Accepting payments with the WisePad 3 card reader

You can accept supported payment cards with the WisePad 3 card reader.

Supported payment types by country for the WisePad 3 card reader

You can use the 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 WisePad 3 card reader

You can use the 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.

Steps:

  1. From the Shopify POS, tap Checkout. If the WisePad 3 card reader is connected and ready, then a Tap or insert card option becomes available.
  2. Allow the customer to tap or insert their card. The chip needs to face up, towards the Shopify logo.
  3. When the transaction is successful, the customer can remove their card.
  4. Choose whether to provide a receipt and the delivery method.
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