Font Face Off: Universal or Premiere Fonts?

by Nate Schubert IDAutomation provides a wide range of linear and 2D barcode fonts which may be used in conjunction with our free font encoder tools in order to generate barcodes in a variety of environments and applications. Fonts can be very flexible solutions in terms of barcode generation, as long as the data can be properly formatted to a special string that will display an accurate and readable barcode when the particular font is applied to it. There are many different barcode types out there including linear fonts for Code 128, Code 39,...

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One Step Retail Featured on APG Cash Drawer Blog!

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Missing Facebook Posts in Your Feed

Spread the word, if you want to be able to see updates from your favorite brands, companies AND friends you need to make sure you have subscribed to them. Facebook is increasingly focusing on paid ads and algorithms to make it so that posts will show up in your feeds. You will also note a friends or company starting to pop up in your feed IF you have visited their page recently or interacted with them. To keep these posts showing up, be sure to subscribe....

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Save on Your Next Point of Sale

Don't let the TAXMAN take all of your profits from Black Friday!3 REASONS TO BUY A NEW POS SYSTEM BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR: Tax write off! (talk to your tax accountant for specifics)Purchase before end of year and your tax savings could pay for your implementation or your first year's lease payments. Get an early jump on the competition with Mobile POS on an iPad, iPod or iPhone, Enhanced Reporting, Marketing Plans and ways to better service your...

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We Hope You Had a Wonderful Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving from our One Step Retail Solutions family to your...

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How to Make Barcode Labels

by Nate Schubert Barcode label printing is small but critical aspect of virtually any business in operation today. Many companies make barcode labels to affix to their products or documents for a more efficient inventory tracking or asset management systems while others affix barcoded labels to employee IDs or membership cards. Even in the most basic of businesses, barcode label generation can help save on postal costs, or just make it easier to print address labels for personal mailings. Making barcode labels can be difficult or easy depending...

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TSC celebrates ground-breaking ceremony

Ladislav Sloup, Managing Director of TSC Auto ID Technology EMEA GmbH and Managing Director of Taiwan Semiconductor Europe GmbH, gave the starting signal for the new office and administrative building at the ground-breaking ceremony on November 5th in the presence of the mayor of Zorneding, Piet Mayer, the building contractor Herbert Felden and representatives of Haas Fertigbau GmbH.The building, now rising at Georg-Wimmer-Ring in Zorneding, should...

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A Point of Sale's Value is in the Using [GUEST BLOG]

By Evan Wise Managing Director- Management One® Point-of-Sale (POS) systems are a valuable tool and a necessity for running a retail store today.  YOU CAN'T WIN THE GAME IF YOU CAN'T KEEP SCORE! ALTHOUGH RETAILERS SHOP FOR A SYSTEM WITH THE MOST BELLS AND WHISTLES AND NEAT FEATURES,  many have not progressed  beyond printing price tags and ringing up customer purchases. Customer tracking While all POS systems have the ability to...

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iPad Mini Point of Sale

With the holidays coming up, consumers are aflutter with the recent launch of Apple's newest brainchild, the iPad Mini. Strategically designed to fit in one hand and affordable to a new range of consumers. While the buzz may be varied, one thing is certain, the iPad Mini is at a lower price point and has all of the features and design points consumers are looking for in a traditional iPad. This opens up the Apple fan-favorite...

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Choosing a Cash Drawer for Your Retail Environment - Breaking Down the Different Options [Guest Blog]

Choosing the right type of cash drawer for your retail environment is an important decision with implications for your business's success. There are many choices and decisions to make even for something seemingly simple like a cash drawer. If your business has high traffic you will need a cash drawer that's durable and dependable to keep up with the heavy use. You don't want to invest in new cash drawers or hardware, only to find they need to...

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iPAD POS Fits this Retailers Environment Perfectly!

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Pinterest for Retailers: Text for Pinned Images

Did you know that you can actually predetermine the text that will auto populate in your Pin from a website or blog? Simply highlight the text you wish to appear within the page you are pinning from, pin the image and viola! This works when you are pinning from an outside website, not rePinning. See image below with our company website being pinned from. I selected our logo (just for this demo) and text, which you can see highlighted on the website...

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Retailers: Emergency Preparedness

About.com retail writer, Barbara Farfan listed some informed statistics in her most recent article regarding Hurricane Sandy's. The article lays how some retailers were affected and includes some projections for the coming months.   One of her statements include: "Too many - The number of retailers that will use Hurricane Sandy as an excuse for diminished performance in the last quarter of the 2012 calendar year rather than...

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