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Real-time Alerts |
CounterPoint SmartAlerts™ leverages mobile technology to provide retailers information about their stores
as it happens.
Whether you have been a retailer for a week or for years, you strive to successfully operate your store every day. With Radiant Systems' newest hosted solution, CounterPoint SmartAlerts™, you can operate with the tightest control over store operations and can increase your focus on fraud prevention and customer satisfaction.
Providing you with instant intelligence, CounterPoint SmartAlerts is a unique service that analyzes your CounterPoint data and transactions. Alerts, which easily can be configured for your business, are sent via SMS text or email when SmartAlerts discovers an action that falls outside the thresholds you establish.
SmartAlerts is a one-of-a-kind solution that is fully integrated with CounterPoint. From a single-site to multiple sites, SmartAlerts is your operation's eyes and ears. Now you can be at all places at once.
Powerful and unmatched in the industry, CounterPoint SmartAlerts is a customizable alerting tool that instantly notifies you of events that falls outside set guidelines, allowing you to take immediate action
- SmartAlerts scans transaction history and instantly identifies anyone performing activities outside of the standard daily activities
- Instant fraud prevention with alerts indicating suspicious activity
- Increase your bottom line by immediately taking action on activity that negatively impacts margins and store operations
- Easy to read messages on your mobile device sent as an SMS text message* or e-mail message
Click here for more information on CounterPoint SmartAlerts (including how to get 2 months FREE!) |
Retail Data Security |
 Significant criminal threats are targeting small businesses in the retail industry and they are continuing to evolve and increase in impact. In general, over 90% of all compromised merchants are small merchants that process less than 1 million transactions per year. The majority of these are not Internet business transactions as more than 80% of compromised systems were "card present" or in-person transactions. Most of the attacks that are successful happen because many small business retailers lack the proper perimeter security tools, including firewalls, anti-virus software and secure remote access tools. As these small business data security breaches explode in number, over 50% of the businesses compromised undergo disruptive business changes or do not survive the attack at all.
Find more information by clicking here.
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Top 11 Retail Trends for 2011 |
Markets are polarising, brands globalising, media fragmenting,
 consumer expectations rising, space retracting, transactions digitising and economies still struggling. But for those who embrace the conflux, there are fortunes to be made and fun to be had in what we at IdeaWorks call the "New Retail" world. (If you don't believe me, witness the rise of collective bargaining website, Groupon, which created a half a billion dollar business from a standing start in two years, and recently attracted a US$6 billion offer from Google.)
In order to navigate this uncertain retail terrain, you need to understand what's on the horizon. So listed below are a few of the trends I'm seeing for 2011 (and some retailer references if you're interested)...
Read the rest of the article here
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Wishing you much success,
The Mariner Business Solutions Team
(303) 692-8200
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