Arcane Strategies

Point-of-sale software built on Stripe Terminal

Arcane Strategies builds payment software for businesses that want to take card payments in person as well as online, and it supports the ecommerce systems those businesses run on. Its two best-known products both use Stripe Terminal, the in-person payment tooling from Stripe, and the company describes itself as a verified Stripe partner. The site frames the whole offer as digital payment solutions made simple, with cash, card, crypto and smart pay transactions held together with inventory in one unified database.

Standalone checkout with no website

The first product turns a Stripe account into a point-of-sale checkout portal. It works with card readers from Stripe, BBPOS and Verifone, including the Verifone P400 and BBPOS models named on the site, and it needs no website at all. That suits a seller who wants to trade at a shop counter, a market stall or an event but has no online store to attach a till to.

A WooCommerce plugin for brick-and-mortar sales

The second product is a plugin that converts a WooCommerce storefront into a point-of-sale checkout using the same readers. The company calls it the first and only Stripe Terminal plugin for WooCommerce, which is its own claim. The idea is that a merchant who already sells online can start selling in a physical shop, with orders and stock managed in the system they already use, so that online and in-person sales are not tracked in two places.

Ecommerce integrations and hosting support

Behind the products sits an engineering practice. The company says its engineers have more than ten years of ecommerce experience and have completed dozens of integrations with ERP and CRM platforms such as SAP, Oracle, BlueCherry and TradeGecko, as well as every major payment gateway. It sorts its hosting support into three tiers.

Small business

For informational websites or light ecommerce on Shopify or WooCommerce, where downtime would hurt but budgets are tight.

Growing businesses

For online sellers who need uptime but find enterprise packages excessive.

Enterprise

The company says its enterprise clients include Fortune 500 firms, and that its infrastructure handles upwards of 50,000 concurrent users.

Managed cloud monitoring

A managed services offer, sold under the Cloud Armory name, monitors a client's servers and websites and acts at once if there is downtime. Customers get ticketing and a dedicated phone line, and the company says U.S.-based engineers respond around the clock. Alongside that, an operations consulting team, drawing on a decade of building teams at agencies, helps clients design automated and human processes that reduce overhead and shorten the time to market.