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Poynt

We helped develop the software that ran the Poynt smart payment terminal — the register app, customer management, and the app architecture — on a custom fork of Android.

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Mobile Engineering · Platform Engineering · Architecture

Poynt reimagined the credit card terminal — turning the beige box next to the cash register into a smart, connected device that merchants could actually run their business on. Agilevent helped develop the software that made it work.

This wasn’t ordinary app development. The terminal ran a custom fork of the Android OS, and the software had to meet the bar payments demand: if the register doesn’t work, the business doesn’t take money. Agilevent built:

  • The main register app — the heart of the merchant experience, the software a business touches on every single sale.
  • The customer management apps — the tools merchants used to know and serve their customers.
  • The architecture for all the terminal’s apps — the shared foundation every application on the device was built on, plus the testing practices that kept a payments device dependable.

Poynt’s smart terminal went on to be acquired by GoDaddy, where the hardware became the centerpiece of GoDaddy Payments.

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