Yes this is one of the use cases we are excited for users to bring to market utilizing Stripe
Terminal. If you also use Stripe Billing, you can help your customers initiate a subscription in-person.
Is it possible to build this use case: identifing the user using face recognition during checkout and processing payments based on his card stored in the system. Also is it possible to export the purchase data to other systems via API. So as to enable e-commerce style data analytics/customer engagement for brick and mortar retailers
Outside of being a 2FA/fraud prevention measure, what's the benefit of facial recognition here (I also imagine a lot of your customer base would be opposed to the idea of someone storing facial data for this, but I digress)? The card data should be sufficient for the purpose of linking purchases to an individual account if one is inclined to do so.
It might be slightly more convenient to be able to just walk in and out of a shop without having to insert your card anywhere, especially when you forgot to bring it with you.
On the other hand, the value of that would mostly be in the novelty, and given the current level of facial recognition technology, the hassle of disputing incorrect matches would likely make it more trouble than it's worth.
Yes this is one of the use cases we are excited for users to bring to market utilizing Stripe Terminal. If you also use Stripe Billing, you can help your customers initiate a subscription in-person.