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Old Jul 14, 2015, 8:32 am
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DVDBob
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 321
Originally Posted by Happy
You fail to understand the issue - when to swipe the card does NOT matter. What matters is, the cashier must put in the split amount to pay before you swipe the card.

You can pay the fee in cash at the end, but the cashier MUST put in $500 for each card you swipe. If not, I guarantee you your card will fail because the register will try to take the whole unpaid balance from the card, a $500.70 obviously is more than the $500 stored on your card, so the register would spit out the not available fund error, or whatever that error is called.
I'm new to the game, but I literally just did this yesterday at a WM. Swiped my card FIRST, then the cashier asked how much. Told her $500. Pin pad showed balance of $500.70. Swiped second card, cashier entered $500, pin pad showed balance of $0.70. Paid the rest in cash.

Perhaps different registers have different swipe requirements, but this is how I just did it.
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