How Does The Contactless Payment Work?

The contactless payment systems are based on NFC and RFID technologies and come as debit or credit cards, smart cards, smartphones, and other devices or wearables like rings and watches. Making the contactless payment is straightforward and convenient. When using contactless payments for making transactions, the user needs to hold or tap the card on a card reader that is enabled with the desired functionality to generate cryptographic code and initiate the transaction. The card reader transmits the data to the card processing network to obtain verification. Once the verification is over and the transaction is approved, the card issuer sends the approval message to the merchant’s POS machine and the entire process takes a few seconds to complete. 

What are Contactless Payments?

Contactless payments take place over a radio frequency and enable the Smartphone or the card to communicate with the payment reader when they are close together. It does not require any physical contact between the buyer’s card or Smartphone and the point of sale system. Retail Control Systems is the provider of point of sale systems and serves business in over 11 industries. They customize the retail POS systems to help business gain control over their operations.