Block, Inc.

Square, Inc.

Rowan Schultz

Yenliang Chen

Brett Andler

Cory Douthat

Jeremy Martin

Mani Razaghi Kashani

Marvin Balaoro

Nicholas Kunst

Steven Stallion

Michael Alan MacLennan

Nicholas Burrows

Mani Razaghi

Jade Fernandez

Nika Torab

A transaction system receives a card into a slot between a plurality of surfaces (e.g., a first surface and a second surface) of a housing. The transaction system detects, using at least one detector, that a storage medium of the card faces the one of the plurality of surfaces at a first time while the card is received by the slot. Between the first time and a second time (that is after the first time), the transaction system prepares one of a plurality of reader interfaces (e.g., a first reader interface or a second reader interface) to read information from the storage medium in response to the at least one detector detecting that the storage medium of the card is facing the one of the plurality of surfaces. At the second time, the one of the plurality of reader interfaces reads the information from the storage medium of the card.

Reader device with a plurality of reader interfaces

Electronic device

Point of sale (POS) systems and methods are described. A POS device includes a housing with a payment instrument reader. The payment instrument reader reads payment instrument information from a payment instrument in response to receipt of the payment instrument at a read area of the housing. The POS device includes a first second fastening mechanism that secures the housing to a mount that is coupled to a surface of the environment. The POS device includes a cradle of the housing that receives a mobile computing device. The POS device includes a first fastening mechanism that secures the mobile computing device within the cradle. The POS device includes a connector coupled to the payment instrument reader and extending into the cradle. The connector is configured to couple to the mobile computing device in the cradle, to convey the payment instrument information from the payment instrument reader to the mobile computing device.

Point of sale device for mobile computing device

A point of sale (POS) device includes a nest portion and a cradle portion. The nest portion includes one or more payment card or near field communication (NFC) readers. The cradle portion couples to differently-sized interchangeable frames, which in turn help secure a mobile computing device to the cradle portion of the POS device. The mobile computing device is connected via a connector to the rest of the POS device. Payment card information read by the readers is conveyed to the mobile computing device over the connector for processing. The POS device may also include tamper detection circuitry.

Point of sale device with cradle for computing device

Point of sale device with cradle for mobile computing device

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