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Description of business	12 Months Ended
Description of business	Dec. 31, 2019
Description of business [Abstract]
Description of business	1. Description of business TransAct Technologies Incorporated (together with its subsidiaries, “TransAct,” the “Company,” "we,", "us,", "our"), which has its headquarters in Hamden, Connecticut and its primary operating facility in Ithaca, New York, operates in one operating segment: software-driven technology and printing solutions for high growth markets including food service technology, casino and gaming, lottery, POS automation and banking, and oil and gas markets. Our solutions are designed from the ground up based on market and customer requirements and are sold under the BOHA!^TM, AccuDate™ Ithaca®, Epic, EPICENTRAL^TM and Printrex® product brands. We sell our products to original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers, select distributors, and directly to end-users. Our product distribution spans across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean Islands and the South Pacific. TransAct also provides world-class service, spare parts, accessories and printing supplies to its growing worldwide installed base of products. We also generate revenue from the after-market side of the business, providing printer and terminal service, supplies and spare parts in addition to revenue from our two software solutions; (i)the EPICENTRAL^TM Print System (“EPICENTRAL^TM”), that enables casino operators to create promotional coupons and marketing messages and print them in real-time at the slot machine and (ii) our newly-launched line of BOHA! software applications used to automate the back-of-house operations of restaurants and other food service establishments.