French card does the opposite to UK ones

No one does that anymore because no one accepts the 3 part paper anymore

And what is much more important, no one accepts the paper anymore.

Nope.

Did you request that on account of being being blind though, or maybe your account has a flag on it to this effect ?

Andrew

The card handling company I use withdrew those some time ago. In the case of a loss of connection, the machine stores card numbers locally and transmits the when it reconnects. If the machine is mains powered and the mains goes out, the retailer should write down the details and enter it as a customer not present transaction when the power comes back on. As that carries a greater risk of fraud, they might ask for photo ID.

I haven't seen any retailer use that system for many years.

In the event of a power failure these days the Point of Sale equipment would also lose power so no scanning of goods without individual price stickers and till operators who can no longer do mental arithmetic, nor understand the "tricks" of old about giving the right change for a cash transaction.

The shop lights would also go, out, so they would probably clear the shop on the grounds of customer safety (as well as to minimise shoplifting)

alan_m snipped-for-privacy@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote

And none of our field days, show days etc ever use that system now.

The best of them have mobile phone based POSs.