Future Stripe Integrration?
Are there any plans to make Stripe available as the processor for RGP beyond the trip booking system?
Would love to be able to ditch x-charge, their PCI dance and having to maintain 2 accounts
Are there any plans to make Stripe available as the processor for RGP beyond the trip booking system?
Would love to be able to ditch x-charge, their PCI dance and having to maintain 2 accounts
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Stripe does not support point-of-sale transactions. This is especially true considering the upcoming chip-and-pin requirements for ALL point of sale transactions. PCI compliance will always be required of any merchant that accepts credit cards at their location.
You can expect to be operating with a different POS transaction terminal (where customers INSERT their card card rather than the staff swiping) by 2016. And Stripe isn't capable of supporting this requirement - they are an online processor only.
Some details
http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/02/06/october-2015-the-end-of-the-swipe-and-sign-credit-card/
And yes, RGP will support this but we are waiting for XCharge to release the specification. You will be required to purchase new hardware. This is all out of RGP's control so don't shoot the messenger!
How will RGP work with chip cards since it seems to require a Keyboard Emulation Magnetic strip reader?
p.s. I was using the Stripe API in a very simple POS I made, however it was web based. I was about to extend the functionality of my POS but decided to search to see if a solution existed before I spent loads of time reinventing the wheel; that's where my journey with RGP began.
X-Charge is much cheaper than Stripe, but with Stripe you don't have to worry about PCI compliance. All you need is to use their service through an SSL certified connection. You'd have to use XML Web Services or something to integrate that with RGP.
You'd still run into the same issues though with chip card readers eventually, though I'm sure there must be a solution for that.
Chip and pin support is coming.
See this thread:
https://www.rockgympro.com/forum/topic.php?id=745
Thanks.
p.s. I edited my previous post cause I realized this thread was about Stripe, and I had omitted my prior experience with it.
Actually I am mistaken. They have .Net libraries for Stripe too, if that's what you're developing RGP in. https://stripe.com/docs/libraries
I understand that this is not necessarily something you want to have to do, but I'm just putting it out there.
Stripe is an online application processor (for websites), I don't see them EVER supporting chip and pin. Thus it is not a solution for POS given the chip and pin requirement coming up.
Cheers
Andy
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