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Old Apr 10, 2024 | 11:21 am
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themicah
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Originally Posted by ijgordon
I wonder how they’re going to “enforce” the final rides. I believe the EasyPay card doesn’t carry a live balance and has to somehow update periodically (daily?) in a batch process that sends the info to all the readers whether the card is valid or not. That’s the reason there’s a $20 replenishment threshold,
That's a good question! Looking at our card history, the "posted date" seems to consistently be the day after the "tx date & time". We used my wife's card 5 times on 4/6 (swiped for more than one person as we're trying to use it up) and her balance had dipped more than one ride below the $20 threshold before it went into "REVOKE" status.
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