[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Magnetic Card Readers

[Justin Hopkins]

Right on, the library in question is using PayPal, which EG supports, so they just need a shortcut to avoid having to type in the numbers. Thomas answered my question enough that I think they will be able to make a purchase.

Cheers,
Justin

On Jul 26, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Lisa Hill wrote:

> 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
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> EG prefers keyboard emulation. It has no functionality that I am aware of for interacting with hardware directly for reading things on any platform.
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> Thomas Berezansky
> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
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> Quoting Justin Hopkins <justin at mobiusconsortium.org>:
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>> 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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