The decline in cash transactions provides obvious benefits for retailers, not least by reducing the time your associates spend each day counting cash and the potential for theft and errors. But the growth of digital payments raises broader issues about tomorrow’s cashless society that are only now beginning to be

In the early days of eCommerce, buying furniture online was not common and it was the retail category that seemed most resistant to the online tsunami.  But the adoption of omnichannel strategies over the last few years has helped many furniture and décor retailers strike the right balance and boost both online and

Dubai is is at the heart of the Middle East’s dynamic retail sector and its reputation for retail innovation is well deserved. So we were not suprised when our colleagues in the new Openbravo office in Dubai told us about an ambitious project that is now taking shape in Dubai to build Sport

Cards have long dominated retail spending by value as very few consumers expect to pay for big-ticket items in cash.  Nowadays, many more shoppers expect to be able to use cards for low-value purchases as well, so the share of transactions taken by non-cash payments is now growing rapidly. According

After a fantastic 2018, which has consolidated the momentum Openbravo has built in previous years  and shown that we are definitely on the right track,  we felt that the time was right to attend NRF  2019: Retail’s Big Show. The event is the world’s largest retail conference and expo with

Change is rarely easy to embrace, but the developments of the past 12 months have seen the pace of technological innovation and business transformation in retailing quicken considerably. To help you steer a course through the turbulent waters of modern retailing, in this blogpost we want to highlight some of the

Born between 1996 and 2006, the tech-savvy Generation Z makes up a third of the global population and already has considerable spending power, which will only grow stronger. Gen Z consumers are at a key point in developing their brand loyalties, so retailers who reach them now can attract customers who

In today’s marketplace, companies in all industries are seeing the business environment change at an unprecedented speed and are facing disruption by new technologies. Companies that want to succeed need to find different ways of doing business and better ways to differentiate themselves from competition. For enterprise software providers like

Remember  barcodes? They are still in widespread use,  of course, but QR codes have emerged as a more powerful and versatile alternative with a wide range of applications in retail. Because of their growing popularity, the latest release (RR18Q4) of Openbravo Commerce Cloud supports the printing of QR codes on point-of-sale printers.

Openbravo now has the solution for larger retailers that want the  best of both worlds. Our new SAP-certified integration means that retailers can run SAP software at headquarter level and use Openbravo’s software to deliver an enhanced in-store experience. The SAP-certified integration permits the seamless exchange of POS data between