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Take a Payter Apollo terminal from unboxing to its first live transaction, running Spirii POS.
Running a charger manufacturer’s POS or a third-party POS instead? Many of these steps look similar, but the registration and acquiring differ. See In-person payments for how those routes work, and check your provider’s own instructions.

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Before you start

Decide which mode applies to your setup, because it changes the acquiring step and the PCI-DSS obligations on your side. If you are not sure which mode you are on, check with your Spirii account manager. Hardware and acquiring can also be arranged separately through your account manager, for example a Payter Apollo you source yourself on Spirii’s Merchant ID. Where they are split, follow the Merchant ID and merchant steps for whoever holds the MID. Two steps below depend on a third party and set the pace of the whole setup — obtaining the MID, and registering with Payter. Start them before the hardware arrives if you can.

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Steps

1

Receive and inspect the hardware

Confirm you have received:
  • Payter Apollo terminal units
  • Mounting hardware: bracket, pole mount, or charger-integrated housing, as applicable
  • Power and data cables, where applicable. Some charger-integrated setups use the charger’s own connectivity
Do not mount the terminal yet. Registration needs the serial number printed on the device, and it is easier to read before the unit is on a pole.
2

Obtain a Merchant ID (MID)

The terminal needs a Merchant ID from a payment service provider (PSP) to process payments. One MID is needed per location.Turnkey: give Spirii the location details, meaning address, country, and expected transaction volume. Spirii requests the MID from the appropriate PSP for that country.PAAS: obtain a MID from your own PSP, such as Worldline, Elavon, or another provider compatible with Payter. Pass the MID to Spirii so it can be linked to the terminal.
3

Register the terminal with Payter

Every terminal is registered with Payter before it can process payments. Register it through Spirii Connect, or through the Payter portal (MyPayter) directly.In the Payter portal, log in at payter.com/registration and enter the terminal serial number together with the MID from the PSP.
4

Configure the terminal in Connect

Go to Payment Terminals, select Add terminal, and set:
  1. The terminal’s serial number
  2. The location and the charge boxes the terminal takes payment for
  3. The merchant, whose name appears on driver receipts: Spirii under turnkey, or your own business under PAAS
See Payment terminals for what else the record controls, including kiosk mode where one terminal serves several charge boxes.If drivers will tap charge keys at the terminal as well as cards, the terminal also has to be set to read them. Check with Spirii that charge key reading is switched on. See In-person payments.
5

Verify connectivity

The terminal has to be online to authorise card payments. A terminal without connectivity cannot take a transaction at all.
  • SIM, Spirii-managed or built-in: confirm the SIM is active and the terminal shows a signal indicator
  • LAN via the charger: confirm the charger’s network connection is up and the terminal is connected over Ethernet

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Verify

Complete a test transaction before the terminal takes real money.
  1. Tap a Visa or Mastercard test card, or your own card if no test card is available
  2. Confirm the pre-authorisation appears on that card’s statement. The PSP sets that amount, and the terminal shows it to the driver before they tap. See Pre-authorisation and capture
  3. Start and stop a session, then check it in Connect
  4. If drivers will use charge keys here, start and stop a session with one too, and check that it appears in Connect against that charge key
The session appears in Connect and the final amount is captured, not left sitting as a pre-authorisation. If the reservation appears but the capture does not, the OCPP link between terminal and charger is the place to look.

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Go live

Confirm the mounting is secure and the screen sits where a driver can reach it. Then watch the first real transactions in Connect or the Payter portal to confirm sessions and payments are recording correctly.

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Replacing a terminal

To swap a terminal out, for example when one is damaged or stolen:
  1. Deactivate the old terminal in Connect
  2. Receive the replacement unit
  3. Repeat the register, configure, and verify steps above for the new unit
The replacement keeps the same location, charge boxes, and MID. You do not need to request a new MID.

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Next steps

In-person payments

Spirii POS, manufacturer POS, and third-party POS, and what each one asks of you.

Payment terminals

The terminal record in Connect, its merchant, and the charge boxes it serves.

Billing and payout flows

How terminal revenue reaches you, in turnkey and in PAAS.

Receipts

What a terminal receipt carries, and how a driver retrieves one later.