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Point of Sale Software That Keeps Trading Offline

Custom POS for retail, hospitality and multi-location operators. Offline-first terminals, Android POS builds, EMV and Interac certification handled properly, and a payment architecture that keeps card data out of your systems.

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Why Go for POS System Development?

The Till Never Stops

A point of sale system has one job it absolutely cannot fail at, which is taking money. Our POS software runs local-first: the terminal holds its own catalogue and writes every transaction to a durable local queue, so it keeps selling with the internet down and reconciles when the connection returns. No cashier should ever have to tell a queue of customers to come back later.

We Keep Card Data Out of Your Systems

The most expensive decision in POS development is whether cardholder data touches your application. If it does, you inherit the full PCI DSS burden: segmented networks, annual assessments and a compliance bill that can exceed the software. We design to keep you out of scope using P2PE and semi-integrated terminals, so the card number never reaches your code.

Certification Planned From Day One

EMV Level 3 certification with each processor takes weeks to months and has to be done per processor and per terminal model. Teams that treat payments as a sprint late in the plan discover this the hard way. We schedule certification at the start, in parallel with build, which is the difference between launching on time and slipping a quarter.

Under a Second at the Counter

Line speed is money. In quick service, two extra seconds per order across a lunch rush is a measurable revenue loss, and a cashier waiting on a spinner will start writing orders on paper. Local operations complete in under a hundred milliseconds, the interface never blocks on a network call, and we test on the slowest terminal in your estate rather than the newest.

Services

Bank on Our POS Software Development Services

POS software development services across the full lifecycle, from a single terminal application to a multi-country estate. Take the whole build from one POS development company, or add our POS software developers to a team you already have. Custom POS software development services, custom POS development services, point of sale application development, POS system software development, POS application development services and POS development solutions all describe work on this list.

Custom POS Software Development

  • Custom POS software built to your workflow.
  • Not a rebranded template with your logo on it.
  • Source, schema and build scripts handed over.
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Android POS App Development

  • Android POS app development services for Sunmi, PAX and Elo.
  • Android POS development services with vendor SDK work.
  • Native POS app development, not a wrapped web page.
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Cloud-Based & Online POS Software

  • Central catalogue, pricing and reporting.
  • Online POS software with local resilience.
  • Multi-tenant where you sell POS to others.
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Mobile Point of Sale Software

  • Native POS mobile app development for phone and tablet.
  • Line busting, kerbside and market stalls.
  • Card readers paired over Bluetooth.
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POS Terminal Software

  • Locked-down terminal builds and kiosk mode.
  • Payment terminal application developer work.
  • Fleet updates without touching every till.
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Payment Integration & EMV Certification

  • Interac, Visa, Mastercard and Amex flows.
  • EMV Level 3 certification with your acquirer.
  • P2PE so card data never enters your app.
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Offline-First Architecture

  • Local database, durable queue, idempotent sync.
  • Conflict resolution defined, not improvised.
  • Tested by pulling the cable, repeatedly.
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Retail Software Development

  • Retail software development services beyond the till.
  • Custom retail software development for loyalty and pricing.
  • Software development for retail, online and in store.
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Inventory & Stock Management

  • Inventory software development services built in.
  • Stock counts, transfers, wastage and receiving.
  • Recipe level depletion for food service.
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Multi-Location & Franchise POS

  • Central control with local overrides.
  • Service based franchise POS and royalty reporting.
  • Multi-unit management from one console.
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POS Testing & Certification QA

  • Point of sale software testing on real hardware.
  • Payment test scripts and edge case coverage.
  • Soak testing a full trading day, not a demo.
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POS Modernisation & Migration

  • Moving off legacy Windows tills.
  • Historical sales and catalogue migrated.
  • Store by store cutover, never all at once.
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Ask what happens to a sale when the internet drops mid-transaction.

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Our old system stopped taking payments every time the store WiFi hiccuped, which in a mall is constantly. AppStudio rebuilt it local-first and we have not lost a transaction since. Nobody warned us that was even a design decision.
Director of Retail Operations, Multi-Store Chain, Toronto

Why Choose AppStudio for POS Software Development?

