MetaPOS Embedded paymentS (android) — payment connector

MetaPOS Embedded paymentS (android) is not a point-of-sale system — it is the payment connector that joins a point-of-sale system to the terminal, through Tyro. Not a till at all — it is the module that turns a MetaPOS Android tablet into the card reader itself, so there is no separate EFTPOS terminal.

Worth being clear about what this is, because the directories list it alongside the tills: you do not buy this instead of a point-of-sale system, you buy it to connect one you already have.

This record is a payments module, not a point of sale product, and it is worth being clear about that before you compare it to anything else here. It is the Android half of MetaPOS's embedded payments integration: Tyro's SDK built into the MetaPOS app so the tablet's own NFC chip reads the card, with no EFTPOS terminal sitting next to it.

Tyro announced the embedded payments SDK on 5 December 2024, live first across three point of sale systems — Liven, MetaPOS and Ivida. The commercial point is the pricing model: bring your own NFC-capable Android device, pay per transaction, and skip the monthly terminal rental entirely. If you already run MetaPOS on Android tablets, this is the specific thing that removes the terminal from your counter.

The dependency chain matters. This does nothing on its own: you need MetaPOS as the till, Android hardware with working NFC, and a Tyro merchant facility. If you are shopping rather than already a MetaPOS site, the parent product is where to start and this is a feature of it rather than a purchase in its own right.