MSR90 USB Swipe Magnetic Credit Card Reader 3 Tracks Mini Smart Card Reader MSR605 MSR606 Deftun

Simple and effective, works as a USB keyboard device. Reliably reads cards and can be used in many applications.

This is a simple product that does exactly what is claimed. The info on the magstripe of a swiped card is entered into your computer exactly as though you typed it on the keyboard. It works out of the box with nothing special needed. If you were entering information based on this, you would need to make sure the computer is ready to accept the numbers before you swipe the card... such as positioning the cursor in the credit card number box on the screen.By default it sends all of the track data at once with a prefix and suffix for each so a program could tell which one is which. There's a small piece of windows-based configuration software that's optionally used to config which tracks to send and whether or not to use a prefix/suffix.Note that you would not be able to get it to send just the card number, or just the name on the card unless the card is encoded that way. Typically a card will have multiple bits of information on the same track. Most payment systems that allow one to use a card reader would know to expect the info in this format (which is a standard) and is not exactly as though you'd type it by hand reading from the front of the card. All that to say, you're not going to be able to use this to swipe your card and fill out the checkout form on a typical online store. But if you're using it for a payment system for a business and the payment system works with a card reader, then this will very likely "just work" with no special settings or anything.I gave it a slightly lower rating for accuracy in that if you are not careful about how you swipe, you'll only get track 1 data even if track 3 is present. But if you're careful to insert the card flat when swiping it gets it just fine. It either works or doesn't and doesn't send partial tracks or incorrect info.

Simple to use and decent value. Does exactly what I need it to.

I was trying to set up a payment option for cards in my home since I do hair but the laptop I got was pretty old so I would recommend getting something more up to date to use this

Bought this to swipe driver's license into a school database system, but it will NOT read driver's licenses. It WILL read credit cards, but absolutely does not work with my Wisconsin license. So disappointed. I have a scanner that works just fine, but his does not work..There is some configuration software which I downloaded, but absolutely no Instructions on how to use it or set it up. Very disappointed!

This card reader works perfectly for why I bought it. I'm the Secretary of a non-profit organization. Members of the organization have membership cards with a magnetic strip that they need to swipe when checking into a meeting or other event where attendance is counted.It reads our membership cards perfectly.

Worked fine. but before you buy understand that it can only read cards not write. thats why i returned.

I will begin as upfront as possible: I don't know the technical difference between two-track and three-track magnetic strips for cards. I do know, however, that this reader did not work with the EBT cards we issue at our office. The older card reader we have is listed as a two-track card reader, so I assume then that our cards are two-track and aren't compatible with three-track reader. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.Now, that's not to say the reader doesn't function at all. It will read the numbers; however, it also inserted a semicolon before the number and followed the number with a couple other random symbols and other numbers. When input into Notepad, this is no big deal and can be manually corrected. When input into the site we use to issue cards, however, it doesn't process correctly, presumably due to those extra symbols and the character limit of the field.So, while this product may technically work, it is unfortunately not as simple as "plug-and-play" for all parties. I can't detract from the score entirely due to my own ignorance in the matter, so I'll go with 3 stars.