing the difference between promo cards vs gift cards may help attract new customers, […]
Why Google Visibility Matters for Small Local Businesses
You can have the best food, honest work practices, or the most friendly storefront in all of town. But your customers will not know about you unless you are easy to find. Think about the last time you were in need of a new restaurant or needed a fix for your home. Most likely, you […]
AI Agents and Payment Security: What Small Businesses Need to Know
You may have heard that OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and one of the leading AI developers, lost control over one of its unreleased models in testing where it moved from the sandbox to other servers without permission. At about the same time, Mastercard released a report on “agentic commerce” covering purchases made by an […]
Hiring Your Kids in Your Small Business: What Owners Need to Know
If you own a restaurant, shop, or service business, chances are high that you’ve hired your children to assist you. Your children have likely worked at the cash register or delivered food items with you at some point in time. Eventually, the time comes when every entrepreneur asks themselves whether it’s possible to employ their […]