Accounting pronouncements (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2018

Accounting pronouncements [Abstract]

Disaggregation of revenue

Disaggregation of revenue

The following table disaggregates our revenue by market-type, as we believe it best depicts how the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of our revenue and cash flows are affected by economic factors.  Sales and usage-based taxes are excluded from revenues.

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018
	United States		International		Total
	(In thousands)
Restaurant solutions	$	3,295	$	327	$	3,622
POS Automation and Banking		5,765		136		5,901
Casino and Gaming		14,084		7,190		21,274
Lottery		1,724		47		1,771
Printrex		833		229		1,062
TransAct Services Group		8,494		708		9,202
Total net sales	$	34,195	$	8,637	$	42,832

Contract liabilities

Contract balances

Our contract liabilities consist of customer pre-payments and deferred revenue.  Customer prepayments are reported as “Accrued Liabilities” in current liabilities in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and represent customer payments made in advance of performance obligations in instances where credit has not been extended and is recognized as revenue when the performance obligation is complete.  Deferred revenue is reported separately in current liabilities and non-current liabilities and consists of our extended warranty contracts, technical support for our restaurant solution terminals, EPICENTRAL™ maintenance contracts and testing service contracts, and is recognized as revenue as (or when) we perform under the contract.  The increase in current and non-current deferred revenue is due to the sale of extended warranties and technical support for our restaurant solution terminals.  We do not have any contract asset balances as of September 30, 2018 or December 31, 2017.  In the first nine months of 2018, we recognized revenue of $587 thousand related to our contract liabilities at January 1, 2018.  Total contract liabilities consist of the following:

	September 30, 2018		January 1, 2018
	(In thousands)
Customer pre-payments	$	92	$	79
Deferred revenue, current		307		169
Deferred revenue, non-current		253		69
Total contract liabilities	$	652	$	317