Engineering · Since 1999
Engineering first. For twenty-five years.
We did not start as a platform company. We started by making a vending machine take a card in 1999 — and kept solving the next hard problem, from custom boards and protocols to Android and cloud. The platform is what that engineering became.
Engineering First
The problem, then the product
Every layer of the platform exists because a real machine needed it. We are engineers before we are a vendor: we would rather understand your machine down to its control board than sell you a box and leave. That bias shows up in everything we ship.
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We own the whole stack
From the board and the protocol on the machine to the cloud and the browser — one team, one mental model, no integration seams to hide behind.
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Depth over breadth
We would rather do payment, telemetry and control properly on one platform than shallowly across ten. The focus is why it holds up in the field.
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Built to last a hardware generation
Terminals change every few years; our software is designed so the platform outlives the device under it. Hardware changes — the platform remains.
How we got here
From embedded systems to cloud platforms
The same team followed the problem up the stack. Each step below was a real capability we had to build before the next one was possible — this is the path, not a marketing arc.
- Embedded Embedded systems The starting craft: firmware and real-time control on constrained hardware, where a dropped byte is a failed sale.
- Boards Custom electronics When off-the-shelf boards couldn't do the job, we designed our own — payment and control electronics built for the machine.
- Protocols MDB & Executive Speaking the machine's own language: MDB and Executive to the VMC, so the terminal controls the vend, not just the payment.
- Payment Payment electronics Two decades of acceptance — online cards, contactless, closed-loop, meal cards, QR — engineered into the machine, not bolted on.
- Android Android edge Hero Nexus: the control and payment logic moved onto Android at the edge, offline-first, updatable over the air.
- Cloud Cloud & browser QuadC and HERO: telemetry, fleet management and operations in the cloud and the browser, on top of everything below.
What we know deeply
The disciplines behind the platform
These are not buzzwords on a slide — they are the areas we have shipped in production for years. Any one of them is a conversation you can have with our engineers in detail.
25 years
A quarter century, in milestones
The same story on a rail: the payment problem taught us the machines; the machines became the platform.
Talk to the engineers, not a sales desk
Bring us a hard machine, an old estate or an integration nobody else will touch. That's the conversation we like having.