After spending several years and lots of money bringing the System Manager Pro software back to life, Panasonic has decided to kill it again. I want to start with a little background…
System Manager Pro was first released for the QSR market in 2004 and was discontinued for the first time in 2009.
In 2014, Panasonic hired Bunt Software several years ago to bring SMP back to life and to create SMP 4.0 and OWS 6.0. The software was released in 2016.
Here is a list of the features that we added during the creation of SMP 4.0:
● Added support Windows 7/8/10, both 32 and 64 bit
● Added support for SQL Server Express 2014
● Added support for OWS 6.0
● Removed vulnerable credit card services and replaced it with SMPLink™ ☺
● Fixed numerous bugs
Here is a list of the features that we added during the creation of OWS 6.0:
● Added support Windows 7/8/10, both 32 and 64 bit
● Added support for POS Ready 2009, Windows Embedded 7/8
● Added Freedom Pay EMV interface
● Added ability to run off the shelf OPOS drivers
● Added support for several Panasonic tablets including the FZ-R1
● Fixed numerous bugs
When the SMP business didn’t pick back up as expected, last year Panasonic went off and bought a Canadian pos software company called Quickservice Technologies along with their iQtouch software. The software is installed in thousands of sites in Canada. I wish Panasonic luck in bringing the software to market in the US.
Now, for all of the SMPLink™ sites that were looking forward to upgrading to SMP 4.0 in order to gain EMV support; you are now out of luck.
We hope that we can offer some comfort in knowing that Bunt Software will continue to support SMP and SMPLink™, just as we have for the past 8 years.
SMPLink™ has been installed in 910 sites and has processed over 200 million transactions since 2010.
SMPLink™ is the ONLY credit interface for the Panasonic System Manager Pro (SMP) pos system.