'PIN and Signature' on receipt

Has anyone seen this? It was a Google Pay transaction with no PIN or signature. IMG_20180812_170651

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Hmm, Ref: PIN & SIG. Not seen that before myself…

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I’ve not seen that when I have used Apple Pay but I would imagine that when you use your finger print or face ID to initiate the payment that would class the same as entering your pin?

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This makes sense to me, or it’s just a badly designed terminal.

Doesn’t look like a terminal receipt to me. Seems like it’s the POS that’s printing those based on the data returned by the terminal, and either incorrectly parsing the response or just has ā€œPIN & Signatureā€ hardcoded because back when this was developed contactless wasn’t a thing.

Also, does nobody think about user experience when developing these things? This has got to be the shittiest-looking receipt I’ve seen in a while. They could make it so much better by reordering some of the stuff on there (and removing redundant information).

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The receipt itself shows No Cardholder Verification, so it’s using the same system as a normal contactless card for ā€˜authentication’…

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Technically it says ā€˜O CARDHOLDER VERIFICATION’ :slight_smile:

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Yeah, well, clearly someone didn’t align the printer/receipt paper/check the print width.

It’s not paper cut off the edge, but yeah it’s width of the string. Still odd to cut off the first character, not the last.

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Right aligned text in a fixed width print field?

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Never seen that but I’m more interested in how good Sprinkles is! I’ve never heard of them but I’m a big fan of Swoon which is just up the hill a bit

Not great… I’ll have to check out Swoon!