What are the strengths of a clover point-of-sale system?

For restaurants, retail, and service-based businesses looking to scale, the Clover POS system presents a powerful, do-it-all point-of-sale credit card processing system to help you run your business effectively.

Using any one of its four models— the Clover Station, Clover Mini, Clover Flex, Clover Mobile, and Clover Go—you can track inventory, take various types of payments from cash to checks to swipe and contactless, and grow your business through customer loyalty program management software found in its robust App store.

If you want to know the benefits of running and scaling your business using Clover, here’s what you can expect.



Unbox Clover, plug it in, and get it connected online. Now you’re ready to begin. The Clover point-of-sale unit comes pre-configured with software to help operate your business. You can use the presets or customize to fit the needs of your business.

Once you’ve set up your Clover, you’ll be ready for:

• Faster checkouts. Move customers through your line quicker by accepting multiple forms of payment.
• Accurate reporting. You’ll get the sales, inventory, employee time, and other data you need to help better business decisions when you run your entire business through Clover.
• Competitor tracking and analysis. Use the Insights app to learn where people in the community are shopping or dining and how your sales compare to theirs.
• Inventory management. Keep up with products, so you never run out of popular items or frequently used ingredients.
• Employee management. Clover serves as your company’s time clock. Employees log in at the beginning and end of their shifts to enable you to keep up with each employee’s performance.
• Customer spending data. Track each customer you log into your Clover POS to learn and understand their purchasing habits to improve your customer’s experience at your business.
• Payroll management. Prepare all of your financial data right in clover, including taxes.
• Loyalty program implementation. Create rewards and other customer-focused programs using apps in the Clover App store. Offer discounts, offer giveaways, and give discounts.
• Menu integration. Upload your menu into Clover and, if you run a restaurant or bar, your drink selection. You can also customize Clover to change pricing during certain hours of the day to eliminate human error.
  

Best of all, Clover offers support 24/7. When you have questions or have needs, you’ll receive the help you need when you need it.

Multiple Payment Types Accepted

Offer your customers more payment options using Clover point-of-sale at your store or restaurant. Giving your customers a diverse menu of payment choices means you can cater to every type of person from the older generation of cash or check only to the newer generations paying at the register with smart phones. You’ll also have opportunities to use cash discounting programs to attract even more customers to your business. Finally, offering multiple payment options positions your company as professional and customer-focused. Using Clover POS, you can accept the following types of payment:

• EMV chip cards
• PIN debit cards
• Credit cards
• Contactless payment (e.g. Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay)
• Cash
• Checks

With the ability to take every form of accepted payment, you’ll never lose a sale when you run your business with Clover.

Clover products are PCI and EVM compliant and each product has built-in encrypted card readers. When cards are encrypted, information pertaining to card and its holder are scrambled by an algorithm. Cyber attackers would need the card’s unique encryption key in order to access the information. This allows the terminals between the merchant and the account holder’s financial institution access to the card information and until the transaction is decrypted, the information is not usable and safe. This extra security measure gives your customers peace of mind and prevents cyber attackers from accessing the sensitive financial information of your customers and clients.

Clover products are protected by TransArmor Data Protection/Clover Security. This added layer of security is provided by Clover does the following:

• Increases payment security with added encryption to keep card data safe from breaches
• Protect customer data to prevent fraud
• Reduce liability in instances of data breaches by providing extra coverage
• Helps merchants remain within PCI compliance

In protecting the security of your business and its customers, Clover POS becomes a reliable and attractive point-of-sale solution for businesses with high transaction volume.

Run your business on the go

Put away your card reader and operate your business on the fly using Clover’s robust mobile products. Each uses a wireless internet connection and collects payments securely, so no matter where you go, your business goes with you.

Clover Go.

Take your business beyond your front door with Clover Go. This handheld payment processing device takes PIN debit cards, credit cards, EVM chip cards, and touch-less payments on the go. It’s secure and keeps track of customer data as you go.

Clover Flex.

A step up from the Go, the Flex lets you accept all forms of card and touch-less payments, install apps for managing inventory and more, scans products with its barcode scanner, and print customer receipts.

Clover Mobile.

Roughly the size of an iPad (7” screen), the Mobile lets you run your business with the same effectiveness as the Clover Station or Mini. Accept all forms of card and touch-less payment, scan products, and print receipts. It even takes payment offline for those areas where connections get lost or spotty. This is perfect for food trucks, carryouts, exhibitions or festivals, and more.

Clover devices operate in the cloud, allowing you to sync data between all of your clover devices seamlessly.

Integrated Peripherals

For those in food service and retail industries in particular, Clover’s peripheral devices add another dimension to the already impressive list of things the point-of-sale payment system can already do.

Clover Weight Scale.

Let’s say you’re selling frozen yogurt. You can connect your Clover Station or Clover Mini to a Clover Weight Scale to weight the product. The scale supports up to 20 pounds, and information captured by it is sent directly to your clover device for a quick and easy checkout.

Clover Kitchen Printer.

Another example would be if you ran a bar or a diner. Orders taken at the register can be sent back to the kitchen using a Clover Kitchen Printer, which is designed for the extreme temperatures in the back of the restaurant. It’s also the only kitchen printer compatible with the Clover ecosystem.

Clover’s Bar Code Scanner.

Great for retailers, this handheld bar scanner allows merchants to scan barcodes directly into Clover. The scanner can access pricing information from up to six inches away and perform 100 scans per second. It’s easy to use and requires no set up.

App Ecosystem

Apps are the backbone of Clover POS. With an app store of over 300 apps, Clover becomes your business’s smart payment processor by allowing you to choose the apps you want to download that best benefit your business. Almost anything you can think of to help run your business is available from the Clover App Store.

Conclusion

For the retailer, service provider or restauranteur looking to grow and expand their business using an all-inclusive point-of-sale payment processing system, Clover offers a customizable experience. It’s easy to use, secure, portable, expandable, and is built on the foundation of a rock-solid ecosystem of terminals and apps.