MOBILE PAYMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A mobile point of sale system and method uses a mobile point of sale terminal, a mobile device programmed with an app, and low energy network beacons. A cloud server communicates with the mobile point of sale terminal to manage the system and retain data. The beacons can be used to track location of a customer within a merchant to push information to the customer. The cloud server can use stored information about the customer to better target information and offers sent to the customer and to facilitate improved payment processing.

主权项

1. A mobile point of sale terminal comprising:
a cash drawer; a card reader for reading payment information from a payment card; an optical code scanner; a mobile tablet, the mobile tablet adapted to communicate with the cash drawer, the card reader and the optical scanner, the mobile tablet including a display screen for displaying information, having a touch screen for providing input, and having a computer processor programmed to control the cash drawer, the card reader, and the optical scanner; and a stand for supporting the mobile tablet on the cash drawer, the stand including a plurality of inputs for payment system hardware to permit payment system hardware to communicate with the mobile tablet.