Save thousands purchasing refurbished Kitchen equipment from SilverChef! 

Currently, SilverChef pre-approves up to $65,000 of low-interest loans within a 3-minute application process.

Select your equipment from the below screen and we will get back to you with a quote and financing options in no time!

SiverChef is a professional Australian wide supplier of high quality refurbished Kitchen Equipment, and services all major metro areas including Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Canberra, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, and Melbourne.

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Barcode Check - Ensure your barcodes scan first time, every time, all over the world.

With the GS1 Australia barcode check, you can check one your barcode.

Quality barcodes help to deliver uninterrupted supply chain performance, and testing barcodes prevents the costs associated with non-compliance, and fosters stronger trading partner relationships.

GS1 have tested more than 1.5 million barcodes to ensure they scan first time, every time.  

It's preferable to submit your barcodes in their final form, however GS1 can also test loose labels and packaging.

GS1 test on a range of factors - including compliance to global standards, size, colour, print quality, numbering and more.

Once tested, GS1 will provide you with a GS1 Australia Bar Code Verification Report, indicating the compliance of your barcode and if necessary, any changes you may need to make.

Generate more revenue and increase brand awareness through the use of thermal paper receipts

Most businesses hand out thermal POS receipts not only for tax and compliance reasons, but to also facilitate with any return of goods (retail) and for general customer satisfaction.

Unfortunately most businesses are not making the most of their thermal paper receipts.

Receipts can engage customers, amuse or even stimulate more purchases. Receipts can instantly communicate to the customer who the vendor is.

In summary, a well-designed and well-utilised printer receipt can help make money and promote your business! It is also easy to implement and doesn't cost much.  

Ways to achieve this is to:

1. Include the company logo on the receipt, making it more attractive and enforcing the brand once more, especially when your customer is at home and doing their tax return or financial reconciliations.

2. Include a Coupon with an expiry date, this way the customer must hold on to the receipt.

3. Engage your customer with your receipt for example AllReceipts (from Star Micronics), or have a look at SmartReceipt. SmartReceipt will let your printer dynamically create receipts with specialized coupons and other offers.

How do you create/set up the logo? Here are links to some of the major receipt printer manufacturers:

1. Epson
2. Star
3. Seiko 
4. Citizen 
5. Brother

Example 1:

Example 2: This receipt has compelling information and is likely to be valued by the client, notice both the use of the QR code, and the free offer of a cookie, to get the client clicking on the website, generating more traffic: 

Please contact us if you have any questions!

- January 12, 2016 -  Click here for the original article.

It may be unofficial......but we have confirmation that Vend is now compatible with the beautiful Star Micronics mPOP Point of Sale, Bluetooth, All in One device!!

This is great news for retailers and restaurant owners looking for that edge. The mPOP is another great addition to the reliable and high performing Star Micronics product range.

Vend have taken quick action to ensure that the mPOP is compatible with Vend, it will certainly give Vend a competitive edge over the many other POS software apps out there.

Please contact us for further details!

Congratulations to Hike POS for this amazing achievement, Top 5 at the OzApp Awards!

POS'99 is proud to be a technology partner of Hike POS. 

The Hike POS founder and CEO, Hiren, is determined to change the retail and hospitality environment we operate in today with this amazing app. "While Hike has not able to win the top spot, it was a great honor to be there and get selected in the top 5 out of 180 strong contenders. We got to meet some industry heavyweights at the event."

And POS'99 got a mention as well! 

Step by Step guide on how to program your Socket 7ci out of sleep mode, to speed up the Point of Sale sales process.

The Socket 7ci cordless and bluetooth barcode scanner will power off every 2 hours by default, when not in use.

To disable the power off timer, please scan the below the command barcode to configure your Socket scanner. 

Note: The Socket scanner should not be paired to the iPad or PC/Mac before scanning the below command barcode, or simply turn off your Bluetooth on the iPad or PC/Mac before scanning the command barcode:

The New PC42t Economical Thermal Printer from Honeywell

Honeywell has over 40-years experience in designing barcode label printers. With the introduction of the PC42t, they have created a thermal transfer desktop printer that meets the needs of a wide range of markets globally.

