British Red Cross using cloud based EPoS for Pop-Up Store
British Red Cross is using Cybertill’s cloud based EPoS system to manage its pop up store in Westfield, White City. British Red Cross has a pop up store in Westfield, White City for four days in December (13-17th December 2012). Customers can find everything from... Read more
Virgin Media Selling in-store over Tea and Tablets
Virgin Media has launched its new concept store in Westfield, White City London. Bringing a new interactive concept to retail, Virgin Media is enabling customers to interact with all of its digital services in a home from home environment. Designed with all the... Read more
Sports Retailers increase Sales through Social Media
At the recent STAG Buying Show attended by over 200 members, Cybertill carried out a survey about their attitudes to social media and how they use it in their business. 83% of the respondents to the survey said they used social media for their business, and 60% of... Read more
The card to give this Christmas is a gift card
The time of year is coming when many people’s thoughts turn to Christmas and what gifts to buy their family and friends. Many rely on giving gift cards, as buying presents can be a minefield. Indeed the value of the UK gift card industry is growing quickly according... Read more
Cybertill wins ‘EPoS Innovation’ Award
Cybertill has won the ‘EPoS Innovation’ category at the Retail Systems Awards for its ‘Advanced Gift Aid’* development for charity retailers. Cybertill’s entry showcased how charity retailer, Dove House Hospice, has profited from deploying Cybertill’s Advanced Gift... Read more
Can Cloud Technology Reduce the Hours Retailers Work?
Independent retailers are Britain’s hardest workers, working over 50 hours a week and taking fewer than 10 days off a year, according to a recent report by the Association of Convenience Stores. Although the survey may have been aimed at more convenience retail, the... Read more
Cybertill shortlisted for EPoS Innovation Award
Cybertill, the leading supplier of cloud based EPoS systems in the UK, has been shortlisted in the EPoS innovation category at the Retail Systems Awards 2012. Cybertill’s entry showcased how charity retailer, Dove House Hospice has benefited from Cybertill’s... Read more
Are Apprenticeships of Value for smaller Retailers?
There is a plenty of debate around about the value of apprenticeships in business. Do they add real value to organisations and individuals or are they way of businesses getting cheap labour. Here Cybertill CEO, Ian Tomlinson, shares his thoughts on the value of... Read more
Cybertill shortlisted for Best Use of Technology Award
Cybertill, the leading supplier of cloud based retail systems in the UK, has been shortlisted in the Best Use of Technology at the Charity Times Awards 2012. Cybertill’s entry showcased how charity retailer, Dove House Hospice has benefited from Cybertill’s cloud... Read more
Getting Ranked on Google is not a ‘dark art’
Ask any retailer if they would like their website to be on page one of Google and…well you know the answer. The power of Google and the influence it has on websites is vast so appearing on its first page, and the higher the better, can have a huge bearing on volume of... Read more
Why even Indies can’t run efficiently without Technology
Guest Blog by Clare Rayner Technology is all around us – our phones, laptops, games consoles and even our TVs can now connect us wirelessly to the web to enable us to socialise, search and, most importantly, shop. Businesses too depend on technology, to provide data... Read more
Cybertill Scoops Digital Award for Best Application of Technology
Cybertill won the Best Application of Technology at the Big Chip Awards. Cybertill was shortlisted for showcasing how Dove House Hospice had benefited from deploying its charity retail system. Dove House Hospice has 31 retail stores using Cybertill’s latest charity... Read more
Majority of retailers ‘very confident’ about next twelve months
Cybertill’s recent customer survey found that retailers’ confidence levels are high and many are in bullish moods with 54% of respondents replying they are ‘very confident’ about the next twelve months. Only 9% of respondents stated they were ‘not very confident’ and... Read more
Omni-channel Retailing sounds Ominous but it’s already in the Cloud
There is a relatively new term in retail “Omni-Channel Retailing”. This is an evolution of multi-channel retailing (that this blog argued in a previous column was a misnomer and should be called cross-channel) whereby that omni-channel allows a seamless approach... Read more
Will Retailers have the Appetite for Cookies?
The deadline for the EU cookie directive is looming large, and it will potentially have a huge impact on online retailers. Firstly, what is the EU cookie directive? The directive relates how to companies hold personal information of visitors to their site. A cookie... Read more
Cybertill shortlisted for Best Application of Technology Award
Cybertill, the leading supplier of cloud based retail systems in the UK, has been shortlisted in the Best Application of Technology at the Big Chip Awards 2012. Cybertill’s entry showcased how charity retailer, Dove House Hospice has benefited from Cybertill’s cloud... Read more
Cybertill’s Revenues Grow by 63%
Cybertill, the UK’s leading cloud based retail software provider, has grown its revenues by 63% for the year ending in March 2012, up from £4.06m to £6.6m. Whilst the retail sector has experienced a turbulent year, as have many suppliers to the sector, Cybertill has... Read more
Is Charity Retail booming through investment in retail technology?
