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Arcane Virtual Terminal POS

Arcane's Cloud-based Virtual Terminal is a turn-key solution for businesses in need of a POS without the headache of maintaining its hosting, codebase, and PCI requirements. With multiple integration options, your Virtual POS can pull and process orders from your Stripe account or your eCommerce store or ERP including Stripe and WooCommerce. Collect dip/chip, swipe, and contactless transactions including Google, Samsung, and Apple Pay via Stripe approved card readers.

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Stripe Terminal for WooCommerce Plugin

Convert your WooCommerce store into a PCI-safe point-of-sale. Collect dip/chip, swipe, and contactless transactions with Stripe approved card readers. Support Google, Samsung, and Apple Pay, too! Requires WooCommerce and WooCommerce Stripe Gateway plugins Your annual subscription will provide you with this current version of the plugin and support for all releases with support through Arcane's support concierge at support@arcanestrategies.com.

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Brand Name Generator (with Domain Generator)

With Our Brand Name Generator Tool, Find Your New Brand Today! Coming up with your brand name is critical – our Brand Name Generator tool can help… Have you ever come up with the perfect name for your business just to find the domain is already been taken? Consider that problem solved with Arcane’s proprietary […]

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Managed Cloud Services

Iron-Clad Security & Up-Time! Arcane's CloudArmory managed cloud services monitors your entire AWS network 24/7, with U.S.-based engineers to keep your business moving. Our staff is experience in SOC1, SOC2, and PCI-DSS compliance.

Managed Cloud Services

CloudArmory, your Cloud Services Partner

Contact Us Today! 1 901-206-5385⁩ Arcane is proud to offer it's 2024 launched AWS enterprise managed services solution, Cloud Armory. Our cloud hosting support services extend Arcane's engineers into hands-on support on your own servers, to provide 24/7 coverage, with aggressive response times and at a fraction of the cost of the competition. Whether Azure, AWS, Rackspace, Godaddy, or even your own homebrew, Arcane will manage and monitor your servers to keep you up and running. With the risk of website downtime costs, hiring an experienced partner at a reasonable rate is an easy decision. Arcane offers proactive maintenance, monitoring and alerts, and round-the-clock emergency response services. This allos you to reduce the impact of downtime while remaining focused on your goals. Not sure whether or not you need a managed services provider? Our quiz below will help you understand the infrastructure and support level you'll need, to achieve your timeline and budgetary goals. As developers, Arcane's engineers have managed our own servers for decades. Whether physical or virtual servers, we've been both customers and competition for Microsoft, Rackspace, Amazon, Godaddy, and more for more than 10 years. We've also worked directly with our clients' data centers throughout the US. Download Our Brochure Learn more about our Managed Services / Cloud Hosting Support Take Our Cloud Server vs Dedicated Server Quiz To See If MSP IS For You
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The following are samples of planning documentation, made available under MIT licensing.

Operations Consulting Services

Operations Consulting - Improving Process through Lean Thinking Human and Technical Analysis

With over a decade of experience in building teams at various agencies, Arcane Strategies' operations consulting can help your business zero in on target efficiency and speed to market to create competitive advantage. Our operations consulting team will help you create systems, both automated and human, which reduce overhead. CEO, Michael Ricotta has worked with production teams both in-house and abroad, over 9 different countries, bringing them through acquisition from giants such as The Blackstone Group. Understanding operations is at the core of software development and systems administration. As a business, we use the same principles to manage our own resources and assets. Our Consulting team is no different. Whether you consider logistics to be your biggest problem or your greatest asset, Arcane Strategies can take you to the next level. We'll address your human processes, production automation, and enterprise systems. Well also asses these as broadly as your organizational structure and as granular as database normalization and server configurations. Give us a call for a consultation, today. We promise you that the juice is worth the squeeze!
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The following are samples of planning documentation, made available under MIT licensing.

ERP and More: Internal Systems Integrations

ERP, CRM, EDC, ERM, LDAP, API: 3rd Party Integrations!

Working with all kinds of ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems, the engineers at Arcane Strategies have been handling web solutions with internal systems integration, for more than a decade.  Whether integrating single sign-on with Active Directory or managing two-way syncing database connections for ERP, CRM, EDC, or otherwise, we've done it! Arcane Strategies has the experience that your team needs, to complete a successful integration. Custom MSSQL, MySQL, or AS400? No problem. ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems like Blue Cherry, SAP, or otherwise, consider it done! Our staff has years of experience in Linux and Windows systems administration, for various server protocols, as well as 20+ languages and database servers supported by those platforms.

Give us a call!

