Disabling Manual Entry on Credit Cards

The Manual Card Entry Feature gives merchants the ability to enable or disable manual entry of specific credit card types. By default all credit card types are set to Yes, which means they are able to be manually keyed in on the terminal.

But if you want to disable manual credit card entry on specific card types (while leaving others enabled), follow the instructions below:

1.  On the applications menu, select DEBIT & CREDIT.
The message "Activating App..." appears followed by the transactions menu.

2.  Press the green OK key to enter the Configuration menu.

3.  Select SETUP.

4.  When prompted, enter the manager password and press the green OK key.

5.  Use the first purple function key on the left to scroll down to the EDIT CARDS menu.

6.  Select EDIT CARDS.

7.  In the Edit Cards screen, press the Next function key to display card type that you wish to change.

8.  Press the Slct function key to select it. Refer to the matrix below to determine which card type to select.

9.  Press the Next function key until Manual Entry is the displayed option.

10.  Press the Edit function key to edit the card type.

11.  Press the No function key to disable manual entry for this card type.

12.  Press the Exit function key to exit the card type.

13.  Press the OK function key to save the changes.

14.  Repeat steps 7 - 13 again as necessary to disable manual entry of specific card types.

Once manual entry on certain card types has been prevented, a clerk or cardholder who tries to manually key in a card number will be presented with a prompt that says "Swipe Only". The user is only allowed to swipe, insert or tap their credit card.

If manual entry on a card type is left enabled (the default) and the Password Protection on Manual Card Entry feature is also enabled, the user will be prompted for the manager password.

The Edit Cards Screen Matrix

Use the table below to understand the syntax of what is displayed in the Edit Cards screen.