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Re:Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes by kjellsbells on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:40AM (#34500210)
As a consumer of both Square and Clover, I wonder if I am alone in finding the latter ridiculously clunky. I want to pay quickly, get a receipt texted or emailed or printed and move on. After I enter my details (eg phone number) once, I should not need to do it again at another merchant.

Square gets this. Clover seems not to, and is forever trying to get me to install its dumpy little app to harvest my data in exchange for coupons. Its like the evil stepchild of Foursquare and Facebook. Go away Clover! I actively avoid some takeout joints that use it now, I just dontnhave the mental energy to deal with the excessive contact Clover wants.

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Re:Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes by TylerE on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @03:20AM (#34500935)
How do you expect it to remember anything without “harvesting” data?
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Re:Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes by kjellsbells on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @09:15PM (#34513543)
I wasnt very clear, sorry. I expect the payment terminal backend to match my credit card ID to the phone number I input at the terminal when I elect to have the receipt texted to me. After that, I do not expect to have to supply any more data (eg at a second merchant using Square).

Clover seems to have trouble with this, and their solution appears to be to lean on me to install their app and use it to check in at stores to get some discount, in exchange for knowing data like my date of birth.

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Re:Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes by jxramos on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @04:12AM (#34501354)
yah square is good, clover not so smooth. Sometimes I wonder if the clover payment systems are even online at times or if they just batch a bunch of orders in infrequent intervals. Not sure really.
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