No till integration: why Lecy leaves your POS alone

The first question shopkeepers with till software ask: "does it need to be integrated with my system?". The answer is no, and that is not a limitation, it is a deliberate architecture choice.

What a POS integration costs

Loyalty solutions integrated into the till inherit all the constraints of the till: compatibility to check (and there are dozens of systems), installation by a technician, updates that break things, extra screens for the team, training, dependence on the POS publisher. For a network whose shops do not all have the same payment system, integration becomes a project in its own right: long, costly, fragile.

The Lecy architecture: next to the till, not inside it

Lecy lives on the counter, not in the till. The NFC tag is physically placed next to the terminal; the proof of presence goes through the customer's phone, not through the payment system. Consequence: compatible with 100 % of tills, since it does not touch them.

Deployment: place the tag. Live the day it is received, including in a network with mixed systems.
Maintenance: none. No updates on the shop's side, no possible breakdown on the till's side.
Team: no new screen, no handling. The till stays exactly what it was.
Changing POS: the shop can switch till software tomorrow, the loyalty programme does not move.

"But then, how is the point reliable without the till?"

It is the tap that counts, not the receipt. Each tap generates a unique, encrypted, short-lived link: the proof that the phone was physically at the counter at that moment. The shopkeeper also sets the minimum delay between two points, so that one visit equals one point. Reliability comes from cryptography and physical presence, not from a line on a till receipt, and that is precisely what makes deployment so simple.

The Lecy way: put yourself in the customer's shoes

Your loyal customer is also loyal to the coffee shop, the butcher, the baker, the fishmonger, the cheesemonger, the hairdresser, two or three restaurants. Fifteen shops. Should they carry fifteen cards, download fifteen apps, receive texts from fifteen brands? Put yourself in their shoes: that is the whole spirit of Lecy.

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