u/Worldly-Smoke6354

Hey everyone,

Over the past two years, our small team here in Scarborough has been building ZoltPOS. We've been heads-down trying to solve a specific friction point we kept seeing local restaurant owners run into: being trapped by POS providers that force them into a single, expensive payment processor with zero flexibility.

To address that, we architected the software around a few technical use cases:

• Multi-Processor Interoperability: Allowing merchants to choose or switch between major payment processors (like Clover, Global Pay, and Nuvei) without forcing them to throw out their hardware or pay heavy penalties.
• Resilience & Flow: Building for offline reliability (because internet drops during dinner rush are a nightmare) alongside things like direct Uber Eats order sync and local table-side app routing.

Since we're deep in the weeds on the engineering and product side, our biggest bottleneck right now is figuring out the distribution and growth side in the GTA market.

For those of you who have built or grown B2B SaaS/fintech products locally: how did you approach early-stage traction without a massive marketing budget?

Also, if anyone in the Ontario tech space is interested in collaborating on the business/growth side on a transparent revenue-share basis, I'd genuinely love to connect and talk shop.

I am running my POS business in Canada. my solution is tailored for restaurants in Canada helping them with streamline operations and smooth customer experience.

Currently, I am utilising third party providers like GlobalPay, Nuvei etc and integrating my solution with their terminal so I can send payment request from POS to terminal. Even after bringing business for them I am receiving below zero support from them. They wasted more than 4-5 month to complete each integration. I am really not interested in payment processing business as I want to focus on core operational and customer experience but to run this in Canada it's almost mandatory to have terminal to process card payment in retail space. I also tried Clover but they are my indirect competetors and still can't trust them.

I read review on reddit about them and it's really worst like I don't want spoint my business reputation due to their overcharging policy. Can someone help me with easiet wayout to solve my payment processing headache?