Mobile POS Solutions

[ThinkerTom]

Hello,

Seeking solutions for a mobile POS system that can operate on a 3g/4g network. We need to be able to process credit cards, have some sort of above store reporting method ideally with transaction level detail, and at the least be able to have emailed receipts. It'd be a bonus to be able to integrate with a printer as well.

Does anyone have any experience with operating a point of sale in a mobile environment? This will be primarily used on the go in a golf cart.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

 

[PosGuyUS]

How many carts? What are you looking to spend?
Is it only on a cart or 2 or will you be also integrate with the restaurant, bar and snack bar?
Alot of systems can work as a one terminal system and will give you CCs over 4G.

 

[ThinkerTom]

Looking for two terminals at three different locations, 6 terms in total. The need for it to integrate with the system at the restaurant of the golf course is minimal and kind of secondary at this point because it will never be on the same network and talk with each other.

As far as the budget goes, it is to be determined.

 

[PosGuyUS]

we did a GC a year or two ago with 2 carts, a restaurant, snack bar and bar. There are 4 or 5 fixed terminals and each cart has a Dell Win 8 or 10 tablet. for CCs on the tablets, they have a hot spot and a separate CC machine. At the end of the day they pull the whole system together and Z it. If they wanted the carts to be separate systems it would have been easier for them.
We've done food trucks and other mobile options. For the 4G, we would recommend a firewall in between vs using a 4G card on the tablet for security reasons.
We have a nice Quest tablet with locking mount which would protect it from falling off the cart. The tablet runs Windows 10. Printer wise, Epson makes some nice mobile printers. If we used our NCC system, you could have all the reporting in the cloud.
Certainly we could design a system for it. Where are they located?

 

[ThinkerTom]

We are located in the Upper Midwest. Right now we are looking at two different companies, Square, and Shopkeep. I'm thinking we will keep them fairly simple, no printers, possibly a cash drawer or a different money handling system.

Right now, despite which we end up using, my task is to locate a weather proof (at least to an extent) and a locking tablet case that we can secure to the cart. I will definitely take a look at that Quest tablet.

Thank you,

 

[PosGuyUS]

The Quest tablet is pretty solid. It is Windows though. I think Shopkeep though is IPad, Square I know is, maybe it runs on Windows. Many of the tablet POS systems don't offer much in the way of a choice of which processor you can go with. Square is an aggregate so technically, you are not a merchant, they are the merchant and you are sort of like an at will user of their program. Only good thing maybe is the flat fees. Square is good for someone who does a handful of transactions in a week.
We have an office in Chicago. If you want to talk to one of our salespeople, send me some contact info. Certainly they can give you some advice even if you don't use us.

 

[DerekB95]

If you are still looking to create a pos system, We at helcim have created a hybrid-integration framework -

https://www.helcim.com/ca/credit-debit-machines/integration/

It has been built for systems that use c#, iOS and Java. it is simple to use and to integrate with.

Take a look here and feel free to contact us with any questions -

https://www.helcim.com/support/article/281-pos-hybrid-integration-overview/