U-PROX and contactless technologies: from bank card to smartphone

Our SE line readers and SL line readers with 30.xx firmware support MasterCard PayPass (Contactless), Visa PayWave, Google Wallet, and Apple Wallet.

If you enable the “Pay Card” mode in the Mifare profile settings, the reader will be able to read the PAN code of a bank card or virtual PAN code of a bank card from Google Wallet, Apple Wallet (Google Pay, Apple Pay) applications via NFC, which can be used as an identifier on a smartphone.

Using our SL line of readers (updated to 30.xx versions) or SE line of readers:

• it is possible to read a chipped bank card – the unique code of its NFC chip

or

• when enabled in the reader settings in the Mifare profiles – “Pay Card” mode – can read the PAN code of a chipped bank card, and work with the PAN code of the GooglePay/ApplePay application card using PayWave/PayPass technologies – the number printed on the card;
• If you enable the “Pay Card” mode in the Mifare profile settings, the reader can read the PAN code of a bank card or a virtual PAN code of a bank card from Google Wallet, Apple Wallet (Google Pay, Apple Pay) applications via NFC, which can be used as an identifier on a smartphone.

Screenshots of the settings:

SETTINGS -> Mifare profiles -> one of the free profiles -> in the “Security” field, select the “Pay card” option -> go to the main menu -> perform “SAVE TO DEVICE” to save the changed settings.

Additional conditions:

• the bank card must be registered in the “Apple Pay” or “Google Pay” application.
• NFC and Mifare reading must be enabled in the reader settings.
• if the reader’s output interface is 42 bits, it will be 10 digits of the PAN code (on the right side);
• if the reader’s output interface is 64 bits, this will be 16 digits of the PAN code (the entire code);
• if the reader’s output interface is 26 bits, it will be 6 digits of the PAN code (on the right side);
• if the reader’s output interface is 34 bits, it will be 8 digits of the PAN code (on the right side).

If the “Pay Card” mode (or another version of the Mifare profile) is enabled in the reader settings in the Mifare profiles, then cards such as Mifare Ultralight (or from Vizit intercoms) will NOT be read…

• they are read only when all Mifare profiles in the reader are disabled.

If you need to read some other encrypted Mifare cards, you need to use additional profiles with their own keys and settings.

If you need to read unencrypted Mifare Classic and/or MifarePlus cards in addition to PayPass/PayWave, then enable 2 additional profiles SL1 and SL3, in which you specify the factory keys – all of them FFFF…………………………………………….. and reading the “card code”.

• but in this case, the anti-clone function cannot work if encrypted Mifare cards are used.

To work with PayPass/PayWave, update the reader firmware version to the current one – “Archive of the latest reader firmware versions” (from our website).

The readers are shipped without an engineer password set and require initial authorization. For connection and configuration, use the recommendations in the documentation available on our website, for example, the “U-PROX SL mini v2 Universal Reader User’s Manual”, which is located on the “Programs and Instructions” page, “Readers” block.

Programming the readers – see the relevant documentation – “U-PROX readers (SL, SE, BLE lines) – Programming parameters”.