Business Priorities

Offline behaviour
Card data
EMV certification
Hardware
Tax and Interac
Fleet updates
Who owns it

Industry Gaps

Added late, if at all
Flows through your app
Discovered near launch
Assumed to just work
Generic, then patched
Someone visits each store
Vendor holds the keys

Our Proven Advantage

Designed in from the data model up
Kept out of scope with P2PE
Scheduled in parallel from week one
Printer, drawer, scanner tested early
Provincial rules and Interac built in
Staged remote rollout with rollback
Your repos, your processor contracts

Global Standards. Built-In Trust.

Point of sale is one of the few places where a software mistake becomes a financial and regulatory problem in the same afternoon. We design to PCI DSS 4.0 with scope deliberately minimised, use P2PE validated flows so cardholder data never lands in your application, and keep tokenisation and key management inside the payment vendor rather than reinventing it. Our POS software developers work under signed NDAs with IP assignment before day one, and for retailers and hospitality groups with wider obligations we map data handling against SOC 2, GDPR and Canadian privacy expectations so your finance, legal and security teams can review it without commissioning their own discovery.

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Pick a time that suits you. Tell us how many locations you run, who processes your payments today, what hardware you are on and what you had budgeted, and you will get a straight view on architecture, certification timeline, scope and whether custom POS is even the right spend. No charge and no obligation.

A POS Development Company Merchants Come Back To

Retailers and hospitality groups work with AppStudio because we plan certification and offline behaviour before we plan features. Review boards including Clutch, DesignRush and GoodFirms rate us among leading development firms. If your POS needs to connect to a wider estate, our enterprise app development and eCommerce app development teams work on the same programmes.

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The POS Stack We Build On

Standard, well supported components, because a point of sale estate has to be maintainable by someone other than us in five years. Terminal hardware is chosen for SDK quality and supply availability rather than unit price, which is a mistake worth avoiding when you are buying four hundred of something.

Android
Kotlin
Java
React Native
Flutter
.NET
Android Terminals
ESC/POS Printers
Epson
Zebra Scanners
Cash Drawers
Legal-for-Trade Scales
EMV L3 Certification
Interac Flash
Visa
Mastercard
P2PE & PCI DSS
Stripe Terminal
Square
PayPal
Braintree
Moneris & Global Payments
Card Present Flows
Tokenised Vaults
SQLite
PostgreSQL
Redis
Apache Kafka
Durable Sync Queues
Conflict Resolution
AWS
Microsoft Azure
Terminal Fleet Management
Shopify
QuickBooks
Power BI

POS Software Development, the AppStudio Way

Our POS delivery runs in five phases, Assess, Design, Build, Certify, and Roll Out, with certification running alongside build rather than waiting at the end.

Assess

Project assessment, business insight and estimation, and an NDA before anything sensitive is shared. We establish how many locations and lanes, who processes your payments today and what your contract allows, what hardware exists, which provinces you trade in, and what happens operationally when connectivity fails. Plenty of engagements conclude here that an off-the-shelf system plus two integrations is the better spend, and we say so.

Design

Wireframing, prototyping and UI/UX design for the cashier first, because that screen gets used ten thousand times a day and every extra tap is a cost. In parallel we settle the architecture: the catalogue and modifier model, the offline queue and conflict rules, tax logic per province, and the payment integration pattern that keeps card data out of scope. Design and data model are approved together.

Build

Product development in two-week increments, each one delivered on the actual terminal hardware rather than an emulator, so you are pressing buttons on the device your staff will use. Printers, cash drawers, scanners and scales are integrated early rather than left as an afterthought, because peripheral SDK surprises are the most common cause of a slipped POS milestone.

Certify

Quality assurance and payment certification. EMV Level 3 with your acquirer, Interac test scripts, and the scripted card scenarios that certification bodies require, run on each terminal model in scope. Alongside that comes point of sale software testing that no demo covers: a full trading day of soak testing, network failure injection mid-transaction, and reconciliation checks that prove the numbers tie.

Roll Out

Deployment store by store, never the whole estate at once, with the first sites treated as a pilot and staff trained before go live. Terminal fleet management is set up so future updates ship remotely with staged rollout and rollback rather than someone driving to each location. Post-deployment support and maintenance covers Android and SDK upgrades, processor changes and seasonal peaks.

