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Touch Screen Kiosk credit card swipe

Things to look out for when dealing with credit card swipe processing venders.  (Especially 3rd party so called experts) Remember that this is the credit card industry and there is no limit to the charges you are willing to pay!  If you want to pay $25,000.00 for an item that cost $500.00 they are happy to oblige you.

1) You do not need a separate merchant account for each credit card swipe on each touch screen kiosk. If you own 50 touch screen kiosks they can all put money into the same credit card account from the same gateway provider.

2) You do not need specially encrypted credit card swipe readers from the merchant service.  SSL is great!  It is the industry standard and if a merchant tells you it is not enough security do not use that vender. For example, let’s use a (so far) non-existent computer that can guess 1 trillion (1 followed by 12 zeroes) keys a second. On average, it would take around 2 million million million (2 followed by 18 zeroes) years to guess the key.   There are venders that will make you buy their coded card swipes.  This is nothing more than profit and these swipes cannot be used with any other service.
Retail touch screen kiosk
LTG has created a system for using the credit card swipes on its kiosk that was born out of time tested ecommerce techniques.   We use authorize.net or web payments pro with our touch screen kiosks in much the same way as we design shopping systems for our website clients. 
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  Kiosk credit card swipes can be setup to be recognized by a computer as a keyboard or as an HID (human interface device) device.    The keyboard emulation mode is pretty self explanatory.  Open any text editor, swipe the card and the data from the card will appear as if typed into the document very fast.  The computer literally thinks the credit card swipe is keyboard.  HID mode needs to have a driver written to translate the data from the credit card swipe into a format that is usable by your computer or application.  This driver/software would be written to suit your specific needs.  Each system is has its uses.  LTG is using keyboard emulation mode and automatically sending the data to the gateway as soon as we detect data in the fields.