Would your friend be interested to create credit card integration for SambaPOS? We have many people that use SambaPOS in US. We can create a new post to see how many people are interested.
He should contact Emre and offer credit card module as a paid option.
I will be the first one to buy as long as we can choose our own processors
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I had a look at that video All it shows is how one particular POS software allows EFTPOS integration to be setup.
The Card processing has come up many times.
The key thing like kendash said is emre wont just add a hardcoded feature for one provider for one country given the global use of the software.
He would prefer to give us the ability for us to integrate with our own provider.
Could it be done right now⊠yes in one way or another im sure you could make a script to chagre a credit card say through paypal pro gateway if you had a merchant account, it could most likely be done⊠would it be legitimate is the question⊠PCI compliance etc is such a minefield. I would expect swiping a card with a magswipe and scripting it to paypal gateway as it it was a website transaction (although you probably need address/postcode) is undoubtedly against the T&C.
This is why I was going to try and use a dedicated pin terminal given by a provider which offered a way to integrate with the terminal. (Plus in UK your meant to use chip and pin for over the counter sales.
Other softwareâs have integrations but will usually be with their preferred provider and they probably get some cut on a inflated price vs there usual charges for the privilege of having integrated system.
A solution will come.
See I am in the process of setting up a merchant account with my own individual merchant number. Most so called merchants like Square, Payanywhere donât set you up as a Merchant. But I found out that Phone Swipe does Unlike most mobile processing services, Phone Swipe will set you up with your own merchant account. Iâm not sure how they do this without charging a monthly fee, but I generally view this as a good thing. This type of processing tends to have better stability than aggregated processing. Merchant accounts are of course provided through NAB, who uses Global Direct as their processor.
Want to know the secret behind Squareâs payment processing? Itâs a rarely discussed bit of industry knowledge. When I started reviewing mobile processors, I had to wonder how the heck services like Square could possibly set up merchant accounts so fast with no setup fee and no monthly fees, and why they had so many pitfalls as well. What I found surprised me: They donât actually set up merchant accounts. There are essentially two types of mobile payment processors and service providers out there:
Payment Service Providers or PSPs (Merchant Aggregators)
Standard Merchant Account Providers (Standard Providers)
This is an incredibly important distinction to make, and one that few providers are willing to go through the trouble of explaining. In 2011 Visa expanded and redefined its Internet Payment Service Provider (IPSP) model to include sales to traditional merchants. Thus, the classification was renamed simply Payment Service Provider (PSP). Providers like PayPal had been aggregating Internet payment service for years. But bringing that same model to physical sales â that was a novel service. MasterCard also uses the term Payment Service Provider, but Discover uses Payment Facilitator to mean the same thing. So â whatâs the difference? They are the same just different way of calling it but with a merchant account I believe will be easier to integrate the source code/ script to take cards with a magswipe. I am looking for someone to actually put in the system in my Hardware in this fashion. Any clues? I would ship even to the UK to get this done. Once I get one done I can piggyback off the other terminals.
I will get in contact with him tomorrow. It will definetely benefit the community.
Great. Thank you. Keep us posted.
You have allot of jargon there with actually applying it to real life.
So do the give you a terminal/swipe reader or do you link to them directly via API?