Key takeaways

• Integrated EFTPOS connects your payment terminal directly to your software, so the sale amount is sent to the terminal and the result posts back automatically: no manual re-keying, no cashing-up by hand.
• Dapth is an accredited Linkly POS vendor. Linkly is an Australian payments platform that manages the bank connections and payment compliance, so the software you run doesn't have to.
• The clearest win is with Odoo, where the payment, the sale, the stock movement and the accounting entry all live in one system, so a card tap reconciles to your ledger with nothing to re-enter.
• It isn't Odoo-only. Linkly is platform-agnostic, so the same integrated card payments can sit behind a standalone POS, an eCommerce checkout or custom software.
• Dapth is platform-agnostic too. We recommend Linkly because we've delivered with it and can stand behind it, but we'll work with the platform you already have.

Why are card payments and sales records two separate jobs?

For a lot of Australian businesses, taking a card payment and recording the sale are two separate jobs. The terminal sits beside the till, someone reads the total and keys it in, the customer taps, and later that day the numbers get reconciled against the POS or the accounts by hand. Integrated EFTPOS closes that gap. The payment terminal talks directly to the software you already use (your point of sale, ERP or booking system), so the amount is sent to the terminal automatically, the customer taps once, and the result flows straight back into the sale. No re-keying, no mismatched totals at close.

Dapth builds this using Linkly, an Australian payments platform we're accredited with, which connects to the banks so your software doesn't have to. Below: how it works, what it fixes, and where to start, whether you run Odoo, a standalone POS, or something custom.

What is EFTPOS integration?

EFTPOS integration is the direct connection between your payment terminal and the software that runs your business, so the two behave as one system rather than two. In a standalone setup, the terminal is a separate device: a staff member reads the total off the POS, types it into the terminal by hand, and the two never actually talk. Integrated EFTPOS removes the manual step. When a sale is rung up, the amount is sent straight to the terminal; the customer pays; and the outcome (approved or declined, the amount, the reference) is returned to the software and attached to that sale automatically. The practical effect is fewer keying errors, faster transactions at the counter, and books that reconcile themselves, because the payment and the sale were never separate records to begin with.

What is the difference between a standalone terminal and integrated EFTPOS?

The difference sounds small until you count it across a day of transactions. A standalone terminal repeats the same manual step on every sale; an integrated one removes it.

For an owner watching staff time and margin, the win isn't only a quicker checkout. It's the errors that never happen and the end-of-day reconciliation that stops being a job at all.

Where does Linkly fit, and what does accredited mean?

Connecting software to a bank's payment network is the hard part, and it's where Linkly comes in. Linkly is an Australian payments platform that already holds the relationships and certifications with the banks, so an individual business or the software it runs doesn't have to negotiate them one by one. Your system talks to Linkly; Linkly handles the payment, the refund and the bank communication; and the result comes back to your software. Whatever platform you're on, if it can integrate with Linkly, Linkly handles everything payment-wise and pushes the outcome back to you.

Because that layer sits between a business and the banks, Linkly requires any developer building on it to be accredited first, proving that payments and refunds work correctly and safely before anything goes live. Dapth passed that accreditation, and is listed as an accredited Linkly POS vendor for our Odoo integration, cleared for Core Payments (the essential accept-and-refund functions). That accreditation is the reason a client can trust the payment path from day one, rather than hoping it was wired up correctly.

Our listed integration runs on-premise, which keeps the payment connection inside the client's own environment: a level of control that matters in government and other regulated settings. Linkly maintains its own bank-level security and compliance; the specifics are published on Linkly's site.

How do you get integrated payments with Odoo?

Integrated EFTPOS is useful behind any POS, but it's at its best in a system that already does more than take payments. Odoo is an ERP: the point of sale, inventory, customers and accounting are modules of one platform, not separate tools stitched together. Add integrated Linkly payments to that and a single card tap does the whole job: it records the sale, adjusts the stock, updates the customer and posts the payment to the ledger, all in the same system. There's nothing to export, re-key or reconcile between a payments tool and an accounting tool, because they were never separate.

For an owner, that's the real payoff: not just a faster checkout, but one source of truth from the counter to the accounts. It's why, when a business is deciding where to put integrated payments, we usually point to Odoo first. If you're weighing it up, that's the kind of question our ERP and operations practice works through with you.

Does it have to be Odoo?

No. Linkly is deliberately platform-agnostic, so integrated card payments can sit behind a standalone POS, an online checkout, a booking system or custom software just as well as an ERP. Dapth is platform-agnostic too: we recommend Linkly because we've delivered with it and can vouch for it, but we'll integrate payments into the system you already run rather than ask you to replace it.

The right answer depends on what you're trying to join up. If payments, stock and accounting are already fragmented across separate tools, consolidating onto something like Odoo may be worth more than the payment integration on its own. If your platform is working, we integrate into it. That's a consultancy question before it's a technical one.

About Dapth

Dapth is your Perth digital consultancy, building connected digital systems from websites and intranets to applications, software, ERP and AI tools. For more than 15 years we have helped WA businesses, government agencies and organisations unlock advantages like streamlined workflows, increased efficiency, cost savings, new revenue and more powerful marketing.

We start with your organisation, not the technology: your users, your operations and your objectives. Then we connect everything across four areas:

• Digital Consultancy: Digital strategy, service design and UI and UX design that map how your customers, people and systems should work together, before anything is built.
• Customer Experience: Websites and digital experience platforms on Xperience by Kentico (Kentico Gold Partner), Sitefinity, Umbraco and Payload CMS, plus ecommerce.
• Employee Experience: Intranets and employee portals on Microsoft SharePoint, and workflow automation that takes the double handling out of everyday work.
• Operational Systems: ERP with Odoo as our primary platform (we are an Odoo partner), plus custom software, apps and the integrations that connect them.