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pointOfSaleInformation. terminalCapability

POS terminal’s capability.
This field is supported only for
American Express Direct
,
BNP Paribas France
,
Banque de France et Tresor Public
,
Chase Paymentech Solutions
,
Credit Mutuel-CIC
,
FDC Nashville Global
,
FDMS Nashville
,
GPN
,
JCN Gateway
,
OmniPay Direct
,
Prosa
,
RBS WorldPay Atlanta
,
SIX
,
TSYS Acquiring Solutions
,
Visa Platform Connect
, and
Worldpay VAP
.
Possible values:
  • 0
    : Terminal does not support PINs.
  • 1
    : Terminal has a magnetic stripe reader only.
  • 2
    : Terminal has a magnetic stripe reader and manual entry capability.
  • 3
    : Terminal has manual entry capability only.
  • 4
    : Terminal can read chip cards.
  • 5
    : Terminal can read contactless chip cards; cannot use contact to read chip cards.
  • 6
    : Terminal can read both contact and contactless chip cards.
For an EMV transaction, the value of this field must be a value of
4
 or
5
.

Specifications

  • Data Type:
     Integer
  • Data Length:
     1

Mapping Information

  • REST API Field:
    pointOfSaleInformation.terminalCapability
  • SCMP API Field:
    terminal_capability
  • Simple Order API Field:
    pos_terminalCapability