[FX.php List] Credit Card Reader for mobile device + web publishing

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Hi Bob,

That explains the difficulty I'm having in finding a hardware only solution.

I'm going to take a look t Anders reply regarding using Go.

Cheers!

J


On Mar 20, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Bob Patin wrote:

> I have, and it's not a good path.
> 
> All of the readers I found use the gateways that go with them; I couldn't find a reader that would basically work just like a swiper does on a desktop machine.
> 
> If you're okay using the gateway that goes with the machine, you can find one, but my client wanted to use their existing gateways, not the one that went with the machine.
> 
> Sorry I don't have better news...
> 
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> On Mar 20, 2013, at 1:16 PM, Jonathan Schwartz <jschwartz at exit445.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> Have been asked by existing client to test implement a credit card reader for mobile devices which will run a mobile version of existing web-based order system.
>> 
>> There are a ton of nearly-free readers available where the readers are hard-coded to an existing payment processing service.  I'm looking to implement without the service....we will use the client's existing merchant processing account and FileMaker.
>> 
>> It seems that the critical components are having both good quality hardware plus an API to allow the reader to talk with the phone
>> 
>> Has any one gone down this path before?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jonathan Schwartz
>> jschwartz at exit445.com
>> 
>> 
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