This is a weird coincidence, but it made me chuckle nonetheless.
(CardConnect) Bolt[0] is a thing, which seems to have launched in 2017[1].
[0]: https://cardconnect.com/bolt [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170406214956/https://cardconne...
(CardConnect) Bolt[0] is a thing, which seems to have launched in 2017[1].
[0]: https://cardconnect.com/bolt [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170406214956/https://cardconne...
I can say that Bolt is pretty easy to work with from my experience. I have a wired Bolt reader (IPP320) sitting next to me as I type this (I've worked with it through my employer) and a wireless/BT VP3300 in my bag (which is what I'm going to use for my food festival stuff).
Nothing beats Stripe's docs and the community around it (both in info/SO-answers and in things like SDKs) but CardConnect and Bolt are easy enough. That said I wish their onboarding was streamlined. I had to be in 4-5 meetings with them before I got credentials to start coding and I'll have to be in a few more before I go live. I think you can use their UAT or similar without an account but I wanted to make sure they'd accept me before I started working on it. Super nice people, it just doesn't compare to a few clicks with Stripe and boom, you are off to the races.