The Challenge
Jake’s Fireworks needed an easy-to-use, low-cost scanning device to deploy their custom POS solution (“Fuse POS”) to use in temporary stores during the 4th of July holiday season. These pop-up shops open and close so quickly, their temporary employees needed to keep management as simplistic as possible. The inventory devices had to integrate seamlessly with other components, minimal configuration and set up out of the box.
“Much of the POS world involves interfacing with antiquated serial device hardware components operating in Windows-based domain environments. These… are not conducive to what is essentially a mobile sales environment. We needed an android-compatible device with a robust API that would communicate using modernized technologies, like blue-tooth… We were looking for the perfect blend of portability, functionality, and ruggedness. Socket Mobile's Ci and Qi models helped us achieve that.” – Benjamin Turner, CIO of Jake’s Fireworks