Point of Sale terminals consist of several primary market areas.  The large merchants, oftern referred to as Tier 1 and Tier 2, use "integrated" point of sale equipment, card devices which connect directly to the cash registers.  The devices are often "customer activated" meaning to customer comes up to the terminal, slides a credit or debit card through the device and the data is sent to the register, which then sends the data to a back office for processing.  This makes up approximately 2 million lanes of point of sale.

For smaller merchants, often referred to as Tier 3 or Tier 4 (mom and pops), the options are for dial terminals which are often operated by a clerk.  If debit transactions are accepted, there is a pinpad attached.  Today, many of these terminals are switching to IP enabled devices to increase speed.

We have brought products to market in each of these cases, whether the device be connected to cash registers like the eNTouch 1000 or the eN crypt 2100 at Ingenico standalone terminal for dial or IP as in the Orion All-In-One terminal.

These products have exacting requirements in terms of customer usability, up time performance and, aesthetics and ergonomics.  Larry has worked on the hardware design, software design and mechanical design elements of these devices as well as the embedded software for digitizers.