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

Worked perfectly for the school fundraiser craft fair. Easy to use and stayed connected even in a location with poor network connection.

These were basically plug-in play. We use them just for gift card transactions. The reader works well.

This works find for what it is. It does not do any encryption so most payment gateways do not allow its use. If need a usb card reader this one will do that trick.

Worked fine for the first three months. Light now blinks green continuously and will not read any cards. Wasn't expecting this to last a lifetime, but was expecting it to last far longer than 3 months.

THE SWIPER ITSELF WORKS PERFECT; THE QUESTION IS WHAT IT IS BEING USED FOR. In the Q&A's, people were asking if can be used to checkout on sites. I tried it, and it does so somewhat, but it is not so simple. On some sites (like bhphoto.com), when you click in the CC# box and swipe, it puts the number in there neatly. However, in other sites, it throws in all the info that is on the card - which is your name and a lot more numbers than just the account #. Also, it doesn't work anywhere for the date and code. Sometimes it's helpful to be able to swipe when you are entering a number; especially for those sites that if you leave out some info on the page, it refreshes and you have to enter the CC# again, (I guess because they're afraid you'll get up from the computer). So it could be helpful to be able to swipe. In any case, since this reader is not as magical as it might seem (for private people), it seems there's no point to get this '3-track' one, when there are 1-track ones that will certainly get the account # - and cost 1/3 the price.

This works perfectly. Not much to it. I had no problems using it as a swiper for meetings for an organization where I am the secretary and have to swipe member cards. Hasn’t failed me yet.

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.

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.

For the price, this card reader has proven to be a great value. It works well and reads most cards easily. I use it when collecting card holder information at my martial arts school. I appreciate the compact size that takes up minimal space on my front desk. I plugged this into a windows laptop and it was a simple plug-and-play. No settings or setup to go through, worked right out of the box.

WOrks great with health cards. Purchased to use with my EMR for Telus PS, works with ontario health cards

doesn't work consistently

Did not work or go online. I just wanted to copy my building swiping card waste of money through it in the garbage and just bought another key the landlord which cost me $100 should’ve done it from the first place