Global vAB11 POS — bank compatibility

Global vAB11 is a point-of-sale system for retail, built by Automotive Brands Group. The vendor here is not a software house — it is the group that ran Autobarn and Autopro, and it has been sold twice since.

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Automotive Brands Group was Australia's largest privately owned distributor and franchise operator in the automotive parts aftermarket — 241 stores when it changed hands, split between 102 Autobarn stores on the retail side and 118 Autopro stores on the trade side, plus a car parts division servicing 21 independents. It was a Dumbrell family business: started by Garry Dumbrell, who bought his first two stores in 1977, and run latterly by his son Paul, the V8 Supercars driver who stepped back from full-time racing to take the CEO job in 2010. The Autobarn brand goes back further, to August 1985, when nine independent retailers led by Amos Bush each chipped in $3,000 to form a buying group in Kew, Victoria.

Metcash bought 75.1% for A$53.8 million, announced 28 June 2012 and declared complete to the ASX on 5 July. Paul Dumbrell kept the remaining 24.9% and joined Metcash's executive team. Metcash then built the division out to ten brands — adding Midas, ABS, Partco and others — before selling the whole lot to Burson Group for A$275 million in June 2015. Burson is now Bapcor. So a record that says 'vendor: Automotive Brands Group' is pointing at a company that stopped existing independently in 2012, and whose brands left its buyer in 2015.

Nothing is published anywhere about a product called Global vAB11, and that figures: this was a parts retailer and franchisor, never a POS vendor. The string reads like a version identifier picked up off the store system in an Autobarn or Autopro shop rather than software anyone sells. If you are a franchisee in that network asking which banks your terminal can reach, the answer sits with Bapcor's arrangements, not with a vendor you can ring.