TapTouch Hospitality Embedded Payments (Android) — payment connector

TapTouch Hospitality 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 POS — this is the embedded payments module that lets the Android build of Taptouch Hospitality take a card on the same device.

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 payment connector, not a till. It is the embedded payments component for Taptouch Hospitality running on Android, from Ivida Smart Technologies Pty Ltd. Embedded means the payment capability lives inside the POS application on the Android device itself rather than talking out to a standalone terminal over a cable or a network. One device takes the order and the card.

The trade-offs are worth understanding before you commit, because they are real. One device is simpler and cheaper than a till plus a separate terminal, and it suits counter service and floor staff carrying a device around a venue. Against that: it ties your payments much more tightly to the POS vendor's own arrangement, so ask directly what happens if you want to change acquirer later, and what your fallback is when that single device dies in the middle of a Friday night service. A separate terminal is a nuisance that also happens to be a second way to get paid.

The vendor behind it builds its own hardware — an 11-inch detachable tablet, a dual-screen counter unit and a 21.5-inch kiosk — and says Taptouch runs in more than 4,000 venues across Australia, the UK, New Zealand and the Netherlands, selling into cafés, full-service restaurants and quick service.