
What Are Integrated Payment Systems?
Integrated payment solutions are tools that your business can use to integrate accounting, customer relationship management (CRM) and other business applications with payments processing. By integrating payments processing with business applications, you can save time and money, reduce errors and get a better view of your business. Why Should You Care? Every business wants to get paid -- and get paid faster. But if you are manually entering and reconciling payments with accou

Why Customer Loyalty Programs are Key for Your Business
According to an average of major consumer studies conducted in 2015, an increase of 5 percent in customer loyalty can lead to a 25 percent to 100 percent increase in profit per customer, and on average, loyal customers are 10 times more valuable than first-time customers. Therefore, it is clear little beats customer loyalty and retention when it comes to guaranteeing business continuity. How can a business increase customer loyalty? Customer loyalty programs are very effectiv

Stop Using Excel as a Database!
Spreadsheets are ideal for performing ad hoc analyses and calculations with limited sets of data, but should never be used as a database. Many companies store critical data in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, but simple human errors can skew formulas, equations, and figures, resulting in inaccurate budgets, forecasts and other business processes. Why do businesses use spreadsheets instead of databases? Though it takes hours of coding and manual work to make spreadsheets behave l