[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Magnetic Card Readers

Lisa Hill lhill at kcls.org
Thu Jul 26 14:52:49 EDT 2012


Hello-
Right- Evergreen right now anyway only has online payments. We could not afford the insurance to do the telezons(what they call the mag readers)
Thanks
Lisa

 
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-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Berezansky
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:47 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Magnetic Card Readers

EG prefers keyboard emulation. It has no functionality that I am aware of for interacting with hardware directly for reading things on any platform.

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Justin Hopkins <justin at mobiusconsortium.org>:

> Is anyone using a magnetic card reader with the new credit card 
> payment feature in the 2.2 staff client? (I'm looking at you KCLS) One 
> of our libraries is already using the feature but would like to 
> purchase magnetic readers that are compatible. If anyone can recommend 
> a particular model that would be great. Otherwise can anyone say 
> whether EG prefers keyboard emulation or a specific magnetic reader 
> HID type?
>
> Cheers,
> Justin




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