Dive Summary:
- Online storefront provider Shopify announced a new retail point-of-sale system which will use iPads as terminals, according to details published by Tech Crunch.
- The new system will allow retailers utilizing Shopify to merge e-commerce sites with their brick-and-mortar retail locations. The POS solution will allow more sharing of sales and inventory information.
- “…overwhelmingly, what people needed was something that allowed them to run their physical store, and run their online store, and allowed them to accept payments, and we thought ‘Well, we can do all these things,” says Adam McNamara with Shopify.
From the article:
The advantage is clear, and Shopify will have a clear one over and above other competing solutions like Revel since it has a presence with so many online retailers already, and can offer an extremely simple iPad based solution on a subscription basis, complete with online setup support in the form of tutorial videos, as well as in-person technical help, though McNamara thinks most won’t require that.
