Enable Age Verification in HT-Retail

Description: In the HT-Retail system, you have the ability to either swipe a driver’s license through the MSR. Or, use a Honeywell Voyager 1400G 2D Barcode Scanner to scan a driver’s license barcode to verify the validity of the card. Review the steps to enable the Age Verification functionality below.

• Age Verification Overview
• Using Age Verification

Enabling Age Verification will require you to build a query within the system. Additional information on building a query can be found in the Query Builder Overview article.

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Age Verification Overview

To enable Age Verification within the HT-Retail system:

1. Log in to the POS system and select Setup either from the Home screen or at the top navigation bar.
2. Open the General Settings tab, then the General sub-tab.
3. Press the Age/ID Verification button in the lower right corner of the screen to open the Minimum Age Rule Editor window.
4. Press Create New Rule, and a new blank rule will appear in the lower portion of the screen.
5. Enter a Rule Name and the Minimum Age you wish to apply to the rule.
6. From there, select which Stores are included in your rule (applicable only to Multisite), and press Build Query to determine which items the rule will be applied to.
7. On the Query Builder screen, select Department, the equals “=” sign, and then Load from List.
8. Check off all departments that you would like the rule to apply to and press Add >> then Done to place it under Current Query.
9. Back on the Minimum Age Rule Editor, press Save to commit the Age Verification rule.

Using Age Verification

1. To use Age Verification within the system, process a transaction as you normally would.
2. Once you select Payment, a window will appear asking for an ID to scan.
3. You may swipe the driver’s license through the MSR, scan the 2D barcode on the back with our 2D Barcode Scanner, or press Key-In located in the bottom right corner to manually enter the date on the license.
4. The ID must match the Minimum Age set in your rule (displayed in the small box to the right of the popup) or the purchase will not go through.

Important:Select states have eliminated the magnetic stripe on the back of their driver’s licenses. THESE MUST BE SCANNED WITH A HARBORTOUCH PROGRAMMED 2D BARCODE SCANNER!