[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Credit Card Swipe for Credit Card Payment

[Dan Pearl]

Solutions exist today, of course, to simply read a magstripe card and put the number into the appropriate payment field.  I’m not sure how the hardware works with the software to put appropriate info in the fields (card number, exp date), but it may need some software change to get it to work.

 

I would be interested in security: we should never store card data on-site (so you couldn’t pay a fine in offline mode), card data encrypted by the card reader, etc.   I would suggest not doing a big  investment in card reader infrastructure until the rollout of Chip and PIN in 2015.  

 

From: open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Tim Spindler
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 9:07 AM
To: Evergreen Development Discussion List
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Credit Card Swipe for Credit Card Payment

 

We have had some questions about using a credit card swipe for taking credit card payments at a circulation desk.

I was wondering if this is possible and if anyone has done this?

Are there other issues we would need to be aware of and advise a library in doing this?


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