Downloading Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale

Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale can be used to process credit and debit cards in real-time.

What to you need to process credit cards? The minimum set is the following:

1. You should have a bank account in USA. The mandatory requirement is payments with Authorize.Net can be made only in US Dollars. So you can use your existing bank account or you can open a new one.
2. You should have an account as Authorize.Net.
3. You should have Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale.
4. Your POS computer should have Internet connection. Because transmission of card data is performed via Internet (secure connection).

Optionally you may have Magnetic Stripe Reader (MSR) device to read magnetic strips on cards. But this is not a requirement because you can process credits card even without MSR. Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale allows using manual card entry. You may simply type card number and expiration date in Enter Card Data window.

Step-by-step instructions:

1. Open an account at Authorize.Net. Important: select Retail as market type parameter during opening Authorize.Net account. Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale implements Card-Present Transactions in Authorize.Net. Therefore it should be Card Present account type in Authorize.Net.
2. To process credit cards with Authorize.Net you need only two parameters to specify in Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale: API Login ID and Transaction Key. You can get these parameters on Authorize.Net: go to menu Home Account Settings - Security Settings - API Login ID and Transaction Key.
3. Start Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale.
4. Go to menu Configuration Preferences Credit Cards.
5. Check Process Credit Cards option.
6. Check Allow Manual Entry option if you need to manually enter credit card number and expiration date.
7. Set API Login ID and Transaction Key (these parameters should be taken from Authorize.Net).
8. Check Read Cards by MSR option if you are going to use MSR. Note: MSR should be enabled on Preferences Hardware MSR.