Health Message (Tran Type 73)

Simplify supports Health messages from the POS process.

A Health message is sent by the POS process to verify that Simplify is up and running on the PIN Pad. If Simplify receives a Health message, it echoes back the same message it receives.

If the POS process does not receive a response to the Health message, the POS process disconnects the TCP/IP socket and initiates the TCP/IP socket connection again.

Sample Health Message

An example of a Health message (request and response) is as follows.

API Field #, ValueDescription
0001,73Transaction Type
0007,7765Transaction ID / Reference Number
0013,092818Transaction Date (current date) — MMDDYY.
0014,143010Transaction Time (current time) – HHMMSS.