Work arounds for Card Reader logins

[GeorgePeters]

Hi BP Community,

I am on a project where we are automating an online banking process using Blue Prism. A bottleneck has emerged around the login page. Currently, the SMEs login with a card reader and login credentials. The card reader is a physical object that requires a card to be put in and a passcode produced to type into the online system. I was wondering if anyone has had this issue and discovered a work around? Or, know how we can advise the client to make this work? I was thinking that perhaps there is a digital card reader solution, or another way to validate without a physical card reader?

Your thoughts will be most appreciated.

Thanks,

George

[ewilson]

Hi @GeorgePeters,

There's nothing available at the moment, but there is work going on around integrating Blue Prism with physical card readers. Right now we're looking to release this as part of the May 2021 drop (reference to the Blue Prism roadmap published on the Portal).

With that said, may I ask what brand of card readers you're working with now? I assume they connect to a centralized auth platform? Do you know if that platform exposes any sort of auth API that can be used with your specific readers?

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