CBORD Odyssey + Transact Cloud POS
Cloud-native point-of-sale (POS) system designed for higher education
Optimize your campus card solution with our centralized cloud-native platform for processing all your on-campus dining and retail payments. Our dining, retail, and point-of-sale management solution provides the most convenient ordering, pickup, and delivery options, all centrally administrated and monitored, ensuring a streamlined and efficient process for your school.
Experience the difference with Transact Cloud POS
Transact has enhanced the integration between Odyssey PCS/Direct and Transact Cloud POS, enabling your school to seamlessly manage stored value, credit, meal equivalency/exchange, offline storage and upload, reconciliation strategy, and more.
This integration is your school’s first step into our unified technology ecosystem. By implementing Transact Cloud POS now, you’ll be well-positioned to transition to Transact IDX® when the time comes—ensuring a smooth evolution before Odyssey PCS (on-premises) reaches its end of life in August 2027, and Odyssey Direct (hosted) concludes in August 2028.
As the pioneer in campus-branded mobile ordering solutions, we serve a connected network of over 450 schools, including other former CBORD institutions, such as the University of Michigan and Appalachian State University.
Simplify campus dining and retail with one unified platform
Administrators use a centralized entry point for all cash registers across campus, including stores, restaurants, food trucks, stands, and other establishments, eliminating redundant, manual data entry across multiple applications. With Transact Cloud POS, you can significantly reduce operational costs and streamline your financial management.
User-friendly, flexible, and intuitive design for students and administrators
Transact Cloud POS offers a consistent, integrated, and timeless user and administrative experience across all channels. It supports Cashier ID and PIN as well as Credential and PIN. The system features a simplified kiosk configuration supporting landscape and portrait orientations. Additionally, Transact Cloud POS provides unmatched flexibility, allowing students to place orders at a kiosk and pay at a point of sale.
Keep data secure
Our solution is built with security at its core, meeting or exceeding industry-standard compliance requirements, including SOC2, ADA, PCI, and more. Independently verified by third-party auditors, Transact Cloud POS ensures your campus transactions remain secure and compliant.
Easier coupon configuration
Configuring discounts and coupons shouldn’t be a hassle. With our cloud-native solution, you can simplify the process, reducing steps and saving administrators valuable time—all while enjoying a more intuitive interface.
Transact Cloud POS offers flexible kiosk configurations compared to other systems
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Easy configuration |
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Supports landscape and portrait kiosks |
Supports landscape and portrait kiosks |
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Easy-to-use kiosk order flow |
Easy-to-use kiosk order flow |
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The feature you asked for—simplified meal exchange configuration
Odyssey clients have consistently requested the ability to make meal change exceptions. With Transact Cloud POS, administrators can define a group of items eligible for purchase with a meal swipe.
Our solution simplifies the process of defining a "meal," including the quantity and type for:
- Appetizers
- Entrées
- Beverages
Expand into our unified platform to enhance convenience, security, and efficiency in every transaction
Moving to our unified platform keeps your campus at the forefront of innovation, equipping you with the latest features and unlocking new opportunities. From a campus-branded mobile ordering app to Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology, you can provide students with a modern, seamless, and secure ordering experience—right from their mobile devices.
Transact Mobile Ordering
Give your students a fast, secure, and fully branded mobile ordering experience with Transact Mobile Ordering, an extension of Transact Cloud POS. Designed specifically for higher education retail operations, our solution makes it easy for students to incorporate mobile ordering into their daily routine.
We believe in transparency—with no hidden costs or transaction fees, you save money while delivering a modern, frictionless ordering experience under your school's brand. And you’ll benefit from our dedicated B2C marketing team to help increase student engagement.
Unlike other vendors that allow ordering from off-campus merchants—potentially diverting funds from your operations—Transact Mobile Ordering keeps those funds within your school’s network, driving increased revenue and supporting your campus ecosystem.
Tap into Amazon to bring frictionless shopping to campus stores
With Transact Mobile Ordering, you can bring Just Walk Out technology by Amazon to your campus.
Drive revenue and reduce costs with new insights on how products are considered, picked up, returned to the shelf, and purchased across all your Just Walk Out technology by Amazon stores.
Just Walk Out technology by Amazon is the most convenient way for students and other customers to shop at campus retail locations. It's also fast, secure, and easy to learn.
Accessible, customizable, and intuitive reporting
With Transact Insights, administrators can quickly access real-time data with our custom dashboard. Intuitive reporting lets you measure the performance of all your dining locations at a glance.
With over 15 visual reports and dashboards, you can quickly track and analyze all Transact Cloud POS and Transact Mobile Ordering transactions in one, centralized place.
Transact Insights provides easy access to the information that matters most so that you can make data-driven decisions about your campus dining operations.
Appalachian State University made the switch to Transact Cloud POS
"The top reason Appalachian left was that we felt like we weren't being prompted to move in the direction we wanted to go. We wanted more frictionless contact for students in our point-of-sale system and ease of systems working together.
Changing to Transact Cloud POS gave us a reset button, and I think that will be the most important and significant change. It's going to be easier for students to use, of course. But that reporting and what we need from it will be huge."
Nikki Crees
IT Project Manager for Campus Services for Appalachian State University
Personalized support solutions for maximizing campus operations
Developed from more than 20 years of proven best practices, our high-touch support plans, Transact Platinum+ and Transact Hospitality Suite for Transact Campus Commerce products, will help you get your team up to speed.
Our upgraded support solutions include a dedicated support engineer, priority phone queue, and more, ensuring your operations run smoothly and efficiently.
Let’s get the conversation started—connect with our experts for more information
Let's schedule a quick 30-minute conversation to discuss how Odyssey PCS/Direct + Transact Cloud POS will streamline your dining programs, improve your student experience, and save valuable time and resources.
