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Technically a payment terminal can go into island mode and take offline credit card transactions and post them later. PIN can be verified against the card. Dep
by Scoundreller 2y ago
Technically a payment terminal can go into island mode and take offline credit card transactions and post them later. PIN can be verified against the card.
Depends if the retailer wants to take the chance of all that.
- nielsole 2y agoThat is if the terminal is not dead itself
- sgammon 2y agoThe terminal is probably not running Crowdstrike...
- sgammon 2y agoCrowdstrike != Windows ;)
- j-bos 2y agoYou might be surprised..
- kristjansson 2y agoTerminal running Windows? Someone is going to make it run Crowdstrike too.
- jeffhuys 2y agoDude. SO MUCH STUFF runs on Windows.
- sgammon 2y ago"Probably" is a load bearing word
- jimmydorry 2y agoGood luck putting a payment terminal into island mode when it's in a bluescreen loop.
- thyrsus 2y agoNot this time. Use paper, pen, and a non-electronic cash box.
- Ekaros 2y agoTerminal is probably fine, the machine that tells it number to charge is dead... And it is probably not even setup to accept manual payment inputs.
- Scoundreller 2y agoYeah, all depends on how much config you want to allow employees to do, but I’m sure the functionality is there if you wish to enable it.
- robotnikman 2y agoHaving worked with some of these retail systems, yes, it depends on how they are configured. There are stores in many places in the country with sporadic internet or where outages are not uncommon, and where you would want to configure the terminals to still work while offline. In these cases, the payment terminals can be configured to take offline transactions, and they are stored locally on the lane or a server located in the store until a connection to the internet is re-established.