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Here in Australia: * The cashier presses credit on the POS terminal. * It may take 1s for the logo to come up. You hold your card against the reader for ~1s. Th

by sqldba 11y ago

Here in Australia: * The cashier presses credit on the POS terminal. * It may take 1s for the logo to come up. You hold your card against the reader for ~1s. The icon changes while it's verifying which takes < ~5s.

jsprogrammer 11y ago
This was how it was until places put in new terminals that refuse swipes from chip cards. Instead, you have to insert the chip portion of your card into a slot (after waiting 10s for the prompt to appear [or it will error out]). Then, you must leave your card in the slot, untouched, for about 20s. The tap terminals have existed in the US for years. Usability was pretty much the same as the swipe method: fast and easy.