David Salisbury — 25 years in retail and hospitality technology. Point of sale, payments, loyalty, connected hardware and wallet. I help teams design products that survive a real store on a real Saturday morning — and I write the prototype, not just the spec.
Fractional, hands-on, close to the product.
Hardware and software that has to phone home, update itself and keep working when the back-office Wi-Fi doesn't. 30+ models from whiteboard to global channel.
Payments, loyalty and the point of sale as one system, not three vendors. Kiosk, KDS, SoftPOS and the API layer that lets everyone downstream read the data.
Getting a pass into Apple/Google Wallet is easy. Making it fire at the terminal, at the moment of the scan, is what I've shipped — VAS and Smart Tap in the US and AU.
Fractional product leadership for teams putting AI into a real workflow. I build the prototype myself, so the conversation starts with something running.
Borrowed from payments: EFTPOS put money on a universal rail, so any terminal could take a card without the merchant touching the payment rails. OmniQpon does the same for coupon transactions — any point of service, no integration, deployed in minutes.
omniqpon.com →Retail media on a universal rail.
Apple VAS & Google Smart Tap, deployed through the ISV/VAR channel in the USA and Australia.
Co-founded and scaled a receipt platform to 25,000+ merchants across 20+ countries — build cost under $12M.
Gong Cha, 300+ locations — ahead of schedule, under budget, ~100% SLA.
Fivestars Pay + Loyalty on Clover, deployed across the US merchant base.
An API framework for real-time POS data sharing — analytics, signage, payroll, tax.
SoftPOS and tap-on-phone strategy at SumUp — removing terminal dependency at the point of interaction.
Master catalog programme at SumUp. A comparable capability is now marketed by Toast as a differentiator.
Clover, PAX, Kozen and Landi, the Worldpay / TSYS / First Data payfac stack, plus Franpos, Tiller, Pointsoft and Pi Electronic.
The OmniQpon platform — and this site — built hands-on with Claude, Python, Android Studio, Postman.
A long engagement, a short one, or a single call to work out whether the thing is worth doing at all.