Show HN: Card Camera – SDK for scanning credit cards into your mobile app

Post by dogma1138 » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 5:03 PM UTC

dulse wrote: post #9

dogma1138 wrote: post #8

Don't know i found that if there is no apple pay/paypal checkout I'm not going to complete the purchase anyhow unless it's a life or death matter. IOS already has OCR capabilities for CC which works fairly well I wonder if Apple will extend it to Safari in general.

Thanks for the feedback! Our goal for the experience is the Apple Pay OCR experience, but it's embeddable directly in apps (so users don't have to already have it set up, if they prefer to use cards, or navigate to apple pay and come back). I agree this would be for the users not using Apple Pay. Long term, I agree the trend is moving toward apple pay and digitized payments, but I found lots of people still like / pr…

Post by dogma1138 » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC

dulse wrote: post #12

dogma1138 wrote: post #11

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Make sure you test it against cards that have both valid from and valid till dates on them for some reason this still fucks the Apple Pay OCR and it’s quite common on EU at least on UK cards. So if there are two dates assume that the more senior one is the expiry date.

Great advice, thank you! We'll make sure the date stuff works. For EU cards, one experience I'm excited about supporting is the "tap to add" flow which may be even easier than OCR. Unfortunately only Android supports it for now, but love that experience when it's possible.