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The unified platform simplifies in-
Company: Vend store and online selling, reducing
administrative
and
business
Product: Vend POS processes. The company pointed out
Website: www.vendhq.com that Vend is a simple, inexpensive
Contact: partner@vendhq.com way for merchants of all sizes to
manage operations, add staff, lanes
and locations with a single click. The
solution supports iPad, Mac or PC
Cloud-based retail such as payment card reader peripherals, scales, barcode
and a variety of ancillary hardware

inventory management readers and printers.
ISO, agent partners

lobal retail solutions provider Vend launched Vend is processor-agnostic and works closely with resellers
Vend POS, a cloud-based technology suite and sales channel partners, including Cardconnect, EVO
designed for modern retailers. Vend is easy International, Worldpay and North American Bancard,
G to deploy and can integrate with ecommerce West stated. Vend partnerships help ISOs and merchant
and hardware platforms. The solution works with Apple, level salespeople grow their merchant portfolios while
Android and Windows devices, company representatives protecting residual streams and increasing customer
stated. retention, because Vend merchants are not likely to leave,
he added.
"Vend has a solution for each stage of the retail lifecycle,"
said Jake West, director of North American business "We provide resources and training to ISOs and MLSs
development at Vend. "Vend Lite can help start-up to help them quantify our value and sell on benefits,
merchants get on their feet and naturally evolve into Vend not features." West said. "For example, they can use our
Pro and Vend Enterprise as they grow and scale their calculators to show prospective customers how much they
businesses. The platform is continuously enhanced and would save."
updated, providing existing customers with leading-edge
features and capabilities." West cited the following additional partner and reseller
benefits:
Vend is committed to delivering a remarkable retail • One-to-many payment gateway: MLSs and ISOs
experience by providing retailers with easy, modern ways can work with every backend processor using Vend's
to manage their businesses, West stated. End-users can free, direct integration. Vend absorbs gateway
sign in to the cloud-based POS software from anywhere transaction costs.
to access sales, products, reports and real-time data. The • Commercialized accelerator program: Vend has
solution will even work offline in the event of a power been shown to help payments providers scale
failure or loss of connectivity, he noted. their recurring residual streams by simplifying
Seamless integration activations.
• Technical Implementation teams: Once a new
As an open platform that was built on the Internet, Vend merchant has been signed, Vend's dedicated team
seamlessly integrates with retail tools and ecommerce, of specialists will assist with onboarding, software
payments and accounting platforms. Software developers training and uploading inventories.
can use the Vend API to create custom extensions. The
company has forged partnerships with Epson, Xero, • Educational library: Vend provides ISOs and MLSs
Square, Shopify and is part of Apple's global Mobility with educational resources and training to help
Partner Program. "Vend is a feature-rich retail POS them become successful. The company continually
platform," said Tom Kettell, director, commercial channel, updates its resources, tools and collateral.
North America at Epson America Inc. "Their dedication
to integrating with the best solutions in the market gives "Through the combination of Vend's modern retail
retailers the ability to choose the tools they need to make platform and NAB's simplified payment experiences,
smart decisions." merchants can expect to save time and create the seamless
checkout experience that consumers demand," said Ryan
Vend retailers can connect their ecommerce sites and Malloy, vice president of Partner Relations at North
stores to manage inventories and customer profiles. A American Bancard. "We're very excited to be working
customized dashboard provides a single-access view with a visionary partner that is so focused on providing
of product inventories, order fulfillment and business the merchant community with best-in-class services and
operations across a global enterprise, the company stated. solutions."

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