Choosing the right Barcode Scanner

One of the most important factors to consider when choosing a suitable barcode scanner is the type of scanning engine built into it, and is ultimately dependent on the type of barcode you will be using and reading in your business operations, and the performance of the unit you will require.

Important questions you should ask yourself before purchasing a scanner:

• Is it compatible with your software?
• Can you stay connected to your PC or Tablet 
• Where will the scanner be used? 
• Is it a rugged environment? 
• How often will it be used? 
• What kind of barcodes will you be reading? 

There are 3 main types of scanning engines:  Laser, Linear Imager, 2D Area Imagers

LaserScanners (1D)

This is the most common scanner type, and uses a red diode laser to read the reflectance of the black and white spaces in a barcode. Laser Scanners can only read standard linear (1D) barcodes and are usually the most cost effective option. 

Laser Barcode Scanners are mostly available in Handheld / “Gun” form, but are also used for counter top and fixed mount applications. Laser scanners provide excellent scanning accuracy and productivity, and in turn allows operators to achieve high productivity

Laser scanners offer a number of advantages for a multitude of applications and should be considered the technology of choice for:

• Decoding at long distances
• For Self-Service shopping 
• Decoding UPC / EAN and other 1D barcodes, used in retail
• Applications that require motion tolerance
• Outdoor use

Most standard laser scanners can read barcodes from a few inches to a foot or two away depending on the size of the barcode. There are also extended range laser scanners, which can read up to 35ft away when using large, reflective labels. Laser scanners are capable of decoding barcodes over wide ranges and can achieve 50% more range than digital imagers.

While laser scanners may prove to be advantageous in specific applications, other markets and business operations are better suited for digital imagers or a combination of both technologies.

Linear Imagers (1D)

Linear imager scanners, like Laser Scanners, can also only read 1D barcodes. 

These imagers do not read reflected light from the laser, they take a picture of the barcode, and then analyse this image to extract the information from the code. 

Linear imagers have become a good replacement for Laser Scanners, as the read ranges and costs have become more aligned. It is also true that a Linear Imager does a better job of reading poorly printed or damaged barcodes, compared to Laser Scanners. 

For applications that need a more aggressive scanner, a linear imager will be a better fit, for the same cost.

2D Imagers 

2D imagers also capture an image to analyse, just like the Linear Imager, but these scanners can read all types of barcodes, including 1D, 2D and stacked. 

Another important and useful advantage these Imagers have is that the orientation of the barcode is not important when reading (i.e. omni-directional). With Laser Scanners and Linear Imagers, you have to line up the indicator horizontally across the barcode, and this takes up valuable time.

A 2D imager is more intelligent and is taking a more detailed image, and can read a code in any direction, resulting in faster reads with less aiming. In addition to 1D barcodes, digital imagers (also known as area imagers) can decode 2D barcodes, and 2D barcodes can be encoded with significantly more information than 1D barcodes.

This makes Digital Imagers beneficial to:

• Transportation
• LogisticsT
• Tracking applications

Area also imagers have the capability of reading Direct Part Marking (DPM), a method of permanently marking a product. DPM is growing in popularity and allows a product to be tracked throughout its life.

Digital imagers offer many advantages in certain applications, but area imagers are not to be confused with linear imagers. Although data is captured in a similar way, linear imagers aren’t capable of decoding entire images or 2D barcodes as an area imager can.

2D imagers can also read barcodes off of most surfaces including a phone screen or monitor, and as a result are becoming more popular in most industries to speed up scanning applications and to help expand ways in which barcodes are used.

Imagers have proven to be beneficial in the following applications / areas:

• Decoding critical tracking information
• Reading Smartphone & Tablet screen barcodes on email
• Decoding all kinds of 1D and 2D barcodes
• Decoding DPM (Direct Part Marking)
• Capturing images for inventory management
• Combining barcode decoding, image capture, and signature capture in a single device

Please contact POS'99 for advice on the right scanner for your business operations and environment.