Point-of-sale systems
I helped a winery set up a handful of Square POS systems using Apple iPads, Star Micronics printers, and unattached cash drawers, in their tasting room.
Possible points of failure
- iPads are inoperable
- Square readers are inoperable
- Square software is inoperable
- Square witholds payments based on lack of history
- Square witholds payments based on fraud alerts
- Square reporting or web site access fails to get logs
- Bank transfers fail because of Square policies / procedures
- Bank transfers fail because of bank policies / procedures
- Bank transfers fail because of incorrect or missing information
- [Add other items from Square’s agreements]
- Employees aren’t properly trained
- go slower
- register items incorrectly
- register discounts incorrectly
- Items are entered incorrectly
- items are missing and must be entered manually
- prices are wrong or missing
- discounts are wrong or missing
- sales tax information is wrong or missing
- inventory information is wrong or missing
- inventory information doesn’t update
- No electricity (or issues with charging POS systems)
- No internet connection on our network
- Run out of receipt paper
- Wireless network is inoperable
- Mobile network is inoperable