Hardware
Hyvä POS is in closed beta
Hyvä POS is currently in a closed beta (pilot phase) with a small group of merchants. It is not yet generally available: the App Store release follows the pilot, and features and configuration may still change, possibly in backwards-incompatible ways, before the general release. Want to take part? Sign up at hyva.io/pos.
Hyvä POS runs on standard retail hardware: receipt printers, kick-driven cash drawers, Bluetooth scanners and printer-attached customer displays. Everything on these pages works on the free tier unless marked otherwise.
- Printers and cash drawers: the supported printer brands, how each connects, and why any RJ11/RJ12 drawer works.
- Barcode scanners: Bluetooth, MFi and the iPad camera.
- Customer displays: the Star and Epson two-line displays, and the PRO paired-iPad display.
- Payment terminals are covered with the payment flows under terminal payments.
Three Counter Setups
The one-cable counter, Epson. An Epson TM-m30III powers the iPad over USB-C, prints receipts, kicks the cash drawer, and hosts the Epson DM-D30 customer display. One cable to the wall, no network dependency between iPad and printer.
The one-cable counter, Star. The Star equivalent: an mC-Print3, in the USB-C variant (MCP31CI / MCP31CBI), powers the iPad over USB-C, prints, kicks the drawer, and hosts the Star SCD222U display. Pick whichever brand your supplier stocks; the two setups are functionally the same counter.
The compact counter. A Star mPOP combines printer and cash drawer in a single chassis, powers the iPad over USB-C, and hosts the SCD222U display. For counters where space is tight.
For markets and pop-ups, a Brother RJ mobile printer and a mobile payment terminal turn an iPhone into a complete register.
Coming from Shopify POS or Lightspeed?
There is a good chance you already own the hardware. The standard kit sold for Shopify POS and Lightspeed registers, Star mPOP, TSP100/TSP143 and mC-Print printers, Epson TM-m30 series, Socket Mobile scanners, and ordinary RJ11/RJ12 kick drawers, is largely the same hardware Hyvä POS supports.
To try it, keep the counter as it is: install the free app from the App Store, connect your Magento store, and ring a test sale on the hardware you already own.
Check your exact models against the printer and scanner lists before you rely on them; printer families ship in many SKU variants and a few of them are locked to a specific platform or lack an iPad connection.