Quicksell 2000 credit card processing

I am still running Quicksell for my small independent bookstore. I've tried to start the upgrade process to RMS but never found a partner who could talk me through the trial version, so I've decided to stick with Quicksell but upgrade my printer and credit card technology.

At the moment, I'm running an old Epson dot matrix receipt printer through my parallel port. I'd like to buy a faster, thermal receipt printer but I've read that people had problems processing credit cards through printers without a USB port. However, will I be able to use a USB printer with Quicksell? Currently my printer's parallel port plugs into that Quicksell mechanism in the parallel port on my computer, so I dont' know if USB will work. Has anyone successfully processed credit cards online through Quicksell using a printer with a parallel port?

Also, I have no idea where to start the internet credit card process through Quicksell, I see in TENDER TYPES that the credit card option has a checkbox that says EDC VERIFY, but I don't know what merchant service companies still work with Quicksell. Can anyone help me through this process? Thank you so much. Christine

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Christine
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I'd really urge you to move to RMS and use it's integrated CC processing. We ran Quicksell 2000 and ICVerify connected to QS to do our CC processing. We then changed to RMS but stuck with ICVerify. Now we have dropped ICVerify and strictly use integrated CC processing in RMS. It is extremely fast.

As to a partner to help switch you, I'm sure some that monitor this forum would help you. In many respects, if you aren't doing anything fancy with QS2000, you can do it yourself - we did.

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John M.

Thanks for your reply John. Am I understanding correctly that I will need to have third party verification software like ICVerify to process my cards through Quicksell? Honestly, for what I"m using it for, QS2000 works just fine, there is not much more I would really need that would require me to upgrade to RMS. So I'm trying to just make things work a bit faster without upgrading the whole program.

I ordered a new Eps> I'd really urge you to move to RMS and use it's integrated CC processing.

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Christine

First - yes, you will need another piece of SW to process credit cards automatically with QS2000. QS2000 supports 2 third-party packages to do this - PC Charge and ICVerify. We used ICV with QS2000 without any problems. ICV supports the Vital network. You will need to get the ICV people to give you the proper setup information once you get your info package from BoA.

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John M.

Another thought - don't go full bore RMS. It sounds like your business may be more suited to using MS POS 2.0. It has integrated credit card processing and does the basic POS type of functions. You might want to download a demo of it.

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John M.

Christine,

I think you may be able to just keep the dongle in the printer port, without a printer connected to it, and Quicksell will still recognize it. Not for sure, but I think so.

Also, you may want to consider just upgrading the printer first, and see how much that speeds things up. In the meantime, just using your old credit terminal is not such a bad thing. We used Quicksell for six years and then switched to RMS last year. We always used PCCharge to do card processing, but there many times I wished we had just gone with the stand alone card terminal. Connections issues, batching issues, computer lock ups - seemed to increase with the two programs (QS and PCCharge) working together. Then when you upgrade to RMS, you can just use the built in program, which has been much, much smoother than it was with PCCharge - at least for us.

Also, if you use a lot of Matrix items (if you're and apparel or shoe store) the switch over to RMS can be pretty painful. We had to do lots and lots of customized data transfer querries and we now run several querries weekly to make life easier with matrices.

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Kris

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