Make a magnetic stripe sale on a Barclaycard Portable card machine
A magnetic stripe sale, also called a swipe sale, means your customer needs to sign for their purchase instead of entering a PIN.
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Step by step guide
1. Key in the sale amount
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Key the sale amount into the card machine, and press ENTER.
2. Swipe the stripe
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Swipe your customer’s payment card from top to bottom along the slot on the right side of your card machine.
3. Get a signature
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If your customer’s card is set up for signature sales, your card machine prints a receipt labelled MERCHANT COPY with a signature line.
Tear it off and ask your customer to sign along the signature line.
4. Compare signatures
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Compare your customer’s signature with the one on the back of their payment card.
On screen, you’ll see Signature OK?
If the signatures match, press ENTER.
5. Wait for authorisation
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Your card machine contacts Barclaycard to authorise the payment and prints a receipt labelled CARDHOLDER COPY.
6. Give your customer their receipt
Tear off the cardholder receipt and give it to your customer, along with their payment card. Then press ENTER.
7. Keep your copy of the receipt
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Your card machine prints a receipt labelled MERCHANT COPY. Tear it off and keep it somewhere secure.
And you’re done
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Just press ENTER to get back to the READY screen.
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Signatures don’t match?
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If the signatures don’t match press CLEAR to decline the sale and ask your customer for another form of payment.
