cope_terminal-demo

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[late phoenix]

By advance, sorry if the question seems awkward, or, stupid. I'm new to Stripe things, so idk.
A friend of mine told me that there was a github repo containing an example app to accept payment, but we can't find it.
I need to get one of those to gain a lot of time, and, because my boss told me he needed that.

Also, i would like to know if we need to have a Stripe precertified Terminal in order to test those apps, or if i could just use any Android Phone to test it

[thin bolt]

@late phoenix does https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/quickstart match your needs?

cope_terminal-demo

[late phoenix]

That's not what i meant, sorry by advance, my english sucks so i try to explain like i can
So, basically, i mean, a android app ready to use, that permits me to accept payments

[thin bolt]

ah so you're not a developer and want something prebuilt?

[late phoenix]

I mean, an app like this, but, for physical terminal

[thin bolt]

yeah we don't have anything like this as far as I know, you'll have to use a third-party

[late phoenix]

i am, but, what i got asked, is to use the "prebuild" one, and to customize it.
I'm not really familiar with Stripe's API and Kotlin as a first year IT student. Soo, i'm looking for any solutions

[late phoenix]

Oh, okay. Would you have any recommendations in 3rd party tools that are matching my needs? Like a trusted one that you would recommend

Sorry to ask such stupid questions

Because i saw this repo https://github.com/stripe-samples/tap-to-pay-android-demo
I was hoping to find a same thing for terminals and full card support

[thin bolt]

https://paymentforstripe.com/

that's a well known 3rd party I think

[late phoenix]

Okay. Thank you. I'll check this then!

I finally found the exact thing i was talking about, here it is https://github.com/stripe-samples/terminal-apps-on-devices

Do you think that it would be appropriate to use this sample to customize it and use it on a Terminal?

[gentle valve]

Hi 👋

I'm stepping in as my colleague had to go. Give me a sec to get caught up on exactly what you are looking for.

The Apps on Devices product is a way for developers to write custom Point of Sale (POS) applications and load them directly onto Stripe Terminal card readers like the S700.

But, can I ask, why would that be different from a mobile app (iOS, Android) with Terminal Tap to Pay enabled?

[late phoenix]

Hi, what do you mean?

Ohhh

Basically, what we currently want, is order Stripe's terminal, and just have a "customized" app for the payments (basically, just cosmetics things)

[gentle valve]

Apps on Devices requires you to order Stripe readers. But a mobile application could be deployed on any smartphone with bluetooth capabilities

[late phoenix]

Yeah, it's to equip professional's stores, so it would be great to use Apps on Devices then

[gentle valve]

Basically, what we currently want, is order Stripe's terminal, and just have a "customized" app for the payments (basically, just cosmetics things)

Apps on Devices would allow you to perform more visual customization but I would carefully review those docs to be sure you can customize the specific parts you are interested in. It would be really frustrating to get 80% of the way done only to find out you can't do the last 20%

[late phoenix]

Indeed
The last repo i sent was shown to be by a collegue, telling me that it would be the best option to use.
We would like to get a customized GUI for the payment part, and, like, to get the ability to communicate with a 3rd part cash register (designed by us (?) so we could have the ability to use any protocols etc to optimize everything)

[gentle valve]

Okay that sounds like Apps on Devices MIGHT be a good fit. But, again, I strongly recommend you review this doc https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/features/apps-on-devices/overview and all the nested docs about how to build and test your app before investing too much into it.

[late phoenix]

Like, for example :

Client needs to buy a 20€ product. We select it on the cash register, if we are able to, we say to the Terminal that we need to bill 20€, and it just ask like a regular Terminal for the amount. If not possible to do it automatically, we just put the amount on the terminal.
Then the client pays with his Card/ApplePay/Whatever, in our "customized GUI" (like, to put the Store's name, pictures etc), and after the payment's done, it sends a message back to the Cash Register to say that his mission was completed

[late phoenix]

Okay, thank you
So by doing this way, i'll be able to use https://github.com/stripe-samples/terminal-apps-on-devices alike sample to test what i'm explaining? Or it doesn't seem to be the best way to do it?

And once again sorry for the bad quality of explaination, i'm trying to explain with my bad english things that were said to me orally

[gentle valve]

I'm not sure what you mean by this. I recommend reading the docs first and then if you think this approach will work you can try the sample appliction and start modifying it to suite your needs.

[late phoenix]

Okay, i'll do it.
And, to test, i need to buy an S700 to deploy the app and try it?

[gentle valve]

I think so but I recommend reading the docs BEFORE you buy anything