Sadad Bridge - Sadad
SADAD Bridge

Keep your billing system,
connect via cloud

Connect the cash register, counter PC or ERP you already run to SADAD through a secure cloud API. Your system sends the amount, a paired SADAD terminal takes the card, and the result comes straight back — nothing to replace, nothing to re-key.

SADAD Bridge POS and terminal
SADAD Bridge background

What is SADAD Bridge?

SADAD Bridge is a cloud ECR integration in Qatar that connects a merchant's existing cash register, POS computer or ERP to SADAD over the cloud, so card payments are taken on an all-in-one cloud POS terminal without replacing the billing system.

Your system connects to SADAD over the cloud

No cabling between your register and the terminal, so web-based systems work too.

Your system sends the amount, the customer pays, the result returns to print and reconcile

No reading a total off one screen to type into another.

Card data never enters your register or servers

Keeping your PCI DSS scope minimal.

Cards and digital wallets are accepted the same way

NAPS, Himyan, Visa, Mastercard and Amex, with Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay.

Supports sale, refund, void and pre-authorisation

End-of-day settlement runs over the same connection.

Approved, declined or refunded comes straight back to your system

And appears live in your SADAD dashboard.

How does cloud ECR
integration work?

Five steps across two machines. Your system owns the sale; the SADAD terminal handles only the card.

Cloud ECR integration
01

Connect your system over the cloud

Your POS or ERP is connected to SADAD terminal over the cloud, and your terminals are paired to your merchant account. A one-time setup — staff never configure anything afterwards.

What the setup covers

  • Secure cloud connection, no cabling
  • Works with web-based, on-premise and ERP systems
  • Each terminal paired to your merchant account
02

Your system rings up the sale

The cashier scans items in your existing POS software — the same screens they use today.

your system keeps

productsPricing, promotions
inventoryStock control
receiptsReporting, accounting
03

It sends the amount across

The cashier selects card payment and your system sends the total to SADAD over the cloud in real time. The paired terminal wakes and prompts the customer on its own — nobody types the total twice.

Your register sends

AmountQAR 148.00
TypeSALE
ReferenceINV-90114
04

SADAD takes the card and replies

The customer pays on the SADAD terminal. Card read, PIN, encryption and authorisation happen inside SADAD’s PCI DSS environment, then the response returns to your system over the cloud.

Your register receives

statusAPPROVED
rrn220948117
schemeVISA •••• 4417
05

Your system prints and reconciles

Your register closes the sale, prints its usual receipt and updates stock. The transaction also lands in your SADAD merchant dashboard and settles to your bank.

SADAD handles

  • Daily batch and reconciliation
  • Settlement to your bank
  • Refunds, disputes, reporting

SADAD Bridge use cases in Qatar.

Built for supermarkets, hotels, pharmacies and restaurants running an established cash register, POS computer or ERP.

Grocery chain with twelve lanes

An established retail POS ties into stock and supplier ordering — replacing it was never an option. But cashiers were reading totals off screen and typing them into a standalone card machine.

  • The chain's POS platform is linked to SADAD over the cloud, with each lane's terminal paired to it.
  • The cashier scans the basket and the POS sends the exact total to SADAD.
  • The customer pays while the cashier bags; approved returns and stock deducts automatically.
Grocery chain with twelve lanes
Hotel front desk running on an ERP

Hotel front desk running on an ERP

A Doha hotel runs rooms, restaurant and spa billing through one system. At checkout, staff had to read the guest's total off that screen and type it into a separate card machine — slow when everyone leaves at once, and easy to get a big number wrong.

  • The ERP is linked to SADAD over the cloud, with a terminal paired to each reception station.
  • The receptionist closes the folio and the ERP sends the total to the guest-side terminal.
  • The guest pays; the result returns and the ERP marks the folio settled.

Connect your cash register to SADAD over the cloud.

Talk to the SADAD integrations team about cloud POS terminals, connection options and getting your POS vendor the documentation they need.

SADAD POS terminal

Building your own app instead?

SADAD Native lets an Android app run directly on the SADAD terminal and take the payment on the same device — no second machine at the counter.

Explore SADAD Native

Benefits of cloud ECR integration.

Why merchants in Qatar choose cloud connectivity over replacing a POS that already works.

Zero re-keying

The total travels to the terminal on its own - the most common cause of mismatched end-of-day figures, removed.

Keep the system you know

No migration project, no retraining, no rebuilt reports.

Minimal PCI scope

Card details never reach your register or servers - lower audit burden and cost.

Faster lanes at peak

Removing the read-and-retype step saves seconds on every card sale, on every lane.

Books that agree

Your reports and the SADAD daily batch reconcile without manual comparison.

Scales lane by lane

Add one cloud POS terminal or forty - all reporting into the same merchant dashboard.

Frequently Asked Questions

Choose SADAD Bridge if you already run a cash register, counter PC or ERP that you want to keep, connecting it to a separate SADAD terminal. Choose SADAD Native if you build your own Android app and want it running on the terminal itself, using one device.

With SADAD Bridge, your POS system is linked to SADAD over the cloud and your terminals are paired to your merchant account. After that the register sends each amount automatically, and the paired terminal prompts the customer.

Yes. Any ERP or business management system that can connect over the cloud can drive a SADAD terminal, including systems used for retail, hospitality and pharmacy operations in Qatar. Your ERP partner handles the connection on their side.

That is common and fully supported. Your vendor implements the SADAD ECR protocol using the documentation at developer.sadad.qa, and many POS vendors serving the Qatari market have already done so. Ask the SADAD team whether yours is among them.

No. The card is read, encrypted and authorised entirely on the SADAD terminal inside SADAD's PCI DSS compliant environment. Your register only sends an amount and receives a result, keeping your PCI scope minimal.

Contactless, chip and PIN and magstripe across NAPS, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Himyan, Apple Pay, Google Pay— local and international cards alike.

Sale, refund, void, pre-authorisation and end-of-day settlement, all across the same connection — so staff never operate the terminal manually to reverse or close out a transaction.

Yes. Each register pairs with its own SADAD terminal, and every terminal reports into the same merchant dashboard with per-terminal batch summaries. Start with one lane and add more at any time.

Over the cloud. Your POS system sends the amount to SADAD, and SADAD passes it to the terminal paired with that lane or counter — no cabling between the two.

Yes, and that is the main reason merchants adopt SADAD Bridge. The total travels from your register to the terminal automatically, which removes keying errors and the mismatched end-of-day figures they cause.
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