How to handle special "sentinal" characters encoded on magstripes

Oct 23, 2006 1 Replies

I purchased a card printer and encoder planning on starting a loyalty program. I encoded the customer account number, but when I swipe the card to look-up the customer, my reader includes the start and end characters in the lookup field (accessed through F7 on the POS screen).



I think those characters are required to be there, but is there a way to handle them on the look-up?


I purchased a card printer and encoder planning on starting a loyalty program. I encoded the customer account number, but when I swipe the card to look-up the customer, my reader includes the start and end characters in the lookup field (accessed through F7 on the POS screen).

I think those characters are required to be there, but is there a way to handle them on the look-up?

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