Author: SME Chamber

Move from a traditional cash register to a Cloud POS System for a real-time, data-ready approach and an efficient in-store purchasing experience.

There has never been a better time for your retail operations to embrace technology and adopt tools provided by the cloud to power your business. Digitise your Point of Sale system today to accelerate success by streamlining your in-store processes so you can focus on driving the business forward.

ZeroBubble’s mission is to help smooth this seemingly painful exercise with the least possible disruptions to your business operations.

“At ZeroBubble, we take great care in understanding our customer’s pain points, and we help them find the right tools they need to drive their retail business forward. We know it’s challenging to navigate through the different layers of complexity to set up a robust POS system, and we make that journey easy for our customers,” states Chris Ellul, ZeroBubble’s managing director.

Why the Cloud?

One of the key benefits of a cloud environment is scalability. Choose the tools that work for you today but give you the flexibility to grow as your business expands.

Stay ahead of your competition, and sell more easily and at an affordable price. Our cloud-based POS systems will help you take your retail business into the future. The responsive designs give you, your staff and your customers the flexibility to use any device and still enjoy the same experience.

Cloud POS systems from ZeroBubble are developed as Unified Commercial tools gathering a range of functionality around customer experience and optimising the daily sales process.

Get real-time information. Make a difference in your sales strategy by keeping track of the latest inventory, product and customer information—the perfect tool to upsell and manage stock without missing a beat.

Take strategic decisions about your inventory, prices, costs and procurement, access your stock levels anytime, from anywhere, and process your purchases swiftly.

Improved Catalogue & Product detail. Maximise sales opportunities with easy access to all products in the cloud. Sell any product, anywhere, anytime. Provide detailed information about each product, building trust among customers.

Customer information is saved in real-time. Check order history to give your customers a personalised shopping experience and excellent service.

Boost your retail business with unified stock management and increased in-store, online and cross-channel fulfilment. Integrating into your existing e-commerce stores and other sales channels is easy.

Additional benefits:

• e-Commerce integration

• Accounting tools integration*

• Payment Integrations

• Customer Loyalty programs

• In-store Gift Cards

• Weighing Scale Integration

“You should focus on your business while we focus on the technology you need to drive your business. Our solutions will turbo-charge your operations and enable true omnichannel retail. This is the future of retail, and ZeroBubble is 100% committed to helping you have a smooth transition.” comments Luke from the implementation team at ZeroBubble.

Discover ZeroBubble’s various packages for SMEs of different sizes, ambitions and industry verticals.

About ZeroBubble

ZeroBubble is a retail tech hub for Small to Medium Retail Businesses. We provide cash register hardware, supplies and rental services with a state-of-the-art service centre to cater for repairs and reprogramming cash registers. We also offer the latest Cloud POS Solutions for the retail industry and Hospitality. In addition, we supply commodity accessories such as receipt rolls, cash till drawers, barcode scanners, retail hardware, and more.

Visit our outlet at 1 Marina Street Pieta outlet (corner with Telgha ta Gwadamangia) and find out how we can future-proof your business.

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The Malta Chamber of SMEs and HSBC Malta Foundation organised the 5th webinar throughout 2022 entitled Sustainability for Small Businesses.

The webinar was delivered by Dr Roberta Lepre from WEAVE CONSULTING and focused on case studies relating to sustainability and grants and funding schemes available for businesses.

The session was moderated by Mr Glenn Bugeja.

Click here to view webinar.

Should you wish to join our next session please contact us on .

This Black Friday is the closest one to pre-Covid levels with shoppers flocking the streets for Black Friday, from the early hours of the day. Shop owners explain how the eagerness and will to shop is evident but at the same time cutomers are also being more careful in their spending.

Attributing the lower spending to inflationary issues, and this affecting purchasing power, consumers appear to have retained some of the spending trends we have seen during Covid, with appliances, household electronics and brown goods, having a very good November.

Similarly, more affordable brands within the fashion industry and costume jewellery exceeded expectations since they did very well. High end brands with a higher price tag did not do so well in comparison.

It is evident that different sectors have started adopting different strategies in how they time their offers. Some have extended their offers to cover most of November while others are sticking to the black Friday weekend.

Overall businesses are very pleased that despite the negative global feeling and inflationary pressures, they saw their clients eager once again on Black Friday, eager to shop and also to buy gifts. Black Friday has once again started establishing itself as a very important milestone for businesses, following 2 years of Covid downturn.

The discussion focused on the Voluntary Occupational Retirement Pension

SME Chamber Vice President, Michael Galea, participated in a panel discussion during a conference by the Malta Sustainability Forum organised by APS Bank.
The panel discussed the outcome of the survey findings held recently by Misco for APS bank with the theme “Voluntary Occupational Retirement Pension” bridging the pension gap.

The conference focused on the pension sustainability and adequacy which were held through a broad spectrum of speakers, including the finance minister Mr Clyde Caruana, social partners, employers, unions and other local and foreign experts.

The topics addressed by Mr Galea revolved around the property dynamics, the knock on effect of the property market on the Maltese economy. The trust that the Maltese people have towards this sector in terms of capital appreciation and return on investment which can serve as a second pension when the owner of the property arrives at retirement age.

The take up of the Voluntary Occupational Retirement Scheme was also addressed and what challenges the market is facing to reach the targets that one expects after seven years from the launch in 2015.

As a way forward it is being recommended that an automatic enrolment pension scheme will replace the existing scheme so as to encourage more people taking on the second pillar pension even from an early stage from when a person gets employed. It is being recommended that this scheme will also have an opt out option.

Visit www.blackfridaymalta.eu for the latest black friday offers in Malta

The Malta Chamber of SMEs on Friday launched this year’s black friday campaign. For this year’s edition, the SME Chamber launch a new website, www.blackfridaymalta.eu, a website to promote businesses black friday offers but also provides an easy tool for customers to search for offers.

This initiative was launch during a press conference addressed by the Minister for the Economy, European Funds and Lands Silvio Schembri. Minister Schembri said that this initiative provides a new tool for businesses and customers which makes Black Friday a more successful initiative.

Paul Abela, President of the SME Chamber, said that Black friday makes November a very important month for businesses. He encouraged more traders to offer offers on the new website.

Abigail Mamo, CEO of  the Malta s Chamber, said that customers will have the opportunity to search for offers either by category and sector or by the offer percentage, with available offers up to 70%, Ms Agius Mamo explained that businesses may include their offers by creating an account.

On Friday evening 24 local businesses received the highest honours in the local business scene at the very first edition of the Malta Business Awards which took place at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta.

The Malta Chamber of SMEs welcomes the continued confirmation that the Government will be extending the safety net of protecting Malta from the international hikes of energy prices. This is by far the biggest threat Malta is facing at the moment.

Another positive element found in this Budget is the extension and widening of the Rent Subsidy Scheme, as proposed by the Malta Chamber of SMEs, that will help Malta mitigate the impact of freight costs. Positively noted is the work being done to tackle issues with banking services and the increased importance being given to aesthetics in the development of buildings.

Apart from this the budget is a continuation of the 2022 budget, where it concerns SMEs.

Disappointingly, the Budget fails to effectively tackle other major challenges which are choking businesses. Very serious issues have merely been given a mentioned in this Budget speech, which falls too short from the action that Malta should be taking at the moment, as a stage of implementation.

The serious employment crisis, suffocating bureaucracy and impossible traffic, merited more than simply being mentioned in this budget. These issues are seriously affecting productivity and we cannot afford to start thinking of policies now, with no solution, nowhere on the horizon.