Compared with one kind of point of sale — notes

2. The profile

an all-in-one point of sale sold as integrated hardware on a monthly plan: integrated proprietary devices running the maker's own software, with a cloud back office and an app market. It is sold by the maker directly and through bank and reseller partners; the published prices are the maker's own, and resellers set theirs.

In Canada its prices are quote-only: the maker's Canadian pages and its distributor list no prices.

Public list prices, read September 24, 2026. The profile is a shape, not a brand; it is compared with us on its own, never merged with another.

Notes

Say the rule before the first number: the public site never names a rival; one profile at a time, drawn from dated public facts. If the room asks who, the answer is the shape, not a name.

3. The price shape, side by side

Notes

Our side is read from the rate card at the render. The other side's figures are the profile's dated public list prices. Say the shape, not the arithmetic: a flat fee that returns most of itself as usage, against a plan fee plus a per-register fee plus an app fee, on a term.

4. Hardware

Bring your own: any modern browser device is the register — the laptop, the tablet, the printer, the scanner and the drawer you already own, from a registry of supported peripherals, and one card reader from the processor.

The profile: a proprietary lineup of countertop and handheld devices with the printer, the scanner and the card reader built in. List prices run from $199 for the handheld reader to $1,899 for the two-screen station. Devices are financed as 36- or 48-month subscriptions — for example $180 a month for the two-screen station — with a buyout at the end of the term.

Notes

Nothing is financed to get started here. On the other side the device and the plan are one bundle, sold on a term.

5. The contract

Month to month; the pricing page names no term; if you ever leave, your data is yours and exportable.

The profile: device subscriptions run 36 or 48 months and are non-cancelable; promotional rates require a three-year processing agreement Early termination fees equal to the remaining balance are widely reported.

Notes

Nothing to sign, nothing to buy. Walk the merchant's own hardware list, then the term on the other side.

6. Processing

Any processor. Stripe is integrated out of the box at Stripe's published rates; the platform takes no percentage of your sales, and its own share of the processing revenue is handed back to merchants who stay. Whatever your processor charges is between you and them.

The profile: the maker's own processing only — its devices cannot be used with another payment processor. Its published rates: as little as 2.3% + 10¢ in person on the station bundles and 2.6% + 10¢ on the entry devices; 3.5% + 10¢ keyed or online; resellers vary.

Notes

Processing costs about the same anywhere at retail volumes; the platform fee and the contract are where the two diverge. Stop shopping on rate.

7. Offline

Always-on by design. “We don't have an offline mode. We have a phone. An offline mode means selling on a promise and finding out three days later whether you were paid — we would rather you never have to find out.” Any phone is a hotspot; the register moves to it in under a minute.

The profile: card payments stored on the device for up to 7 days when it is offline, submitted when it reconnects. The default limits are $500 per transaction and $5,000 in total; in the maker's own words, a card that declines later is your loss. Offline payments are not available to Canadian merchants at all.

Notes

Say it with confidence. An offline queue sells on a promise and hands the merchant the declines; one live truth on every till is the design, not a gap.

8. Openness

1,085 operations on one open API, every one reachable from the command line and from AI assistants over MCP. Agentic commerce is live: a buyer's AI agent can find a shop, search the catalog and complete a checkout.

The profile: a REST API with OAuth, webhooks and SDKs for semi-integration, and an app market of 483 published apps in the US.

Notes

One API is the product; every surface is a consumer of it. The other side integrates through a device-centred cloud.

9. Your data

The Data Covenant: the merchant owns the data — no selling, no advertising, no AI training, no secondary use; a permanent history on every record; full machine-readable export.

The profile: its terms let the maker continue to access, retain, use, share and combine merchant data for its permitted purposes after termination. Export is a CSV download or an export API of 1,000 objects per file over 30-day ranges, the files deleted after 24 hours.

Notes

Read the covenant's line from the terms. The other side's terms and export limits are quoted from its public pages, dated.

10. Where the profile is stronger

• Purpose-built integrated hardware: printer, scanner, card reader and customer screen in one device, financed monthly.
• Offline card payments in the US: a seven-day device queue with the decline risk on the merchant — and none of it in Canada.
• Restaurants: tables, courses, tabs, QR order and pay, kitchen screens, kiosks and delivery integrations.
• Scale and distribution: about 900,000 merchants, sold through banks and resellers, with round-the-clock phone support.
• An app market of 483 US apps, and a $0 software entry plan with a purchased device.
• Tap to pay on a phone today; debit-network acceptance in Canada; working capital and instant deposits.

Notes

Honest, and said before the merchant asks. Every line is the profile's own, dated.

11. What we do not claim

A browser register today; native phone and tablet apps and tap to pay on a phone are coming, with no dates promised. No restaurant features, and none planned. Card payments at the counter on the processor's smart readers are coming. The service is in its controlled first wave, by application.

Notes

The coming words carry no dates by law. Say the first wave plainly.

12. Next steps

Apply — no card, no fee. Run it beside your current till for a season, on your own catalog, and expand when you are satisfied.

Start your evaluation

Notes

Discovery first: their processing statement, their hardware list, their card share. Then a demo on their own catalog.

Where these numbers come from

Every figure on these slides is read from the system when the page is rendered — the registries, the rate card, the example shop’s own records — or, for the other side, from dated public list prices. Nothing is typed.

The doors: Start your evaluation (the public site).