Payment Connector with USB Pay Display app

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michaelelias asked Jun 18, '20 michaelelias commented Jun 19, '20

Payment Connector with USB Pay Display app

We're using the Payment Connector in our Clover app to start the card payment flow. We'd also like to be able to start the payment flow on a connected Clover Mini using the USB Pay Display app, similar to how the Register app allows a merchant to start the payment on the Clover Mini.

We've tried using the Remote Pay Connector for Android, but this seems to create USB permission conflicts with the USB Pay Display app on the merchant facing device.

Is there maybe some intents we can use to communicate with the USB Pay Display app on the merchant facing device to initiate the payment flow on the tethered Clover Mini?

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David Marginian ♦♦ commented · Jun 18, 2020 at 05:34 PM

Is there maybe some intents we can use to communicate with the USB Pay Display app on the merchant facing device to initiate the payment flow on the tethered Clover Mini?

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We've tried using the Remote Pay Connector for Android, but this seems to create USB permission conflicts with the USB Pay Display app on the merchant facing device.

Can you provide details on the error you are receiving and exactly what you are doing on the merchant facing and customer facing device?

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michaelelias David Marginian ♦♦ commented · Jun 18, 2020 at 08:00 PM

I seem to be unable to reproduce the USB permission atm, but a permission dialog showed up requesting to grant my app USB permissions. After accepting the USB Pay Display app no longer would connected and I had to reinstall the USB Pay Display app.

I've tried 2 approaches to starting the payment flow on the tethered Clover Mini:

Using the Customer Facing Platform SDK to start a custom activity which in turn tried to use the Payment Connector to start the payment flow
Using the Remote Payment Connector for Android

What is the right approach to start the payment flow on the tethered Clover Mini from within an app on the merchant facing Clover device?

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mikebrooking michaelelias commented · Jun 18, 2020 at 11:56 PM

Payment Connector is used for taking payments on the same Clover device that you are running on, the remote-pay-android-connector SDK would be the correct approach for a tethered setup to take the payment on the tethered Clover mini.

The dialog from android is establishing the app that will handle and launch on USB attach/detach events.

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michaelelias David Marginian ♦♦ commented · Jun 18, 2020 at 08:44 PM

Was able to reproduce the USB permission dialog. This happens when I plugin the tethered Clover Mini into a Clover Register with my app installed.

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