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Two mobile point-of-sale system providers are doing their part in the proliferation of such systems with the release of Click a Waiter Inc.’s white-label POS system and Aspex LLC’s deal with Frontier Airlines to provide an onboard POS system.
Leominster, Mass.-based Click a Waiter Tuesday released a white-label version of its tablet POS system, called Residualfy, which independent sales organizations, POS providers, Web marketers, and restaurant food distributors can resell, Osvaldo Rodriguez, Click a Waiter chief executive, says via email to Digital Transactions News.
“Resellers make money by selling the system and the online-ordering feature,” he says. They retain the merchant-processing revenue generated by the merchant’s online and card-present transactions, too. Click a Waiter charges a onetime license and set-up fee, and the merchant pays a monthly fee per POS system installation, Rodriguez says.
The Android-based platform works with a variety of devices, including tablets and electronic cash registers, and POS peripherals, he says. The POS system accepts magnetic-stripe and EMV credit, debit, and gift card transactions in addition to Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Android Pay.
Residualfy’s order-management features enable merchants to accept orders and track an order history for a customer.
In related news, Boulder, Colo.-based Aspex says Denver-based Frontier Airlines will use 2,500 of its tablet-based POS systems onboard flights. Pricing was not released.
The POS software, which Aspex customized for Frontier to support online and offline payments processing and increased tracking capabilities, is in use now.
The system is built using AspexGo, the company’s mobile POS software, and AspexPOS, software that caters to restaurant operators. Development of the Frontier system shared many qualities with these foundational software programs, “but due to the highly customized approach with Frontier, and working closely in focus groups with their flight attendants and finance team, this was more collaborative and innovative than a restaurant or enterprise client,” Stephanie O’Connor, Aspex managing partner, says via email.
“Developing our point-of-sale device with Aspex gives us the solution to manage better a variety of in-flight operations, including food-and-beverage inventory, seat-level itemization, secure payment processing, and crew-level transaction activity tracking across our airline,” said Bill Meehan, chief operating officer, in a press release.
The devices are EMV-enabled and accept mag-stripe credit and debit cards from the four major card brands, O’Connor expects Apple Pay acceptance via near-field communication to arrive in the third quarter.
Mobile POS installations are expected to increase to 17.4 million by 2019, predicts financial research firm 451 Research.
