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Company Website
http://www.qisystems.ca/
QI Systems Inc. designs hardware and software for the rapidly expanding cash card industry and is a leader in supplying solutions for smart card vending with products operating in Canada, the US, Venezuela, Hong Kong, the UK, and Norway.
Our SmartVend technology enables debit card purchases by consumers from a wide range of vending machine types. The SmartVend system is currently utilized in conjunction with many card schemes, including VisaCash, Mondex (Multos), CANTV (Venezuelan phone card), Touch Technology (TTI), EFM, ParkSmart, Telus, QI Card and others. Due to the modular structure of SmartVend, a single unit can run multiple card schemes in parallel with new schemes easily added at any time.
SmartVend systems have been installed in Coca-Cola and Pepsi vending machines, coffee, snack and sandwich machines, laundry machines, copiers, newspaper vending boxes for such publications as USA Today and in parking machines.
QLink:
QI Systems Inc. developed QLink specifically for VISA Cash, to enable cash card use in Unattended Point of Sale (UPOS) devices. Before QLink, card accepting devices (CADs) were only viable in areas where direct ("On-Line") phone or radio communications could be established with the Visa Concentration Point. This connection usually required an expensive networking solution with either complex wiring or costly radio equipment. With the QLink, SmartKit for VISA Cash can be installed in vending, laundry, newspaper and copy machines at any location. One QLink unit can support more than a hundred machines in multiple locations.
QLink is software running on a hand held computer, otherwise known as a Personal Digital Assistant or PDA. It collects data from CADs and stores the files for later VISA processing. After visiting any number of CADs, QLink presents the data to VISA in a single modem call, with each CAD appearing as a station on a network. During this call, the VISA Concentration Point returns clearing information for each CAD so the next time QLink visits each CAD the appropriate Visa Update is presented. This ensures quick and simple communications with individual machines as well as a systematic way to collect ecash from a series of machines.
The collection method is simple. Inserting a SmartLink paddle into the card reader allows QLink to retrieve information directly from the front of the CAD. Summaries can be viewed on the QLink screen. It's an ideal tool for VISA Cash merchants.
QLink has been used by USA Today for newspaper boxes, by U.S. Veterans Affairs Hospitals for vending machines, and for collections from POS devices by VISA International in Manhattan. Scotiabank is using QLink for vending, photocopy and laundry machines in Barrie, Ontario.
SmartKit Console (POS)
This handheld unit, derived from the basic vending unit with the "standard" cardboard, consists of a single circuit board with a small daughter board which houses two security access modules. A full 3x4 keypad is also part of the console. It is used as a portable, handheld payment terminal with a second serial port for interface to a printer or other device.
The combination of industry-standard SmartKit components, sleek handheld design, and numeric keypad open up many possible uses for SmartKit Console (SKC) in the field. SKC is primarily a Point-Of-Sale (POS) device which, like the standard SmartKit, can accept VisaCash, Mondex, the QI Card, and proprietary smart cards.
SKC can be used in any attended POS location, for a multitude of tasks. It can be used in kiosk mode, attached to a cash register as an integrated payment solution, or it can be used as a stand-alone device. It can be used as a value payment terminal, as an access authentication device, and even as a handheld e-cash reload station.
Contact:
609 Cheek Sparger Rd. Suite 300
Colleyville, TX 76034
United States
Telephone: (817) 485-8111
Fax: (817) 485-8186
E-mail: info@qisystems.ca
