On the fifth day of Christmas my guru sent me advice on how to:
by Jack Large
Optimise AND integrate your payments and collections
Payments - Receipts at POS
Background
Point Of Sale (POS) payments are no longer just over the shop counter, they also includes payments from sales on the Internet, on mobile phones and on many other devices. But whatever the POS,…
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