Pay by card is to complicated.

[Munin666]

Hello together,

normally everythink should get easier with pay by card and i have never seen a cashier in a supermarket who need to type in the price manually.

At the moment i really love it when there is a customer who pays with cash, because i love this small minigame ;) but when somebody wants to pay with card i have to click on the cardreader, type in every Number and the point by clicking on it, not even with my keyboard and have to accept by clicking again.

But in a supermarket it should work easier. Just click on pay by card, the price is still on the reader and the customer can pay. I really hope that this system will come in this game. Maybe as Upgradeable Option, or as default.

[DaiHideo]

OP, you do realize this is a mom and pop shop you are running, right? And most of the mom and pop shops I have seen actually do in fact enter the total amount manually before having to insert card. This can also vary depending on the business and what Point of Sale device they are using. To say it's too difficult tells me that you just started the game when posting this. It is intended to feel labor intensive of a grind to gain the ability down the road to have a cashier take over for you. But many have already asked for keyboard/10 key support for typing in the card reader totals.

[PaladinSL]

Originally posted by Nyto:

it would be more practical to add the numbers with the numeric keypad

Using the numpad would be far better.

[INTJ]

Yes. Credit cards should be done by the customer. They just put it in a reader and the user presses space bar on their register like they do with "no change" customers. Doing it manually is not only unrealistic, it's annoying.

[Lisa2900]

Originally posted by Nyto:

it would be more practical to add the numbers with the numeric keypad

I don't mind doing the card too much but this would def make it better, easier and def faster with the numberpad

[Munin666]

Originally posted by DaiHideo:

OP, you do realize this is a mom and pop shop you are running, right? And most of the mom and pop shops I have seen actually do in fact enter the total amount manually before having to insert card. This can also vary depending on the business and what Point of Sale device they are using. To say it's too difficult tells me that you just started the game when posting this. It is intended to feel labor intensive of a grind to gain the ability down the road to have a cashier take over for you. But many have already asked for keyboard/10 key support for typing in the card reader totals.

I dont know how it is in the US, but in germany even the smallest kiosk doesnt need to type it in manually. Especially not when they have a modern cash register like this one. They mostly only use a hand scanner and they still just need to type on pay with card and dont need to type it in manually.

Sure it would be easier if you could use the numpad, but maybe as upgrade it would be nice if you dont need to type in the price.
And i dont want to hire a cashier at the moment, i like to do it by my own.

[Theldras]

whatever it be big or small stores, in my country all card readers is connected to the register and get the price to pay from simply scanning the products, even market stalls as of the last couple decades has started to introduce card readers, all our card readers face the customer, its the customer who "swipe" the card, enter your 4 digit code, hit green OK button, cashier press a button, done, and as of the last couple years you dont even need to do that, just hold the card up against the card reader and done, and after every 4-5 use or when over a certain amount you need to enter your code, used to be 20+ dollars, but with covid they increased it to 40 so you dont have to touch the pad as often, the cashier dont touch your card, never even knew that was a thing if not for american media.

[D-Remy]

Good idea here is to upgrade the bank terminal system :) so you need to play along with the system is now then later can upgrade it :)

[rataza]

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[Swisspike]

Originally posted by Theldras:

whatever it be big or small stores, in my country all card readers is connected to the register and get the price to pay from simply scanning the products, even market stalls as of the last couple decades has started to introduce card readers, all our card readers face the customer, its the customer who "swipe" the card, enter your 4 digit code, hit green OK button, cashier press a button, done, and as of the last couple years you dont even need to do that, just hold the card up against the card reader and done, and after every 4-5 use or when over a certain amount you need to enter your code, used to be 20+ dollars, but with covid they increased it to 40 so you dont have to touch the pad as often, the cashier dont touch your card, never even knew that was a thing if not for american media.

In America, it is quite common to give the merchant your card. In Europe, apparently the merchants are thieves, and it is ILLEGAL to give the merchant your banking card.

[amstrich]

If the system is gonna be "manual" like this, atleast let us use our keyboard for putting it in.
Otherwise I like the idea of upgrading the bank terminal system to a automatic one

[Patrick V]

Originally posted by Munin666:

Hello together,

normally everythink should get easier with pay by card and i have never seen a cashier in a supermarket who need to type in the price manually.

Agree supermarkets are automated by pressing pay by card button. But smaller businesses don't, they have to enter the amount manually (Not talking about supermarkets in general). Like every Saturday when I got the Bakery to get a Kiwi pie.

I have read the Dev's are planning to add the numpad to operating card machine in the future.

[Swisspike]

Originally posted by Patrick V:

Originally posted by Munin666:

Hello together,

normally everythink should get easier with pay by card and i have never seen a cashier in a supermarket who need to type in the price manually.

Agree supermarkets are automated by pressing pay by card button. But smaller businesses don't, they have to enter the amount manually (Not talking about supermarkets in general). Like every Saturday when I got the Bakery to get a Kiwi pie.

I worked for a couple of months, after I retired, at our small boutique store in the community I live in. Our point of sale required us to punch in prices. There was no scanning mechanism.

I didn't much care for it. If you made a mistake, there was no way to catch it. With no scanning, there was no inventory control, and no way to see what was sold. The owner was an idiot, and wouldn't listen to reasonable suggestions, so I stopped working there. He was out of business six months later..but not before he contacted me, wanting to sell me the business.

[Revannia]

Since we have to do the exact amount when they pay by card, I think just adding a "Total" button to press would make sense. Or let us use the space bar like we do when they give exact change when paying with cash.

[busmover50]

I think the customers must be brain damaged because not a one of them knows how to use the credit card scanner!
Most people don't hand the card to the clerk they use the scanner provided in real life. It's stupid that we have to put the amount in for the customers card to work. the scanner should be on the other side of the counter and let those dorks scan their own blasted card!

[Swisspike]

Originally posted by busmover50:

I think the customers must be brain damaged because not a one of them knows how to use the credit card scanner!
Most people don't hand the card to the clerk they use the scanner provided in real life. It's stupid that we have to put the amount in for the customers card to work. the scanner should be on the other side of the counter and let those dorks scan their own blasted card!

Not every store has a scanner. That's the point.