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Gift Card usage with Polling / Standalone WAN (WEAR)

Question:

Do Gift Cards work with Polling or Standalone WAN(WEAR)?

Solution:

Gift Cards do not work with Polling or Standalone WAN (WEAR).

Payments processors like Mercury Payments or Sterling Payments have a Gift Card processing module that connects with System Five. These payment processor servers will store your Gift Card numbers and balances. You will need a working Internet connection in order to connect to the servers at any location to process the Gift Cards regardless of connectivity to your Main Location server.

The problem with using a replication solution for your Gift Card processing is a customer may purchase product from one of your locations then purchase more product at another location with the same Gift Card. Since the balance cannot be verified against the server there is a chance that the customer could go to your other location before an update occurs. What this means is the one location has no knowledge that the customer has performed a transaction at another location and will allow a duplicate post.

Please call your payment processor representative if you are using Mercury or Sterling to discuss using the Gift Card Program.





Author: arose
Editor: arose
Last Edited: 7-Jan-2008

gift_cards_with_polling_standalone_wan_wear.1199734640.txt.gz · Last modified: 2008/01/07 11:37 (16 years ago) by andrew