The EFTPOS installer contains the following components of the PX EFTPOS system.
Active X Control
Reference: http://www.paymentexpress.com/developer-integrated-eftpos-activex
The ActiveX object is used to integrate your Point Of Sale applications to work with the Payment Express PinPads. It resides on the same PC as the POS. It handles all EFTPOS transaction processing and communicates with the PinPad Client application.
Pinpad Client service (PXPP.exe)
The PIN Pad Controller Application resides on the same PC as the POS. The PinPad will not finish initializing without this service. It also handles the Printer device, which is compulsory, so needs to be configured correctly for the PinPad to work. The application connects to the Communication Server (PxEftP.exe), which can either be installed locally or on a remote machine. This connection facilitates sending the transaction information to Payment Express. Configuration settings are at http://www.paymentexpress.com/developer-integrated-eftpos-activex
EFTPOS Communication Server service (PxEftP.exe)
The communication server listens for connections from PinPad Clients and then sends the transaction information it receives off to the banking Network. Various connection types can be set up and redundant connections can be pre-configured to fail over to secondary connections after an allotted period of time set in the configuration file. If your internet connection is down you can even talk over you WAN to another machine which has the Communication Server software installed whose internet is working. PxEftP.exe usually resides on each PC and connects directly to Payment Express if they have internet access. However, PxEftP.exe can sit on one of the main servers at your company, so that all the PinPad clients on each workstation can talk to it. Configuration settings are at http://www.paymentexpress.com/developer-integrated-eftpos-activex
As the software installs as a service, it will only run on NT platforms. Supported platforms are currently:
Windows Vista to Windows 7
You will need administrator access to install the software and permanent write privileges for the user on the system (install volume) for temporary storage of transaction information.
You will need to have your firewall open to eft6.paymentexpress.com, eft7.paymentexpress.com and eft2.paymentexpress.com on port 61 for the primary IP connections and eft3.paymentexpress.com port 61 for any GPRS connections.
Connect the Pinpad to the computer via COM port or USB and plug in the power source. You need to have printers set up before EFTPOS can be used. The GPRS modem will also need to be connected if you have that hardware option.
Receipt Printing via Merchant POS
Configure your POS with your Printer if the software is capable of doing the receipt printing. If it isn't handling the receipt printing, you will need to set up Payment Express EFTPOS to handle the printing. Follow the alternative below.
Receipt Printing via Payment Express EFTPOS
The printing settings are configured in the Pinpad Client Configuration file (pxpp_cfg.txt), which should be in your installation directory.
Default Printer
You can use your default "Generic/ Text Only" printer driver by setting the property EnableDefaultPrinter to true. For example -
Printer Driver Name
To use a non-default printer or a printer with a different driver, the PrinterName field needs to be set to your Windows Print Queue Name. For example -
Adding a Generic Printer Driver Queue
If you do not currently have a printer set up, you can either go to your Printers & Faxes control panel and click "Add a Printer", or you can use the Generic Printer Installer that we provide.
You will need to specify the port to print to corresponding to the interface the Printer is connected to. You can test that you have the right port by printing a test page.
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installer program, which you can save or run from the website.
Once you have clicked "Run", you will be prompted with the Payment Express EULA, which you will need to read right through to the end. Once you have done this, you will be able to accept the license agreement to continue with the installation.
You will now be prompted to pick a save location, which is set to {default hard drive location:}\Program Files\DPS\EFTPOS as default. Click install to continue.
You will now be prompted with a screen asking you to connect the Pinpad and make sure the power is turned on. Your Pinpad should now have Initialising showing on the screen. When this is done you can continue by clicking OK.
Execute the installer program, which is a Windows executable that installs the PinPad client service, EFTPOS Communications server service, the ActiveX Control and the USB Driver.
You should now see a pop up telling you that the software has been installed successfully. Now that these applications (services) and USB drivers have been installed and started your Pinpad should then go from an "Initialising" message to an "EFTPOS" message.
The Payment Express EFTP (Communication Server) and Payment Express EFTPOS (Pinpad Controller) services should appear under services and Startup Type be set to automatic.
Files Installed
{default hard drive location:}\Program Files\DPS\EFTPOS\
In the event that you receive the following screen, you should contact Direct Payment Solutions, as there may be some configuration adjustments to be made.
If you see the following screen, you should make sure that the Pinpad is connected to a COM port or USB port if you have an adaptor then let the installer search again for the device.
If installation runs fine, but will not connect, make sure your firewall is open for the port you are connecting out. You can check if you are being blocked by running a telnet. If you still cannot connect, please contact DPS.
When you connect your Printer, make sure you can print a test page from the "Printers & Faxes" control panel and that the receipt is readable. If it doesn't print a test page make sure you have the right COM, Parallel or TCP/IP port specified and try again.
If you are using a COM port and the test page isn't readable then you should check your port settings. Every printer has a speed rate that you need to set in bits per second, as shown below. You will also need Flow control to be set to Hardware
If you receive the following error, "Transaction Cancelled - Initialising Terminal", you haven't yet set any merchant numbers. Click Setup on the EFTPOS client and put in your Merchant, Terminal and HostId numbers then try a logon.
Connect the GPRS modem to either a COM port or USB slot. You will need to know what Port this attached to. For USB, this can be found by looking at device manager in Control Panel > System > Hardware [Tab].
By default the Port is set to 1. If you would like to alter the configuration, you will need to open PxEftp_cfg.txt(Communication Server configuration file) and search for the