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

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Wow!  Direct hit!

I just called John and this is exactly the solution I need.  He was great to talk to.

In fact, Anders....these are the folks that wrote and sell CardSwipe, the app that you demo in your YouTube video. Together with the IDTech swiper, this is the solution that will do what I want.

Thanks, Joel!

Jonathan

On Mar 20, 2013, at 2:22 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:

> Hey Jonathan
> 
> I don't know if it would help you here, but you might want to take a look at 
> http://ccq-fm.com/
> 
> It's a project by long-term FileMaker dev John Morina.  If it doesn't do what you want/need, you might even try asking John if it's something he's considered...
> 
> HTH,
> -Joel
> 
> 
> On Mar 20, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the feedback,
>> 
>> My challenge actually has one more complexity.  The client is using Authorize.net's Customer Information System (CIM) as a tool for maintaining PCI Complance. With CIM, the credit card info is stored at Auth.net , returning tokens for running future transactions.  So there is no initial sale.  So, I need too use the swiper to create the CIM tokens for future use.
>> 
>> FileMakerGo is simply not an option for this client, so this boils down to whether I can:
>> 	1) fill out a web form with customer order info (php/javascript)
>> 	2) swipe a credit card and have the CC info pop into the appropriate data fields on the web form
>> 	3) submit the web form for creation of the CIM tokens and subsequent customer order.
>> 
>> I just don't know if the iMag Pro card reader will talk directly to a web page, or if the Card Swipe software is used, it will pass the data along to the web page.
>> 
>> They have a $150 kits which includes a swiper plus an SDK.  Don't feel like going that route without some sort of assurance of success.
>> 
>> Of course, the alternative is to just drop the idea of a swiper.  In this case, just hand the iphone/ipad over to the customer to enter his/her own credit card number and then submit.  How hard is that?
>> 
>> Jonathan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 20, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
>> 
>>> It sounds like, from reading the specs on this device, that you could write a script to capture the card data. 
>>> 
>>> I use a script now that uses card readers to capture a CC's two tracks; I then parse it out and run the transaction using Plastic.
>>> 
>>> My client's been hoping that we could find something like this; since plugins don't work in FileMaker Go, what I'll probably do is use PHP to run the transaction--I capture the card info in the device on an iPhone, then use openURL to run the PHP page and get the results back to me in the database on the iPhone.
>>> 
>>> I didn't read Ander's article, but I wonder if he's doing some variation of that; using a standard PHP page like the AIM page I use for Authorize.net, it'd be easy enough to get the card info from the swiper and then do the processing...
>>> 
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>>> On Mar 20, 2013, at 2:40 PM, Jonathan Schwartz <jschwartz at exit445.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Anders,
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for the great article.
>>>> 
>>>> Are you saying that is not feasible to use the iMagPro and submit the card data directly to a web page form, with or without the CardSwipe software?
>>>> 
>>>> Jonathan
>>>> 
>>> 
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