Flower Shops

As an integral part of the point of sale experience in a flower shop, the payment system should fulfill certain requirements. The payment system can also simplify a merchant's business by making phone and mail orders easy to fulfill:

Terminals must fit easily into the environment. The personal ambiance of a flower shop requires that transaction terminals be unobtrusive and quiet.

Support for phone orders. Merchants must be able to meet specific requirements in order to obtain the best discount rates on phone orders. The phone order menu item makes it easy for merchants to initiate these transactions.

Settlement must be easy to remember. Small shops with few transactions can sometimes forget timely settlement, thereby losing out on the lowest discount rate. Also, clerks don't want to keep consumers waiting while they perform operational transactions.

Easy accounting. Transaction flow and accounting procedures must be easy.

Optional Consumer Receipt. To save time and costs, especially for phone orders and deliveries, the second consumer receipt is optional; clerks simply reply "no" to the appropriate prompt.

Manual Entry Indicator. If an account number was keyed into the terminal (as in a phone order), an indicator will print on the receipt.

Address Verification Service (AVS). For phone or mail orders, merchants will be prompted to enter address data for verification. Credit Card Transactions Inc. Terminals will display the AVS code on the terminal and print it on the receipt.

Retail Custom Payment Service (CPS). To ensure that merchants qualify for the discount rates on special transactions (i.e. "card not present"), Credit Card Transactions Inc. Terminals supports all retail Visa CPS requirements.

Auto-settle. Credit Card Transactions Inc. Terminals can be programmed to automatically settle within 24 hours to ensure that merchants qualify for the best discount rate.

Detail Report. This report simplifies accounting by showing detail for each transaction in the batch by clerk, including clerk ID, partial account number, and amount.