Paul M Foster wrote:
> Robert Snyder wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> 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.
>
I saw some reference of it months ago while getting a merchant account
for a client. Could not find anything and really it needed to be able
to communicate to the processor for a SSL connection as I was not going
to play the dial up game as the modem require has to be older than dirt
for it to work. Even full fleadge hardware modems have seem to have an
issue connecting at the 14,400 kbps that (aka 14.4) that credit
processors want
> Paul
>
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