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Existing Gift Card Use? Derek 12-14-2005
Posted by Derek on December 14, 2005, 5:41 pm
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 I have generic plastic gift cards that use magnetic strips. They were
purchased a while back to use with our current processor. I would like to
continue to use these and integrate and manage them via RMS. There are all
serialized. I've heard of problems with the mag strips in RMS. something
about terminal characters. Is there a way I can use these cards? Maybe by
programing the MSR or something? I would hate to have to buy new cards that
use barcodes to get around this.

Posted by Jeff on December 14, 2005, 5:51 pm
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 Derek,

Go into Notepad and swipe a card. If it enters just a serial number, then
you can use it. If it has more info, probably not. ;-(

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I have generic plastic gift cards that use magnetic strips. They were
purchased a while back to use with our current processor. I would like to
continue to use these and integrate and manage them via RMS. There are all
serialized. I've heard of problems with the mag strips in RMS. something
about terminal characters. Is there a way I can use these cards? Maybe by
programing the MSR or something? I would hate to have to buy new cards that
use barcodes to get around this.



Posted by rick on December 15, 2005, 11:45 am
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Or get a different card swipe just for gift and program it to read the cards


>I have generic plastic gift cards that use magnetic strips. They were
> purchased a while back to use with our current processor. I would like to
> continue to use these and integrate and manage them via RMS. There are all
> serialized. I've heard of problems with the mag strips in RMS. something
> about terminal characters. Is there a way I can use these cards? Maybe by
> programing the MSR or something? I would hate to have to buy new cards
> that
> use barcodes to get around this.



Posted by Derek on December 15, 2005, 5:48 pm
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That's what I was afraid of..

"rick" wrote:

> Or get a different card swipe just for gift and program it to read the cards
>
>
> >I have generic plastic gift cards that use magnetic strips. They were
> > purchased a while back to use with our current processor. I would like to
> > continue to use these and integrate and manage them via RMS. There are all
> > serialized. I've heard of problems with the mag strips in RMS. something
> > about terminal characters. Is there a way I can use these cards? Maybe by
> > programing the MSR or something? I would hate to have to buy new cards
> > that
> > use barcodes to get around this.
>
>
>

Posted by Rick Brown on December 17, 2005, 8:30 am
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You can use the cards but just can't populate the inventory with them as
you're considering because of the extra characters. When you sell one and
swipe the card, a box will come up and say something like "Serial# Not
Found, Would you like to create a new one", click yes and it will be added
and available to tender. I'm ass

You just can't pre-populate the serial# table with them because the program
doesn't know how to sequence a number with special characters around it.

Go ahead and test one as I described above and tender it and you'll see that
it'll work just fine.

Rick Brown
DataBasics



>I have generic plastic gift cards that use magnetic strips. They were
> purchased a while back to use with our current processor. I would like to
> continue to use these and integrate and manage them via RMS. There are all
> serialized. I've heard of problems with the mag strips in RMS. something
> about terminal characters. Is there a way I can use these cards? Maybe by
> programing the MSR or something? I would hate to have to buy new cards
> that
> use barcodes to get around this.



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