Features We Incorporate into POS Software to Streamline Your Business Functioning

The feature list every POS vendor publishes is more or less the same: automation, employee administration, inventory records, customer management, sales reporting, flexible billing options, data security, multi-unit management and mobile access. We build all of it. But a feature list is not why POS projects succeed or fail, and pretending otherwise is how merchants end up choosing a vendor on a comparison table and regretting it in month eight.

What actually separates a POS system that staff trust from one they work around is the unglamorous half: whether it keeps trading offline, whether the catalogue model can express your real menu, whether the numbers reconcile at close, and whether a software update can reach four hundred terminals without a road trip. AppStudio spends most of its engineering effort there, and it is why our estates tend to stay in service for years rather than getting replaced.

The sections below cover the parts of POS development that rarely appear in a proposal and reliably decide the outcome. If you are evaluating POS software developers, these are reasonable things to interrogate them on.

Modifiers, modifier groups, nested modifiers, combos, upsells, price levels that change at happy hour, and tax treatment that varies by item. Get that data model wrong and you cannot fix it later without a migration nobody will sign off. We have seen builds where a burger with no pickles had to be rung in as a separate product because the modifier model could not express a removal, and every report downstream was wrong as a result. This is the single most under-designed part of most POS systems.
Trading across provinces means HST in Ontario and Atlantic Canada, GST plus PST in British Columbia and Saskatchewan, GST plus RST in Manitoba, GST plus QST in Quebec, and GST alone in Alberta. On top of that, prepared food carries its own treatment, including Ontario’s point of sale rebate on qualifying prepared food and beverages sold under four dollars. Tax has to be a configurable rule engine per item and per jurisdiction. Hard-coded rates are a compliance problem waiting for an audit.
Interac Debit runs on its own rails and is not something you get for free by integrating Visa and Mastercard, and Interac Flash has its own contactless behaviour to certify. In Quebec there is more: Revenu Québec requires a sales recording module for restaurant sales, and the Charter of the French Language means the cashier interface and customer receipts need proper French rather than a machine translation. Both are frequently discovered late by teams who assumed Canada is one market.
Receipt printers still speak ESC/POS, a command set older than most of the people integrating with it, and cash drawers are usually driven off the printer’s kick port rather than the computer. Barcode scanners generally present as keyboards, which is convenient until focus lands in the wrong field. Scales used for weighed goods need Measurement Canada approval to be legal for trade. Kitchen printers versus a kitchen display system is an operational decision, not a technical one. None of this is difficult and all of it takes time.
Your finance team will form its entire opinion of the system based on whether the end of day ties. Batch settlement against the processor, cash declared versus counted, over and short by drawer and by cashier, voids and refunds with a reason and an authoriser, tip declarations that flow to payroll. Most POS builds under-invest here because it is invisible in a demo, then spend the first six months after launch fighting accusations that the software loses money.
The difference between forty terminals and four hundred is that you can no longer touch them. That means device management from day one: staged rollout by store or region, health telemetry, remote logs, forced version floors for payment compliance, and a rollback that works when a release goes wrong during trading hours. Retrofitting fleet management onto a deployed estate is painful, so it belongs in the first release even when it feels premature.
A single-location custom POS with payment integration generally starts around one hundred and ten thousand Canadian dollars, and the certification work is a meaningful share of that regardless of how simple the software is. A multi-location platform with central catalogue, inventory and reporting is usually two hundred and eighty thousand upward. Adding a second processor is typically twenty to forty thousand, mostly certification. Support and estate retainers commonly run eight to twenty-five thousand a month depending on lane count.

Proven by Results

Every milestone delivered on the terminal your staff will actually use.

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How We Deliver Value, in Our Clients’ Words

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Who We Build POS Software For

Custom point of sale earns its cost where the workflow is genuinely unusual or the estate is large. These are the sectors where we see that most.

Retail & Commerce

Retail & Commerce

  • Multi-store catalogue and pricing control.
  • Loyalty, gift cards and promotions.
  • Omnichannel stock with the online store.

Restaurants & QSR

Restaurants & QSR

  • Modifiers and combos that match the real menu.
  • Kitchen printers or a display system.
  • Line speed treated as a revenue metric.

Grocery & Convenience

Grocery & Convenience

  • Legal-for-trade scales and weighed goods.
  • Prepared food tax rules per province.
  • Age verification and restricted items.

Franchise Brands

Franchise Brands

  • Central control with franchisee overrides.
  • Royalty and sales reporting built in.
  • Service based franchise POS workflows.

