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A magnetic stripe sale, also called a swipe sale, means your customer needs to sign for their purchase instead of entering a PIN.
Key the sale amount into your card machine, and press ENTER.
Swipe your customer’s payment card from top to bottom along the slot on the right side of your card machine.
If your customer’s card is set up for signature sales, your card machine prints a receipt labelled MERCHANT COPY with a signature line.
Tear it off and ask your customer to sign along the signature line.
Compare your customer’s signature with the one on the back of their payment card.
On screen, you’ll see Signature OK?
If the signatures match, press ENTER.
Your card machine contacts Barclaycard to authorise the payment and prints a receipt labelled CARDHOLDER COPY.
Tear off the cardholder receipt and give it to your customer, along with their payment card. Then press ENTER.
Your card machine prints a receipt labelled MERCHANT COPY. Tear it off and keep it somewhere secure.
Just press ENTER to get back to the READY screen.
If the signatures don’t match press CLEAR to decline the sale and ask your customer for another form of payment.