Berlin, 27.03.2025 - In an era of digitalization and booming card transactions, many merchants still rely on cash or do not offer all standard payment methods online. To transform this scenario, the payment company Unzer is partnering with SoftENGINE. The goal is to support more merchants in providing better offline and online services and to increase the acceptance of modern payment methods.
To enable more merchants to benefit from digitized commerce, Unzer is collaborating with SoftENGINE, a developer of commercial software solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises in retail, industry, and services. For years, SoftENGINE has supported entrepreneurs with various solutions for inventory management, sales and customer management, billing, and controlling.
Specifically, Unzer complements the SoftENGINE ERP system with customized payment solutions and enables payment via QR code or link in the merchant software gotomaxx (electronic invoice transmission and reception). Unzer's POS terminals are also standardly integrated into the SoftENGINE cash register systems. Merchants in physical stores particularly benefit from the handy, mobile POS terminals with built-in card readers.
Pascal Beij, Chief Commercial Officer at Unzer, states: "Our POS terminals simplify the digitalization of sales points across Europe. The device acts as a cash register and offers many functions that simplify merchants' daily business - from loyalty programs to real-time data analysis."
This partnership offers several advantages to SoftENGINE merchants: Through a dashboard, they can access sales, inventory, and customer data in real time, optimizing their merchandise and personnel deployment. Moreover, merchants gain better insights into their customers, enabling them to tailor loyalty programs and thus increase satisfaction. Modern POS terminals also make adding new sales channels or payment methods easy, saving time and costs and ensuring that retailers remain flexible in a dynamic market.
Helmut Dietz, Director Sales at SoftENGINE, underscores, "Every merchant has their own requirements and needs individual technical solutions. We specialize in small and medium-sized retailers and retail chains and precisely understand our customers' needs. The adaptability and flexible structure of the POS GO cash registers convinced us."
Flexibility in payment is evolving into an essential success factor for retail. People expect comfort, security, and choice, whether shopping from the sofa, on the go, or in-store. With SoftENGINE, Unzer is paving the way for a truly individual shopping experience.
The next step towards channel individualization offers invoice and installment purchases, which are experiencing real hype under the term "Buy Now, Pay Later." Unzer integrates invoice and installment purchases directly into cash register systems. Customers scan a QR code, enter their data, and select a payment option. A model checks creditworthiness in real time, and payment is instantly credited when customers take their goods. With its comprehensive payment solutions, Unzer provides the flexibility that is increasingly demanded by the retail sector.
Unzer provides an ecosystem that enables businesses to digitalise through simple and integrated payment and software solutions. From online purchases and in-store mobile POS systems to final settlement and essential business processes, Unzer simplifies and optimises retail operations. This all-in-one approach helps merchants run their businesses more efficiently while ensuring a seamless shopping experience for their customers.
More than 85,000 merchants across Europe already use Unzer's ecosystem. The company employs around 750 people in eight offices in Germany, Austria, Denmark and Luxembourg.