Ability to accept credit card number from USB credit card reader
Our operation continues to struggle with the amount of customers who prefer to come into the store front to book and pay for their rental.
Taking credit cards and punching in the numbers manually has proven to just not scale with a line of people out the door. I would like to be able to use a USB credit card reader so that we can highlight the credit card number field on the contract and just swipe instead of typing.
This works; however, the problem is the reader is reading more than just the CC number. The number, the expiration, security code, etc is captured. There are symbols that separate the different sets of numbers though.
I'm wondering... Can you either identify the cc number (by knowing it's the long number inside the % symbols) and simply parse only that number, or, identify each track and put each number in the associated fields.
Can you let me know your thoughts on this? It would make our operation much more efficient and allow us to get rid of our standalone credit card machine.
Thanks
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We are working with a cc company to offer this through our phone apps. The bad part is you'll have to switch to that company to use it. The good part is that we think we can beat your current rates with them.
Regarding your swiper question, we cannot change what the swiper reads. Swipers act like a keyboard input. So when you swipe, it acts as if you typed everything that was read. That said, often you can program the swipers to behave the way you want. What I'm getting to is that you might be able to make your swiper only enter the card number or enter the card number and tab to other fields before entering the other data. That is outside our control though.
We are working with a cc company to offer this through our phone apps. The bad part is you'll have to switch to that company to use it. The good part is that we think we can beat your current rates with them.
Regarding your swiper question, we cannot change what the swiper reads. Swipers act like a keyboard input. So when you swipe, it acts as if you typed everything that was read. That said, often you can program the swipers to behave the way you want. What I'm getting to is that you might be able to make your swiper only enter the card number or enter the card number and tab to other fields before entering the other data. That is outside our control though.
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