Using the Starbucks Pay feature IRL

[DEWEYHIDALGO]

Hi. I've got my Versa SE set up and I'm really enjoying it so far. I've got the Starbucks pay feature set up on my Versa, and I see that the watch displays a barcode that will presumably be scanned by Starbucks. Cool.

Here's my question; I hope this makes sense:  how does it WORK? When I look at the watch, it looks to me as if the barcode will be upside down on my left wrist vis-a-vis the Starbucks scanner. Do you have to sort of contort your arm so that it's flipped the other way, or can the scanner read the barcode upside down?

I hope this makes sense. I am hesitant to go to Starbucks and hold up the line if this doesn't work smoothly. Can someone who has used it IRL let me know your experience?

Thanks!

Lori

[Bgailr312]

I thought barcodes scan either way (right-side up and up-side down)?

Edit to above:

Here is some info:

A barcode is a really simple idea: give every item that you want to classify its own, unique number and then simply print the number on the item so an electronic scanning device can read it. We could simply print the number itself, but the trouble with decimal numbers is that they're easy to confuse (a misprinted eight could look like a three to a computer, while six is identical to nine if you turn it upside down—which could cause all sorts of chaos at the checkout if you scanned your cornflakes the wrong way up). What we really need is a completely reliable way of printing numbers so that they can be read very accurately at high speeds. That's the problem that barcodes solve.

http://www.explainthatstuff.com/barcodescanners.html

[DEWEYHIDALGO]

Ok, this was what I was HOPING, that it'll work regardless of orientation.