NW-POS has its roots in the business consulting field and has grown from working with business owners from a multitude of business types and sizes.

Northwest Brokerage & Consulting was the start of it all and it was created as a by-product from the sale of a manufacturing facility and business in Post Falls, ID.  The original intent was to guide the new owners of the manufacturing facility through their first couple of years of production, but the consultation of its owner, Patrick Fitzsimmons, was soon sought by business owners in the general business community at large.  The consulting concentrated on ways to control operating costs and increase the efficiency of their operations. 

One area in which cost controls and efficiency overlap is at the point of sale.  Northwest Brokerage & Consulting soon found that much of its time was being spent consulting on ways to decrease the costs associated with electronic payment methods and the equipment utilized in processing those payments.  Early in 2004 Mr. Fitzsimmons was contacted by a Merchant Services business owner to take over management of their northwest operations.  After a period of consultation, the owner of that Merchant Services company decided not to move in the direction they were encouraged to, but rather encouraged Mr. Fitzsimmons to create a Merchant Services company using those same concepts, as a result a new company, NWBC Services, was spun off to concentrate on Merchant Services.

As NWBC Services grew it continued to introduce increasing levels of technology for its merchant clients to utilize in further reducing their operating costs while further increasing their productivity and speed of service.  NWBC Services continued to grow in size and scope to eventually offer a complete line of point-of-sale solutions throughout the Northwest region of the US.  As the reputation of NWBC Services became solidified within the Merchant Services and Point-of-Sale industries, NWBC Services was approached by several of its competitors requesting NWBC Services develop a re-seller and technical support operation for their own agents.  To facilitate this, NW-POS was created.

Now after a few years, NW-POS has grown its solutions to include a variety of POS systems to cover the range of needs of its merchant clients and added integrated electronic cash registers to its solutions line-up to help small to medium sized merchants get the same types of speed, efficiency, and cost savings that their larger competitors have been enjoying for years.  NW-POS has also launched a second tech service center in Gig Harbor to increase the efficiency of its own technical support operations.

In the near future look for NW-POS to offer a new competitive solutions that will reduce the cost of the middle-ware that is required to allow POS and ECR to integrate payment processing into the point-of-sale systems (NEWS!).  At NW-POS our tagline “The Integration Advantage” isn’t just a slogan; it’s what we provide to business owners.