Why Your Business Must Employ A 3G/4G Failover

Everybody hates losing their internet connection, but if you are a restaurant or a merchant, too little internet can indicate a lack of business.

If your internet goes down during business hours, you lose your ability to process credit card payments.

Using a system in place to safeguard your company if your internet goes down can keep you up and running, even if your internet fails.


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What happens if your internet goes down

To process any transaction, you will need an online connection; without it, the client's card can not be processed. The information which should be sent back and forth between your bank and the client's bank to process credit cards won't be sent.

Whenever you swipe a card, that card reader sends an immediate message to that client's bank, requesting permission to charge this card. If so, the transaction will be approved; if not, your system will show an error message say"declined."

This communication system only works if your point-of-sale system is online. Otherwise, you can just swipe the card and save the card information for later.

It might appear trivial, but with no instantaneous communication, your point-of-sale system can not see whether there are any funds on the card or if it has been reported as lost/stolen.

Running purchases offline means you are keeping the credit card information locally until you are up and running online. If you recall last month's post, keeping any credit card info on a local network is extremely unsafe.

If your organization is in the practice of processing credit cards offline through your point-of-sale system, you are not accepting payments in a PCI compliant fashion, which means that you will be fined an excess fee each month on your credit card processing invoice.

You might need to turn off any payment method which isn't cash. Your company will lose money if you can only accept cash payments while your net is down.

Your company can protect itself in the event of an online outage, all you will need to do is get the service that offers you 3G/4G failover.

It is a rather inexpensive solution which can be wrapped up with other service agreements with an fantastic point-of-sale company.

Having backup internet prevents downtime waiting for the world wide web to return. It'll flip on seamlessly and immediately, and you can keep accepting all payments, rather than save sensitive credit card information on your system.

See also

https://www.connectpos.com/boost-sales-for-furniture-homeware-retail/

https://www.connectpos.com/top-5-pos-systems-for-furniture-homeware/

https://www.connectpos.com/best-pos-systems-for-sports-outdoor/

https://www.connectpos.com/top-5-accounting-software/

https://www.connectpos.com/pos-solution-for-sports-outdoor-retail/

https://www.connectpos.com/everything-about-pos-terminals/

https://www.connectpos.com/sports-outdoor-retailing-trends/

https://www.connectpos.com/top-7-strategic-technology-trends/

https://www.connectpos.com/best-pos-systems-for-sports-outdoor/

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