| Manage customer orders for your retail and restaurant | | | | - Secure customer data management |
| business | | | | Fast response times |
| Traditional order management solutions require | | | | User audit trails |
| merchants to lock themselves into a proprietary | | | | Advanced fraud protection |
| vendor controlled order management solution. These | | | | Risk management tools |
| proprietary systems are expensive, difficult to | | | | Third party software support |
| implement and lack the flexibility to customize | | | | Planetauthorize.Net payment gateway supports all the |
| deployments based upon the specific needs of the | | | | features described above and integrates seamlessly |
| merchant. Open source solutions have forever | | | | with the leading open source POS solution from |
| altered the marketplace by providing enterprise quality | | | | Openbravo. |
| software without requiring vendor lock in. | | | | Lower Deployment Costs |
| Further, the lack of viable options resulted in artificially | | | | Open source software includes access to all source |
| higher cost and inconsistent customer | | | | code which provides an avenue for merchants and |
| service. With over 10,000 downloads per month, | | | | their developers to customize their deployment without |
| open source POS solutions have quickly gathered | | | | the added expense of proprietary systems. |
| market share and have begun to lower costs and | | | | Strong Community Support |
| break the stranglehold of proprietary vendors in the | | | | Before deploying an open source solution the |
| payment space. | | | | merchant must ensure the product receives support |
| Payment Processing and Acceptance | | | | by an active community of software developers. In |
| To be successful the POS solution deployed by the | | | | order to verify the product is supported by an active |
| merchant must offer the following features: | | | | community of software developers should: |
| - Support for multiple currencies | | | | - locate and review the technology roadmap |
| - Support for multiple credit cards | | | | - review the frequency and maintenance releases |
| - Support for electronic check processing | | | | - review the history of security patches |
| - Real-time sales reporting | | | | - verify there is an up-to-date release schedule |
| - Support for card-present and card-not-present | | | | Choosing an open source POS solution to manage |
| transactions | | | | your retail or restaurant business can generate huge |
| - The ability to load and support multiple merchant | | | | savings and deliver a flexible and customized solution |
| accounts in a single POS solution | | | | to support the most important aspects of your |
| - PCI Compliance | | | | business; order management. |
| - Encrypted data transmissions | | | | |