CommStarInc.com sells devices that allow vending machines accept credit cards
Title
Unattended credit card readers for vending machines and ID card readers.
Description
CommStar, a private company, was incorporated in 1986 in the State of Minnesota by persons with engineering and marketing backgrounds and extensive experience designing niche products for the Point-of-Sale (POS) marketplace.
When first incorporated, CommStar concentrated on custom design products for the financial community. These products were primarily POS access devices or data communications transmission and protocol conversion units.
In 1991 CommStar was approached with an application for using POS technology for unattended application. This application would require that the typical credit card terminal would have to operate completely alone in a remote environment without a clerk present to start and monitor transactions. The consumer would simply pay with the credit card and the goods would have to be dispensed, and the funds collected and transmitted to the banking system and on to the vendor's bank account. This was a difficult challenge because there are many error conditions and clerk functions that had to be automated. By early 1992, a system was ready and the EasyReader
Logos
