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The Handpoint TMS is a web-based terminal management system for easy setup and management of your mechant's card readers.

Who is it for?

It's meant for any organization that needs to manage and onboard merchants on the Handpoint payment platform.

How is it used?

To onboard a merchant in the handpoint TMS, you are able to create and configure merchant information, assign terminals to specific merchancts, and extract the merchant key (shared secret).

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Overview of the onboarding workflow

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The Handpoint TMS requires just a few pieces of information to setup set up and activate a merchant:

    • VAR sheet information, provided by the processor.
    • The serial number of the Handpoint card reader   
 
  1. Use the VAR sheet to CREATE a merchant profile in the TMS
  2. Next, use the TMS to ASSIGN the correct card readers to that merchant and easily EDIT special terminal features, e.g., tipping
  3. Finally, the TMS
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  1. generates a SHARED SECRET that is the “key” for merchants’ terminals.  This key must be provided to an ISV, if they are storing the keys, or to the merchant directly if they are using the Handpoint app.

Gaining access to the TMS

Access to the Handpoint Terminal Management System is provided to selected partners and is requested through your account manager.

The following basic information is needed to create a new user profile:

  • Partner name

  • Name of organization, company, etc)

  • Location information

  • Address, City, Zip Code,

  • State and Country

  • Contact information

  • Phone number

  • Email

NOTE

You will recieve login information via email after your organisation has been setup in the TMS.

An organization might be provided with more than one login to the TMS.  This can occur if a processor is supporting multiple ISVs or if an ISV is working with more than one processor.

 

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