Chapter 4
How to Do Transaction
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4.3 EBT Transaction
4.3.1 EBT Sale
Note
EBT or Electronic Benefits Transfer is an electronic system that
authorizes the issuant to use their government provided benefits to
purchase food items or make use of the Cash Benefits feature. EBT
transactions can be swiped or manually entered.
Example: X goes to Y’s shop to buy a cellphone. After X finishes his
shopping, he goes to Y to pay for the cellphone. X delivers his EBT card
to Y, and Y processes a EBT Sale transaction on the S90 POS terminal.
When the transaction is complete, Y returns the EBT card to X. X takes
the card and cellphone, then goes home.
X-EBT card holder; Y-Merchant of shop
From the idle prompt press the [SHORTCUT]
button to scroll through the list of available EDC
types to select the EBT prompt.
If the security for Card Manual Entry is on, the
terminal will prompt for the manager password.
When prompted, enter the password and then
press [ENTER].