According to research undertaken by OnePoll 44% of consumers are now shopping in charity shops.
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Can High Street Events Change Retail?
The recent Record Store Day (that promotes independent record stores with in store gigs, exclusive releases and so forth) is becoming a common theme on the high street as different sectors of retail come together to promote their ‘cause’ and services to consumers.... Read more
There’s More to Cloud Computing than Cost
This year’s Retail Business Technology Expo at Earls Court, in London, saw presentations from a variety of businesses and I used the show to discuss the use of cloud computing with Mike Pink, Head of Retail at Wembley Stadium, a customer which has benefited from this... Read more
Cybertill wins European Software Award
Cybertill, the UK’s leading cloud based retail system, was a winner at the European Software Excellence Awards 2012. The pan-European awards recognise excellence in the Independent Software Vendors community. The prestigious awards took place at The Grand Hyatt,... Read more
Cybertill shortlisted for IT Europa European Software Excellence Awards
Cybertill, the leading supplier of software-as-a-service (SaaS) retail systems in the UK, has been shortlisted in the IT Europa Independent Software Vendor Awards , beating off stiff competition from across Europe. Cybertill was shortlisted with its customer, St... Read more
Why today’s IT department is tomorrow’s marketing department
What will IT stand for in a few years time? Idea’s Team, Intelligence Team…or maybe marketing will be rebranded and swallow IT completely – ‘markiting’. Ok, this may sound extreme, but much of today’s IT department may well reside in marketing in a few years time.... Read more
Cybertill Sponsors Independent Retailer Month
Cybertill, the leading provider of cloud based EPoS and ecommerce solutions, has signed up to sponsor the Independent Retailer Month 2012 launch Conference, on July 1st at Cranmore Park near Birmingham. Independent Retailer Month is a global “Shop Local”... Read more
Black Friday…changing UK retailing practices?
The wave of hype and excitement is palpable, even this side of the Atlantic, as Black Friday looms ahead! For those that don’t know, Black Friday is the first shopping day after Thanksgiving in the United States. Thanksgiving typically falls on the last Thursday in... Read more
Multi-Channel Retail is finished
Multi-channel retail is fast becoming extinct as the lines blur between each sales channel, and as retailers evolve into cross-channel retailers. First there was retail, then mail order, then ecommerce. Some retailers managed to combine the three sales channels with... Read more
Cancer Research UK Installs Cloud Based retail system over 555 Shops
Cancer Research UK, the World’s leading cancer research charity, is installing Cybertill’s cloud based charity EPoS and Gift Aid system throughout its UK retail estate, totalling 555 shops. By deploying Cybertill’s charity retail system, which combines an electronic... Read more
Censoring Charity Retailers on the High Street?
Should the government dictate what types and numbers of shops are on the high street?
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J2 Retail Systems and Cybertill forge a winning EPoS Partnership
Leading hardware and software providers join forces to offer a universal EPoS solution for retail. Global manufacturer of PC-based touchscreen point-of-sale hardware, J2 Retail Systems, and one of the UK’s leading EPoS solutions providers, Cybertill, have revealed... Read more
Direct Golf UK tees off with Cybertill
Direct Golf UK is to deploy Cybertill’s multi-channel system across its retail operations. Cybertill will oversee management and control of Direct Golf UK’s seventeen stores nationwide, along with its ecommerce and mail order operations. Direct Golf UK was founded by... Read more
Plan for the Worst
It is hard to imagine that the riots that have been sweeping England could actually happen. So as individuals and businesses how can you plan for disasters like these, to ensure your retail business can have some continuity? There are some basic steps that retailers... Read more
Power to the People!
Is there anything as powerful as the internet? It has brought down governments, businesses and aided in major civil unrest. Look at the revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa as governments fall and people are mobilised by the internet and social media.... Read more
Can Charities Rely on Gift Aid to plug the funding shortfall?
Following the announcement that more than 2,000 charities across England are having their funding cut or withdrawn by local councils they now need to find new funding streams.
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Cybertill wins most Supportive Supplier to Charity Retail Sector
At the Charity Retail Awards, held at the Charity Retail Association’s Conference in Keele, Cybertill won the Most Supportive Supplier to the Sector. This award recognises the contribution which commercial suppliers make to the charity retail sector in supporting... Read more
Why is cloud computing a must for Hospice Retailers?
Regional Hospices throughout the UK have turned to retail in helping them raise valuable funds to help maintain their critical services for their local communities.
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