Remote Pay API docs

Hi,

Is there any documentation around using the actual clover endpoints to run payments on the terminal? We would prefer to not use the provided sdk's or npm modules, is that possible?

Use case: Clover mini installed at client location, payments initiated from a back end server that is off premise.

Thanks

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Mark Mullan commented · Mar 21, 2017 at 01:55 PM

Hi @DWelsh360,

Why would you not use the SDKs?

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dwelsh360 commented · Mar 21, 2017 at 02:02 PM

They are not really compatible with the framework that we have. It could work, but writing directly to the API's would be much better for us.

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Mark Mullan commented · Mar 21, 2017 at 04:55 PM

Got it - thanks for the insight. The direct answer to your question is no - you aren't able to take control of a Clover device through an API directly, bypassing usage of the SDK.

The longer answer, that I'm curious about, is why? What specifically about your framework makes the remote-pay-cloud sdk/npm package incompatible? We're all ears about how we can make the sdk as tech-agnostic as possible.

Thanks,

Mark

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dwelsh360 commented · Mar 22, 2017 at 09:12 AM

HI Mark,

NPM is an issue because we don't currently use it and installing additional software will create issues for us in terms of support and troubleshooting as it's outside of our application. We can probably get the SDK to work but I can't seem to find any examples of using the SDK with the Cloud Pay Display app. The SDK seems skewed towards USB or web sockets connecting directly to the device. Hopefully I'm wrong and I'm just missing something here.

Thanks

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Mark Mullan commented · Mar 22, 2017 at 01:23 PM

re: examples, you can find a POS example here and unit examples here that you can git clone and run locally. Neither requires USB. Have you tried these yet?

The remote-pay-cloud SDK itself has a very small list of dependencies (see its package.json) and is required for a handful of reasons.

Does this help?

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