Modern POS AX7 — bank compatibility

Modern POS AX7 is a point-of-sale system for retail, built by Retail Realm. The AX7-generation Modern POS — a middle step on Microsoft's retail path, and it helps to know which step you are on.

Certified on Linkly, running on premise. Linkly reaches more acquirers than any other middleware in the market, which is why most POS start there.

The Linkly integration runs on premise.

Modern POS AX7 is the point of sale from the AX7 generation of Microsoft Dynamics, the release that sat between Dynamics AX and today's Dynamics 365 Store Commerce. Like the rest of the Microsoft retail records in the Australian directory, it was certified for local payments by Retail Realm rather than by Microsoft.

Retail Realm is the company behind Retail Management Hero, and the reason it exists is worth knowing: Microsoft discontinued its Dynamics Retail Management System, and RMH was built as the next-generation replacement for all those stranded RMS retailers. RMH POS launched in 2016, RMH Central followed in 2019, and Retail Realm's chairman Afshin Alikhani ran the deal. It sells through distributors rather than direct — and in Australia and New Zealand the exclusive distributor since 1 September 2017 has been Advantage Solutions Distribution, trading as asdisti.com.au.

Why the generation label matters: the directory holds separate records for Dynamics AX Retail, this AX7 Modern POS, a Modern POS build pinned to AX 2012 CU10, and D365 Store Commerce. They are four points on one product lineage, each certified separately, and the certified feature sets are not identical between them. So "we run Microsoft retail" is not enough information to quote against. Pin down the exact release and build you are on, because that is what decides which record and which certified feature set applies to you.

Advantage is the party you would actually deal with here. Founded in 1990 to serve small-to-medium retail, it took on Microsoft's RMS in 2007, got RMH-certified in early 2017, sits on the RMH advisory board for the region and converted its own RMS iPOS product into RMH iPOS. It handles local order processing, support and training, receipt and report localisation, MYOB and Xero integration, and custom development. Its customers run from single stores to enterprises with 100-plus stores, some of those relationships going back to the 1990s.

Retail Realm also has D365 Store Commerce, MAX PAY GLOBAL (Retail Modern POS), Microsoft Dynamics AX Retail and Retail Management Hero POS and 2 others.