[misc.misc] Automated Credit Card Verification

mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) (01/18/89)

We've just entered the retail software business and are searching for
the best way to verify credit card numbers.  Our woefully backward bank
says that to use their auto-verify machine we have to have the actual
card to run through it, which of course is impossible for phone orders.  
Otherwise, we're stuck calling a person via 800 number who just types into 
HIS computer the stuff I'm reading from mine!

This seems utterly ridiculous.  Could someone point me to a 
machine that's plug-compatible with the "gotta have the card" machine but
lets me key in the numbers, or, better yet, some way to dialup modem access
and fill out a form, send by UUCP, etc.,etc.?

Thanks in advance. 
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