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Accepting payments with the BBPOS WisePad 3 Card Reader

You can use the BBPOS WisePad 3 Card Reader with Shopify POS to accept chip and PIN or contactless payments from supported payment cards. Review the instructions to complete payments using your BBPOS WisePad 3 Card Reader in your store.

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Supported payment types by country for the BBPOS WisePad 3 Card Reader

You can use the BBPOS WisePad 3 Card Reader to accept payments from the following payment types:

  • Visa and Visa Debit
  • Mastercard and Debit Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover (only for locations in United States, Canada, and United Kingdom)
  • Diners Club (only for locations in United States, Canada, and United Kingdom)
  • JCB (only for locations in United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand)
  • Union Pay (only for locations in United States and Canada)
  • eftpos (Australia only)
  • Interac (Canada only)

Most national debit cards such as Interac, girocard, or eftpos cards that are co-badged with Visa or Mastercard can process payments outside the card issuer's country using Visa and Mastercard. Some co-badged debit cards that don't process payments through Mastercard or Visa might not work outside the card issuer's country.

On hardware that supports contactless payments, customers might also present any supported card brand that they've loaded on a digital wallet such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay.

Accept a payment with the BBPOS WisePad 3 Card Reader

You can use the BBPOS WisePad 3 Card Reader to accept chip and PIN or contactless tap payments.

Contactless payments can be limited to purchases under a specified amount, depending on the payment type or the country where your business is based. To make purchases for larger amounts, or when your customer has exceeded their tap limit, your customer can insert the card, and then enter their PIN.

If the customer uses a co-branded debit card, then the card number displayed in your records might not match the number on the physical card.

Steps:

  1. From Shopify POS, tap Checkout, and then choose one of the following options:

  • If only one card reader is connected to your POS device, then tap Card.

  • If multiple card readers are connected to your POS device, then tap WisePad.

  1. Allow the customer to tap or insert their card. The chip needs to be face up, towards the Shopify logo.
  2. When the transaction is successful, the customer can remove their card.
  3. Choose whether to provide a receipt and select the delivery method.