Malcolm Beaudry

Malcolm Beaudry

Payment terminal technician and reviewer · Kitchener · 43

Fourteen years installing and servicing card terminals for merchants around Kitchener and Waterloo — the beige box on the counter, the paper roll, the phone call when a batch does not settle. That work is mostly about knowing which rail a transaction is really on, because the label on the screen is frequently not it.

That is the habit brought to these fifteen cashiers. Every deposit came from a personal chequing account, every withdrawal was requested and timed, and every confirmation screen was read for what it actually named rather than what the button said. No payment is taken for a position on this list and no scores are published, because a technician who tells you a terminal is 'about a 4.6' has not told you anything. If something here does not match what you saw, say so and it gets corrected.

Testing Method

Method: a real deposit from a Canadian chequing account at every cashier, at least one withdrawal request, the four bonus numbers read off the terms rather than the banner, and the arrival timed in business days. No payment is taken for a listing position and no scores are published, because funding a cashier once does not support one.