Hospitality & Hotels

Hospitality & Hotels

  • Room charges and folio posting.
  • Multiple outlets on one estate.
  • Tips and gratuity to payroll.

Pharmacy & Health Retail

Pharmacy & Health Retail

  • Controlled product workflows.
  • Insurance and third-party billing.
  • Privacy handled to policy.

Fuel & Forecourt

Fuel & Forecourt

  • Pump control and dispenser integration.
  • Convenience and fuel in one basket.
  • Works with no coverage at remote sites.

Payments ISVs & Resellers

Payments ISVs & Resellers

  • White-label POS you sell onward.
  • Multi-tenant and multi-processor.
  • Certification support for your brand.

Salons, Gyms & Services

Salons, Gyms & Services

  • Appointments and memberships at the till.
  • Staff commission and tip splits.
  • Packages and prepaid balances.

Stadiums & Venues

Stadiums & Venues

  • Thousands of transactions in an hour.
  • Works when the crowd saturates the network.
  • Fast cash and contactless flows.

Cannabis & Regulated Retail

Cannabis & Regulated Retail

  • Provincial reporting obligations.
  • Compliance limits enforced at the till.
  • Full audit trail per transaction.

Education & Campus

Education & Campus

  • Campus cards and meal plans.
  • Multiple outlets, one account balance.
  • Managed device distribution.

Choosing Among POS Development Companies

Comparing POS development companies on a feature matrix is close to useless, because every vendor ticks every box. Automation, inventory, loyalty, reporting, multi-unit: the list is identical across the market, and it tells you nothing about whether the thing will still be trading in year four. The differences that matter are architectural and they are invisible in a demo, because a demo is always run on good WiFi with a clean database and three products.

So ask harder questions. Ask what happens to a transaction if the network drops between the card approval and the local write. Ask whether the primary account number ever touches their application. Ask which EMV Level 3 certifications they have personally completed and with which acquirers. Ask how a software update reaches four hundred terminals. Ask to see the modifier model. Most POS software developers cannot answer the first three, and those three decide your compliance cost, your uptime and your launch date.

