Every front desk needs the same three things: a way to take payment, a receipt for the guest, and somewhere secure to keep the cash. Traditionally that meant a bulky till or a full EPOS install — hardware sized and priced for supermarkets, not for a tour office or a museum welcome desk. The Star Micronics mPOP takes a different approach: printer and cash drawer combined in one sleek unit barely bigger than a keyboard, connected straight to TicketingHub's point of sale.
For operators, the appeal is that the till stops being a separate machine with its own product list to maintain. Your booking system is the till, and the mPOP is simply its hands — printing the receipt and minding the cash.
What is the mPOP?
The mPOP is a hybrid device from Star Micronics, the Japanese point-of-sale hardware maker: a receipt printer and a cash drawer built into a single, deliberately attractive unit. It measures just 10 cm high and 30 cm wide, so it sits neatly on any countertop — or mounts underneath one to keep the desk completely clear.
It connects over Bluetooth to Apple, Android, Windows, or Linux tablets and smartphones, and needs only one power cord to run — no tangle of cables between till, printer, and drawer. In practice it replaces the traditional cash register or EPOS terminal: your tablet is the till screen, the mPOP handles the paper and the cash.
Star designed it to look the part too. Where a classic register dominates a counter, the mPOP is deliberately simple and attractive, low enough to keep eye contact with your guest over the top of it — a small thing that matters at a welcome desk, where the till is part of the first impression.
How it fits into TicketingHub's point of sale
Pair the mPOP with the tablet or phone running the TicketingHub Outpost app and your counter is complete. Staff ring up tickets in Outpost; the mPOP prints the receipt, and for cash sales the drawer opens automatically. Card payments run alongside through a connected SumUp or Zettle reader, or Stripe Tap to Pay with no extra hardware.
Because Outpost is part of TicketingHub, every counter sale shares live availability with your website widget and reseller channels, lands in the same dashboard, and appears on the same manifest for scanning at entry. Shift reports in the app help you reconcile the drawer at close, and multiple devices can be signed in to the same account at once — so a second counter at peak season is another tablet and another mPOP, not another system.
The visitor-attraction front desk
Museums, tours with a storefront, and small attractions rarely have space — or budget — for a legacy till system. A tablet plus an mPOP gives you a complete, professional counter in 30 centimetres, handling the morning coach-group rush and the lone walk-up with the same two taps.
Admissions and gift shop on one device
If your desk sells entry tickets and a shelf of postcards and guidebooks, the mPOP keeps it all on one drawer and one receipt roll — no juggling a booking system on one side and a shop till on the other, and no arguing over which drawer the cash went into.
Seasonal and pop-up box offices
One power cord and a Bluetooth connection means the whole setup moves as easily as it installs. Operators use the mPOP for seasonal ticket desks, event-day box offices, and pop-up locations — carried in, plugged in, selling in minutes, then packed away until next time. Because the bookings live in the cloud rather than in the till, nothing is stranded on the hardware when the pop-up closes.
Setting it up
- Download the free TicketingHub Outpost app — iOS 14 or later, or Android 8.0 or later — and sign in to your account.
- Plug in the mPOP (one cable) and pair it with your device over Bluetooth.
- Connect it in the app, run a test receipt, and check the drawer kicks open.
- Add a SumUp or Zettle reader for card payments, or use Stripe Tap to Pay on the phone itself.
