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A POS terminal is a point of sale electronic device that allows a merchant to handle financial transaction cards and confirm personal checks. In the modern financial world cash is becoming less and less common. There are many advantages to using a financial transaction card and customers are using them so often, that most merchants install one or several to help their customers pay for their goods.

Point of sale terminals come with POS applications that link the merchant's equipment to a financial networks that process transactions about sales and payments. These terminals allow merchant to slide a financial transaction card through a card reader which reads the magnetic stripe on the card. Sometimes, you could also enter manually the card information. Some terminals cannot process debit cards as true debit cards and instead treat them as credit cards. The difference is that debit cards need to have a personal identification number manually keyed into the terminal while credit cards do not. Some point of sale terminals are behind the merchant counter and the customer does not have access to the keypad. Alternatively, customers have access to terminals, and can enter their personal identification number (PIN) when using a debit card.

POS software is the software that runs on the terminals and allows merchants to handle transactions. The POS software is essentially the brain of the device and handles the networking, sale data, and communication. This software helps you to track the sales made on a given day. You can also program it to run certain reports that would help you manage your business. When you scan a financial transaction card through the card reader on the terminal, you collect important personal information about your customer. You would then send this information to the financial network. Someone at the network will either approve or deny the transaction based on the funds in the customer's account. This protects you and the financial institution against the electronic equivalent of a bounced check. Speaking of checks, you can also use some electronic terminals to clear your customers personal checks. You do so by entering the customer's account number and sale amount, and having the customer's bank certify the check is good.

Many merchants have point of sale devices that do not link directly to the main cash register. They ring up sales on the register, but they must trick the register's computer into thinking the customer pays cash instead of using a financial transaction card. However, many businesses now use a point of sale system that ties in directly to the POS cash register. This makes it easier to keep track of sales and profits without having to add numbers from multiple machines.

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