Ask HN: Do you think there's room for a Point of Sales webapp?

Re:Ask HN: Do you think there's room for a Point of Sales we... by mark242 on Monday August 15, 2011 @01:07AM (#2885571)

I hate to break this to you, but for any larger merchant, you're going to be SOL, for one basic reason: PCI compliance. Unless you spend a ridiculous amount of time and money researching and implementing things like key management, credit card tokenization, and the like, no level 1 or level 2 merchant will look at you.

For level 3 and level 4 merchants, you may have a shot-- especially if you can seamlessly upgrade the application to add more functionality, allow for customization, etc. Basically a Shopify for the real world.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think there's room for a Point of Sales we... by davidjairala on Monday August 15, 2011 @01:16AM (#2885591)

Hi mark, thank you for your comment. The product is definitely more geared to smaller shops, level 3 and 4 as you said. However, I'm beginning to think that maybe looking into PCI compliance wouldn't be a bad idea.

Thanks again.

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