Capture POS output

[coachmcguirk]

Hi Guys,

Is there a way to capture the POS output that would appear on a receipt as plain text?

The ultimate goal would be for this text to be encoded as a QR code.

Thanks for your help!

 

[hosehead78]

What do you mean? What are you wanting the QR Code to do?
Also, what POS System?

 

[coachmcguirk]

1) I want to build an app that will allow a user to scan the QR code and retrieve the information from the receipt.

2) I am trying to find a general purpose solution.. something that will work with many POS systems.

Have been looking into devices such as these:

http://www.x-kap.com/index.php

Anyone have experience with anything like this or know if such devices are what I am looking for?

Thanks.

 

[hosehead78]

Is something like this PCI compliant?

 

[PosGuyUS]

Wouldn't be a PCI compliance issue. He's trying to capture the output from the POS to the printer. SmartReceipt does something like this already. They basically rearrange the data and add coupons and other info and then print that on the check printer. Some POS systems can already create a QR code without a device in the middle.

 

[CathalMF]

So you're looking to generate a QR Code which actually contains the Receipt Detail or that it will contain a link to an external service which will retrieve the receipt detail?

How do you plan on giving this QR Code to the customer?

If you plan on adding the entire check detail to the QR Code and printing it on a receipt then i can tell you now that this wont work. The QR Code will be far too complicated and the receipt printers wont be able to print it in enough detail for phones to scan. Even if you display it on a high definition screen it will take a while for phones to scan and recognise it.


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[NEXUSANON]

I placed a Y serial adapter on the printers port, one is for the printer to communicate to the term and the other one is connected to a CCTV DVR camera that overlays the printed data on the camera for that station.........

its an option .