PAR POS™ Release Readiness Requirements
What?
PAR Technology is bringing you a better, more scalable product with upcoming PAR POS releases.
To ensure uninterrupted connectivity to PAR POS and its enhanced offerings, please ensure that you are compliant with the following settings:
- All PAR POS traffic should be sent from the location directly, without being filtered through any VPN or other traffic filtering service.
- All communication ports should be whitelisted as "TCP bidirectional" (not HTTP or HTTPS).
- DNS Time to Leave (TTLs) on your routers should be set to the minimum for PAR POS traffic, as our Load Balancers often scale up and down triggering IP changes.
- For the lowest chance of service interruption due to stale DNS queries, we recommend using Google public DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
You can also view this list here in the PAR POS Network Connectivity Requirements document.
NOTE: Traffic to the PAR POS cloud is always encrypted, tokenized, or obfuscated. Adding or enabling unnecessary security filtering or rules may degrade your ability to use cloud-based functionality.
Why?
Adopting these requirements is essential to keep your current systems working at the level you expect, including:
- Reporting
- Online Ordering
- Admin Portal
- Changeset Publishing
- Cash Skim
- In-store Permission Overrides
As technology continues to evolve, PAR strives to offer the most advanced tools to our customers. Your immediate implementation of the above changes will allow for faster feature additions and increased product stability in the future.
When?
To ensure a smooth transition to POS upgrade versions, these steps must be completed as soon as possible prior to any new software upgrades.
Who?
Please contact BrinkReleaseReadiness@partech.com to receive a report from PAR on what settings need to be changed for you to be fully compliant with the POS network connectivity requirements.
Thank you for your collaboration as we bring about the next evolution of PAR POS!