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TransAct Technologies supplies printers that slot-machine manufacturers build into their machines, selling mainly to those manufacturers and through distributors. Light & Wonder Gaming is its largest customer and primarily buys casino and gaming printers. Many products used in gaming platforms need certification and approval in each jurisdiction where they operate. The company also sells checkout printers mainly through distributors and resellers.
For food-service operators, BOHA! combines terminals or workstations with software to automate back-of-house tasks such as labeling, timers and temperature monitoring. TransAct sells these products directly to operators, who can choose applications separately. Hardware purchases lead to ongoing spending on labels, software subscriptions, service and support; subscriptions are typically billed annually for each application. This recurring business depends on customers choosing to renew. Casinos can also buy EPICENTRAL promotional software, largely through subscriptions, directly or through software partners.
TransAct depends on a contract manufacturer in Thailand for almost all printer and terminal production, without a supply agreement. It also buys substantially all BOHA! labels from one domestic supplier. Although it has acquired a perpetual license to BOHA! source code, it remains highly dependent on the prior developer for parts of the software's operation during the transition, as well as on outside hosting providers.
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TransAct also depends on casino-printer demand from its largest customer, Light & Wonder, which accounted for 9% of 2025 sales, while competing with JCM Global for casino-printer business.
TransAct relies on Avery Dennison for the BOHA! software source-code license and transition services, even as this seller of labeling materials and software competes for food-service customers. Watch whether Avery Dennison's transition services keep BOHA! available to customers as TransAct takes over hosting management, support and maintenance.
Digi International competes with TransAct for food-service customers through Jolt's back-of-house tools, which rival BOHA! hardware and software. For TransAct holders, Jolt developments matter more directly than Digi's broader business selling connected-device equipment and services to manufacturers, businesses and governments.
McDonald's restaurant-system equipment purchases matter to TransAct because its Ithaca 9000 printers, used for checkout and kiosk receipts or labels, serve McDonald's primarily and are sold mainly through distributors and resellers. McDonald's earns money from diners at its own restaurants and fees from franchisees; watch printer deployment and replacement across that system rather than treating restaurant sales as printer orders.
McDonald's Corporation earningsMCD
McDonald’s report will show how its restaurants are doing and whether its system is expanding, indirect clues to demand for TransAct Technologies’ checkout and kiosk printers.
Compare sales at existing McDonald’s restaurants with expansion of its restaurant system. Strength in both would support the business backdrop for a key customer of TransAct Technologies, but it would not mean McDonald’s ordered printers; disclosed equipment deployments or replacements would be needed to link restaurant activity directly to TransAct orders. Weaker restaurant sales and slower expansion would make that backdrop less supportive.
Transact Technologies Inc earningsThis company
TransAct Technologies’ report will show whether sales of its BOHA! food-service technology are helping the company narrow its loss.
Read food-service technology (FST) sales alongside the company’s operating loss. Rising FST sales with a smaller loss would show that growth is beginning to offset development and service costs; rising sales with a wider loss would mean the added revenue is not covering those costs. Weakening FST sales and a wider loss would show that both growth and progress toward profitability remain under pressure.
Digi International Inc earningsDGII
If Digi International’s report reveals how Jolt’s back-of-house tools are doing, it will offer a read on their competition with TransAct Technologies’ BOHA! for food-service customers.
Look for Jolt-specific customer adoption or business updates, rather than treating Digi International’s overall results as a measure of its food-service tools. Stronger Jolt traction would mean BOHA! faces tougher competition for food-service customers; weaker traction would ease that competitive signal, but would not show that BOHA! won customers. If the report gives no Jolt-specific information, Digi-wide figures cannot settle the question.
