Built-in Lightning P.O.S. in sats.mobi

Merchants can now get Lightning POS payments within Telegram without anything to install or configure

Sats.mobi is an integrated project for making easy to adopt Bitcoin Lightning and get/make payments in an easy way. Merchants can use sats.mobi to get easy access to POS systems without having to install anything and to interact with the payments. sats.mobi provides a powerful Wallet interface as well.

What is a POS?

A Point of Sale (POS) refers to the digital platform where a transaction occurs between a merchant and a customer. It's commonly used in retail environments, restaurants, and various other businesses where goods or services are sold. The POS system typically consists of hardware and software components designed to process transactions, manage inventory, and facilitate other functions related to sales.

Key components of a POS system include:

1. **Hardware**: This includes devices like mobile POS which can be used to interact with customer’s walle, for example with a Lightning invoice o with a NFC interaction. They can be used also to print receipts and to give a professional image to the customers.

2. **Software**: The POS software manages the transaction process, inventory tracking, sales reporting, and can be integrated with a Wallet for easy management of liquidity

Overall, a POS system streamlines the sales process, improves efficiency, and provides valuable data to help businesses manage their operations effectively. The sats.mobi platform integrates POS as a Telegram built-in applet and a facility which can be managed remotely and independently with a device.

In this article we are just speaking about the Lightning Bitcoin payments from a merchant point of view.

Sats.mobi built-in POS

to provide a full experience with POS for everyone, the sats.mobi platform includes two types of POS interface.

1. Link to be open on an external browser (for example inside a POS hardware device or smartphone). This link can be used on many different devices symultaneously and all payments received will flow to the same account and Wallet

2. Built-in applet. This makes possible to have a fully featured applet inside your Telegram account without anything to install or to register in. This is a very nice feature which makes possible to everyone to start getting payments immediately. The conversion price between fiat and Bitcoin is realtime made

In the following image you can see the result of pos command, which returns the POS Url as described in above point 1

By hitting the PosApp button you can find bottom right, you can access the built-in POS Applet as described in above point 2. You will get a view like this:

Using the provided keyboard, it’s possible to type the amount in fiat you want to receive and get immediately the Lightning invoice of corrensponding amount of Sats, as you can see in the following image

The customer will simply scan the qrcode with his/her wallet to send the payment to the merchant. As simple as it is. Advantages:

1. Nothing to install. A telegram account is enough

2. Simple as getting a message

3. Works on any smartphone without any registration or other bureaucratic stuffs

4. Hasslefree

5. Built-in version as a telegram applet + remote usable interface with a simple Link

6. Supports Lightning address, Cashback QRcode, LNURL for getting variable amounts of payments and donations

7. Works even on any POS device

So getting payments in Lightning has no more excuses. Start today and make Bitcoin economy larger and larger.

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