A counter, a dining room, a forecourt and a treatment chair take the same payment in four different ways. Highline has a broad range of terminals and POS systems available across those environments — the equipment follows the room, and all of it reports to one account.
A selection, not the range — more is available than one page should list. What changes between them is where they live and what the person holding one is doing; what does not change is the account behind them.
Not from a specification. Each of these is the right answer to a different room — take them one at a time and one of them will describe yours.
A touchscreen that takes the payment, prints the receipt, handles the tip and closes the batch without a second box beside it. It is the most requested setup because it is the fewest moving parts that still does the whole job.
Wired, with an integrated printer, sitting where it always sits. Where a queue forms and the till is the bottleneck, a wired lane is more predictable than a wireless one — and a second lane ready for the busy hour is worth more than a better single one.
A handheld that leaves the counter: the table, the chair, the kerb, the van. Paying where the conversation already is removes the walk to the till, which is where a surprising amount of friction — and a surprising number of abandoned tips — lives.
A reader paired to a phone or a tablet, for markets, events, call-outs and anywhere the business happens away from its own address. The lightest setup there is, and the one that still settles to the same account as everything else.
A stand with a kitchen display behind it and handhelds in front of it. What separates a good restaurant setup from a tolerable one is not the ordering screen — it is tip handling by server and an end-of-shift report that agrees with the drawer.
Outdoor EMV at the dispenser, with the kiosk inside on the same account. Fuel pre-authorization works unlike any other card-present transaction, and the equipment and the account behind it both have to be set up knowing that.
Not a device at all: a screen on the platform where a card is keyed, a payment link is sent, or a stored card is charged again. It is part of the gateway rather than the hardware, and it sits on the same account as every terminal above it.
Getting these the wrong way round is how a business ends up with equipment that is impressive and wrong.
Equipment is the last decision, not the first. The room, the volume and the way payment actually happens narrow it down long before a device is named — and once they have, the choice is usually between two options rather than twenty.
The account behind the equipment is a separate decision, and worth making separately — the device does not set what you pay to process.
A till, a shop floor and an online store are three places taking the same payment. The setup is built so all three land on one account rather than three.
Tables, bar, counter and delivery all settle differently, and a tip has to reach the person who earned it rather than a pooled line on a report.
One business running two very different payment environments — the forecourt and the kiosk — with fuel rules that apply to neither of the others.
Payment happens at the chair as often as at the desk, and the retail shelf settles to the same account as the appointment.
Often no counter at all. The money arrives from a bank account more often than from a card, against an invoice or a retainer rather than a sale.
The right setup often costs more upfront than a slow month can absorb, which is how businesses end up with equipment chosen by a cash-flow calendar.
Equipment FinancingPrograms, amounts and terms are subject to underwriting and approval. Nothing shown here is an offer of credit, and no approval, amount or timescale is implied.
Highline works across a wide range of terminals and POS platforms rather than one manufacturer’s shelf, so the conversation starts with how your business runs instead of with what somebody has to sell. The devices on this page are examples; what you are shown is what suits the room.
The questions that come up in every equipment conversation. The ones about your own room are better answered by walking it than by reading a page.
Talk Through Your SetupA payment terminal takes the payment: it reads the card, gets the authorization and prints or sends the receipt. A POS system runs the sale around that payment — what was sold, by whom, from which stock, on which table — and takes the payment as one step of it. A smart terminal sits between the two, doing more than a terminal on a screen small enough to live on a counter.
That is most of what this page is for. The useful version of the conversation is about the room rather than the product: where payment happens, how many points operate in the busy hour, what has to happen around the payment, and what equipment you already have. Two or three options usually survive those four questions, and the choice is made between those rather than from a catalog.
Sometimes. It depends on the make, the model, and whether the device is locked to your current processor — a lot of terminals are, and that is a commercial arrangement rather than a technical limit. The check is quick and it happens before anything is recommended, because replacing hardware that already works is the last option, not the first.
Usually one fewer than the busy hour suggests and one more than the quiet one does. The honest answer comes from how many payment points genuinely operate at the same time — two tills that are never both open are one till and a spare. A walk-through of the room settles it faster than a specification does.
There is no price on this page because the answer depends on what the room needs and how it is paid for. Equipment can be bought outright or financed, and financing is subject to underwriting and approval — nothing here is an offer of credit. What is available for a particular setup is quoted after the setup is agreed, not before.
No. The device takes the payment; the merchant account, the card mix and the pricing program decide the cost of accepting it. A more capable terminal does not make processing more expensive, and a cheaper one does not make it cheaper. Those are two separate conversations and it is worth keeping them separate.
Yes, and most do. A counter terminal, a handheld for the floor and an online checkout are three front doors onto one merchant account — the point of putting them on one account is that they produce one deposit trail and one report rather than three of each.
Setup is part of the install rather than a box left on a counter: the device is configured for your tickets, your tipping and your program before it goes live, and staff are shown it. Support for the equipment sits with the same relationship as the processing behind it, which is the practical reason for having them in one place.
Yes — the equipment catalog lists what is currently featured, filtered by category, and each device has a page of its own. It is worth treating as a look at the shapes rather than the whole range: more is available than any catalog page lists, and which of it suits a particular business is the part worth a conversation.
Counter. Floor. Forecourt. One account.
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