This cleaning card can be used to clean chip and pin, EMV and mag stripe card readers including manual ATMs, POS terminals, hand-held POS devices, self-serve kiosks, mag stripe readers, transit/parking pay stations, vending machines, pay at the pump, time clocks, door locks and player tracking. The cleaning card improves transaction completion rate and prevents susceptibility to fraudulent transactions. Its waffle design conforms to critical surface areas including chip reader pins and is equally effective for swipe, friction head and landings in all card reader devices. Convenient single-use, pre-saturated cards eliminate cross contamination and require no additional products.