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The gap between online and offline commerce is diminishing.
Offering a compelling omnichannel shopping experience is pretty much a requirement to keep your business relevant. Young buyers don’t think in terms of traditional boundaries, they expect a seamless brand experience everywhere across all formats.
This attitude extends to payments. Customers expect payment options of their choice in all the channels so that they have the flexibility to pay how they want. Additionally, employing omnichannel payment processing provides businesses with a holistic view of all payments captured both on their website and in physical stores. .
Cashfree Payments is an omnichannel payment processing provider that helps you easily collect payments online as well as offline. softPOS by Cashfree Payments helps businesses streamline their offline payments and provide a unified, positive customer experience as ecommerce platforms.
What is softPOS?
softPOS is an android app that acts as a POS machine and can be used to easily accept payments. With softPOS, your sales agents and delivery partners can easily accept payments via cards, UPI, Buy Now Pay Later, and record cash transactions as well.
As per a poll conducted by Business Today, more than 70% of the customers prefer paying via UPI over other payment methods in offline commerce. Also now more and more merchants operating offline stores prefer Static QR codes to accept UPI payments as it provides a faster checkout experience at the billing counters.
Now, as one of India’s leading softPOS service providers, we have witnessed a rising demand for static QR codes. Our aim is to facilitate omnichannel business processes to provide a seamless payment experience.
Let’s try to fill you in on its importance next.
What is Static QR code ?
Static QR code is an open QR.
Merchants can accept payments for multiple orders from multiple customers using the same QR code. Customers can scan the Static QR code and pay any amount from their preferred UPI app. Best part? Static QR does not expire.
Introducing Static QR Code on Cashfree Payments softPOS App
You can use Static QR code to accept error-free and contactless in-store payments from customers. How does it work? Well;
- Your delivery partners or sales agents can quickly generate Static QR codes for free from the softPOS app.
- The customers can scan the QR code via any UPI app and make payments securely.
- All the offline payments made via the Static QR code can be tracked on Cashfree Payments dashboard.
We have covered how you can use static QR on softPOS, let’s dig deeper into why that’s a good decision for your business.
Benefits of Static QR code
- Zero hardware or maintenance cost: All agents can create and download static QR code for free.
- No manual effort: All online and offline payments will be recorded in real time and shown on your Cashfree Payments dashboard
- Smarter reporting: Operating multiple outlets? Collect and track payments easily from one place. Each retail store manager can create their own static QR code, making it easier for you to reconcile the transactions at both the store and at the agent level.
- Safe and secure: Provide customers with no-touch payment experience. Backed by PCI-DSS the payments made are secure and fraud-free.
In fact, static QR codes are becoming a necessity for most ecommerce and delivery businesses.
Why do we say that?
Well….
Where Can You Use Static QR code?
On physical stores: Your cashier can download, print and paste the QR codes at the billing counter. Customers can jump the queue and simply scan and pay from any UPI app, within seconds. Now you can facilitate a faster checkout at your offline stores.
For home delivery: Extend the convenience of scan and pay on home delivery orders too. Allow your fulfillment partners and delivery executives to generate QR codes from the softPOS app and let the customers to scan the QR code from their mobile phones.
In person collection: Your bus conductors and hospital receptionist would no longer have to deal with the hassles of cash payment. Facilitate quick and simple payment collection using QR code. Your staff and partner can download Static QR code for free from their softPOS app to collect in-person payments. Customers can scan the QR code from any UPI app and pay easily.
Sounds interesting? Generate a Static QR code and streamline the offline payment collection of your business today!
Get in touch with our softPOS experts here.
