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I'm installing a phone system for a small grocery store. They also want their checkstand pricing computers networked, and an ATM credit card reader at two checkstands. I am thinking of networking the pricing computers to a main server in the office, via a hub, and connect it to a DSL , as the user wants to check in from her other store. As for the ATMs, I was going to use 1 CO line for both.
I am new to grocery store computers. Will these scenarios work, or is there a better way of doing this?
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I don't believe there's a better way! Point-of-Sale are always networked in some form. Access to the "server" should be through as much firewall as you can put up and with VPN. If you are not strong on the network side I would form an alliance with someone who is. Your customer will thank you!
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Sounds like good advice to have an NCR tech or someone else do the networking for the computers. I was thinking the same thing.
As far as the two ATM(s), one CO line should suffice, shouldn't it? (Of course if two customers access at exact same time, they get a busy, but this is a small place, and I reckon this shouldn't occur very often..
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We usually run & terminate the cat5 cable for networking, but let their POS vendor set it up. 1 CO should handle 2-4 credit card machines easily, as they're only online for about 10-30 seconds at a time.
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In my retail customer locations I put the credit card machines on an analog port on the phone switch. Program that IST port for prime CO line and then you don't have a dedicated line saving the customer money and always have a line available for the CC's
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Most of the new POS machines are using the internet to run credit cards.
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Most of them I've seen the POS terminals talk to a server in the office, the server has a modem that handles CC transactions.
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The customer is planning on setting their own computers up (which means I probably will!) I figured there would be a main server with a DSL or modem out, with all the other registers (comuters?) networked together in a hub/router that connects to this server. Sound correct?
I guess they can supply the software!!!
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OK- I meant "computers", not "commuters"!
So I can't type...!
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