If you do not need a fully-featured POS system, you can use our Standalone solution instead.
This is our quickest way to start accepting in-person payments. It does not require any development or integration work. Instead of using a POS app, you initiate transactions directly from a standalone terminal.
Fallback
Standalone terminals can also be used as a fallback when your POS app cannot communicate with integrated terminals. For example, if there is a network problem and you cannot start a transaction on your integrated terminal from the POS app, you can continue making transactions using a standalone terminal. All you have to do is enable cellular connectivity or offline payments on the standalone terminal.
Compliance and supported terminals
A compliance requirement from the card schemes is that you are able to provide the customer with a printed receipt. For this reason, only terminals that have a built-in printer can be used as standalone terminals. When selecting a new terminal, choose one of the following models:
- S1F2 and S1F2L
- V210
- V240m Plus (for Brazil)
- V400c Plus
- V400m
Supported features
The Standalone solution supports the basic payment-related operations:
- Make a payment. This includes:
- Credit and debit card payments
- NFC wallet payments such as Apple Pay and Google Pay
- QR code wallet payments such as Alipay and WeChat Pay
- Manual Keyed Entry (MKE) payments
- Mail Order/Telephone Order (MOTO) payments
- Tipping
- Cancel an in-progress payment
- Refund a payment
- Offline payments
In addition, you can view and print day or shift totals and reprint receipts.
With the Standalone solution, you will not be able to use features like shopper recognition or tax free shopping. You will also need to manually reconcile your point-of-sale transactions against your sales and returns.