Data Age Business Systems introduces TxTPay – mobile payments for pawn shop customers. TxTPay is the pawn industry’s first mobile payment solution that identifies debit cards and prepaid credit cards in order to safely accept remote loan payments. (more…)
Data Age Business Systems has reached an exciting milestone as the company celebrates 30 years of delivering innovative business management and point-of-sale software solutions to pawn shops, jewelry stores, gold, coin and second-hand dealers, and cell phone repair shops.
“Terminating” an employee makes them inactive. PawnMaster never truly deletes anything. All records are either “Active” or “Inactive”. The reason behind this is to keep an audit trail. We want you to be able to, at all times, have a way of determining what your employees are doing and what changes they’re making within your system.
My recommendation for pulling forfeits is, “be consistent”. I feel that this task should be done daily even if you only have one or two items on the forfeit list. One reason for this is if it’s done frequently, it’s a small task. But if allowed to build up, it can easily get out of hand and become a chore.
This topic generates the most calls to support and seems to be the least understood. Cash drawers are one area where shops seem to differ very greatly. Some owners only want to track the activity at the counter, but not the vault. Other owners want to track all the money in the shop. Some shops use individual cash drawers and some shops have a central cashier. There are even a few shops that don’t use any cash drawer at all.
You need a Facebook Business Page, especially if you don’t have a website. Facebook’s more than two billion monthly active users make it an impossible platform for any business to ignore and let’s face it, if your customers can’t find you on line why should you think they can find their way to your business?