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Retail

By Darko Pavic
December 4, 2025

Czech Fiscalization Returns: What EET 2.0 Means for Global Retailers

When the Czech Republic abolished its electronic sales registration system (EET) in January 2023, many international retailers quietly closed the chapter on one of Europe’s more demanding online fiscal regimes. Less than three years...

Retail

By Darko Pavic
December 3, 2025

Turning Fiscalization from Burden into Advantage

Most retailers and POS vendors still talk about fiscalization the way people talk about bad weather. It is something you have to live with, something that slows you down, something that ruins your best-laid...

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
November 28, 2025

Brazil’s Quiet Tax Revolution: What Retailers Need to Know About the New Era of Fiscalization

Brazil is quietly rewriting the rules of how retail transactions are taxed and monitored. For international retailers and POS vendors, the country is moving away from hardware-based fiscal devices toward a fully software-driven model,...

Business, Technology

By Darko Pavic
November 26, 2025

3 things I don’t like when solution providers talk about them

I want to share 3 more technical points that I really don’t like when solution providers use them as a main argument to sell their solutions. I am speaking in general: this is valid...

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
November 24, 2025

Why More POS Vendors See Fiscalization As a Competitive Advantage, And Why Many Still Struggle To Deliver It

For years, point-of-sale applications focused on features that retailers could see and touch: promotions, loyalty, UX, integrations, mobile apps.Fiscalization and compliance sat in the background, a painful necessity, not a selling point. That has...

Retail

By Darko Pavic
November 15, 2025

New Chinese optical quantum chip, comparison with Google’s chip and what it means for retail.

Summary of the Chinese Optical Quantum Chip The article from Tom's Hardware discusses a breakthrough in Chinese quantum computing technology: an optical quantum chip developed by the Chip Hub for Integrated Photonics Xplore (CHIPX),...

Retail

By Darko Pavic
November 11, 2025

What Hungary’s New E-Receipt System (Nyugtatár) Means for Retailers and POS Solution Providers

As a retail tech enthusiast, I've been following fiscalization trends across Europe, and Hungary's evolving system stands out for its push toward full digital compliance. Today, let's dive into Nyugtatár, the Hungarian "Receipt Archive"...

Retail

By Darko Pavic
November 10, 2025

Analysis and Comparison of Visa and Mastercard’s Latest Results (Fiscal Q4 2025 for Visa; Calendar Q3 2025 for Mastercard)

Card payments are a core engine of retail, and often a true business driver. That’s why I always track the market leaders, Visa and Mastercard. Their latest numbers are especially interesting, so I took...

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
November 7, 2025

SoftPOS: The Most Promising Innovation in Retail Payments and One of the Hardest to Scale Globally

The rise of SoftPOS (Software Point of Sale) represents one of the most transformative shifts in retail payments in the last decade. By turning an ordinary smartphone into a certified payment terminal, SoftPOS promises...

Business

By Darko Pavic
October 27, 2025

When Expanding Makes No Sense: Lessons from Our E-Invoicing Analysis

Every company looking to grow faces the same exciting yet risky question: Should we enter a new market or develop a new product? Recently, we at Fiscal Solutions asked ourselves exactly that.E-invoicing is becoming...