Interested to see if Arcane is experienced in the technologies you're looking for?  Our Integrations team will speak with you to analyze your situation and recommend solutions to handle them.  Our engineers will write your project's specifications and planning documentation. We'll offer project consultation services through the build or even staff the project, through to completion.
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The following are samples of planning documentation, made available under MIT licensing.

Software & Website Development

New and Custom Website Development

Whether web, mobile, or native applications, Arcane Strategies has experience in software and website development of a variety of languages and frameworks. Our engineers will recommend solutions for your business's needs both operationally and economically. With hundreds of projects to our names, Arcane's website development team has a diverse understanding of custom applications. We've completed ERM, CRM, EDC, ERP, and other 3rd party database integrations by the dozens! A thorough planning cycle will ensure systems' compatibility and outline a clear plan of action for deliverables and timelines. You can review some of our work on our Case Studies Page.

Existing Website Development Support

Looking to support an existing site? Arcane Strategies supports more than 90% of the open-source CMS's market share and would love to offer you a free performance, optimization, and security audit. The audit is yours to keep for recommendations with any other vendor, at no cost! Our engineers also specialize in support of Azure, AWS, and Rackspace management of LAMP, LEMP, WIMP, and WAMP environments, as well. Although our SysOps and DevOps Premium SLA's are not included in our standard development service, we're happy to help you out, in a bind.

Custom Workflows and Arcane's Support Tools

Want to take an agile approach? We can do that too, we'll tailor a support agreement that fits your needs. Our DevOps maintenance offerings include proprietary auditing and quality assurance tools. These will keep you continuously up to date and ensure the life of your product with improved performance and stability. Curious if we can support you? Contact us today and our staff will walk you through.
Whitepapers
The following are samples of planning documentation, made available under MIT licensing.

Arcane Virtual Terminal POS

Use our cloud-based PCI-Compliant Virtual Terminal POS for Stripe Terminal

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Connect your Merchant account, eCommerce website, or ERP directly to our cloud-based Virtual Terminal POS for a turnkey and managed POS solution.  No technical knowledge required!  Integrates directly with:
  • Stripe Legacy (Goods & Services with Plans)
  • Stripe (Products with Prices)
  • WooCommerce (Simple, Variable, and Subscription Products)
Interested in a more DIY solution with WooCommerce? Check out our Stripe Terminal for WooCommerce solution. Then check out the WooCommerce POS installation video when you're ready.

Arcane Virtual POS: FREE Trial + No long-term commitments

Your subscription will get you 7 days of free access to our platform. You may cancel or pause at any time from within your subscription account panel. At $25/mo , you can expect to pay a total 3.2% + $0.15 per reader transaction inclusive of Stripe fees, automatically deducted upon sale.

Check out our demo using our dummy cashier:

https://johnnysdonuts.arcanepos.com

ID/PW: demo@arcanestrategies.com / A5c5hY4kPLrdUOsYg8uC

How does that stack up to the competition?

Authorize.net (gateway) charges $25/mo + 2.9% + 0.30 without a POS solution. Comparable POS solutions like Clover, Square, Toast may charge as much as $79/mo additional and fees as high as 3.5% without integrating Virtual Terminals to hardware Visit our virtual terminal pricing page to calculate how your fees would look compared to Square.

Not Good Enough?  Need More Incentive?

How about these kick@$$ benefits!
  • Hardware Integrated: Arcane's Virtual Terminal POS stands alone as the only Virtual POS to handle both manual entry and integrated card-reader payments with both desktop and mobile solutions!
  • Customer and Order Data Synching: Perform two-way syncs between your terminal based orders and merchant account (ie. WooCommerce <-> Stripe) to ensure your customer data and order/inventory data is always synced without the need for an expensive ERP.
  • Customer Insights: Using fingerprint technology, your cashiers will be able to identify patrons with upsell opportunities based on past order history just by presenting their credit card.
  • Contactless Payments:  Accept contactless Payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay

Trying to buy the device?

When you purchase your license, you'll be given the option to rent from us and we'll also send you a direct link to buy the device from within your Stripe account.

How to Setup the Arcane Virtual Terminal POS

Follow our setup guide for a step-by-step explanation of the registration process. Our setup article explains how to register and setup up the Arcane Virtual Terminal POS so you can start processing in-person credit card transactions today. Click the button below to view the setup guide:

Virtual Terminal Setup Guide

How to Setup a Card Reader

Once you have completed all necessary steps from the setup guide, proceed to the device setup guide to start using your card reader.

