This example shows how to set up the MDB Payment utility to pay for a print from the photo booth's print confirmation screen using a credit card reader in authorization first/idle mode. The photo booth app in this example is DSLR Remote Pro.
In this example the photo booth takes the photos and then asks for payment in the print confirmation screen. When the print confirmation screen is displayed it waits for the user to scan their credit card and then prints the photos when the payment has been authorized.
Prerequisites
To use the MDB Payment utility you need to be running DSLR Remote Pro v3.16 or later.
First check that the credit card reader is running in MDB level 1 for authorization first/idle mode. If the Nayax VPOS Touch is not set to MDB level 1 you may need to contact Nayax support to request them to set it to MDB level 1.
Create a simple photo booth event in DSLR Remote Pro and select the "Confirm before printing" option so that the photo booth displays the confirm_printing.jpg screen before printing. Edit the confirm_printing.jpg screen to remove the print button and add a message asking for payment. Then use the touchscreen editor to delete the "Confirm printing" touchscreen action (otherwise users could tap on it to print without paying). You may also need to increase the timeout for the print confirmation screen in the "Output Settings" dialog to allow enough time for the user to make the payment.
In DSLR Remote Pro's "Photobooth Settings" dialog set "Start options" to "Touchscreen" so that it can accept commands from the MDB Payment Utility.
Run DSLR Remote Pro in photo booth mode and run the MDB Payment utility. The MDB Payment utility screen should look something like this:
Step 1: Add an event to disable the card reader
It's a good idea to disable the card reader until the print confirmation screen is displayed otherwise users might try to scan their credit card before the photo booth is ready.
Click on the "Settings..." button to display the settings dialog:
Check that "Selection first/Always idle mode" is not selected and the "Mode:" dropdown list is set to "DSLR Remote Pro".
Then click on the "Add action..." button to add an action:
Give the action a suitable name e.g. "Disable reader" and then set the trigger conditions in the section below. What we want to do is disable the card reader when the photo booth is displaying the ready.jpg screen if the card reader is enabled.
The "Pattern" trigger condition is set to a pattern that matches the photo booth screen e.g. ready.jpg. If "Use regular expression" is not selected the pattern string will match any part of the photo booth screen path. In the screenshot above the screen path is shown as: "C:\Users\chris\Documents\PhotoboothImages\copies2\ready.jpg" which can be matched by setting the pattern to "ready.jpg". More complex pattern matches can be defined by selecting "Use regular expression" and entering a regular expression such as .*ready\.jpg for the pattern.
We only want to disable the card reader if it is enabled (i.e. the state is IDLE) and so we set the reader state in the trigger conditions to IDLE.
Next we need to specify the action to take when the trigger conditions are met. In this case all we need to do is disable the card reader.
The "Add action" dialog should look something like this:
Click OK to save the action and the settings dialog should look something like this:
Step 2: Enable card reader when the print confirmation screen is displayed
We need to enable the card reader when the print confirmation screen is displayed so that the user can scan their credit card to make the payment. To do this click on "Add action..." in the settings dialog and name the action "Enable reader". In the trigger conditions section set the pattern to confirm_printing and the reader state to INIT.
In the actions to perform section set enable reader.
The "Add action" dialog should look something like this:
Step 3: Request payment when the user scans their card
When the user scans their card the state changes to CREDIT and we want to request payment. To do this click on "Add action..." in the settings dialog and name the action "Request payment". In the trigger conditions section set the pattern to confirm_printing and the reader state to CREDIT.
In the actions to perform section set the "Request payment, amount:" to the amount, e.g. for $1 set this to 100, and set the required product number. The product number can be set to anything and is recorded in the logs that can be accessed via the Nayax web dashboard. This can be useful if you have different options at different prices and want to keep a record of which is selected.
Note: the amount is in cents for USD or Euros and pence for GBP. This is because the scale factor is 1 and the decimal places is 2 in the MDB status shown in the main screen.
The "Add action" dialog should look something like this:
When the payment has been requested the status changes to VEND. If the payment is authorized the status will change to RESULT but if it fails it will change to IDLE.
Step 4: Payment Authorized
Define a new action named "Payment authorized" that is triggered when the photo booth is displaying the print confirmation screen and the reader state is RESULT. In the actions to perform section set the photo booth command to "Confirm printing".
The "Add action" dialog should look something like this:
Note: defining an action that is triggered by the RESULT state automatically sends a confirmation message to the reader which will display a "Thank you" screen and then switch to the IDLE state.
The settings screen should show all four actions and look something like this:
Check it works
Click "OK" in the settings screen to return to the main screen. Then start the photo booth and check that the card reader is disabled. Tap the start button on the photo booth to start the shooting sequence. Check that the card reader is enabled when the print confirmation screen is displayed. Then scan a credit card (or the Nayax technician mode card) to pay for the print. When the payment is authorized the photo booth should print the photos and return to the ready screen with the reader disabled.
The main screen should look something like this:
The actions used in this example can be loaded by clicking on the "Load..." button and loading the MDB_authorization_first_ex2.xml settings file.