Ask HN: Is there a service like Stripe but for physical credit cards?
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You want hardware to swipe a card, that's compatible with tablets and smart phones, but isn't a dongle (https://squareup.com/reader)? Or, I suppose, their POS stand (https://squareup.com/stand)?
Do you just not want to use their software? You want to use the hardware with your own app on a tablet or phone?
Do you just not want to use their software? You want to use the hardware with your own app on a tablet or phone?
If you want to hook it up to a device with a USB port then there are any number of USB card swipers that will easily reader the card details and you could then integrate with Stripe.
For a mobile solution something like https://cardflight.com/ would be an option which works with a number of backends
For a mobile solution something like https://cardflight.com/ would be an option which works with a number of backends
Thank you, that looks almost exactly like what I was looking for. I wish they took care of the merchant services as well like Square, but at least they work with enough processors that I'm sure at least one of them will be a good match for me.
That's correct, I want to use someone elses hardware with software I want to write. I guess basically I'm looking for someone that is just like square except instead of them writing the POS interface they were like Stripe where they provide the API and not the UI.
This was supposedly just updated to support chip-and-PIN: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/credit-card-reader
Does anyone know if there is a provider that does this?