How can we do gift transaction(Reload, Balance Inquiry) in micros using ISL script.

[sanjitshedage]

Hi,

How can we do gift transaction(Reload, Balance Inquiry) in micros using ISL script.

Thanks,
Sanjit

 

[hosehead78]

Are these in house Gift Cards or are they handled by a Card Processor (example: ChasePaymentech)?

 

[sanjitshedage]

These are in house Gift Cards.

 

[pmegan]

So the processing computer/database for the gift cards is in-house and on your network? If it's on your network you can access it using a database call. If not you'll have to use transmit and receive events, and a listener will have to be written and put in waiting on the processing server. [pre][/pre]

SIM, (ISL), doesn't have any built-in gift card functionality. It's a scripting language, like perl or vbscript. You have to write all the procedures from scratch and link it to POS Operations through events or inquiries.

 

[Moregelen]

When you say in-house, are you talking about GSS or another home-grown gift card program you wrote? As pmegan said, your best bet is going to be to directly query the database and handle it all yourself. If its GSS (included with micros since.. vs 4.8?) you're talking about, you just have to link the correct buttons.

 

[jnunezs]

your best option is to get a Card proceesor that manage inhouse gift cards. we use elavon. givex. We have two interfaces at micros, one is an stored value type, the other is a pms/sim type, with diferent sims that control the use and reload of the value of each gift card. The cost is not much