Robert Snyder wrote:
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> Pete note quite the point of sale system I was talking about. Most POS
> systems have credit card support through what the merchant account
> industry likes to call "datawire" aka a fancy name for a piece of
> software creating a SSL connection to the credit card processor. This is
> different than online merchant account where were you have a web page
> and you fill out a form and it processes. Data wire is the preferred
> ways of processing card card swiped or manually entered form a pos
> environment. People using credit card terminals that dial out are just
> slow. The problem is with that is that it has to dial each time to get
> what is called an Auth which is nothing more than a hold on the credit
> card. Then at some point you do the End of day aka Batch Settlement
> which finalizes the process.
> I searched the forums and the devloper promising credit card terminal
> support for the annoying dial up terminals by one brand of terminal
> maker. Which will not help out most as your processor has list of
> compatible terminals and terminal software ( like what I use to process
> cards) and if it is not on that list you are better off not even
> bothering trying. What is intresting is that on the software side most
> software uses JCard which is a Java applet that handles the trans
> actions for the software processor. In theory Jcard would work in Linux
> as it contains no windows specific code as I seen a mac os 9 credit card
> app that use Jcard. So basically a gui could be written for jcard in
> Linux the trick would be getting the makers of jcard to letting the
> Linux community have access to its api which I highly doubt.
>
Red Hat bought a company called Hells Kitchen Software some years ago.
They had a product which allowed you to process credit cards without one
of those terminals. Required a modem. Unfortunately, Red Hat only kept
the product active for a short time, and now have closed it down.
Paul
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