BBPOS Wise POS EVERIFONE P400Stripe M2 or BBPOS Chipper reader

Click to learn how to setup and use the Verifone P400 reader with WooCommerce, how to setup and use the BBPOS Wise POS E reader with WooCommerce, and how to setup and use the Stripe M2 or BBPOS Chipper reader with WooCommerce. All devices are compatible with either version of the plugin.
Arcane Virtual Terminal POS

Stripe Terminal for WooCommerce Plugin

Download our PCI-Compliant plugin, Stripe Terminal for WooCommerce, to begin processing transactions with the BBPOS Wise POS E, Stripe M2, Verifone P400, and BBPOS Chipper 2x bt

Find out how our Stripe Terminal for WooCommerce can help your business today. Now compatible with WCPOS!

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Convert your WooCommerce store into a point-of-sale checkout portal with our Stripe Terminal for WooCommerce plugin when paired with the Stripe M2, Verifone P400, BBPOS Chipper 2x bt, or BBPOS Wise POS E Stripe terminal, WooCommerce, and WooCommerce Stripe Gateway plugin. Not using WooCommerce?  Check out our standalone solution to connect directly to your Stripe account with our Stripe POS standalone platform - you'll see it listed on our Stripe POS Products page, called Arcane Virtual Terminal POS.

Reduce your Stripe fees!

Your subscription will provide you with this current version of the plugin and support for all minor releases. Check out our demos with the username below:

Trying to buy the device?

When you purchase your license, you'll be given the option to rent from us and we'll also send you a direct link to buy the device from within your Stripe account

Stripe Terminal for WooCommerce Pro Services Features (Not included in the free version)

  • FREE Setup Support
  • In-Person Payments Direct to WooCommerce and Stripe
  • Create, Manage, and Track Segmented Orders on Unlimited Locations with Unlimited Readers
  • Support for Stripe M2, BBPOS Wise POS E, Verifone P400, and BBPOS Chipper 2x bt
  • Support Contactless Payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay
  • Assign Cashier or Shared Accounts to Designated Locations.
  • Support Payments for Digital, Virtual, and Recurring Subscription Products. Simply create your customer's account from within the CMS (or have them create their own account from the frontend of your website) and find the customer by email during checkout.
  • Perform Customer Data Syncs between WordPress and Stripe (sync your legacy data!)

Pro Tips

  • Location management is a great way to segment order data to each location for improved performance metrics and inventory management. It's critical to business running multiple locations and a great strategy tool for the traveling small business owner.
  • Reader accessibility management is great for reducing clutter for shops managing multiple readers and is a much better security measure.
  • Requiring Customer Accounts: As with most eCommerce frameworks, WooCommerce allows you to enable or disable guest checkout but as a logged-in Admin, this doesn't help you much. With services that require customer account information, such as digital downloads and subscriptions, customer account info is necessary but for other products (ie. simple products), an email is not required. What if you insist upon always having a customer account? Simply check the option "Always Require Customer Account on Checkout".

How to Setup the Stripe Terminal for WooCommerce plugin

Follow our setup guides for a step-by-step explanation of the plugin configuration procedure. Each guide will walk you through downloading, installing, activating, and configuring the Stripe Terminal for WooCommerce plugin on your WordPress site. Click the button below corresponding to the desired version of the plugin:

FREEPRO

Our free article explains how to install and setup the FREE Terminal for Stripe and WooCommerce, while our pro article covers how to install and setup the PRO Terminal for Stripe and WooCommerce.

How to Setup a Card Reader

Once you have completed all necessary steps from the plugin setup guide, proceed to the device setup guide to start using your card reader. Click the button below corresponding to the desired device:

BBPOS Wise POS EVERIFONE P400Stripe M2 or BBPOS Chipper

Click to learn how to setup and use the Verifone P400 reader with WooCommerce, how to setup and use the BBPOS Wise POS E reader with WooCommerce, and how to setup and use the Stripe M2 or BBPOS Chipper reader with WooCommerce. All devices are compatible with either version of the plugin.
Stripe Terminal for WooCommerce Plugin

Brand Name Generator (with Domain Generator)

With Our Brand Name Generator Tool, Find Your New Brand Today!

Coming up with your brand name is critical - our Brand Name Generator tool can help... Have you ever come up with the perfect name for your business just to find the domain is already been taken? Consider that problem solved with Arcane's proprietary brand generator. With the help of the good old dictionary, Arcane's search algorithm will analyze any given set of brand names to determine the best possible match for your business and provide you with a filtered set of available domain names within your budget! Our machine learning algorithm builds a weighted profile of 500+ data points against brands of your choosing and searches across the entire English language and an ever-growing list of made-up words to create brand names most closely matching the profile you've created. Give it a shot!  Simply enter brand names you'd like to align with and a price you're willing to pay for the domain.  For more accurate results, try breaking up brands into dictionary-friendly works (ie. "face","book" instead of "facebook", "spot", "ify" instead of "spotify"). And if you're curious about the story - and technology - behind the tool, be sure to check out our brand name generator origin story article!  
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Brand Name Generator (with Domain Generator)