Android is a extensively used open-source working system used on some 70% of cell gadgets worldwide. The working system gives a spread of capabilities and adaptability on cell gadgets, and adumo is keen to supply its shoppers with the advantages on their fee gadgets.
Adumo chief expertise officer Vaughan Alexander mentioned: “Underpinning our fee gadgets with an Android working system is a no brainer. The working system permits straightforward addition and integration of recent purposes, can run a number of purposes and permits our prospects extra personalised performance on our fee gadgets.
“Service provider level of sale purposes and stock administration purposes are just a few examples of purposes that may be deployed over and above the fee purposes offered by adumo. We’re piggy backing on years of Google technological analysis and design, which can present distinctive worth to our shoppers, exceeding what they’re used to on their private Android-based cell handsets.”
Penetration testing has been carried out and the gadgets are PCI Council PTS authorized and EMV-certified
The power to help different fee gadgets shall be improved, utilising distant diagnostic capabilities, distant obtain of recent software program, in addition to the power to coach prospects remotely. Units help geo-location, which helps to safe gadgets and can be utilized to disable gadgets if working from unauthorised places. These capabilities depend on using a “best-of-breed” utility market and gadget administration system.
Adumo will present prospects with a hardened and safe Android-based answer. Penetration testing has been carried out and the gadgets are PCI Council PTS authorized and EMV licensed. The answer will present improved reporting and analytics from the gadgets, offering insights into the retailers’ cashier and buyer behaviours when paying.
Units shall be made out there to help all service provider use necessities, whether or not accepting fee on the until, or queue busting options, self-service kiosks and fee required after deliveries. Machine choices can be found with battery help, assuaging challenges with load shedding and a spread of communications choices: Ethernet, Wi-Fi, 4G and Bluetooth, for instance.
Advertising alternatives
Present shoppers can have the choice to deploy Android gadgets, though Alexander famous that Linux-based gadgets will proceed to be supported.
Trying forward, Alexander mentioned Android-based gadgets will lend themselves particularly to advertising and marketing alternatives, utilising their multimedia capabilities and the bigger contact screens sometimes offered.
Adumo is an official reseller of PAX merchandise in sub-Saharan Africa and gives a spread of PAX Android gadgets, supporting all service provider use circumstances.
About adumo
African fintech firm adumo is South Africa’s largest unbiased funds processor and companies over 70 000 shoppers throughout 13 international locations in Africa. Presently, adumo exceeds a processing worth of R80-billion/12 months in formal markets throughout South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. It gives small and medium enterprises with a monetary companies platform that allows an ecosystem of built-in value-added monetary and enterprise companies, with the intention of paying shoppers, simplifying their fee environments, and rising and optimising their companies.
