Mobile Credit Card Reader
Mobile Credit Card Reader
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rswift

Original Poster:

1,181 posts

205 months

Monday 28th November 2016
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Anyone help on this;

I need a short term (3 months) use of a portable way of taking car payments, mostly we should have Wi-Fi but not a given, so probably need to work on 3/4G as well.

It's for a merchandise stall on a theatre tour, so no high ticket items, probably not even a huge turnover but we've lost sales before by not offering this.

I see that Paypal offer something suitable, and I can easily get an old iPhone up and running with a PAYG data Sim, but anything else around ?

Thanks

Stupeo

1,343 posts

223 months

Monday 28th November 2016
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The original is iZettle - I've never used it other than as a consumer (I pay my sons childcare every week with it) and it's easy and very fast to use. The childcare provider loves it too and apparently is cheaper than PayPal's offering.

https://www.izettle.com/gb

ReaderScars

6,087 posts

206 months

Monday 28th November 2016
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If you're considering iZettle, you should also look at SumUp (I use neither but heard bad things about how iZettle handle dodgy payments/cards)

Bikerjon

2,211 posts

191 months

Monday 28th November 2016
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I use iZettle. I don't have any experience with other providers but have no issues at all with iZettle and they have a nice web dashboard too where you can see your sales and add products. Their machines also take Apple pay/contactless which may be useful if it's low value transactions. Works fine on 3G and Wi-Fi.

bristolracer

5,952 posts

179 months

Monday 28th November 2016
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Another vote for sum up here

GCH

4,141 posts

232 months

Tuesday 29th November 2016
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rswift

Original Poster:

1,181 posts

205 months

Thursday 1st December 2016
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Thank you....just what I need.

VEX

5,259 posts

276 months

Wednesday 21st December 2016
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Zinc from world pay

Has the advantage of being a card terminal service, pay by email and a cash transaction processor.

V.