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Schedule deployment

Schedule installation or uninstallation of apps and certificates on Android payment terminals.

After you upload your Android apps and certificates, you can schedule when to install apps and certificates on your Android payment terminals. You can also remove apps and certificates that are already installed on the terminals.

Requirements

  • To manage Android apps and Android certificates in your Customer Area, you must have the following user role:

    • Merchant POS Terminal Management Admin

  • 1.70 To install and uninstall certificates, the terminal must be on release 1.70 or later.

  • Apps and certificates must be uploaded to your Customer Area.

Install or uninstall apps

To add or remove an app on your payment terminals, in your Customer Area, select what action you want to take on what terminals. The terminals then carry out the action at an automatic maintenance call they make to our system. For the action to succeed, the terminal must be connected to your network and turned on.

To schedule the action:

  1. In your Customer Area go to In-person payments > Android and select the Apps tab.
  2. Verify that the app has reached the Ready status.
  3. Select the app.
  4. Select what you want to do:
    • Install to add an app to terminals.
    • Uninstall to remove an app from terminals.
  5. Select the app version.
  6. Schedule when you want the install or uninstall action to happen:
    • Schedule now adds or removes the app with the next maintenance call.
    • Specifying a date and time adds or removes the app with the first maintenance call after the scheduled date and time.
  7. Select Continue.
  8. Select the terminals that you want to apply the action to. You can filter the list of terminals by terminal ID, or a combination of categories like terminal model and country.
  9. Select Continue.
  10. Review the plan and select Schedule installation.

Install or uninstall certificates

To add or remove an Android certificate on your payment terminals, in your Customer Area, select what action you want to take on what terminals. The terminals then carry out the action at an automatic maintenance call they make to our system. For the action to succeed, the terminal must be connected to your network and turned on.

To schedule the action:

  1. In your Customer Area go to In-person payments > Android and select the Certificates tab.
  2. Select what you want to do:
    • Install certificate to add a certificate to terminals.
    • Uninstall certificate to remove a certificate from terminals.
  3. Select the certificate.
  4. Select the terminals that you want to apply the action to.
  5. Depending on the chosen action, select Install or Uninstall.

Check apps on a terminal

To see which apps are currently deployed to a terminal:

  1. On the terminal, go to Settings > Apps.

  2. Enter your passcode.

    If an app is scheduled to be installed or removed, this action is carried out immediately when you open the Apps menu.

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