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Powa teams with POS Stratus in Spain

Monday, April 27, 2015 — 11:47:23 (EDT)

London, April 27, 2015 -- Powa Technologies today announced the integration of POS Stratus, a leading Spanish-based POS software for retailers, with its PowaPOS retail payments platform. The partnership between these two companies will accelerate availability of advanced, tablet-based POS solutions for retail companies in its home market of Spain as well as across Europe.

“Our partnership with PowaPOS perfectly positions us to meet the growing demand for all-in-one tablet POS solutions from merchants across all retail sectors in Europe,” said Daniel Garcia Howard, CEO of POS Stratus. “The modern, easy to use hardware, combined with an advanced software developer kit, provided us with a fantastic solution that is already receiving significant interest from merchants.”

PowaPOS is the first point of sale platform purpose built for tablet-based payments. Its fully integrated design rids merchants of the need for mismatched peripherals and provides industry-leading ease of set-up. Featuring a built in thermal printer, 2D QR/barcode scanner, orientation sensor, as well as the optional PowaPOS Cash Drawer, all in a compact footprint and powered by a single cord. With its advanced SDK, PowaPOS is the only tablet-based platform to easily integrate with all POS software applications across all operating systems. The PowaPOS Developer Program also supports third party payment devices, including NFC/Apple Pay devices, and PowaTag, Powa’s innovative mobile commerce enablement app.

“POS Stratus and Powa share a similar vision: create a POS solution that is both advanced and also accessible across operating systems. For this reason, we’re excited about the potential to expand adoption of tablet POS in Europe together,” said Frank Landen, SVP and GM, EMEA, PowaPOS. “With POS Stratus’ software, retailers have a powerful solution to run their businesses, powered with unique features like its exclusive Tweet discount to help merchants leverage the power of mobile.”

The POS Stratus e-POS technology provides a full suite of business and marketing features to help small and mid-sized merchants sell and operate more efficiently. The cloud-based solution allows retailers to manage all aspects of their businesses, from payments to inventory management; employee management to analytics and QuickBooks integration. Beyond the operational features, POS Stratus gives retailers powerful CRM and marketing tools, including an exclusive Tweet discount, which rewards customers based on their social reach and participation. POS Stratus is supported across multiple devices and operating systems.

To see the PowaPOS and POS Stratus solution in action, visit POS Stratus in the Hall at DÍA DE LA PERSONA EMPRENDEDORA EN ANDALUCÍA 2015 (Day of Entrepreneurship) in Malaga, Spain, April 29, 2015.

About Powa Technologies (www.powa.com )

Powa Technologies is an international commerce specialist that creates technologies that enable a seamless consumer experience across all purchase channels: online, offline and everywhere. With its next-generation solutions PowaTag, PowaPOS and PowaWeb, Powa removes the final barriers to instant global transactions through a revolutionary instant mobile payment technology, the first fully integrated tablet POS platform, and advanced cloud-based ecommerce solutions. Significant investment capital has accelerated company growth, attracting the industry's finest subject matter experts to conceive, build and deploy innovative commerce technology at the heart of both merchants' and brands’ future omnichannel selling strategies. Powa Technologies is headquartered in London, UK, with offices in New York, Atlanta, San Diego, Miami, Toronto, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, Berlin, Amsterdam, Milan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Shanghai.

About POS Stratus (www.posstratus.com )

POS Stratus is a young Spanish-based company that has developed an online, cloud-based point of sale software which helps retail stores accomplish what is really important: to sell more, decreases costs and increase customer loyalty. The software is available in English and Spanish and new customers can enjoy a free 30-day trial.

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Source: Company press release.