Retailer Roam POS — bank compatibility
Point-of-sale system by Tower Systems International (Aust) · All point-of-sale systems
- general retail
- retail
Retailer Roam is a point-of-sale system for general retail and retail, built by Tower Systems International (Aust). The roaming till from a Hawthorn software house that only sells to independent specialty shops — now Constellation-owned.
Certified on Linkly and on Tyro. Worth knowing the difference: Tyro is its own acquirer, so that route means banking with Tyro. The Linkly route does not.
Certified for split bills. Tyro rates it a Premium partner — their top tier.
The Linkly integration runs in the cloud.
Tower Systems was founded by Mark Fletcher, a programmer who had worked in retail, and runs out of Lynch Street, Hawthorn. The whole business is built for local independent specialty retailers rather than chains: newsagents, bookshops, jewellers, garden centres, bike shops, pet shops, toy shops, fishing and produce stores, fashion, music and computer shops.
The ownership changed in November 2024, when Vela APX — a division of Constellation Software (TSX: CSU) — acquired the business. Constellation's model is to buy niche vertical software and keep it, so the brand tends to survive the deal; the company behind it does not stay the same.
Roam is the mobile version: taking a sale away from the counter, which is what a garden centre or a bike shop actually needs on a Saturday.
Tower Systems International (Aust) also has Retailer, Retailer - Kiosk, Retailer (On-premises only) and Tower Systems International v2.7.3.2 (Cloud).
Connected through
A POS reaches a bank through middleware. Each card below is one certified route; the banks it reaches are on the middleware page.
Independent middleware
Linkly
- Deployment
- Cloud
Certified for: Core Payments, Surcharging
9 acquirers →
Tyro only
Tyro
- Tyro tier
- Premium (their top tier)
Certified for: Integrated EFTPOS, Integrated purchases, Integrated receipts, Integrated refunds, Integrated split payments
1 acquirer named for this integration →
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