“Can I scan to pay?” “Do you take cards?” “Can I pay cash?” If you own a shop — whether you sell consumer goods, groceries or services — you will hear these questions all the time. That is because SMEs today accept a far wider range of payment methods, and paying no longer means cash alone: customers can scan a QR code or use a card instead. Convenient for them, certainly. But what about you, the business owner?
Thailand has not yet gone fully cashless the way Singapore or Japan have. Across transport networks and public agencies — and even at the big franchise chains — the emphasis is still on cash, or on topping up a card before you can use it, rather than paying for everything with a credit card, PayWave or an e-wallet. That is why a large share of people in Thailand have still not moved over to going entirely cashless.
Even so, using a mobile phone to scan and pay through the various apps counts as a payment method that has grown steadily more popular over the past three or four years. It is easier to get started with, and easier for an SME to support, which has made it popular right alongside paying in cash.
A shop can of course print a QR code on paper for customers to scan, but that leaves room for mistakes and problems. Worse, your sales data ends up scattered: there is no way to check how much money actually came in, or whether the right items were sold. That is the problem shops without a digital management system tend to run into.
So if you move to a fully digital shop management system such as Qashier POS, those problems are solved — because as well as being a digital shop management system with scan-to-pay built in, it takes cash too.
The advantage of using the payment system in Qashier POS to take both cash and QR payments is that your sales data is recorded in the system, can be checked back over later, and is summarised into a daily sales report.
And if your shop wants to accept credit cards, you can add an EDC terminal to take card payments as well. With that in place, whichever way your customer prefers to pay, you are able to serve them in full.
A digital shop management system is also far more than a till and a payment terminal. What it can do helps you run the shop in a far more organised way, through features suited to your particular business.
If you run a restaurant, a café or a bar, Qashier POS makes taking orders and settling bills straightforward, and adds features that make managing the place easier — ingredient management, QR ordering for food service, table management and food delivery integrations. You can buy the add-on features you need as you need them.
If you run a salon, a spa, a massage shop, a barbershop or any beauty business, then alongside the core features we have membership, so customers can buy course packages, and commission tracking for your staff. And if you run a retail shop, there is inventory management, including alerts when stock is running low, so selling stays simple.
As well as taking the chaos out of running the shop, Qashier POS is ready to bring your business into the digital world. Start managing your shop more easily and taking payments more simply with Qashier POS today.
Start levelling up how you run your shop with Qashier today
If you would like Qashier to be the assistant to your restaurant business, get in touch for more information. We at Qashier are ready to support you, whether that is the hardware, a POS for restaurants or for retail shops, an effective POS system, or support from our team seven days a week.
For more details, contact us on LINE Official: @qashier.th or call 02 544 0267