BAT’s old credit card machine died. At that point, the saga began.
BAT’s old machine used what is called in the business “store and forward.” That is, BAT 
would run all of the charges and at the end of the day, we would plug the machine into a phone and line and process all of the credit transactions at one time. To use the machine to take credit cards, no phone lines were needed and no waiting for the card to be processed. No worry, really. Quick and easy.
There was some risk with that. If someone gave us a bogus credit card or were over their limit or if there was not enough money in their account for a debit transaction, BAT would never be paid for that purchase. Kind of like a bad check.