The Clover Mini: Small In Name Only

As we approach the 1-year anniversary of The Clover Mini, we want to share with our readers how the Clover Mini is taking over the Point-of-Sale world by storm.  Most simply put, the Clover Mini, just like the Clover Station, is a replacement for the standard POS terminal and provides support for advanced payment methods.  Simply put, the Clover Mini was designed as a smaller, more simple version of the Clover Station.

The Clover Mini may be small in size but the impact it can make on your business is HUGE!  The Hub of the Clover Mini comes with a 7-inch touch screen, built-in receipt printer, a customer-facing camera, USB ports, cash drawer and merchant keypad.  Like the Clover Station the Mini uses a cloud storage for reports, customer data and much more.  It also uses the App market to customize the Mini with different functionalities and systems that are just right for your business.  Another huge perk about the Mini, like all Clover products, the software is updated automatically, and it is not susceptible to the vulnerability of consumer-oriented operating system updates.

The Clover Mini is adaptable to a variety of industries and has the ability to grow and develop with time.  To sum it up, the Mini can be whatever you want it to be – thanks to the Clover App Market.  The best part of the Mini is there is a no-hassle set up.  There is a very short learning curve with this intuitive POS.  The main screen of the Clover screen will remind you of any smartphone or other mobile device.

The overall features of the Clover Mini are completely customized by YOUR business and YOUR needs – you define your features by the apps you chose and the functions your business requires.  It is important to remember also that all of our Clover solutions have multiple layers of security and data protection backed by Ignite-First Data.   All-in-all, the Clover Mini is one of the best Point-of-Sale systems on the market.  The ability to adapt the Clover Mini to YOUR exact needs accompanied by the sleek and compact design will allow YOUR business to grow with YOU!  With the Clover Mini big things come in small packages!!!

Is your business on the go?  Next week we will explore the Clover Mobile - the Point-of-Sale that is powerful and fits in the palm of your hand.

The Clover Station: Your Out-of-the-Box POS Solution

The Clover Station is the next-generation of point-of-sale that can completely streamline your business.  This do it all machine not only looks great, but it employers you to see inside the operations of your business and work smarter for you!  

The Clover Station runs on a cloud-based software that assists in accepting payments, inventory management, tracking revenue, managing employees, generating reports and building lasting customer relationships.

With every sale, the Clover Solution automatically tracks inventory and builds a transaction record. Customers can opt-in to loyalty programs, so you can start building lasting relationships and drive repeat business.  Software updates are automatically delivered to your device, so that your business will always have the latest version and will be supported by strongest security features.  You can run reports that collect your transaction data into meaningful intelligence –allowing you to make better decisions for your business.

You can constantly grow your POS by adding apps from the ever-growing Clover App Market. This incredible flexibility guarantees that Clover Station can evolve and grow with your business for years to come.

The Clover Station comes out of the box configured just for you and ready to take payments with a simplistic step-by-step setup – you won’t even need to contact your IT professional!  Below are a few of the key features that make the Clover Station unique:

• Large and bright 11.6” touchscreen
• Brushed aluminum body with white glass accents
• Encrypted swiper runs down the side of the display and is designed for maximum reliability
• Embedded high-resolution camera that can be used for barcode or QR code scanning
• Proprietary pivot arm swivels smoothly between merchant and customer
• Reduced cord clutter - a single power source for display and printer
• Ethernet, wireless, and Bluetooth options for optimal connectivity - 4 USB ports

If you are ready to take the leap, let Apex Payment Solutions take the work out of your hands.  We can help you every step of the way in order to make sure that the Clover Station will be your all-in-one answer.  Call us today to see how the Clover Station can work for your business.

Clover Facts: Innovative not Luck

Most simply put, Clover is an all-in-one solution.  It will replace your cash register, payment terminal, receipt printer and barcode scanner with an integrated suite of products. You can accept credit cards, EMV and Apple Pay.  You can get to know your business and your customers better with reports that you can run at work or from home with applications that streamline your workload.  Below are some innovative facts that make Clover the solution to your business’s future.

• Clover is web-based, and it stores your information in the cloud. If internet services are ever down, the software will continue to function for a time, queuing up transactions until internet is restored.  Essentially, there are no software requirements for the Clover Station.  Updates are automatic, and apply to all of your Clover devices. If you want to access your information away from the business, you can use the Web Dashboard, which will show you everything you want to see as long as you have an internet connection (even if you have multiple Clover devices and multiple locations).

• Clover is obsessive about your security, along with your customer’s. End-to-end encrypting card reader, data tokenization, locked-down operating system, and mutually authenticated SSL are just a few of the technologies that are built into Clover.  The security measures and methods that Clover maintains are continuously being updated in order to best deal with potential risks

• All of the Clover possibilities are delivered to you with a touchscreen display, a high-speed printer (which is the power and connectivity hub) and a cash drawer. It also includes a high-resolution camera for barcode and QR code scanning. If you need or want more functionality, there are several other optional accessories:
• Handheld barcode scanners
• Kitchen printers
• Label printers
• Weight scales
• PIN debit pads
• Extra cash drawer/coin tray
• Printer paper
• Tray locking lids
• Stands

• The interface of all Clover devices is relatively simple -  it is reminiscent of a typical computer or smartphone screen, which features a variety of apps. Once you’ve entered a specific app, you will see a status bar (to let you know which app is currently launched), a content area for the app’s primary functions and a navigation bar.  Quick and easy navigation is a key to the success for the Clover family.

• The apps fundamentally run everything for you in Clover – you decide what collection of apps are essential for your business.  As a company, Clover provides retail and restaurant specific apps for everything from your register to voice authorization, bar tabs, refunds, discounts, employees and inventory management. There are a wide variety of 3rd party apps also available that offer gift cards, loyalty software, e-commerce integration, the ability to clock employees in and out, and much more. 

The Clover Family consists of the Clover Station, Clover Mini, Clover Mobile and Clover Go. The Apex Payment Solutions blog will have a series over the next four weeks to give a break down of each system to help you find the solution that is best fit for your business.  Stay tuned…