Telpo at Seamless Middle East 2026: Innovating the Future of Smart Retail Payments
From September 22 to 24, 2026, Telpo joined leading payment providers, retailers, financial institutions, technology companies, and digital commerce professionals at Seamless Middle East 2026 in Dubai. Held at the Dubai World Trade Centre, the three-day event brought together 20,000 attendees, 750 exhibitors, and 800 speakers across the fintech, payments, retail, and digital commerce ecosystem.
Under the theme “Innovating the Future of Smart Retail Payments,” Telpo showcased a broad portfolio of smart terminals designed to help businesses create more secure, efficient, and connected customer experiences. From high-security payment terminals and mobile Smart POS devices to intelligent cash registers and self-service kiosks, Telpo demonstrated how adaptable Android hardware can support the evolving needs of banking, retail, hospitality, quick-service restaurants, and other commercial scenarios.
Smart Retail Payments for a More Connected Commerce Ecosystem
Seamless Middle East focuses on the rapidly evolving intersection of fintech, payments, retail, e-commerce, and digital commerce. The 2026 event brought payment providers together with merchants, SMEs, retailers, financial institutions, and technology companies seeking new ways to improve customer journeys and business efficiency.
Today, merchants need more than a device that simply completes a transaction. They increasingly require terminal solutions that can support different payment methods, connect business applications, improve service efficiency, enhance customer interaction, and adapt to different deployment environments.
At Seamless Middle East 2026, Telpo presented solutions built around these practical business needs.
Secure Payment Terminals for Banking and Retail
Telpo P9: Flexible and Secure Payment Acceptance
A key highlight at the Telpo booth was the Telpo P9, a high-security payment terminal designed for demanding environments such as banking, retail, hospitality, and financial services.
The P9 supports a wide range of payment methods, including:
- Magnetic card
- Smart card
- NFC contactless payment
- QR code and barcode
- Digital wallet
- Optional fingerprint authentication, dual display, barcode scanner
The terminal can also be configured with an optional customer-facing display to show transaction information and improve customer interaction.
For financial deployments, the P9 supports major payment compliance requirements including PCI PTS, EMV Level 1 and Level 2, EMV Contactless, and multiple international card schemes. Its integrated 58mm thermal printer, mobile connectivity, and expandable configurations make it suitable for both fixed and mobile transaction environments.
Smart POS Solutions for Flexible Payment Experiences
Telpo M1: Mobile POS Built for Business on the Move
The Telpo M1 brought another dimension of mobility to the showcase.
Designed as an Android mobile POS terminal, the M1 supports NFC, QR code, and mobile wallet payments. It is also compatible with SoftPOS applications, allowing businesses to expand contactless payment scenarios without relying solely on traditional payment hardware.
An integrated 58mm thermal printer with printing speeds of up to 80mm/s supports fast receipt generation, while optional professional barcode scanning expands its use across retail, hospitality, ticketing, delivery, and inventory management.
For merchants operating away from a traditional checkout counter, the M1 helps bring payment and business functions directly to the customer.
Telpo M8 and M10: Smarter Checkout for Modern Stores
For desktop environments, Telpo showcased the Telpo M8 and M10 Smart POS terminals.
The M8 Smart POS combines an 8-inch main display, customer-facing display, integrated 58mm printer, NFC functionality, and multiple connectivity options in a compact form factor. Its design supports retail checkout, restaurant ordering, fiscal applications, and other counter-based operations where space and efficiency matter.
The M10 extends this concept into a larger all-in-one Android POS platform designed for retail, food and beverage, and fiscal control scenarios. Telpo positions the device for environments where businesses need powerful performance, customer interaction, integrated printing, and flexible commercial applications in a single terminal.
Together, the M1, M8, and M10 illustrate how Smart POS technology can adapt across mobile and fixed retail environments while supporting increasingly important SoftPOS and contactless payment experiences.
Intelligent Cash Registers Transform the Checkout Experience
Telpo C9: A Modern Touch Screen POS for Retail
Telpo also presented the Telpo C9, its next-generation touch screen POS solution.
Powered by Android 14 and an octa-core processor, the C9 features a 15.6-inch Full HD touch display and supports multiple customer display configurations. Optional under-display NFC, financial card readers, fingerprint identification, and SoftPOS compatibility give merchants greater flexibility in building customized checkout environments.
