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Man, I've got some stories. A few years back, circa 2014 I installed & set up PCAmerica CRE for a business. We used Ingenico ISC250 pinpads with direct integrat
by posguy 10y ago
Man, I've got some stories. A few years back, circa 2014 I installed & set up PCAmerica CRE for a business. We used Ingenico ISC250 pinpads with direct integration which turned out to be a very poor decision! For a span of a month, those damn pinpads randomly double charged debit & EBT customers (which we reversed in bulk afterward), and the building got tagged saying "You stole $20 off my EBT Card". Ended up swapping in FD35 pinpads, but the damage was done.
Another time, I was down in Cali visiting family. Stopped in at the 7-Eleven caddy corner to where I was staying, and accidentally pulled a shim out of the Ingenico ISC350 that was sitting on the counter. What a joy! From what I hear, that 7-Eleven still has issues with that type of stuff, so much so that my family started paying in cash.
Also met some guys who were working on this pinpad integration for Pax, sounded like the API was designed back in the serial days (with the limitations that entails) and they were trying to make the best of it. Items onscreen worked, but you couldn't display the live total, Pax had designed their own coordinate pair protocol instead of sending a SVG of the customer's signature, etc. IIRC this is the library they published: https://github.com/AccelerateNetworks/PHPax https://github.com/AccelerateNetworks/PHPax