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Frequently Asked Questions

AppStudio it is. We are the leading POS software provider in Canada with years of experience in providing best-in-class POS system solutions to some of the big names in the Canadian industrial belt. If you want a robust POS system software for sale, reach out to us and take this alliance forward.
The cost depends on the magnitude of your project. Several factors determine the overall cost of POS software development projects, like the development platform, basic and advanced functionalities, UI/UX designs, platform integration and third-party APIs, development team’s fee, time of development, and quality assurance, support and maintenance.
Yes, we infuse payment gateways. Our POS system is designed to help you accept payments smoothly and securely so that you can manage your billing procedures swiftly. It’ll permit you to receive payments in diverse ways from your consumers. Paypal, Stripe, Braintree are a few of the payment gateways we integrate with your POS software.
More payment and hardware work than most people expect, and less feature building. A typical POS software development project splits roughly into the terminal application, the offline data layer and sync protocol, payment integration and certification, peripheral drivers for printers and scanners, the cloud backend for catalogue and reporting, and fleet management for updates. Teams that budget as though it is a mobile app with a shopping cart underestimate it by a wide margin.
A POS architecture assessment is nine to twenty thousand Canadian dollars. A single-location custom POS with payment integration is one hundred and ten to two hundred thousand. A multi-location platform is two hundred and eighty thousand upward. An Android POS app on an existing backend is sixty to one hundred and forty thousand. Adding a second processor is twenty to forty thousand, most of it certification. Support retainers run eight to twenty-five thousand monthly.
Buy, if you run one or two locations with reasonably normal workflows. The packaged products are mature and cheap relative to a build, and the money is better spent on the business. Custom POS software development earns its cost in three situations: a large estate where licence fees exceed development, a workflow that genuinely cannot be expressed in a packaged product, or when you are building a POS to sell to other merchants. We will tell you which of those applies to you before quoting.
If you are a merchant looking to buy rather than build, we are not what you need and it is more useful to say so. For point of sale systems Toronto businesses actually use, the credible options include TouchBistro, which is headquartered in Toronto and built for restaurants, Lightspeed out of Montreal for retail and hospitality, Shopify POS from Ottawa if you already sell online, Moneris for a Canadian processor with bundled terminals, and Square or Clover for the simplest setup. All are Canadian-ready with Interac support. Come back to us when you outgrow them.
Yes, and it is most of our terminal work now. Android POS application development services cover Sunmi, PAX, Telpo, Newland and Elo devices, and the job is not ordinary Android development. Each vendor ships its own SDK for the card reader, printer, cash drawer and scanner, SDK quality varies enormously, and the platform is usually a locked-down build with its own update mechanism. Best Android POS application development services means knowing those SDKs before you commit to a device.
Because peripherals and reliability. Native POS app development gives you direct access to the card reader, printer and drawer SDKs, control over the local database, and predictable behaviour when the network fails. A wrapped web application struggles with all three, and the failure mode is the worst possible one: a blank screen at the counter with a queue forming. Our native POS app development services and native POS mobile app development work on phones and tablets follow the same reasoning.
It means the terminal is the system of record at the moment of sale, not the cloud. The device holds its own catalogue and pricing, writes each transaction to a durable local queue, and syncs when it can, using idempotent submissions so a retry cannot double charge. It matters because connectivity fails constantly in real retail: mall WiFi, basement stockrooms, packed stadiums, rural sites. A POS that needs the internet to sell is a POS that will stop selling.
By making sure card data never reaches your application. In a semi-integrated setup the terminal communicates with the processor directly and returns only an approval and a token, so your software never sees a primary account number. Combined with a P2PE validated solution, that reduces what PCI DSS 4.0 requires of you enormously. The alternative, letting card data flow through your systems, means segmented networks, annual assessment and an ongoing compliance programme that often costs more than the software did.
EMV has three levels. Level 1 is the hardware and electrical interface, Level 2 is the payment kernel, and both usually come with a certified terminal. Level 3 is your end-to-end integration with a specific acquirer on a specific device, and that one is yours to complete. It involves scripted test transactions, a submission queue at the certifying body, and remediation rounds. Realistically six to fourteen weeks per processor and per terminal model, which is why we start it in parallel with the build rather than after it.
Yes, and it needs treating as its own piece of work. Interac Debit runs on separate rails from Visa and Mastercard, so integrating international schemes does not give you Canadian debit for free, and Interac Flash contactless has its own certification behaviour. Any POS trading in Canada needs it, and any vendor who has not mentioned Interac in your first conversation has probably not built for Canada before.
Yes, we can build for myPOS Android terminals through their SDK, and hire myPOS developers requests are something we see fairly often. One honest caveat: myPOS is a European provider, and its acquiring footprint is Europe-focused. Canadian and United States merchants generally need a domestic acquirer, so the usual outcome is a myPOS integration for European operations plus a separate certified integration for North America. Worth planning for rather than discovering later.
Bring your own POS, sometimes shortened to BYOP, means using POS software and often hardware of your choosing with a payment processor of your choosing, rather than taking a bundled package where the processor supplies the software and locks you in. It is usually the better commercial position because processing rates become negotiable. The trade-off is that certification and support become your responsibility, which is precisely the work we take on.
