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Kathryn Dawson

If there is only one way to describe what the technology and the Internet has changed our lives, it would be that we have life easier. Whether for communication, research, work-related needs, and even leisure time, the Internet has positively influenced our lives in one way or another. The information is easily accessible with a click of the mouse, and a lot of things that we do – paying bills, keeping in touch with friends and family, and purchases are done easily online.

With busy lives we lead every day, many people do not have much time to visit a real store to browse and purchase products. Most people have only a few hours’ rest after work, prefer to shop online, and only the items will be sent home and not spend hours walking and window shopping before the final purchase decision. As such, many entrepreneurs are now on-line versions of the memory available to serve these customers.

When the sale transaction will be completed over the Internet, just like the handling of payments, because you and the customer is not physically present to collect payment and deliver the goods? It is here that the retail software comes in.

The retail software?

retail EPOS (Electronic Point of Sale or System) is a must for any online entrepreneur. This software is actually built or integrated into the website and it offers its customers the “Checkout” site, pay for the virtual equivalent of real money accounts online store for the items they have ordered. This software allows you to respond to different methods of payment, and the customer will pay you to choose a credit card, debit card, and PayPal.

Some of the retail software will also help entrepreneurs set beside more than one way to accept payments. Some consider the exact calculation of the list of items sold, the invoices automatically each execution allows entrepreneurs the returns process and also allows employers to send an e-mail updates to customers, they have their base future promotions and announcements.

What do retail software for your business

Since the company’s website is available at all times, Epos software built into it, you literally never closed. Customers by whenever they want to buy products and sent them home to stop. This allows for flexibility to serve customers in different time zones, because you now more than a normal working day available. Plus, you’ll also be able to assume its international orders, because they speak literally be able to visit your website, products and completed without requiring a live person to order the order.

Retail EPOS benefit not only businesses, but their customers. To tell the truth – there are times when we as human error when calculating the price and make order totals, and the software will remove this error to us. Retail EPOS can (if you are selling multiple items) to calculate the sales tax, postage and follow all the prices of various products, let alone the total price of the contract carefully. The customers are confident that they no more and no less than what they should be paid.

These software keep their payment information secure. EPOS software does not share with anyone on their credit card information and do not write down, thereby minimizing the likelihood that the credit card for the . This will significantly help in increasing customer confidence in you, your company and how to deal with and trade with their customers.

Since the orders and payment processing, it is acting under retail software , entrepreneurs and their employees have more time to focus on what is important – the customer. Retail EPOS can receive payments and reports, while the business people to serve customers and other customer needs. It goes without saying that you are forced to spend the money to e commerce buy software, but this is a purchase that will pay long term.

Kathryn Dawson writes articles Spark Stone, expert commercial management, the groundbreaking use retail EPOS technology to compete with large retailers. Spark Stone writing and installing the software for the retail industry for over 15 years and has decades of experience in e-commerce and retail and e-commerce sectors. You are able to offer first-class e-commerce software solution to a business or a series of branches.

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London, UK (NYSE: UK) 13 December 2011

SQS Software Quality Systems, the world’s leading expert in software quality, has a list of the worst software bugs of the year 2011, which have damaged his reputation, negative impact on the financial data ($ ) is set and causes stress for the user ().

Phil Codd, Managing Director & Chief Markets Officer (Northern Europe, India and South Africa) in SQS Comments: Use our top-ten list of 2011 that the software failure of businesses and consumers pay high sums. The worst thing is that people lose their jobs and in some cases, their freedom because of avoidable software defects.

selected SQS consultants, this year’s survey software on the mistakes of large software-based fault of the past twelve months, in the margins of massive fines incurred in the banking and financial sector, is a mass recall defective vehicles. Our 2010 report also highlights the economic and computer breakdown in the automotive industry, and this year these two areas show up on our Top Ten, with four top ten positions.

The biggest problem

caused by software errors have negative economic impacts, and in almost all cases the consumer to suffer. Defects in software quality often leads to costly emergency repairs and / or damage to the reputation of brands, but every one of our top ten 2011-errors examples could be easily prevented an effective quality management system strategy to identify and resolve potential problems before they , appear he concluded.

