Learn about Moneris Software as a Service Solution

AJ Vickery: Today we’re going to take a look at SAAS or software as a service and if you recall it allow businesses to get in to very powerful and robust software at an affordable price. Today we’re going to take a look at a solution from Moneris which essentially is retail transactional base software and to help us to understand that further we have Paul Birkness from Moneris to explain that. Hi! Paul Berkness: How are you? AJ Vickery: Thanks for coming in. Paul Birkness: Thank you. AJ Vickery: First I’d like to kind of know why Moneris got into this offering software as a service to a small businesses and how you seen it kind of effect small businesses as a solution? Paul Birkness: Sure! Well, in the payments base we work with a lot of big technology serving bar to retailers. But we found that there weren’t a lot of those solutions available to the smallest retailers in the market and the reason for that is because typically there was a large upfront investment for the solution to get the software where on the systems. We built this technology as the SAAS base solution and they ever make it available for smaller independent. It is software to service which means there's nothing installed on the computer itself. The software running on our servers and for merchant is interested in solution all they need is a PC with the high speed connection and a web browser. AJ Vickery: And with the service they're getting the full power of things like inventory and of course the cash register and all that? Paul Birkness: Yup, the solution Morris it includes inventory, customer management, integrated payments, and sales reporting. AJ Vickery: So even the small retail even the smallest retail it could have a very professional sort of experience with the customers as far as transaction process goes? Paul Birkness: Absolutely. AJ Vickery: So that’s a lot of data that’s going through the system in terms of transaction and even pricing information. Tell me a bit about security. Paul Birkness: Sure, all of the data for our system stored on our back our servers in the backup which means typically with software where all the data’s on one computer in the store they have to invest in separate backup system as they want to backup their data. For us it’s stored on our side and it’s backed up and secure. AJ Vickery: That’s actually a very powerful because in retail environment if you get a smashing grab and home still the computer then you don’t have to worry all your customer information is going to be safe. Paul Birkness: Absolutely, all they need is a new PC and they’ve be backed up and running in no time. AJ Vickery: What are some other benefits with SAAS? Paul Birkness: Well, one of the nice things about SAAS is that you can access a system really from any place from many computer you could do it in the backup plus you can add the inventory from different spot the store owner if they want to see how sales are going for the day and they're not in store they could check from home at the cottage where were there. AJ Vickery: Oh so as long as you have like a high speed internet access you can check on your storage see how many sales they have for the day? Paul Birkness: Absolutely. AJ Vickery: Oh, it will make going on vacation for owners a little bit more fun. And we talked about portability the idea was software as a service you don’t have to sort of pay that upfront fee for the whole robust program. How does that work with the Moneris system? Paul Birkness: So you absolutely right a merchant doesn’t have to pay the upfront software cost they just pay a low monthly fee for the software. AJ Vickery: So that’s makes it really easy to take advantage of all the features without having to shell of all the dollars at first? Paul Birkness: Absolutely and we offer a merchant the ability to try it before they buy it as well. AJ Vickery: Oh, is that right? Paul Birkness: Yeah. AJ Vickery: Okay. Paul Birkness: We offer a free trial for 30 days with no obligations. AJ Vickery: There you go. So where can people find out more about this? Paul Birkness: They can go to Moneris.com/trymorris. AJ Vickery: So there's another good example of how software as a service or stuff as they call it can give you a robust retail solution for your business this one today Moneris Morris. Thanks for coming in and show that. Paul Birkness: Thanks AJ.