Quest Payment Systems
- Company role:
- Terminal manufacturerUnattended payments
- Head office:
- Melbourne, Victoria
The Australian one — operating here since 1991, designing and building its own terminals in Victoria, and the only manufacturer on this site that treats eftpos as a first-class scheme rather than a local quirk.
About Quest Payment Systems
Quest began operating in Australia in 1991. It is the only terminal manufacturer profiled here that is Australian, and it has been designing and building hardware in Victoria since at least 1999, when it launched the Swift PT. It still describes the FastFuel outdoor terminal as designed and manufactured in Australia.
That history shows in what the terminals do rather than what they cost. The EftposPlus and Cloud EFTPOS software lines have been integrated into Australian point-of-sale systems for three decades, and the hardware supports the schemes an Australian merchant actually sees — eftpos alongside the internationals, Alipay and WeChat Pay, and Zip, Humm and Afterpay. A terminal designed in Shenzhen or Paris treats eftpos as an edge case; this one does not.
Quest does not acquire. Its terminals reach merchants through the banks and acquirers and through the POS vendors who integrate them — NAB names the QT850 as its standalone terminal in its own merchant material. The company is privately held, and Jan Mason has been chief executive since 2016.
Quest products
Product range
Payment terminals
6 models, and what each one is actually for.
Portable
QT850
Quest’s smart terminal, and the one NAB puts on its standalone plans — Linux or Android, a 3.5-inch screen, dedicated PIN keys and a field-replaceable battery.
PIN pad
QT720
The integrated counter terminal — tethered to a POS, with a 15-key moulded keypad Quest says will not wear out.
Handheld
MT330
A pocket PIN pad that pairs with a phone or tablet — 140g, 22.5mm thick, with the POS running on the device the merchant already owns.
Handheld
AP3
A 55mm square contactless reader weighing 32g — no keypad, no PIN, an E-ink display and a battery that lasts because the screen uses almost nothing.
Kiosks, transport, pay-at-pump, vending, parking
UT430
An all-in-one unattended module with PIN entry — chip, contactless and magstripe behind a UV-stabilised flame-retardant bezel, 70mm deep inside the kiosk.
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