If someone from Poynt is on, what are the features that make this better than competing products? I've used Shopify for doing some PoS setups, but I'm having a hard time looking at where Poynt fits in. Other than being cheaper, it lacks some of the things that make Shopify great, namely cash handling and connecting to a back office system.
Poynt – Smart payment terminal
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#12If someone from Poynt is on, what are the features that make this better than competing products? I've used Shopify for doing some PoS setups, but I'm having a hard time looking at where Poynt fits in. Other than being cheaper, it lacks some of the things that make Shopify great, namely cash handling and connecting to a back office system.
Hi, I work for Poynt on the PoyntOS and applications. First thing first, Poynt Smart Terminal is a Secure Payment Terminal at the core that provides credit card payment processing functionality to any merchant that needs to accept payments in their stores. This is analogous to the traditional payment terminals that you might probably notice every day at a lot of merchant stores (cafes, salons, grocery stores, etc.). Poynt Smart Terminal enhances the credit card payment processing functionality by supporting more payment methods (MSR/NFC/EMV/QR Code/etc.) so the merchant doesn't need to worry about carrying multiple devices in the store and be able to serve more customers. In addition to that, Poynt Smart Terminal runs on Secure PoyntOS (powered by Android) to provide an application platform and framework for developers to build apps and solutions for the merchants and distribute through Poynt. Developers can take advantage of the PoyntOS to build unified solutions for the merchants that run on the same device where they are used to process payments (unlike various solutions today in the market that require additional hardware like ipads, dongles, etc.). Shopify is an online platform that allows developers to build solutions for their merchants hosted online or on devices. Now with Poynt Smart Terminal, developers can build PoS apps using Shopify platform that run on Poynt Smart Terminal too. So I would probably say they are complementary, not competing.
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#13If someone from Poynt is on, what are the features that make this better than competing products? I've used Shopify for doing some PoS setups, but I'm having a hard time looking at where Poynt fits in. Other than being cheaper, it lacks some of the things that make Shopify great, namely cash handling and connecting to a back office system.
I do not work for Poynt, but it seems more like they've forked Android and created a hardware/payment platform for different POS solutions - note that they've already partnered with Vend and Intuit, and offer an SDK out of the gate.
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#14Poynt already exists. Can I use Poynt to find retailers who are using Poynt? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.poynt.andr...
Hi - they are not related to each other in any way. Poynt.co or GetPoynt.com is the new Smart Payment Terminal that was announced today.
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#15This is the first EMV payments terminal I've seen that allows PIN entry using a touch screen. Is that really allowed by EMV, as a tamper-evident PIN pad?
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#16If someone from Poynt is on, what are the features that make this better than competing products? I've used Shopify for doing some PoS setups, but I'm having a hard time looking at where Poynt fits in. Other than being cheaper, it lacks some of the things that make Shopify great, namely cash handling and connecting to a back office system.
From my prospective a competing product does not exist that fits into the targeted market. Price point, simple integration, agnostic platform... we use a blend of Vend (Brick) & Shopify (Online) and the transition to integrate something like this is simple, straightforward and cheap.
Traditional carriers like Verifone or NCR, your costs are high (typically for enterprise) and implementation is anything but straightforward.
What other payment product that is not a dongle solves these varied payment problems for hosted solutions like vend, lightspeed, shopkeep, etc and is plug and play?
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#17This is the first EMV payments terminal I've seen that allows PIN entry using a touch screen. Is that really allowed by EMV, as a tamper-evident PIN pad?
I've seen a few merchants using a touch screen, including a few Gap stores in Montreal.
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#18What's to stop somebody from stealing this right off the counter and gaining access to customers' data?
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#19What's to stop somebody from stealing this right off the counter and gaining access to customers' data?
Most places I've traveled to outside of the US have devices similar to this that staff carry around a restaurant to complete the payment process table side. They've all been PIN+Chip devices as well.
Aside from that one would hope that they aren't storing PII or financial data on the device itself.
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#20I'm unable to watch the video from my Android phone.