Terminal Management System (TMS)

Asoft Terminal Management System (ASoftTMS) will concentrate and manage EFTPOS devices installed at merchant outlets nationwide. EFTPOS will support wireless communication with TMS, via GPRS and CDMA. Message Protocol, at application level, between EFTPOS and TMS is ISO 8583 over HTTP.

ASoftPOS supports PIN based transactions, for both magnetic stripe and chip cards. The Freedom card is a hybrid card.

Transaction types supported on ASoftPOS/EFTPOS devices

1. Sale
   
2. Refund
   
3. Settlement
   
4. Core module of ASoftTMS is TMS transaction engine. TMS ADMIN is system console used to manage system parameters, to insert merchant and device data, and to generate reports.

Basic features of core module are

1. Simple Graphical User Interface
2. Management of EFT POS networks (with PIN-PAD or without PIN-PAD)
   
3. ISO 8583 compliant
   
4. Credit, debit and loyalty transactions support
   
5. Connection to concentrators by using HTTP
   
6. Floor limits support
   
7. Downloading of BIN tables and EFT POS parameters
   
8. Routing of financial transactions
   
9. Hot-list management
   
10. Management of cards with negative balance
    
11. PAN control
    
12. Connection to a host by using TCP/IP protocol
    
13. Centralized management of all POS parameters in order to control all POS devices
14. systematically
    
15. Multi banking
    
16. Multi merchant
    
17. Integration with AsoftCMS (Card Management System)
    

TMS has two main components
Concentrator and Terminal Manager (TM). Operating together, they fulfill business requirements.