Month: November 2018

So, the cool kids these days seem to be programming in Node instead of PHP. As of this writing, when I was reading through the Stripe Terminal documentation (https://stripe.com/docs/terminal/js/payment), you can get through the beginning fine with PHP or curl. I personally don’t prefer a heavy wrapper around simple requests. So, I use PHP’s curl … Read moreCapturing payment intents with curl (or PHP)

Stripe Terminal Verifone P400 processing speed video clip So, one of Index.com’s big promotions on its homepage before it got bought by Stripe was “1-second EMV”. If you’ve been living in the US during the transition from magstripes to chip cards, you’ve almost certainly experienced the frustration of long chip card insertion times. With the … Read more1.1-second chip card insertion time

I’ve done a few cloud-based point-of-sale credit card integrations before. The way they all work was fairly similar. You plug the credit card machine into an ethernet port, and the credit card machine authenticates itself with the supplier’s cloud server. Then the point of sale application sends an API request to the cloud server. The … Read moreA note about connectivity on the P400

So, a bit more than a week after putting in my order for the Stripe Terminal Verifone P400 Developer Kit, it arrives in the mail. I unbox it. Here’s what I get: The terminal itself. More detail in a moment.A test card. The card is both a chip card and a contractless card, but has … Read moreThe Verifone P400 arrives