Compliance-grade sales tracking, in production.

CPOS sells point-of-sale infrastructure. A growing share of their customers operate in categories where Ontario Government reporting is not optional — sales need to be tracked in real time, reconciled against regulated thresholds, and reported in a format the government accepts. Getting it wrong is not a UX problem. It is a license problem.

CPOS had two paths. Build the compliance reporting layer themselves, with a small in-house engineering team that did not have spare capacity for a multi-quarter compliance system. Or find a partner who could own the entire reporting workstream — the integration into the PoS data, the real-time pipeline, the database design that would survive an audit, and the deployment architecture that would meet PCI-DSS expectations.

The first path put the rest of CPOS's product roadmap on hold. The second path was the one they could afford.

Arc10 took the entire STARR workstream — the real-time sales tracking and reporting system — end to end. Architecture, build, deployment, and the integration into the PoS surface CPOS already shipped. Senior engineers, joined CPOS's standups, owned the outcome of "STARR ships, on time, audit-ready."

The decision was not a preference. It was the architectural choice that made the rest of the engagement deliverable on a small team's bandwidth without slowing the broader product roadmap.

Senior engineers across the Java / Spring Boot backend, the PostgreSQL data model, the Kubernetes deployment surface, and the PoS-side integration. Arc10 owned STARR end to end while CPOS's in-house team continued the broader product roadmap in parallel.

• →STARR is live in production and serving CPOS customers in the categories that require Ontario Government compliance reporting.
• →CPOS's in-house team did not have to slow the rest of the roadmap to ship the compliance system — the non-STARR product work continued in parallel throughout the engagement.
• →The architecture has held up across regulatory updates. STARR's service-isolated design has absorbed reporting changes without forcing CPOS to redeploy the broader PoS surface.
• →Append-only audit logs and PoS-side tokenization keep the regulated-data surface tightly scoped — the compliance posture is enforced architecturally, not by convention.

“Arc10 brought technical expertise, dedication, and customer service that we hadn't seen from other partners. The work was delivered well, and the team understood what compliance-grade work actually requires.”