Yes, if the software was built for it, and this is worth insisting on up front. We put payment behind an abstraction so a processor change is a new integration plus certification rather than a rewrite, typically twenty to forty thousand dollars and six to fourteen weeks. Vendors who hard-code a single processor are often incentivised not to make switching easy, since they may be earning a share of your processing.
As a configurable rule engine rather than a rate in the code. HST in Ontario and Atlantic Canada, GST plus PST in British Columbia and Saskatchewan, GST plus RST in Manitoba, GST plus QST in Quebec, GST alone in Alberta, and item-level treatment on top of that, including Ontario’s point of sale rebate on qualifying prepared food and beverages sold under four dollars. Rules change, so they belong in configuration where a finance team can see them.
Two things that catch teams out. Revenu Québec requires a sales recording module for restaurant sales, so a POS trading in Quebec hospitality has an obligation that does not exist elsewhere in Canada. And the Charter of the French Language means the cashier interface and customer receipts need proper French, not a machine translation of English strings. Both are straightforward if planned and expensive if discovered after a rollout has started.
Android terminals from Sunmi, PAX, Telpo, Newland and Elo, receipt printers from Epson and Star speaking ESC/POS, cash drawers driven off the printer kick port, Zebra and Honeywell scanners, and Measurement Canada approved scales where goods are sold by weight. We integrate peripherals early in the build, because a printer that will not cut paper reliably or a scanner that types into the wrong field is a surprisingly common cause of a missed milestone.
Both, and which one you want is an operational decision rather than a technical one. Kitchen printers are simple, cheap and survive a kitchen. A kitchen display system gives you order timing, course coordination and prep analytics, but needs a screen that tolerates heat and grease and staff willing to use it. We have seen expensive display systems ignored in favour of the printer that was already there, so it is worth deciding honestly.
It is the part we deliberately over-invest in, because finance will judge the whole system on whether the numbers tie. Batch settlement reconciled against the processor, cash declared versus counted, over and short by drawer and by cashier, every void and refund carrying a reason and an authoriser, and tip declarations that flow through to payroll. A sales report is easy. A reconciliation your accountant trusts is the actual requirement.
Yes. Inventory software development services are usually part of the same build: stock on hand by location, transfers, receiving, wastage, cycle counts, and recipe level depletion so a burger sale decrements buns and patties rather than a single item. Retail and food service diverge sharply here, and a POS that treats inventory as a simple quantity field will not survive a kitchen.
Yes, and the hard part is political rather than technical. Central catalogue and pricing control with defined franchisee override rights, royalty and sales reporting the franchisor can rely on, and enough local autonomy that operators do not work around the system. Service based franchise POS adds appointments, memberships and staff commission to that. We map the control boundaries with you before building, because retrofitting them causes disputes.
Yes, and this is where most of the practical value shows up. Shopify and other storefronts for shared catalogue and stock, QuickBooks or Xero for the daily journal, payroll for tips and hours, and ERP where one exists. Our eCommerce app development team works on the same programmes, so omnichannel stock is designed once rather than reconciled by hand afterwards.
Through device management set up in the first release, not added later. Staged rollout by store or region, health telemetry and remote logs so you know which lanes are on which version, forced minimum versions where payment compliance requires it, and a rollback that works during trading hours. The alternative, sending a technician to each site, is what makes merchants postpone updates until a security patch forces the issue.
On real hardware, for a full trading day. Point of sale software testing that only covers a happy path demo tells you nothing. We inject network failures mid-transaction, pull power during a card authorisation, run scripted payment scenarios including partial approvals and reversals, soak test a realistic transaction volume, and verify that reconciliation still ties afterwards. Certification test scripts are the floor, not the ceiling.
Yes, and it is a meaningful share of our work. Common situations are a legacy Windows till estate that cannot be updated, a cloud-only system that stops trading offline, a vendor who has stopped responding, or a processor change nobody can execute. We audit the codebase, the payment integration and the data model, then give you a straight read on fix versus rebuild, and migrate historical sales and catalogue either way.
Yes. Dedicated POS developers embedded in your process, monthly rate, thirty days notice either way. This suits companies that already have a product team but no payments or terminal experience, which is a very common gap. Our hire app developers page covers how that model runs, including trials before you commit.
Yes. Multi-tenant POS platforms that you sell under your own brand, with multi-processor support so your merchants are not locked to one acquirer, and certification support in your name rather than ours. We stay out of your client relationship entirely and keep the work out of our portfolio until you release it.
You do. Repositories, database schema, build pipelines, terminal management console and, importantly, the contracts with your acquirer and hardware suppliers are all in your name. A recurring rescue job for us is a merchant whose vendor holds the processor relationship and the signing keys, which makes leaving effectively impossible. That should be a deal breaker when you are choosing.
A single-location custom POS is five to nine months. A multi-location platform is nine to eighteen. An Android POS app on an existing backend is three to six months. An assessment is two to four weeks. The variable that moves these most is certification, because it depends on an external queue you do not control, which is exactly why we start it early.
Yes, and on a POS rollout it is a substantial job in its own right. Hardware procurement lead times, store scheduling around trading hours, staff training, processor and certification coordination, and a pilot that has to prove itself before the estate follows. POS project management failures usually look like a technically finished system that cannot be deployed because nobody sequenced the stores.
Yes, before day one, exactly as our own process describes. NDA and IP assignment cover design assets and payment integration work as well as application code. For merchants launching a new concept we work under embargo and keep the engagement out of our portfolio until you go public.
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