Vertico | The Modern Payment Bridge for POS Systems

What Vertico does

A bridge between your POS and the payment terminal.

Vertico keeps your POS in control while the terminal handles the secure cardholder flow. It is designed for external POSs that need a clean, reliable payment handoff.

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POS-to-terminal routing

Route each payment request by merchant, POS station, terminal, or location. Perfect for front counter, table service, and back-office flows.

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Real-time payment status

Keep the POS updated with request received, terminal connected, payment started, approved, declined, cancelled, or timed out events.

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Secure terminal-first payment

Vertico triggers the payment flow on the payment device, reducing PCI burden for the POS and keeping sensitive card entry on the terminal.

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Receipt and invoice mapping

Use unique invoice numbers and request IDs so each POS sale can be matched to one terminal transaction without duplicate confusion.

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Cloud or local architecture

Use secure WSS for cloud routing, local socket flows for LAN deployments, or a hybrid approach depending on the merchant environment.

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Operational visibility

Give admins a clear view of terminals, POS registrations, requests, errors, and settlement-ready transaction activity.

How it works

Four steps from checkout to approval.

Vertico is intentionally simple: register devices, send payment requests, let the terminal collect payment, and return the result.

Register The POS and terminal register with Vertico using merchant, location, POS ID, and terminal identity.
Request The POS sends a payment request with amount, currency, invoice number, and optional order metadata.
Route Vertico finds the correct terminal and launches the native payment flow on the device.
Respond The POS receives an approved, declined, cancelled, or error response that can be saved against the order.

External POS

Vertico Bridge

Clover Terminal

Payment Result

For POS developers

Simple JSON in. Clean payment response out.

Vertico is designed so POS teams can integrate without learning every terminal SDK detail. Start with one payment request and add richer metadata as your workflow grows.

Payment request

{ "type":"payment_request", "merchantId":"PB2JSMQERTRP1", "posId":"POS-01", "targetTerminalId":"MINI-COUNTER-01", "requestId":"INV-100045", "invoiceNo":"INV-100045", "amount":534, "currency":"CAD" }

Payment response

{ "type":"payment_result", "requestId":"INV-100045", "status":"APPROVED", "amount":534, "currency":"CAD", "paymentId":"PAYMENT_FROM_TERMINAL", "terminalId":"MINI-COUNTER-01", "message":"Payment approved" }

Unique invoice numbers

Every payment request should use a unique requestId and invoiceNo to avoid duplicate payment rejection and reconciliation issues.

Terminal status events

Track device online/offline status, payment readiness, and request ownership before launching a transaction.

Bill-72 aware fields

Support subtotal and tax-aware payment design where pre-tax tipping or compliant checkout behavior is required.

For resellers and payment partners

Give merchants semi-integration without custom projects every time.

Vertico creates a repeatable way to connect payment devices with external POS systems, reducing support work and opening new deployment opportunities.

Faster deployments

Standardize terminal registration, POS pairing, payment routing, and troubleshooting across merchants.

More terminal flexibility

Support counter service, table service, donation kiosks, and multi-terminal locations from one bridge layer.

Clear support model

Separate POS problems, network problems, terminal readiness, and payment approval results with better diagnostics.

1 Bridge for many POS systems

24/7 Always-on routing architecture

Multi Merchant, POS, and terminal support

API Developer-friendly integration

Ready to connect?

Bring semi-integrated payments to your POS ecosystem.

Vertico is ideal for POS developers, Clover resellers, restaurant groups, service businesses, and merchants that need payment terminals to work with external software.