What is the best terminal solution for your business?

What is the difference between a non-embedded (local footprint) and embedded terminal solution? If your business uses a terminal solution in addition to the answer to this question you need to know about the pros and cons of these two solutions.

A non-embedded/local footprint terminal solution is also called a DLL-based solution while it is controlled by a DLL mini-program (Dynamic Link Library). Among the advantages of this solution you will find: wide industry acceptance, wide availability, on-demand fulfillment. The disadvantages include PA-DSS requirement, point-to-point encryption issues, updates when not bundled.

An embedded terminal solution is an alternative to the above-mentioned one. In this case a terminal is treated as an independent processing server. The advantages of this approach are no local footprint, simplified flow, cross-platform accessibility, simplified point-to-point encryption. The disadvantages are considered to be fulfillment and injection limitations, Ethernet connection requirement, remote updates.

If you are interested in the explanation of the listed issues you can refer to the article at payvisors.com which is called ‘Is An Embedded Or Non-Embedded Terminal Solution Best For Your Business?’ Hope this information will be useful to you while making up your mind.

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