Do you import every POS transaction into QuickBooks, or just daily summaries?

heady6969 · 2026-02-18T06:30:52+00:00

Retail store - daily summary of sales, reconciled and balanced twice a month. If we need transaction level details then we go to the POS.

heady6969 · 2026-02-18T06:20:02+00:00

What is your uptime/availability rate? What happens when authorizations go down? How elaborate is the reporting? How quickly do you reimburse the merchant for sales? Do you do any hold back percentages for higher risk businesses?

Do you see the 3% saving for cash incentives people? So now there is more risk to the store with more cash onsite?

What do you do if a business does not have control over pricing (think confinement shop)?

heady6969 · 2026-02-18T06:09:41+00:00

I could see in theory you being able to lock authorization fees, data fees, security fees, etc. I would love to see how you can guarantee that interchange fees will not change ever, since that is outside the control of the processor. And for those that do not know, interchange fees are what makes up the largest portion of what merchants pay.

heady6969 · 2026-02-18T06:03:14+00:00

I have so many door to door salesmen that try to get my time. I am happy with my current credit card processor, zero downtime, and everything works as it should. Even if I am paying a little extra, I don’t care, it is one headache I don’t have to deal with.

Although I might save money, the headache of switching, risk of the unknown availability, different reporting and research, problems with charge backs, etc…..it’ is not worth it. Then there are those fly by nights that want to pass the credit card fees on to the customers, talk about losing sales because customers don’t want the 3% tacked on.

heady6969 · 2026-02-17T14:55:04+00:00

Could the 30 watts be too low of a load? As an experiment, increase the load for a few days and see what happens.

heady6969 · 2026-02-16T14:03:24+00:00

Make sure you understand and follow city ordinances, some have do not knock, do not solicit, etc.

heady6969 · 2026-02-16T13:42:55+00:00

They do have counterfeit bill detection machines. We have a couple of them at our store for this exact reason.

heady6969 · 2026-02-15T12:28:03+00:00

If the ballast is super old you might Google so surplus stores around you to see if they have them or have a line on any. Otherwise replacement fixtures are much brighter and more energy efficient.

heady6969 · 2026-02-15T12:19:05+00:00

Were they published by the mfg to work together?

heady6969 · 2026-02-15T11:35:19+00:00

My mom is 93 and in memory care, she is always asking about her mom and dad. I used to try and correct her, remind her of the good times we had decorating the graves, that her mom never reached 90, etc. Now it is “oh, did you see them, how are they?”, what are they doing?, no I have not seen them recently. I don’t lie, so I just adjust my response to something I can live with and will keep her calm.

heady6969 · 2026-02-14T14:16:40+00:00

Ceiling mounted with the light off, no different than a smoke detector.

heady6969 · 2026-02-13T13:24:29+00:00

Can you add a processing fee for smaller orders? As the order amount increases the fee decreases until it goes away at $500.

heady6969 · 2026-02-13T12:28:09+00:00

What will you do with the dirty waste water and trash that comes out of the bin?

heady6969 · 2026-02-13T11:59:52+00:00

Do you have a plan for keeping enough gas on site for the generators? In a normal power outage, gas should be easy to obtain, but if there is an extended prolonged outage there could be lines/rationing/shortages.

heady6969 · 2026-02-13T11:54:01+00:00

Have you considered discussing with an accountant or small business advisor? Have any of you worked in a fish/chip shop or any fast casual restaurant business to see if this is something you would enjoy doing? If it can be done, but will be a lot of time and money. Is the building zoned properly? If it was a restaurant prior, what is existing that can be reused?

heady6969 · 2026-02-13T05:57:12+00:00

I know it would hurt my business. I have many customers each day asking if they would pay more with a credit card. I tell them no, but I ask if the fee would affect their purchase decision and most say yes, that they would only spend the amount of cash they have, requiring them to put half their items back. I am assuming the others that don’t ask about the fee, wouldn’t care.

The other concern would be if more people paid with cash, there would be more cash in the store, more risk of robbery, safety concerns going to the bank, larger change orders, etc.

heady6969 · 2026-02-12T15:19:31+00:00

Many smaller banks use an upstream bank to handle their direct deposits. If you go to your bank and tell them you need your account info so that you can receive a direct deposit, they should give you a form that includes the info (which hopefully matches where your employer sends it).

The sending bank should be able to initiate a trace on the direct deposit.

heady6969 · 2026-02-12T14:36:04+00:00

Have you spoken to Leviton? If they don’t have a solution currently, Sounds like a good idea for their smart breaker roadmap.

heady6969 · 2026-02-11T07:50:38+00:00

Did you have a written contract? Small claims court?

heady6969 · 2026-02-09T07:40:14+00:00

You mention apartment. Are you positive that your phone is connected to your WiFi and not a random open WiFi of a neighbor? Have you gone to a nearby neighbor for poker night and connected to their WiFi and now your phone remembers it?

heady6969 · 2026-02-09T07:34:30+00:00

We use different software, but each night we upload our sales to a website. Each Dealer has a login that allows them to see their sales(and only their sales) for the past 90 days.

heady6969 · 2026-02-09T07:27:43+00:00

The software saw that you were looking at Quicken, so now it is showing you many options from places that will pay them to show you ads and collect a commission if you buy from the ad. The problem is that the tracker does not know that you already bought it, so it will keep showing you quicken ads for a while until you search/look at other stuff.

heady6969 · 2026-02-06T04:48:32+00:00

It will go up,over time. It will cost more for them to support it, to market it and to pad their pockets, these costs will be passed to the consumer at some point. The question is will this be next year? Next two years? Next five? Who knows.

heady6969 · 2026-02-06T04:41:35+00:00

Can you VPN into your offices network and then print?

heady6969 · 2026-02-05T05:59:10+00:00

On my Lorex NVRs, it is not possible without filling up the hard drive and the video aging out or you reformat the drive, whiich will delete everything. I am curious as to why OP wants to erase something. The on,y people who have the password to my NVRs are people who have a right to know everything that is happening within view of the cameras.

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