Perhaps the answer is a central server for a number of practices
Still there a lot of smaller businesses who do the same - at what scale
is it economical to have such a system?
R
Mario Ruiz wrote:
That's indeed a very good point Richard. In fact I followed it up
with a visit to my local petrol station to check it out and find out a
bit more about how they do it.
As it turn out, the system consists of a back office server, pump
interfaces and a Main console in the shop (point of sale). For what I
saw and was explained to me by the owner, once a purchase has been
registered, the Main console sends information to the EFTPOS device
where the customer swipes the card and the card details are captured
and sent to the Main Console. The EFTPOS is always connected to the
Main console, not stand alone.
In this case, Caltex owns the lot, the EFTPOS device, the server and
the Main console. It appears that they have a clearing house that
does the smarts in Caltex head office. These transactions appear to
go to and from head office (my guess) and they get into the banking
system somewhere there.
The interesting thing appears to be the use of a clearing house owned
by the petrol company, who I'm sure have a bit of business leverage
with the banks. I'm not sure if the banks deal with the petrol
station directly (as they would do with a medical practice).
Maybe the solution is to sub-let floor space for the practice in a
petrol station corner, (:-).
mario
Richard Hosking wrote:
Your average retailer/service station seems to have their systems
linked to the EFTPOS machine. Presumably it is not that hard for
medical software to be interfaced.
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