Sale Method

Sends a Sale transaction to the host.

Syntax

Remarks

A basic EBT sale transaction is similar to a Debit transaction, in that a CardPIN and CardKSN are required in addition to swiped or manually entered Card data. A Sale transaction removes funds from the EBT cardholder's account for the TransactionAmount indicated. This transaction is automatically added to the current open batch, and will be settled after the current batch is released with the PTechHostSettle control.

The EBT card may be specified by either a CardMagneticStripe returned by a card reader, (Track2 only), or manually entered through the CardNumber. CardExpMonth, and CardExpYear.

The ResponseCode and ResponseText properties indicate whether this transaction was successful. For example:

Manually-keyed Cash Benefits transaction with cash back:

control.CardEntryDataSource = dsManuallyEntered
control.CardNumber = "9999999800002773"
control.CardExpMonth = 12
control.CardExpYear = 2009
control.CardPIN = "623F36B53CC18393"
control.CardKSN = "000000008F000021"
control.BenefitType = btCashBenefits
control.TransactionAmount = "25.00" '$20 purchase with $5 cash back  
control.CashBack = "5.00"
control.Sale()

Swiped Food Stamp transaction:

control.CardEntryDataSource = dsTrack2
control.CardMagneticStripe = "9999999800002773=09121015432112345678"   
control.CardPIN = "623F36B53CC18393"
control.CardKSN = "000000008F000021"
control.BenefitType = btFoodStamps
control.TransactionAmount = "25.00"  'Cash back not supported for food stamps!
control.Sale()