Best Software failures in 2011

1 .???? Financial services giant fined $ 25 million hidden in a software mishap that cost investors $ 217 million – $ and

a software error in the model system to manage client assets led to this international financial services giant will be penalized $ 25 million (? 15.7 million) by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In addition, the company was forced to the 217000000 dollars (? 136 million) lost their support when told that the volatility of the market rather than software fault was responsible for their investment return losses.

2 .???? Causing the computer system failure downtime Asian banks -

computer system problems with one of Japan’s largest banks led to a nationwide network of over 5,600 ATM machines go offline for 24 hours, Internet banking is closed for three days, delays in salary payments worth $ 1.5 billion (? 939 million) accounts and 620 000 people and more than a million unprocessed fee value of about $ 9 billion (? 5.64 billion).

3 .???? ATM will bug the customers by giving them benefit more money – $

Bank of Australia, the layout of large sums of money from cash machines began around the 40 in a city. Officials said the company is to operate in the standby mode, did not recognize the balances of the customers.

4 .???? leading smartphones suffer from an international blackout -

Core and Back-up switch failures led to the network services all over Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America are up to 3-4 days. Power outage left millions without e-mail, browsing the Internet or instant messaging services, and we were told that due to server problems with a single data center in Slough.

5 .???? Bugs social networking tablet for a few hours late release -

just a few hours after his release, which is social networking sites in the long-awaited tablet-click app was already receiving reports of some minor errors, through the side panel icons problems with comments.

6 ? 22 people arrested for abuse in Australia due to failures of the new NZ $ 54.5 million in the courts computer system – $ and

a new NZ $ 54.5 million ($ 42.7 million, or? 26.8 million), a data processing system to give the New South Wales and the courts, links the documents are transmitted electronically to the damage claim compensation, illegal arrest and malicious prosecution, which led out of the 3600 failure of electronic communications policy in the courts of the database to the false arrest of 22 persons.

7 .???? 50 500 cars recalled after the airbag-related software glitch – $ and

breakdown in the car manufacturer of software design and test approach, which meant the right rear passenger airbags in an accident may not be used, leading to the 47 401 vehicles in the United States continues to remove and 3099 in Canada and Mexico .

8 .???? the recall of one million cars and addresses of the fire-room – $ and

Japanese automobile manufacturers, the company forced a worldwide recall was committed influenced by more than one million vehicles by the lack of design accumulate allows window cleaners in the residue, which may deteriorate, leading switch electrical contacts and possibly a fire up this was followed by a worldwide recall 2500000, by the same company because of errors that allowed vehicles to stop recall from the park and the engine design.

9 .???? Telecom disorder affects 47 000 customers in meter readings, and the company will pay NZ $ 2,700,000 – $ and

If a software error that resulted in the customer data limits the earliest encounter some 47 000 customers who were unable to cope, it was the New Zealand telecommunications company in NZ $ 2,700,000 ($ 2,100,000, right? € 1.3 million to replace) profit.

10 .???? Army computer glitches prevented the rebels follow-up a coordinated approach

Army computer system is designed to replace real-time front-line troops troops did not prevent the ability to perform a simple analytical functions. $ 2700000000 Cloud-based network computing system works slowly, if there are multiple users in the system and the systems at the same time, the search function on the observation reports difficult as information mapping software was not compatible with the armies of the current search software .

All $ figures are in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise indicated.

SQS Software Quality Systems

SQS is the world’s leading expert in software quality focus on Europe. In Cologne in 1982, the company employs over 2,000 employees. Together with a strong presence in Germany and the United Kingdom, SQS has further subsidiaries in Egypt, Finland, India, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa and the United States. In addition, SQS maintains a minority stake in the company co-operation project in Portugal and Spain. In 2010, SQS turnover was € 162.9 million.

SQS is the first German company has a primary listing on the AIM (Alternative Investment Market) in London. In addition, SQS two quotations on the open market, the German stock exchange in Frankfurt am Main.

more than 5,000 completed projects his belt, SQS has a strong customer base including half of the DAX 30, nearly a third of the STOXX 50 and 20 FTSE 100 companies. These include Allianz, Beazley, BP, Centrica, Daimler, German Post, Generali, JP Morgan, Meteor imaginable, Reuters and Volkswagen as well as from all other areas.

For more information

http://www.sqs.com.

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