Its modular architecture makes the C9 suitable for restaurants, chain stores, supermarkets, hospitality environments, and other businesses that need to connect payment, checkout, peripherals, and customer-facing interactions.
Telpo C50: Bringing AI Vision into Checkout
The Telpo C50 showed how artificial intelligence can further transform retail operations.
Designed as an AI vision checkout terminal, the C50 uses visual recognition technology to identify products across scenarios such as fresh produce, deli items, packaged goods, and other merchandise. Telpo states that the system can support rapid object identification and unattended self-checkout applications.
For supermarkets, fresh food retailers, cafeterias, and other high-volume environments, AI-assisted identification can help simplify product selection and shorten checkout workflows.
The C50 also demonstrates how the role of the cash register is evolving from transaction processing toward intelligent retail automation.
Self-Service Kiosks Expand the Customer Journey
Telpo K1: Flexible Self-Service for Multiple Industries
Self-service was another important part of Telpo’s Seamless Middle East showcase.
The Telpo K1 is a compact self-service payment kiosk featuring a 21.5-inch display and Android 14 platform. Its modular architecture can integrate functions such as barcode scanning, card reading, thermal printing, face cameras, and POS brackets depending on deployment requirements.
This flexibility allows the K1 to support applications including self-ordering, self-payment, visitor check-in, healthcare services, banking, and other interactive self-service scenarios.
For businesses, deploying self-service terminals can help redistribute repetitive service tasks while giving customers more control over their experience.
Telpo K20: Built for High-Volume Self-Ordering
For larger self-service environments, Telpo showcased the K20 self-ordering kiosk.
The K20 features a 27-inch Full HD touchscreen and supports both Android and Windows configurations, allowing businesses to integrate the kiosk with different software ecosystems. It can also support QR code scanning, external EMV or POS payment devices, an 80mm thermal printer, and different installation methods including wall-mounted and floor-standing configurations.
Its large display and flexible peripheral integration make it particularly suitable for quick-service restaurants, food courts, cinemas, and other high-traffic environments where reducing queues and improving ordering efficiency are important.
Turning Smart Hardware into Real Business Value
The range of devices shown at Seamless Middle East reflects one central idea: modern commerce requires hardware that can adapt to different customer journeys.
Banks and financial institutions need secure payment terminals and identity verification capabilities. Retailers need faster checkout, mobile payment acceptance, and flexible customer-facing displays.Restaurants need integrated ordering, payment, printing, and self-service. High-traffic stores need solutions that can help reduce queues and automate repetitive checkout processes.
Telpo addresses these requirements through a broader smart terminal ecosystem covering payment terminals, Smart POS devices, cash registers, self-service kiosks, ticket validators, biometric identity terminals, and other intelligent commercial hardware.
By supporting multiple application scenarios within one technology portfolio, Telpo helps partners build solutions around their actual business requirements while preparing for new payment and retail models.
Innovating the Future of Smart Retail Payments
Seamless Middle East 2026 once again highlighted how quickly payments and digital commerce are evolving. Topics across the event included connected commerce, digital payments, SoftPOS, AI, customer experience, and new checkout models, reflecting growing demand for faster and more integrated commerce infrastructure.
Through its theme, “Innovating the Future of Smart Retail Payments,” Telpo demonstrated how smart terminal hardware can turn these trends into deployable business solutions.Across secure payments, mobile POS, intelligent checkout, AI vision, and self-service, Telpo continues to develop hardware designed to improve operational efficiency, expand payment flexibility, and create more convenient customer experiences.Explore more Telpo smart retail and payment solutions at https://www.telpo.com.cn/ and discover the right terminal for your next retail, banking, hospitality, or self-service project.
About Telpo: Telpo (Telpo Technology Co., Ltd.) is a leading global provider of AI-driven smart terminals and solutions. Founded in 1999 on the mission to Create a Colorful Future, Telpo designs and manufactures smart terminal hardware with built-in connectivity, powering payment, retail, transportation, security, and digital identity applications in over 100 countries. Its 200+ engineer R&D team, 300+ patents, and CNAS-accredited lab uphold rigorous standards in design and compliance. Through deep ODM expertise and close collaboration with local partners, Telpo turns customer requirements into certified, deployment-ready terminals.